Bugs and Suggestions

mwilliams53014-Apr-20 8:56

mwilliams530

14-Apr-20 8:56

This is going on with me as well! Already deleted over 30 of the "same" email newsletters from Code Project! Web Developer Newsletter - IntelliTask - An Alternative Windows Version to the Famous Task Manager. Still getting one about every 4 to 5 minutes. Your server is going berserk!!!

OriginalGriff14-Apr-20 9:21

OriginalGriff

14-Apr-20 9:21

This is the wrong place to raise this, you need to talk to admins who can do something about it.
Normally, I'd say go here: Bugs and Suggestions[^] but I'll summon the Mage:
@Chris-Maunder
Can you have a look please?

It's not happening to me, but it seems a little excessive...

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Chris Maunder14-Apr-20 9:34

14-Apr-20 9:34

Our apologies. A race condition crept into the code that only happens at startup, and due to multiple deploys this morning this race condition seems to have kicked in big time.

We're fixing (and I'll move this thread to Bugs and Sugs)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Matthew Fraley14-Apr-20 10:17

Matthew Fraley

14-Apr-20 10:17

Someone needs to pull the plug. I am still getting these every 5 min.

Please, don't use CSS !important on background or text

Member 1471816217-Apr-20 19:32

Member 14718162

17-Apr-20 19:32

Member 1480164314-Apr-20 1:15

Member 14801643

14-Apr-20 1:15

I like using custom CSS stylesheets (via Stylus Add-on) to enforce dark theme across the world wide web.

CSS

html, #newtab-window {background: #020202 !important}
* {color: #ddd !important;    background-color: transparent !important;}
img {opacity: .7 !important; transition: opacity .2s}
img:hover, a:hover img {opacity: 1 !important; background-color: #bbb !important}

Surprisingly 90% of internet works quite well with this. But there are the occasional websites that force white background via !important.

Example is What is difference of using string as hardcoded value vs string constant[^] with this style entry:

CSS

.container-entry {background-color: #fff !important;}

Please reserve !important only for your developers or end-users, but never in production.

PS: Your the first website I decided to actually tell of such usage. Also I think dedicated "dark modes" is generally a waste. As those are still something you must explicitly look for and enable. Whereas end-user CSS customizations apply implicitly and globally.

Re: Please, don't use CSS !important on background or text

Chris Maunder14-Apr-20 8:22

14-Apr-20 8:22

I'm flattered we're the first!

We're currently redoing our CSS from the ground up so things like this will be corrected. We may also add a Dark mode (to be decided). For me it's not a waste if there are specific colours we wish to use in a dark mode to ensure branding and display look good. It also saves people having to worry about their own custom styles. Plus, it's a CSS thing now (sorta).

cheers
Chris Maunder

weird reputation grafic

Nelek12-Apr-20 7:10

Nelek

12-Apr-20 7:10

I was just checking because he has been reporting.
His rep history[^] is pretty weird.

I suppose he will be nuked, but wanted to let you know in case you want to dig

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Chris Maunder12-Apr-20 11:37

12-Apr-20 11:37

Looks like someone wasn't playing by the rules.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Wendelius13-Apr-20 1:08

Wendelius

13-Apr-20 1:08

Since the drop is in the participant category, could it just be that he has opted-out a few newsletters.

Nelek13-Apr-20 1:29

Nelek

13-Apr-20 1:29

There is no "opt-in" part in the graphic. He starts at "0" and goes up slowly. When you opt-in for all things you start with 300 points.

M.D.V.

Wendelius13-Apr-20 3:06

Wendelius

13-Apr-20 3:06

Nelek wrote:
When you opt-in for all things you start with 300 points.

If I recall correctly, it hasn't always been so. The account is old so could it be possible that when the amount of items you can opt-in has grown over time, they have been automatically added to existing accounts without adding corresponding points? This would explain why opting-out results to negative points.

Of course this is merely speculation Smile | :)

Nelek13-Apr-20 3:24

Nelek

13-Apr-20 3:24

Wendelius wrote:
Of course this is merely speculation

That's exactly why I posted it here. To let the ones know, that actually can look the records Wink | ;)

M.D.V.

My Articles is Empty

#realJSOP11-Apr-20 1:20

Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles

11-Apr-20 1:20

I went to "My Articles", and it says "no articles posted" (the same for Tips). The article/tip count appears to be accurate.

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Re: My Articles is Empty

Greg Utas11-Apr-20 1:26

Greg Utas

11-Apr-20 1:26

"My Articles" works for me.

Re: My Articles is Empty

#realJSOP11-Apr-20 2:41

11-Apr-20 2:41

It appears to be okay now.

Article Wizard Weirdness

#realJSOP9-Apr-20 10:06

Re: Article Wizard Weirdness

9-Apr-20 10:06

I submitted a new article (Generic DAL Revisit - Making it Your Own, A Practical Example[^]), and it didn't bring over the one-line description or the "brief paragraph". Sean is editing it (fixing it, I suspect), but just thought you should know.

Sean Ewington9-Apr-20 10:07

Sean Ewington

9-Apr-20 10:07

It was missing when I went in there as well. If you don't like the description or brief paragraph I chose, I'm happy to change it.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Article Wizard Weirdness

#realJSOP9-Apr-20 10:16

Re: "Message closed" cleanup

9-Apr-20 10:16

Nah - looks okay. It's weird, because the wizard won't let you submit unless those two fields are filled in.

Maybe they were social distancing. Smile | :)

"Message closed" cleanup

Richard Deeming7-Apr-20 0:43

Richard Deeming

7-Apr-20 0:43

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Chris Maunder7-Apr-20 2:59

Message Signature not Showing

7-Apr-20 2:59

Thanks for the reminder. All cleared.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Cp-Coder6-Apr-20 10:54

Cp-Coder

6-Apr-20 10:54

I have added a phrase in my settings, as a message signature for my messages in the Lounge. However, the signature is not showing in my Lounge messages?? Confused | :confused:

Re: Message Signature not Showing

Chris Maunder6-Apr-20 11:31