Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Unable to reply, message under moderation

18-Jul-19 9:40

Good points.

So

1) we could see if there's an elegant way to add a note: "You have moderator ability. Click here to moderate this message", or

2) only send the notification about a message when the message is actually published. You don't need notifications of spam

cheers
Chris Maunder

Luc Pattyn18-Jul-19 9:59

Luc Pattyn

18-Jul-19 9:59

Yeah.
You probably could introduce restricted moderator rights like so:
- assuming a certain level of reputation;
- only applying to messages that are replies to ones own messages.
- rights limited to "accept as non-spam" or "do nothing" (i.e. leave it to a full moderator).

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No Screenshots allowed in Bug Reports???

Merlin Brasil17-Jul-19 19:41

Merlin Brasil

17-Jul-19 19:41

Hi,

A picture is worth a thousand words..... so why can't I add a screenshot to my bug reports?

Thanks,
Merlin

OriginalGriff17-Jul-19 19:46

OriginalGriff

17-Jul-19 19:46

Well ... did you try pasting one?

Try WINKEY+SHIFT+S, then CTRL+V in the text box.

Do note this ONLY works in Sugs'n'Bugs - the other forums aren't as closely "policed" and some of our users would ... um ... post unsuitable material.

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Bassam Abdul-Baki18-Jul-19 1:10

Bassam Abdul-Baki

18-Jul-19 1:10

OriginalGriff wrote:
Try WINKEY+SHIFT+S, then CTRL+V in the text box.

Never knew this. Did you skip the "drag a box" step?

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OriginalGriff18-Jul-19 1:15

OriginalGriff

18-Jul-19 1:15

I assumed that anyone bright enough to find S'n'B would assume dragging to mark the area to copy ... Laugh | :laugh:

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Merlin Brasil18-Jul-19 10:49

Merlin Brasil

18-Jul-19 10:49

Thanks, Dave

Tried that under both Bugs & Sugs.

No Joy Frown | :(

Does the author have an email addy I can send the JPG to?

Thanks,
Merlin

Notifications icon on mobile site.

OriginalGriff18-Jul-19 20:13

OriginalGriff

18-Jul-19 20:13

Merlin Brasil wrote:
Thanks, Dave

No, I'm OriginalGriff. DalekDave is someone who follows my every message, whether he likes it or not.

Merlin Brasil wrote:
Tried that under both Bugs & Sugs.

Sorry? That doesn't makes any sense: Sugs'n'bugs is this forum ...
Open a reply to this, copy your image to the clipboard, then paste it while the text cursor is at the appropriate point in the message:

It should save the image, and paste a link into place.

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GKP199217-Jul-19 7:19

GKP1992

17-Jul-19 7:19

Anybody else experiencing the lack of the red notifications icon on CP mobile site?
I can see notifications on my desktop, but not on the mobile site.

Re: Notifications icon on mobile site.

Matthew Dennis18-Jul-19 2:24

Changing my email address lost my history

18-Jul-19 2:24

I doesn't show on my IPhone in Portrait, but does show in Landscape.

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PhilipOakley15-Jul-19 1:20

15-Jul-19 1:20

My historic email address is being retired by my professional institution, so I have just updated my personal settings page to provide my new email.

Unfortunately this appears to mean I've lost Confused | :confused:

my 'history' and notifications setting (daily newsletter, etc.)

Is this to be expected?

Is there a way to recover those old settings and transfer my 'history' to my account under my new email address.

Philip Oakley

Matthew Dennis15-Jul-19 1:39

15-Jul-19 1:39

What do you mean by 'history'? As far as I can tell, your account data is intact.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

PhilipOakley15-Jul-19 2:30

15-Jul-19 2:30

if is look at Questions asked / Answers / comments made tabs I get 0/0/0 as the values, which suggested I have no history.

Also I don't appear to have received notifications of daily newsletter that I normally receive, nor notification of your reply/comment (the box is ticked), so I'm not sure what's happening and where the error is (the new email account is receiving test messages I've sent).

