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Yeah, the CP database works without any algorithm right now, hence at less than optimal speed. 
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this months tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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I notice the colour of your name/post for when you get a 5, has gone to more of a brown. Now on my monitor, its harder to tell the differenc between crappy post, and excellent post.
Maybe its just me, or maybe i'm going mad, but there it is.
My current favourite word is: Bauble!
-SK Genius
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What's gone wrong with CP? My profile is stuffed: all votes missing, listed as "Web developer" which I never chose, and so on. Also it seems terribly slow.
Steve
modified on Monday, December 03, 2007 7:53:19 PM
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The site was upgraded from Classic ASP to ASP.NET. There are some teething problems. Things seem to be going much faster now than they did a couple of hours ago.
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Not only that the site has being upgraded from ASP to its .NET version but so has CP itself. It finally turned into one of those trendy .NET-heavy pages. $MS did a great job of turning heads around ...
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When you request a password recovery email, it sends your logon email and password back to you as a plaintext email.
It might be nice to have it send a randomly generated new password or a password reset link instead, since a lot of people use the same password for a lot of things and might not want coworkers looking over their shoulders to see it.
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is there a LINQ Section, sorry if this has already been posted. 
-TheCardinal
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Below are a subset of the latest issues that have been logged or we are working on. If something has been reported here then no need to mention it again unless you've found the bug in a place we've indicated it shouldn't be, or if you have extra info that may help us squash it.
Current Bugs and some of the things we are working on this second (not all are mentioned)
2111 <br> tags inserted inside legitimate tags when ReplaceNewlines called
2138 When copying source code from <PRE> tags in articles that have "linecount=true", the line numbers get in the way of the code copying.
1230 Hide Delete button if entry is locked for editing
2070 Syntax colouriser problem with double backslash
768 Whitespace incorrectly removed when pasting as HTML
1845 HTML cannot be used in Tips abstract
2068 Unicode character issue: two for the price of 1
2022 Syntax colouriser doesn't handle #pragma comments
2092 Member Selector bug [For editors posting on behalf od authors]
2140 "unimpressed" emoticon not showing
2123 Bookmarking discussion posts gives wrong reputation type
747 Comments visibility inconsistency
753 Editing message (after 5 mins) drops ending </div> signature if sig ends with a </div>
759 HTML gets removed from subject when a reply is made
1919 Hyperlinks should be maintained inside colourised code blocks
1695 It's possible to repost the same answer to a question
767 Various tag editor auto-complete quirks
766 HTML editor not visible in IE6
769 PRE tags are created for each new line when aggregating blog entries
770 Mailout sender - reload mailout ID feature not working correctly
774 Possibility of empty questions
813 When removing member type (admin etc) this should remove such type from All sites
1613 After posting a comment, it can't be edited until after the page is refreshed
There are currently 453 items in our TODO
Recent changes
Id Date Name
772 8-Apr-11 Full text search string is not trimmed
2150 8-Apr-11 Name that contain commas are not stored correctly
2104 7-Apr-11 Trim the ObjectAssociatedFiles to be only the set referenced within article text
2117 7-Apr-11 Search related issues
2134 6-Apr-11 Articles with Multiple Embedded YouTube Videos
2055 5-Apr-11 Show a list of the top daily / weekly / all-time answerers
2065 5-Apr-11 Reply to comments doesn't work if Javascript not enabled
2122 5-Apr-11 Permlink on messages sends you to the wrong page
2105 31-Mar-11 Need to show the number of reports on items
2106 31-Mar-11 Need to show the number of reports next to the "Report Me" button on items
2101 31-Mar-11 Consolidate daily logs into a weekly log file
1951 29-Mar-11 Links to member profiles fail for numeric member names
2083 28-Mar-11 user's blog entry is not being aggregated
2102 28-Mar-11 Cannot post a comment or reply to a comment if Javascript is disabled.
2056 28-Mar-11 Add Pascal / Delphi to colourisation
1409 28-Mar-11 Latest revision not appearing on revision page
2053 28-Mar-11 Change Query String parameter for Search Query to 'q'
2082 28-Mar-11 <b>Move new search out of Beta</b>
1302 27-Mar-11 Changing vote and reason should delete old reason
1625 27-Mar-11 Article count does not include unfinished articles
2064 27-Mar-11 UI bugs when posting answers fixed
2080 27-Mar-11 Change search filters to use IDs, not strings
2066 27-Mar-11 Default paste mode in QA editor not persisting choice
2081 27-Mar-11 Add bookmark links to each item in the search results
modified on Monday, September 12, 2011 3:53 PM
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How about a 15 minute timelock on all toilet doors so I don't walk into the stench I walked into this afternoon again. That guy has some serious internal problems.
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Alternatively, this[^] might be a better bet - especially if you're bursting to go and said individual has just been in.
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Hi,
have you thinked about putting like a page numbers serie to navigate into forums? I mean something like google or other sites. I think a good format could be:
First | (Actual-10) | (Actual-2) | Previous | .Actual = N. | Next | (Actual+2) | (Actual+10) | Last??
It is quite annoying to go back one page at a time if you have to find a message for a week ago (at least in forums with so much messages as VC++) if you forget to get the perma link.
-- modified at 6:45 Friday 30th November, 2007
I know, there is the search option, but if you go out during a few days, after weekend or holidays or just two three days that you didnt come in forum... you have to go back 10 - 20 pages one per one, too take a look on what was written in your absence
Greetings.
