The Next Big Writer — Site Bugs

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (SolN) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:41:24 +0000

So are these trolls paying for a premium membership to post spam?

We're under a spam attack. We'll have it under control although it may take a day to change some of the settings. Sorry about the inconvenience.

In the meantime, I'm going to close this topic in order to try and blunt the attack until we can squash it for good.

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Linda Lee) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 21:21:36 +0000

So are these trolls paying for a premium membership to post spam?

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Tom Oldman) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:11:16 +0000

SPAM, Wilma. Do NOT click on the username(s) to see the profile. That will NOT work and could lead you to a bogus "Login" screen.

Tom

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Wilma Bailey) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:09:02 +0000

What is going on with the previous three posts? Is it just me or are the garbled strung together phrases and symbols?

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Temple Wang) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:12:46 +0000

SolN wrote:

(Worsened) bug.
That's strange because we haven't touched the actual in-line process. We only updated the flow around it. I'll test it out more this weekend and see what we can do.
Sol

I have two iPads. One is last year's model, the other is brand new. The issue is happening on them both. Let me ask you a question: could that reaction time be affected at all by the stability of the Internet connection? It doesn't seem likely, but I don't know the mechanics behind what happens when you hit the X to close the box. Is what happens next at a processor level, or does that action trigger something in the connection itself. Why I ask is that I have all sorts of issues with the site that I don't mention because I know for a fact they are connectivity related. Your site is blocked/disrupted in Mainland China, and I have to connect via VPN, so I get some some issues related to that sometimes. Just a thought.

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (SolN) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:51:07 +0000

(Worsened) bug.

That's strange because we haven't touched the actual in-line process. We only updated the flow around it. I'll test it out more this weekend and see what we can do.

Sol

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Temple Wang) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 04:50:36 +0000

(Worsened) bug. I noticed this before, but didn't mention it. However, it has dramatically worsened, to the point of being debilitating, so I need to mention it. I work on an iPad 95% of the time. I live with some of the idiosycracies of this site that is not specifically tunednfor touch, because I know that takes time and Sol is working to that end. However, I am finding that the in-line boxes are terribly unresponsive to touch. If you want to close one by using the "X" in the corner, it takes four, five, sometimes more to get it to close. I had a few people try to confirm it wasn't just bad aim - and I don't see this in other cases - seems to be specific to that kind of box. Last week, this took two or tree tries to close. Now it's more, and sometimes I simply can't close and have to reload (it also sometimes locks the screen). In the last few days, this has expanded to the "submit" button, making it tedious, as it required several punches to get it engaged, and if it won't engage, I have to reload and lose my comment ( I have learned to copy before I reload now, but it is still a lousy workflow)
Temple

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Norm d'Plume) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 04:32:36 +0000

Minor bug. If someone leaves an inline review without a closing comment, my reply is not visible on the Inline Received tab under My Reviews. All other inline reviews on this tab show the first part the reviewer's closing comment and the first part of my reply. When there is no closing comment from the reviewer, my reply doesn't show either. The reply is just one click + some scrolling away, so this isn't urgent.

Dirk

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Wilma Bailey) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:50:58 +0000

Sol wrote: The easiest solution is to disconnect from the Free group. Then, you would not see the content that is posted to that group, including users who come on and post multiple poems or short stories.

I did what you suggest, disconnect from the Free group, and it solved the problem. This act removed any content I had posted to that group, but I'll just associate my work with the Premium group from now on.

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Linda Lee) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:31:42 +0000

j p lundstrom wrote:

Still wondering why I can't write in-line reviews. I highlight the area I want to critique, and the comment box doesn't appear. I can't earn points, can't proofread, cant leave comments. What's up?

Huh? You've been reviewing my wip using the in-line system.

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (j p lundstrom) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:16:01 +0000

Still wondering why I can't write in-line reviews. I highlight the area I want to critique, and the comment box doesn't appear. I can't earn points, can't proofread, cant leave comments. What's up?

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (SolN) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:14:29 +0000

The easiest solution is to disconnect from the Free group. Then, you would not see the content that is posted to that group, including users who come on and post multiple poems or short stories.

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (Linda Lee) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:11:18 +0000

I echo the request to address this multiple posting thing in some fashion (not limiting though!). There are a couple of free members posting the same works several times a day, as well as multiple others at the same time. I have to arrow over twice just to see any uploads from other writers. The drop down suggestion would help but that wouldn't do anything for someone posting 4+ different works at a time.

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (njc) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:10:10 +0000

Consolidating multiple chapters in one listing should be a SMOP -- a Small Matter of Programmig. In good circumstances, the term is descriptive, in bad ones it is sardonic. (Somehow the bad ones seem to outnumber the good ones--not that that should be an excuse.) Remember though that every one of us has problems, that some things -really- need to be fixed (like throwing away italics when copy-pasting a story in), and even SMOPs have questions that can affect the algorithms to be written.

That said, this is one of those little things that should have been flagged in a design review--or a requirements review. Somehow they never are, though, and the people who do catch them are just the sort of gadflies who get fired because they aren't team players. (Probably none of that applies to the TNBW team, which I'm guessing is a bit smaller--which makes good reviews hard.) If you have a couple hundred hours to kill, read the Shark Tank archives on Computerworld.com. I don't know if computer work actually gathers more vexing mistakes, but it sure makes them more memorable.

Re: Site Bugs

null@example.com (dagnee) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:25:30 +0000

Wilma Bailey wrote:

This is not a bug, but it bugs me. I don't know how to open a new topic on this forum, so I'll just add my concern to "Site bugs." When someone posts a large number of new posts in one or two days (12 for example) the "New posts from your groups" listing is filled with that person's posts, and one must go forward quite a way to see additional posts to find something by another author. Does this bother anyone else? The posts remain at the top of the list until those of us who are less prolific post our work. Currently, this is in the Poems and Short Stories sections -- three on December 9, and nine on December 10. The only solution I see would be to impose a limit to the number of new posts in a day, but that seems overly controlling.

Is it possible to put a drop down menu on an author posting many things at once? And maybe a message over the name: Author has multipliable posts...just a thought.