Bugs and Suggestions

I do not have this problem when reading the articles on my Lumia 920. It generally works just fine. Are you loading the site in Mobile or Full Site mode?

I did see an article waiting to be approved a few days ago where the lines did not wrap correctly - I was looking at it on my phone, but I was not able to get to my PC to check if it was a problem there as well.

Soren Madsen

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

The problem is only in Mobile mode.

Can you please try now?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Great! Much better, thanks!

What I do now is go the reputation-report page; that, of course, shows only a record of my posts, my votes, answers, etc.

Of course, if someone upvotes me on the Lounge, or up/down votes outside the Lounge, then the rep-grid has that, but, the link there, of course, takes me to my post; I may have to scroll down some amount to locate the response to my post, depending on the number of responses, location in the thread.

What I'd like to do is to quickly see if anyone has recently responded to any of my posts. No matter whether they voted, or not. Same reason I tend to responses to my e-mails, daily, in most recent to prior order.

Is there a way, that I am not aware of, to quickly find responses to one's posts ?

If there isn't, and CP thinks this would be a valuable feature compared to other features "in the queue," worth implementing, I do have a few specific ideas.

thanks, Bill

“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection." Edward Sapir, 1929

BillWoodruff wrote:
What I'd like to do is to quickly see if anyone has recently responded to any of my posts. No matter whether they voted, or not. Same reason I tend to responses to my e-mails, daily, in most recent to prior order.

Notifications ??? The small red button with a number at the side of your rep-points in the right-top corner???? What about that?

I thought the same thing.

Hi, Amitosh, and Slacker 007,

Note that I fully agree with CP's decision not to allow private user-to-user e-mail within CP, and I am not raising/discussing that issue here !

I am using Chrome Version 27.0.1453.110 m. Win8/64

On any regular CP page, there is no "red button with a number" at the side of the rep-points total number at page top-right.

I have gone into "My Account," and examined every setting-page available; I do not see a facility to turn on any setting/notification that would render a red button on every public CP page. Yes, there are e-mail notification options, both of which I have unchecked.

The closest thing I can find is under Name/My Messages: there certain posts have a light-bulb icon left of their title; that icon, like all other icons left of the message title, has no on-hover pop-up hinting at its purpose. I have not searched all CP documentation/help yet, so whether or not the light-bulb icon's meaning is documented, is as yet, unknown, although, of course, its logical to infer that in this context, it must mean, somehow, "something new," or, "something special."

I have tested the assumption that the presence of the light-bulb icon indicates a response to the message that the current user has not read, but, both within one session of using CP, and after closing and re-opening CP, the fact that every post on the thread has been read does not change the light-bulb icon to what appears to be the default for most messages.

Now, it may be possible that the light-bulb icon is based on the relative newness/time of the response to the OP or other responses, i.e., the date, and, by default, is independent of when the response is read by the OP.

So, I am currently "in the dark" about the light-bulb being "on."

Of course, the switch for the light-bulb could be staring me in the face, and I am ready to eat my words Smile | :)

yours, Bill

“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection." Edward Sapir, 1929

Bill,

Can you please try logging out then logging back in?

A bug has been found, and potentially squashed.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Hi Chris,

Excellent: when I launched CP (I'm logged in automatically) a few minutes ago, after coming out of Hibernate mode, before I read your response: the red-button appeared left of the total rep count, with the number #1 in white !

Just to complete testing, I signed-out, closed Chrome, and then re-opened it, and signed-in to CP again: the red-button was still there, after going to your response again, but, has now disappeared.

I will be interested to observe, as I use CP, if the count in the red-button reflects only direct responses to my op, or my comments, or if it also does/does not reflect activity on a thread I started.

Nice to have that feature, thanks.

yours, Bill

“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection." Edward Sapir, 1929

modified 14-Jun-13 7:26am.

The notification only relates to direct responses to you, and not to the total amount of response on threads you start.

I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.

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I couldn't receive my account confirm/reconfirm e-mail.

I've tried sending another one. Could you please let us know if any of these are the issue?

Code Project Member FAQ[^]

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

I reported this problem about two weeks ago and now it is back.

When I scroll down to a post, then click it, I get bounced back to the top of the page requiring me to scroll down again. It only started happening today. I am using IE 10.

Per the last time I reported this it was requested that I use the browser console debug mode. So I did. Hopefully it helps. For the test I used the C++ forum but it happened to me in various places.

HTML1524: Invalid DOCTYPE. The shortest valid doctype is "<!DOCTYPE html>". 
C-Basic.aspx, line 1 character 1
HTML1423: Malformed start tag. Attributes should be separated by whitespace. 
C-Basic.aspx, line 496 character 26
HTML1423: Malformed start tag. Attributes should be separated by whitespace. 
C-Basic.aspx, line 500 character 32
HTML1423: Malformed start tag. Attributes should be separated by whitespace. 
C-Basic.aspx, line 524 character 32
HTML1423: Malformed start tag. Attributes should be separated by whitespace. 
C-Basic.aspx, line 530 character 32
SEC7118: XMLHttpRequest for http://apps.developermedia.com/Ads/PageTerms/GetTerms required Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). 
C-Basic.aspx
SEC7119: XMLHttpRequest for http://apps.developermedia.com/Ads/PageTerms/GetTerms required CORS preflight. 
C-Basic.aspx
SEC7120: Origin http://www.codeproject.com not found in Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. 
C-Basic.aspx
SCRIPT7002: XMLHttpRequest: Network Error 0x80070005, Access is denied.
 
