Bugs and Suggestions

4-Jul-14 8:23

I moved my technical blog to a new location a couple of days ago.

I also imported the posts from the old blog. When I registered it with CodeProject, I forgot to remove the magic rel="tag" links from about 10 old posts and 3 of those were pulled onto CodeProject. The 3 posts that were chosen seemed to be chosen at random; 1 new post was not included. I immediately removed rel="tag" from the old posts and deleted the 3 duplicate posts from CodeProject.

I have now posted 3 new articles, two of which are a day old, and CodeProject is ignoring them. Ideas?

Location: Blog index is here[^], Atom is here[^].

Sean Ewington4-Jul-14 8:34

Sean Ewington

4-Jul-14 8:34

Looks pretty solid to me. Could you please try one thing for me? When you post your blog feed URL on CodeProject, can you please try putting "?alt=rss" at the end of it?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Qwertie4-Jul-14 15:05

4-Jul-14 15:05

Just to confirm I understand what you're asking, do you want me to go to the feed page and change

http://loyc.net/atom.xml

to

http://loyc.net/atom.xml?alt=rss ?

I'm sure the Jekyll web server will ignore the parameter.

Sean Ewington7-Jul-14 4:51

Sean Ewington

7-Jul-14 4:51

Precisely, if you please.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Qwertie8-Jul-14 6:21

8-Jul-14 6:21

Well, nothing appears to have changed after 24 hours.

Sean Ewington8-Jul-14 8:11

Sean Ewington

8-Jul-14 8:11

I guess it did not work. Thank you kindly for trying that.

I tried giving the aggregator another kick, but sadly, it does not seem to be working. I have requested a higher power to give the aggregator a bigger boot kick and take a peek.

Please change the RSS back if that same URL was working before, so when the boot kick comes it will be ready.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Qwertie19-Jul-14 17:40

Professional profile, postal code

19-Jul-14 17:40

Has someone looked into this yet?

collin kleine4-Jul-14 4:01

collin kleine

4-Jul-14 4:01

I currently live in Colombia, and here the do not have postal codes. I know, that's pretty uncommon, but they really do not have this system. The "Professional Profile" is not complete without this, so (as with many other sites) I had to just fill in something else.

Some sites have a check box "I do not have a postal code", which would make things more reliable I guess. Another option is to make this a non-required field, or based on the country selected making this a required field or not. Lastly, you can just leave it as it is, and people from some countries will just will in something random.

Re: Professional profile, postal code

Chris Maunder23-Jul-14 15:52

Chris Maunder

23-Jul-14 15:52

Fixed.

Almost.

Turns out there are 60 countries that don't use postcodes (who knew!) and I ensured that they are all treated appropriately. Turns out, however, that the list I found didn't include Colombia. So: added.

And thanks.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Approval Pop-up - Tips/Tricks vs Articles - Images Offsite

DaveAuld3-Jul-14 22:44

DaveAuld

3-Jul-14 22:44

The Tip/Trick approval popup does not have image offsite report as an option like the 'full' article popup does.

"Items need approval" popup menu

Rage3-Jul-14 21:39

Rage

3-Jul-14 21:39

... on the first page.I don't understand the logic:
Mouser hover -> Popup appears -> move mouse to try and click on article or tip -> Menu disappears -> Click on advert instead of article/tip -> GRRR
Mouser hover -> Popup appears -> click on "Items need approval" to freeze menu -> Menu disappears -> Click on advert instead of article/tip -> GRRRx2

From my testing, this behaves randomly, sometimes the menu can be frozen by a click, sometimes not, and I am quite sure this is not a tactic of yours to force and click on the underlying ad. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

FF24.6.0
Win7

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

modified 4-Jul-14 3:46am.

Jochen Arndt3-Jul-14 22:02

3-Jul-14 22:02

Similar here at work with FF and Win7 but not at home with identical software (but a faster system).

Just move around with your mouse until the popup stays on screen. There is no need to click anywhere. When you move slowly around you will notice that the popup disappears when over the border lines of the top rectangle. Moving faster to cross the rectangle's bottom line often helps.

Rage3-Jul-14 22:12

Rage

3-Jul-14 22:12

mmmhh, there *might* be a more intuitive way. Also, something must have changed in the behavior, because I have been moderating for quite some time now, and never had any usability problem with that particular menu.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Jochen Arndt4-Jul-14 4:49

4-Jul-14 4:49

I just checked it at home and there is a difference:

At work there is a rectangle around the top (n items need approval / n articles, m blogs, o tips/tricks) but here at home there is only one big rectangle around the whole popup (the line that has to be crossed fast is not present).

So it seems that the problem is sourced by some Firefox setting. Did you change anything?

Rage4-Jul-14 5:05

Rage

4-Jul-14 5:05

I did not. But my company may.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Chris Maunder5-Jul-14 16:27

Chris Maunder

5-Jul-14 16:27

Jochen Arndt wrote:
Did you change anything

Nothing changed our end.

Can you send me a screenshot? (chris at codeproject.com)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Jochen Arndt6-Jul-14 21:09

6-Jul-14 21:09

Chris Maunder wrote:
Can you send me a screenshot?

Done.

Jochen Arndt7-Jul-14 1:03

7-Jul-14 1:03

I have identified the source:

This happens when the hardware acceleration is disabled in the extended configuration tab. After enabling it (requires restarting Firefox) all is OK now here at work.

Maybe Chris will find a solution with disabled acceleration.