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
“The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't do it yet.” - Michael A. Jackson
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Yep - it's in the upcoming version
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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nice ^^
Greetings.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
“The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't do it yet.” - Michael A. Jackson
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... it will be usefull, or not? :P
VirtualVoid.NET
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Hi All/Chris,
Is it possible to offer up time/services to CodeProject? If so, I'd like to assist in lessening the load of the staff.
I'm not a web guy, so the html stuff is out of my league. But the high level protocols (especially in the area of data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity) is right up my alley. With some help (help on the web usability side of the control), I could probably code up some ActiveX widgets if CP needed them for whatever reason.
Also, even though my under graduate degree was in Computer Science, I took a lot of Information Systems classes. My feeling was that the greatest product in the world was worthless if it could not be easily used. To that end, I focused on User Interface design. So if there are any design issues which need to be addresed, I can assist there also.
Jeff
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I appreciate the offer, Jeff, but we don't currently use ActiveX controls in the site (not cross browser, not acceptable to many people, so last century )
The best thing you could do is keep up the suggestions and be patient with us. Usablity is a whole massive project we want to undertake next year so I'd be very happy to have help in that regard.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: we don't currently use ActiveX controls in the site
They are also deemed to be insecure. However, how about having the following at least to restricted sections like http://labs.codeproject.com/[^] to demonstrate new technologies.
I would suggest like:
1) Silverlight
2) .NET based ActiveX Controls (For sure, Internet Explorer has good security for .NET controls in place since even IE 5.5 Tools Internet Options highlights. Isn't it?)
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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It would be nice to see the current ratings next to the article on the front page links. For example, if an article has only 1 vote of 1, I would still read it. But if it had 8+ votes that averaged 1, I would probably skip it altogether.
I recently did a google search for keywords to a problem I was trying to solve. It came up with an article on CP, so I brought it up. It wasn't very good, so knowing that the article had a poor rating quickly after being posted would've helped. I later did a search on CP, filtering out less than 3 rating, and read a good article that helped. I'm pretty sure that articles that end up in Purgatory aren't included in the google scan but even bad article are indexed when first put up.
Another nice feature would be an "ignore" of "so-called authors" that consistantly upload really worthless articles. Even a filter by country would be good since some areas of the world tend to have high percentages of work that end up in purgatory or removed for plagiarism.
CP is more valuable to me than MSDN in a lot of cases. I would like to see good quality information within easy reach instead of wading through junk first.
Thanks and keep up this great site!
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Added to the suggestions TODO list. Thanks!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Today CP servers are fast in responding to GET request but when messages are posted, they are terribly slow. Looks like there are bottlenecks with backend database?
Any similar experiences?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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message posting is always bottlenecked on my end.
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Help Stamp Out and Abolish Redundancy
The preceding is courtesy of the Department of Unnecessarily Redundant Repetition Department.
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Yes, we know.
You have access to the beta site so should be aware of the changes we have implemented there. I guess I could go tighten the rubber bands on the servers a little, but apart from the rewrite we're doing I'm not sure what else we can do
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi All/Chris,
I've been tossing this issue around for a while, and I wanted to offer up some comments (I know...). I believe it will improve the quality of submissions to the CodeProject.
* Rendering
At times, the editor simply does not render the same page which will eventually be served up by the CodeProject server. Reconcilling this issue will provide the visual feedback for submission formatting errors early in the process, where they are easier to fix for the author.
* Image Base consolidation
At times, after inserting an image, the blank image (Red 'X") is displayed. I believe it is a side effect (or part of) the basic rendering problem described above.
* Force a Preview
After clicking 'Submit', offer the Preview as the next screen with a chance to go back and edit. Too many (including myself) do not take advantage of the feature. Coersing its use will at least bring to light some of the formatting errors.
* Spell Checking
Add a spell checker module. Skip the grammar (it's too hard a problem). No explainations necessary. (Lord knows I need it).
* On the wish list
Cleanup the validation code. When validating during submit, my machine basically locks because Explorer is consuming all available cycles. For me, this can last between 15 and 30 seconds. Yuk!
Jeff
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The rendering engine is IE. If IE's WYSIWYG editor and IE's HTML viewing engine differ then that makes life difficult. Have you tried Firefox? Could you please send me specific snippets of HTML that render differently in the editor and the final article? I will investigate. I'm starting to feel we should simply move to another editor. It won't fix all problems but at least we could use something more widely used.
Image preview: Is this in the "Add image" popup? That one's a funny one. Doesn't work sometimes, works every single time I try and debug it.
Force Preview: Not a bad idea at all.
Spell check: Thought about this one too and have investigated some options but I've not found anything that makes me feel confident in it. There's always FireFox as an interim solution.
Validation: Not sure what you mean. Any delay between the final "submit" and the article being finally sumitted is server-side, not client side. Yet another of the things we're working on
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
Chris Maunder wrote: Could you please send me specific snippets of HTML that render differently in the editor and the final article?
Will do when I come across it. If I recall, it had to do with copy and paste from a third party site. The pasted code picked up attributes that were in a [SPAN] tag. In the WYSIWYG editor, the background color attribute was not rendered. When the article was received from the server, the tags were still present, so the user agnet rendered them.
I suspect this is why a recent article had a bright yellow background on the text (and not the entire body of the document).
Chris Maunder wrote: Doesn't work sometimes, works every single time I try and debug it.
Of course.
Jeff
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