C-Basic.aspx

Don't panic, this happens if the page isn't completely loaded. Codeproject likely uses some ajax and Cross-site XHR for loading ads.
I'm also using IE10. I have faced this many times, for most of my life, i've lived with a dial-up.
Wait for a while, it'll be fine.

**Going by the problems listed above, check your internet security zone settings. It should be set to default (medium). If not, or your sysadmin has blocked access to this setting, then try adding codeproject to the list of trusted sties. If this is not possible, (unfortunately) you have to use a different browser.

Amitosh Swain wrote:
i've lived with a dial-up.

The office network might be slow but it isn't a dial up.

jschell wrote:
The office network might be slow but it isn't a dial up.

Ok, Did you see the bottom line... Since it is an office desktop, I suspect that draconial securtiy measures (often found in offices) to be the culprit.

Amitosh Swain wrote:
Ok, Did you see the bottom line...

That however wouldn't explain why it only happens occasionally. It isn't happening today.
And the previous time I reported it was only happening in some forums.

This happens when some of the hamsters are drunk.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

Hi JSchell,

I'm using Chrome 27.0.1453.110 m.

I infer you are viewing a CP page, and have clicked on a link to render developermedia.com content within that page.

In my case, with the view set to "Thread," anytime I open an item/node/thread with child-node(s), I get a page-refresh, and bounce-back to the top of the current view. When I click on "View All Threads," again I get a refresh, and page-top bounce-back.

Like one of Skinner's pigeons, I am now trained to use the 'Home and 'End keys frequently, keeping my eyes shut for a few seconds, to avoid being "jarred" visually by the refresh.

I cannot remember clearly if at a prior time CP did not have this type of "lose your place" refresh; I think so, but, I consider it possible that the increasing sensitivity of my eyes to "blinks" might mean the behavior is the same, but, now, it registers on me as an irritant.

The fact that I now react to full-page refreshes on a variety of other sites suggests its me, or Chrome, or Win 8/64, or demons.

yours, Bill

“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection." Edward Sapir, 1929

BillWoodruff wrote:
I cannot remember clearly if at a prior time CP did not have this type of "lose
your place" refresh

I use IE and Firefox.

So far I have only seen the behavior in IE and it is intermittent and seldom occurs.
It isn't doing it today.

Back on Opera 12.15 running on Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" x86_64 too

modified 13-Jun-13 2:30am.

After answering a question[^] in Q&A and hitting the submit button, two identical solutions show up and the reputation history lists both. So I deleted one of them.

While entering the text and submitting, nothing else noticeable happened.

Thanks for the report. This shouldn't happen. We have code at the database level that says this can't happen.

But we know from Jurassic Park what happens when you say something can't happen...

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Please see this answer: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.[^].

It has two versions, as it failed to submit at first. I used two text to attempt submission; I'll refer to them as v1 and v2 (current). Naturally, I tried to submit what is now v2.

Steps:
1) I put the whole text of v2 into clipboard.
2) Under "Add your solution here", click Ctrl+V; the text from the clipboard is entered.
3) "Paste As" is shown, I click "Paste as-is", "OK".
4) The HTML text is shown as it should be.
5) Click "Post message".
6) The page with submitted answer is shown; as usually in such cases, it is not formatted to the final view: it not as wide as the normal answer; and the solution number is not yet shown.
7) Refresh the page; the newly submitted answer is not shown.
8) As it already happened before and could be fixed when repeated, I repeat it from #1, few times.
...
9) Instead of "real" answer, enter the text as of v1, repeat #1-#7
10) The short "answer" text appears and is shown correctly after refresh.
11) Click "Improve question"
12) Text edit area is shown again; I remove the text of v1, paste long text v2 again.
13) Repeat #3-#7.
14) Now the input and submission is successful; v2 replaced v1, to the text which I meant to have in the very beginning.

[EDIT #1]

What's funny, the same situation was reproduced when I tried to enter this message. This time, I did not paste the text, but simply typed it all. The bug report was not submitted successfully, as described above. Then I
1) Shortened the text to first and last paragraphs (the last is "—SA");
2) Submitted it, successfully;
3) Pressed "Edit"
4) Added text from clipboard, to get the original full text again.
5) Submitted again. Now the text was submitted successfully.

So far, it looks like the systems rejects longer input, but once the post is submitted and gets into the database, I can edit it to a longer text and successfully submit. I never face such behavior before. Before, I rarely saw something similar I attributed to temporary network failure; the post was successful on second attempt, with the same text.

[EDIT #2]

I found that the previous version of this message, before I added [EDIT #1] above, was actually posted (I just removed the double post). I wasn't see it after the first page reload, and I think it really did not appear.

I just added an answer of a bit bigger volume than that referenced above, this time, it worked out correctly. On possible difference: I did it on another computer, having faster Internet connection…

In both cases: Mozilla SeeMonkey v.2.17.11, Windows 7 64-bit (x86-64).

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

modified 11-Jun-13 12:43pm.

14	Letting Article Owners Pin Posts in their Discussion Forums?
7	Not to cut threads in half in a page
5	User control over what is considered "new"
4	The moderation queue and hidden links
4	Article moderation suggestion
4	Brush up

1	Spam filter on member profiles
1	Moderation, spam & etc
0	some link in article are broken
0	New "consent" popup
0	Inappropriate ads?
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