Site Bugs 2 (Page 13 of 14)

I just accidentally re-reviewed someone's short story and got points for both reviews. The first was a regular review that I had forgotten about, and the second was an inline review. I got points for both, which isn't really correct system behavior. It should recognize that I've already done a previous review and notify me that that is the case.

I can't believe I'm complaining about receiving too many points. :-)

I know this has been asked before, but how dang long does it take from the time you publish a chapter until it shows up on the homepage? I know it's been over half an hour. Am I just impatient?

You can cheat just a little, Janet, if you go to your "Publish Setup" and, without changing anything, hit the save setup button. That will make your story appear almost immediately. I just publish and wait for it to appear when it does.

~Tom

Not really - for me anyway. You can go to the latest post already by clicking on that instead of the topic. For me at least I'm going to want to know what has preceded the last post if I'm not familiar with it. If it is a short list of posts on the subject then I can click on the subject and go to the first one to see what it's all about or at least what it started out being all about as they sometimes change midstream. But if it's a subject which has already received many pages of posts, then I don't really want to read through all of them if I haven't been keeping up; then I'll just click on the last post and go backward until I get the gist of what is happening at the present and not days, weeks, or months ago.

So, in essence you can already start wherever you wish, beginning, end, or somewhere in-between by clicking on one of the page numbers if more than one page. Once I get to the point I want to start reading, then I can read the posts in order from that point without having to scroll backwards which would be the case if the order were reversed. Hope that convoluted explanation makes sense. Take care. Vern

If you open the forums say to the premium group, you have a list of the threads started. On the left you have the topic of a particular thread and if you click on that it will take you to the beginning of the thread. But if you go across to the right column under "Last Post" and click on that, then it will take you to that last post made within that thread. Take care. Vern

Is anyone else experiencing a false-positive on connection requests? Mine is bright red on my homepage, but after clicking on it, nothing shows up.

-Elisheva

I've been having the same problem for quite a while now and up to now, Sol couldn't find the source of the problem. I've tried to log out and in again, maybe you have more luck?

I just got burned by a bug I reported a few months ago. I did an inline review, wrote up extensive closing comments, then clicked on x-line to review my comments before submitting. When I switched to x-line, the closing comments were wiped out. Also, the closing comments field in the x-line review is not a normal formatted text box, but rather a tiny field (about 1" x 2") that is a view into the database itself. I should be able to switch to x-line without losing my closing comments, and the closing comments field should be an appropriatedly sized formatted text box. These two problems are reproducable.

I'd love to know if there's an ETA for these.

Thanks.
Dirk

While we are on the subject of comment boxes: why is it that when I put my longer comments into paragraphs they will be mashed together when saved and re-opened?  I put comments into paragraphs for a reason, not to have the all run together. We have 1000 words in those boxes so why not let us use them properly?

~Tom

Again I have received an email about a new chapter (Janet Reid's Ch 10) before that chapter is available to me on the website.

My long-distance, blindfold diagnosis is a mismatch between the static aspects of your platform and software architecture and the dynamic sequence of actions--a workpiece/workstation flow glitch that may require explicitly delaying the sending of the message until the web servers acknowledge not only receipt but full processing of the new material.

But that, as I say, is a blindfold diagnosis.

I just got bitten by the "miscounted words" bug. I provided a regular review that told me I had 55 words. When I posted it, I received NO points and when I went to the review, it showed 50 words. So, if I had even 50 words, why not the points?

~Tom

Nope. This was a straight review, typed all at once and then I clicked the Post button. Before i did that, I was told I had entered 55 words. Then, when I clicked the button, I didn't see the "you received ... points" banner so I looked at the review. It said I had posted 50 points exactly. Apparently, you have to get MORE than 50 words to get points. That, I can live with. It is having the word count drop from 55 to 50 for no reason that bothers me.

EDIT: I've solved the copy/paste problem. What you have to do after you paste is add a single carriage return. Then the words are counted once more and you will have what you need. I do that automatically if I keep track of comments using a text file.

~Tom