Bugs and Suggestions

Richard MacCutchan28-Sep-20 21:54

28-Sep-20 21:54

Type '*' in the search box and press enter. It will return a list with the latest messages. These are usually on a page beyond the first.

Peter_in_278028-Sep-20 22:49

Peter_in_2780

28-Sep-20 22:49

That is not my point. What I am talking about is whole threads missing from the normal forum display.
Incidentally, at least some of them show up in a search.

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Richard MacCutchan28-Sep-20 23:02

28-Sep-20 23:02

I cannot find any threads later than want to insert leave dates for weekdays excluding weekends from given date range using c# ASP.net - C# Discussion Boards[^] from 23rd September. Later message will be appended to the threads they belong to.

I just started a new thread and it appears in the correct place. Please check that you can see it at the top.

Matthew Dennis30-Sep-20 9:14

30-Sep-20 9:14

I've checked the database and what you see is correct. Strange as it may seem, there don't seem to be that many questions being posted. There are new posts after the one you mentioned, so the site seems to be working correctly.

Maybe they all moved over to Q&A.

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

Richard MacCutchan30-Sep-20 9:59

30-Sep-20 9:59

Thanks Matthew, that seems to confirm my observations.

Mobile view of article moderation queue...

Peter_in_278030-Sep-20 16:47

Peter_in_2780

30-Sep-20 16:47

Thanks! Put my original message down to a geriatric's brain fart.
I was sure I'd seen more threads in the intervening week, but obviously not.

Cheers,
Peter

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Doubled user (again)

Nelek28-Sep-20 10:03

Nelek

28-Sep-20 10:03

Member 14950662 - Professional Profile[^]
and
Member 14950661 - Professional Profile[^]

have the same summon nick (User-14917012) and hence the same "members" URL.

Additionally the name shown in the "Who's who" List is not the nickname of the profile list, but the summon name, what usually is not the case.
Same stats, same profile "pic", I clicked in the upper link of the list and I got both links marked as visited (purple)

M.D.V.

OriginalGriff28-Sep-20 7:59

And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

28-Sep-20 7:59

... Shows the article, but does not provide any way to accept or reject it. To do that, you have to request the "Desktop site" and then it's to small to read comfortably on a phone.

To be honest, I only noticed because I'm "between tablets" and using my phone to browse CP...

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Издислав Издиславов27-Sep-20 13:29

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

27-Sep-20 13:29

And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings. This is happening on regular basis, I would suggest to support employees (to few ones in particular): Stop doing it.

OriginalGriff27-Sep-20 20:30

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

27-Sep-20 20:30

It's not a support employee: they have no access to your computer and the cookies stored there so even if they wanted to (which I'm sure they don't) they couldn't mess with them. Making random accusations like that isn't polite; it borders on the edge of rudeness and abusive behaviour!

It's a bug, and one which crops up from time to time and which the developers are trying pretty hard to find and fix - but since it's intermittent, and doesn't happen to everybody it's proving very, very elusive. The best thing you could do to help is try to remember if they get scrambled after you perform some specific sequence of events or timings, and tell the staff via the Sugs'n'Bugs forum so that might help them track it down instead of assuming malicious activity!

Издислав Издиславов27-Sep-20 21:17

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

27-Sep-20 21:17

I believe this has nothing to do with cookies on my machines. Only timezone is visibly changed, other settings are not. The main thing resulting from this change, and main reason for my frustration, is that after this seemingly minor change in settings, just a timezone change, my comments on articles are treated like spam. So, I have published several articles, I have posted some amount of comments and questions on various code project articles and yet, on regular basis my profile is changed and my comments are marked as spam.

OriginalGriff27-Sep-20 21:28

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

27-Sep-20 21:28

The spam detector has nothing to do with timezones: it uses content to decide and a heuristic system to learn what is and isn't spam.
A bunch of your - identical - comments appeared in moderation this morning and I let them through, then deleted the three spares. That should help to let the system "know" what isn't spam in the future, but it understandably takes time to learn "this isn't spam". Sometimes "real spam" providers try very hard top make the content look "spam free" and the system becomes a little paranoid. But ... it's pretty good at learning, and as it protects the site from the floods of spam we periodically get, all members live with the minor inconvenience of occasionally waiting a few minutes for a post to be accepted by a real human being. It decided I was a spammer a couple of times and I had to release my own posts from moderation! Laugh | :laugh:

Live with it for the moment, if you can - the system will catch up to you and release you from "all items moderated" fairly soon, I'm sure.