Philip

Matthew Dennis15-Jul-19 3:11

15-Jul-19 3:11

We don't send Newsletters to unconfirmed email addresses. When you changed your email address, it needed to be confirmed. I have sent you an email confirmation email. Please follow the instructions.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

PhilipOakley15-Jul-19 3:54

15-Jul-19 3:54

email (CodeProject | CodeProject Email confirmation) received at new email address and accepted.

I had had a password confirmatory email (to old email address) at '13 Jul 2019 18:49:37 -0400' which I thought was part of the update (as I didn't appear to get a proper log in after the change)

Keep up the good work.

Thanks.

Matthew Dennis17-Jul-19 3:45

17-Jul-19 3:45

As for the Questions/Answers/Comments == 0/0/0,

It appears that you have only used the Forums, not the Questions & Answers Feature.
Questions/Answers/Comments only are part of the Q&A Feature.

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PhilipOakley17-Jul-19 5:43

17-Jul-19 5:43

Ah, Thanks, that clarifies my misunderstanding - too much reading/following, not enough Q&A Wink | ;-)

Article images

#realJSOP15-Jul-19 1:06

#realJSOP

15-Jul-19 1:06

There re way too many images posted in articles that are too large. If someone includes an image in an article

0) Scale it down to a max appropriate size (mobile aware etc). Do this only if the image is larger than the max appropriate size.

1) Allow the user to click on the image to see the full-size image.

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modified 15-Jul-19 8:51am.

Chris Maunder15-Jul-19 5:15

15-Jul-19 5:15

The scale-down-and-click is exactly what's meant to happen with large images. Is there an article you can point to that's causing problems?

The current solution is simply to use JavaScript to do the scaling and provide a clickable full-sized version. I'm going to update this so that the images displayed are < 700px (and optimised) and a separate, full sized unoptimised image available through click through - no JavaScript.

cheers
Chris Maunder

#realJSOP15-Jul-19 5:33

#realJSOP

15-Jul-19 5:33

I think scaling down to 320 (or 480) would be best (especially if they can click to see the unscaled image).

Since the images are already stored (in the db?) I think just loading them and scaling on the fly would be less work, and take less disk space.

I wasn't aware that this kind of thing was implemented. I just thought the people posting images just didn't care.

Chris Maunder15-Jul-19 6:13

15-Jul-19 6:13

There's actually two levels in play:

1. Anything > 700px gets scaled down via Javascript.
2. Anything wide than the viewport will be scaled down due to a max-width rule

I'm not keen on needlessly shrinking images. A large image should be able to fill the width of the article (up to a point) in order to fill the space and provide those whose eyesight is failing (ahem) a chance to see things a little better.

Is there any article you have seen where the images appear to be too large?

cheers
Chris Maunder

#realJSOP15-Jul-19 7:15

#realJSOP

15-Jul-19 7:15

Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm not keen on needlessly shrinking images.

I'm not talking about scaling images that fit.

I figure since you already have the image at its original size, you could just use the div tag to scale (instead of using javascript)

Most articles Ive seen appear to have the images scaled UP to fit the viewport, which makes the image look like crap. I can't give you a specific example.

Chris Maunder15-Jul-19 7:33

15-Jul-19 7:33

#realJSOP wrote:
you could just use the div tag to scale (instead of using javascript)

The JS allows us to easily add a "click here to see the full version" without having to go back and reprocess the original article text (or post-process the article and image at the server level)

#realJSOP wrote:
Most articles Ive seen appear to have the images scaled UP to fit the viewport

Ugh. That's not good. Next time you see this let me know, please.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Brisingr Aerowing16-Jul-19 9:36

Brisingr Aerowing

16-Jul-19 9:36

I’ve seen the scaling up a couple times, but it went away when I went back later.

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Chris Maunder16-Jul-19 10:11