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cheers
Chris Maunder
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For last week I'm having a lock on the Code Project logo, and can't access discussions. I think it happened to me before, but I just had to confirm something and it was fine. Now nothing is asked of me, it just doesn't work ~90% of time. I had to wait like hour with few refreshes only to get here to ask the question. Is CP in some state of maintenance or most likely is it something with my account? What can I do? I'm not doing anything wrong as far as I know.
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Kate
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It seems to be a site problem - we've all had similar problems during the last half of the week.
Seems OK now...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, I've noticed that last week was problematic, so I've just accounted the problems for that. But now it's still persisting for me and everyone seems to be alright (no complaints). I guess I can wait another week.
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Not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that the page isn't loading when you try and enter the discussion boards?
We did have a site issue that was being triggered by search engines which is now fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sometimes (actually almost always) when I loaded any CP page the logo contained a lock. The page loaded but was missing something (account settings were missing "badge" preview), forums did not load at all[^]. I'm using latest Vivaldi browser (which should be Chrome internally). That's about the only interesting thing that may cause it. Now it seems to occur much less than when I wrote initial post. It still occurs when I enter a new CP page and then go directly to forums. But it definitely seems to be less frequent now.
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..although they are not - I checked several of those and there were no new solutions or comments added. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/5wM0XwA.png[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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This often happens when spam messages have been posted, and later removed by the anti-spam gang.
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By the anti-spam gang you mean the members participating in Spam&Abuse watch? At that point there were no reports of spam in old Q&A threads that I know of, let alone that many at the same time.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Maybe also a rep hunter posting answers and removing them shortly thereafter.
Answers may be also deleted by "Not an answer" reports. In such cases the user is often not reported in the S&A forum.
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I used to get emails from CP when someone replies to my messages, but for the last month or so, not a single email! I have checked my profile settings and also added CP to the "white list" at my service provider. There is nothing in my junk mail folder from CP. I don't understand what is wrong?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 8-Feb-16 12:41pm.
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Please see the following thread:
The Lounge - CodeProject[^]
There are problems authoring a new article for CP using Windows 10 and its Edge browser. Please refer specifically to the entry by Richard Deeming.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Sorry, I already reported it for you. See the thread immediately below[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: I already reported it for you
That's OK. Maybe now it will get twice the attention!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Please refer specifically to the entry by Richard Deeming
You mean the post directly below your post?
Yep - I can see it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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As reported in the Lounge[^], the current article editor (CKEditor v4.3.3) has various bugs in Edge. These were apparently fixed in v4.5.3[^], which was released last August.
Might be a good time to look at updating the editor - v4.5.7[^] was released yesterday.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Done
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Chris Maunder
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Thanks!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Had to roll back - it did not go smoothly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's ok as far as I am concerned. I did my article in Dreamweaver and it is published already. I think in future I will do everything in Dreamweaver. It's just easier!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 8-Feb-16 20:32pm.
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It's a good idea. Unfortunately many members asking questions don't get it. Often they just repeat their question or error message there (e.g. I m getting an error of assembly[^]).
Maybe a bit more verbose heading instead of "What have you tried" will improve the chances of they either providing an actual explanation of what they have tried or reconsidering to post their question before they actually have tried anything?
Like: "Explain in detail, including code (if applicable), what you have tried yourself so far to resolve this problem:" ...?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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But as we all know, users don't read messages.
If they can't read or understand the current heading, are they likely to read and understand a more verbose heading?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't know - but as it would cost only a few minutes to change the heading I think it's worth a try
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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If a person can't spend the time to phrase their question sensibly - and we make it painfully clear and easy to do - then the question should be removed.
If someone makes an effort but gets messed up because of language or phrasing that's fine. But if they can't even spend a few seconds making it possible for someone to answer their question then we need to move on.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris,
Just look at several questions, which took the most space today. It looks like the same person creates a new account for a new "question".
The common characteristics are: the same section "What I have tried" does not show anything the inquirer could try. Also, it's no effort, pointless question, no explanation of any problem, and so on. But closely following the same form and very similar phrasing tells the tail. Unfortunately, those apparently fake questions still provoked some of the experts into trying to answer seriously. We always had enough rubbish here, but I never saw the same number of so similar posts which are not formally the spam…
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Paradoxically, it could be the effect of adding the field "What I have tried" to the question form. The impression is that people aim to abuse this section as much as possible. It's psychologically explainable: this field irritates many so much that they try to fill it with any rubbish as soon as possible. But it creates extremely irritating form of a question…
Just some thought; I really don't know what to do with it…
—SASergey A Kryukov
modified 9-Feb-16 9:50am.
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