Издислав Издиславов27-Sep-20 21:56

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

27-Sep-20 21:56

Yeah, I have posted the same content several times, because I wondered whether it is a bug or it is moderated, deleting the redundant comment is fine. I am also fine with waiting some time before comment is moderated, this is a minor thing.

I am not sure about your comment for timezone and that it has nothing to do with system. Usually such system weight various comments from various users and based on this example set they determine what is spam and what is not. One example from similar issue: years ago, bunch of football fans decided to make fun and cheer up few local players. So, for Macedonian version of Google translate they started to confirm as input a name of relatively unknown player and as a translation in English a name of world famous player appear. Both names, both strings has nothing to do, neither as character proximity, neither as similar character combinations. So the translation service just weighted what users tells it - this sequence of characters is being transformed into another and real users confirms it is fine. And when this is confirmed by hundreds of fans for a specific geographic location it stays like that. This funny translations lasted for several months, before being fixed.

So something similar is happening here - for specific settings your spam system looks at some references and treat comments like spam. Few persons can easily get the last comments made by a user, post them in various sites and then mark them there as spam. They just need to know which sites are used as references by your spam system and that's it. Of course, this is just my suggestion, it might has nothing to do with real reason Smile | :)

Richard MacCutchan28-Sep-20 5:34

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

28-Sep-20 5:34

See my comment to Matthew's message. I notice that Kiev and Sofia are in the same timezone so that may be the issue.

Matthew Dennis28-Sep-20 5:25

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

28-Sep-20 5:25

I've reviewed your account and do not see anything suspicious.
We would not change you Time Zone setting.

Have you used a shared computer, say in an internet café, and not logged out?
The only other possibility I can think of is that someone has either obtained your credentials, or hacked you computer and is using your account.

You might want to change your password.

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

Richard MacCutchan28-Sep-20 5:34

Re: And again someone changed my timezone and messed up settings

28-Sep-20 5:34

I have the same issue. I set my timezone entry to GMT (London etc.) but next time I check, it will say Casablanca. The two timezones are the same so I wonder if it is something related to showing the timezone names in alphabetic order?

Издислав Издиславов28-Sep-20 5:54

28-Sep-20 5:54

I am located in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgaria has only one time zone and official time in Bulgaria is UTC+3. In Bulgaria there are summer and winter times, winter is consider default. When it goes to it, it goes to UTC+2. I am not sure if they (government) still keep changing that or it has been made obsolete.

In your system there are two time zones, in which Sofia falls: the first is GMT +1:00 Sarajevo; Skopje; Sofia; Vilnius; Warsaw; Zagreb; and the second is GTM +2:00 Helsinki; Riga; Tallinn; Kyiv; Sofia; Vilnius;

I set several times the first one, GMT +1:00, and in some period of time it goes to the second one, GMT +2:00. So I have notice this change and started to wonder why it happens. That's it.

I believe it is not a security issue. I do not use shared machine and I believe nobody hacked one of mines. Account is old, from 2007 and during this period I have changed several machines, for sure I have logged from many places. I clear user data quite often and I also disconnect all existing connections, if any, expect the current one. However, I am not 100% sure, after all I buy a retail Windows 10 OS and I am sure there is a backdoor in it, but I guess only government security employees can access it and I don't see a reason for them to do it.

Stuck in QA moderation

OriginalGriff24-Sep-20 20:12

Re: Stuck in QA moderation

24-Sep-20 20:12

There is an "answer" stuck in QA moderation:

It's been there for 12 hours or more, and has resisted all my attempts to accept or reject it.

It may be an artifact of some kind: it's got no content, it's to an old question, and the member has been here for many years without picking up any recent rep points, even for logging in.
But it just will not die ... Laugh | :laugh:

Matthew Dennis28-Sep-20 5:26

Articles in right section on homepage?

28-Sep-20 5:26

I'm not sure what the problem was, but its gone now.

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

Sandeep Mewara23-Sep-20 3:43

Sandeep Mewara

23-Sep-20 3:43

Even after an update by CodeProject editor (Deeksha), my blog is still not showing up in the AI section: Data Visualization – Insights with Matplotlib

Looking at other articles, seems it just needs the AI tag which is present on my blog. Am I missing something or there is a bug?

Latest CodeProject post: Data Visualization - Insights with Matplotlib
To read all my blog posts, visit: Learn by Insight...

Re: Articles in right section on homepage?

Matthew Dennis23-Sep-20 4:37