Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Reputation History and DST

15-Aug-12 4:34

I noticed that the other week, then I remembered something about having to tick a thing in your profile to say you are in DST, so I did that and apparently it is still wrong cos I didn't check until just now.

Edit - ^that is a horrible sentence, I hope someone can work out what it is supposed to mean.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Nish Nishant15-Aug-12 4:36

Nish Nishant

15-Aug-12 4:36

Ah thanks for that info. Should help Elina debug the issue. Maybe Chris just dropped the check box there and forgot to tell her to add the code to handle it. That seems just the sort of thing Chris would do. Big Grin | :-D

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Newsletter - Filter out Metro articles?

Paul_Williams14-Aug-12 6:09

Paul_Williams

14-Aug-12 6:09

Hi,

I currently do not have much interest in reading articles, tips etc about Metro apps. Is there an easy way to filter these out from the weekly newsletter?

e.g. !Metro in the 'Newsletter topics' filter would be much simpler than listing all the possible topics I would be interested in.

Thanks advance for any ideas.

Paul

Re: Newsletter - Filter out Metro articles?

Brisingr Aerowing16-Aug-12 15:47

Brisingr Aerowing

16-Aug-12 15:47

In searches, the word NOT omits whatever is following it, but I don't know if it works for what you are trying to do.

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Re: Newsletter - Filter out Metro articles?

Paul_Williams19-Aug-12 0:03

Paul_Williams

19-Aug-12 0:03

Thanks, will give it a try.

Changing the Display Name

Sumal.V14-Aug-12 5:39

Sumal.V

14-Aug-12 5:39

I changed my display name couple of hours ago, but this change doesn't appear in my previous posts. I expected to see see the name update everywhere.

May be it will be good if there is a way to incorporate this.
Thanks

Re: Changing the Display Name

Pete O'Hanlon14-Aug-12 5:49

Pete O'Hanlon

14-Aug-12 5:49

There are several reasons why this doesn't and shouldn't happen. What happens if I search for an article by Sacha Barber in Google (knowing that this was the name he used when he posted the article), only to find that he's changed his name to "The Sacha Article Monster" here in Code Project and all of his articles have been updated to that?

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Re: Changing the Display Name

Sumal.V14-Aug-12 5:52

Sumal.V

14-Aug-12 5:52

Yeah, that makes sense.
Cheers

Re: Changing the Display Name

TPFKAPB15-Aug-12 1:32

TPFKAPB

15-Aug-12 1:32

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
"The Sacha Article Monster"

Now that deserves a suggestion.

Search Bug?

TPFKAPB14-Aug-12 1:37

TPFKAPB

14-Aug-12 1:37

I do a 'search this forum' for 'Mars' and select sort in descending order.
I then pick the reult I want to goto and it displays the page as all posts expanded.
When I correct it to 'normal' and click update it takes me back to the 1st page of that Forum.

It's quite annoying.

Posting icons

Andrei Straut13-Aug-12 18:41

Andrei Straut

13-Aug-12 18:41

I post often from my phone, and I've noticed I tend to make lots of mistakes when doing that (even with phone autocorrect enabled). I don't observe these mistakes immediately, if at all. However, when posting from my computer I try as hard as possible to be as correct as I can.

This being said, could an icon be introduced next to the post subject (or poster name, or anywhere relatively visible), showing whether a user has posted from a mobile device or computer?

[Half-joking]
I also think we should have a checkbox with "I was drunk at the moment of this post" (default checked) when posting or replying to messages
[/Half-joking]

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AspDotNetDev13-Aug-12 19:27

AspDotNetDev

13-Aug-12 19:27

Andrei Straut wrote:
we should have a checkbox with "I was drunk at the moment of this post" (default checked)

In DD's case, you can just remove the checkbox and permanently enable that behavior.

Chris Maunder14-Aug-12 1:50

14-Aug-12 1:50

Maybe a version of a CAPTCHA test that would act as a surrogate sobriety test?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Andrei Straut14-Aug-12 2:05

Andrei Straut

14-Aug-12 2:05

AspDotNetDev wrote:

In DD's case, you can just remove the checkbox and permanently enable that behavior.

Chris Maunder wrote:
Maybe a version of a CAPTCHA test that would act as a surrogate sobriety test?

It's funny that I give two suggestions, one serious and one not, and you both decide to tackle the not serious one, while not mentioning anything about the other!

Great management skills! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Also, to respond in the same manner (i.e. about the CAPTCHA test): The purpose is not to stop our members from Posting Under the Influence, but rather to let the others know that it was Posted Under the Influence

Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater.
Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater.
Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

AspDotNetDev15-Aug-12 7:19

AspDotNetDev

15-Aug-12 7:19

Andrei Straut wrote:
Great management skills!

Chris gets all the blame for this one, I'm afraid. I'm just a member, not management. Smile | :)

chriselst14-Aug-12 3:07

14-Aug-12 3:07

Isn't there email software that requires you to solve a simple maths problem before it will send your email to try to stop you sending whilst drunk?

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Chris Maunder14-Aug-12 3:55

14-Aug-12 3:55

The problem is that it's not my problem solving that suffers after a few. It's my discretion.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

chriselst14-Aug-12 3:09

14-Aug-12 3:09

How are you going to know that a post was made from a mobile device?

Is the version of the site being viewed or the browser used enough to tell you that?

I used to use the mobile version on my phone, then switched to the full version to do something now cannot work out how to get back to the mobile version.

Presumably because there are no ads on the mobile version and I keep clicking on the top banner ad on my phone now by mistake.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Chris Maunder14-Aug-12 3:54

14-Aug-12 3:54

ChrisElston wrote:
now cannot work out how to get back to the mobile version

At the bottom left of each page is a "Mobile" link.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

chriselst14-Aug-12 3:57

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

14-Aug-12 3:57

I just went to the site on my phone to check that out and it was already displaying the mobile version.

It most definitely was not doing that this morning.

I decided against switching to the full version to try to switch back again.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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CSS amendments

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)13-Aug-12 11:56

13-Aug-12 11:56

Can we have some css amendments in the website for better user experience ?

- Nice looking border and box shadows.
- Some margin and padding from the border.
- Every form inside any page like the forms for posting questions, messages, replies should have some borders.

These changes will help to make Code Project a brand new and eye catching website...
Thanks...

Re: CSS amendments

Chris Maunder13-Aug-12 15:14