Discovered Upgrade Issues

[Rob2713g]

One thing that I noticed: if I'm not logged in, when I click search and type in my querry, it directs me to advanced search and makes me type in the letters and numbers in a box for verification. Not sure if this is on purpose or not.

Nitpicky: When I try to give reputation it automatically selects the "neutral" and "I approve" buttons.

Thanks for all the hard work!

[Ricky Q.]

Links don't open in a new window.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Billfred

One quirk I've discovered: When you have a new posts search (and possibly other searches) that have no results, you get the header (which is an awesome addition), but neither Spotlights nor the event countdowns show at the top. The place exists for them (the [more] links show), but the actual data doesn't show.

Yeah, I'll have to see how I can detect when it's an error and not show those things. It doesn't run the data to put in that stuff until it starts composing a page.

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

The only thing I've noticed is the 200 pixel limiter on signatures isn't working.

Hmm .. the CSS is there. I'll have to play with it and figure out why its not working.

Originally Posted by Rob2713g

One thing that I noticed: if I'm not logged in, when I click search and type in my querry, it directs me to advanced search and makes me type in the letters and numbers in a box for verification. Not sure if this is on purpose or not.

Yeah, this is to prevent bad things from happening by automated bots. People can really kill a server by automating an attack by searching a whole bunch of times. The captcha, although not completely effective, will slow it down a bit.

Originally Posted by Rob2713g

Nitpicky: When I try to give reputation it automatically selects the "neutral" and "I approve" buttons.

Typo -- should be fixed.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob2713g
One thing that I noticed: if I'm not logged in, when I click search and type in my querry, it directs me to advanced search and makes me type in the letters and numbers in a box for verification. Not sure if this is on purpose or not.

Yeah, this is to prevent bad things from happening by automated bots. People can really kill a server by automating an attack by searching a whole bunch of times. The captcha, although not completely effective, will slow it down a bit.

That would be fine and dandy (not really), but the entering of the 6 digits/characters does not even work.

Search-pwnd..

I'm glad I'm not the only one with the problem.

Also, searching CD-Media still returns doubles of the same pictures many times. What's up with that?
I know that was an issue before the upgrade btw.

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

The "new posts" list never gets any smaller. (approx 285 new threads for me this morning.)

Al, scroll through the pages. You should see a huge banner saying "The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts."

They still show up when u log in, and don't dissapear like before.
idk if I like that yet.

Also, is there an override feature to disable MultiQuote?
(Hopefully it will disable if I log out and then back in)

I hit the button to do it.. not knowing how it works..and now everytime I go to do a regular quote on this thread, it brings up the one I hit multiquote on.. (one of Brandon's) as well as the normal quote. (Al's in this case).
And I have nooooo idea what page that is on to go back and turn it off.

I can see it being a cool feature. no doubt, but it just needs an override.
Edit: It cancels out and goes back to normal when you log out of CD and back in.. but who wants to do that?!?!? lol

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

That would be fine and dandy (not really), but the entering of the 6 digits/characters does not even work.

Search-pwnd..

I'm glad I'm not the only one with the problem.

Works for me. It's case sensitive -- hit 'refresh image' if you can't read the one you're given.

Also, searching CD-Media still returns doubles of the same pictures many times. What's up with that?
I know that was an issue before the upgrade btw.

yeah. it was an existing issue -- itll be fixed eventually.

Al, scroll through the pages. You should see a huge banner saying "The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts."

They still show up when u log in, and don't dissapear like before.
idk if I like that yet.

The 'mark as read' will make them disappear.

Also, is there an override feature to disable MultiQuote?

(Hopefully it will disable if I log out and then back in)

I hit the button to do it.. not knowing how it works..and now everytime I go to do a regular quote on this thread, it brings up the one I hit multiquote on.. (one of Brandon's) as well as the normal quote. (Al's in this case).
And I have nooooo idea what page that is on to go back and turn it off.

I can see it being a cool feature. no doubt, but it just needs an override.
Edit: It cancels out and goes back to normal when you log out of CD and back in.. but who wants to do that?!?!? lol

This feature gives you the ability to quote anything on the site -- different threads, posts, etc. There probably is a way to clear them out ... I'm not sure, exactly. It's not required, however, if you want to just quote one thing, and once you do reply, it should clear out. So worst case, reply .. clear out the unwanted multi-quotes, and then type your reply.

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Works for me. It's case sensitive -- hit 'refresh image' if you can't read the one you're given.

I tried searching today while I was not logged in from the drop down box, and it didn't give me the option to do the image thing (not that it would fit in there..), but once I searched it brought me to the advanced page where I had to enter it. Is the image entering really necessary? It sort of makes finding information quickly a little more difficult. (We're not so posted to use forums in school, so it's got to be an on and off real quick thing)

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Maybe this has been discussed, but:
After I view (read?) a thread, its still shown as as new (bold face) in the portal.

[ChrisH]

It might just be me, but there are still problems with CD-Events. Some of the events never seem to "load". The issue seems to only apply to certain events, including 2 of the 3 I plan to attend.

I know there was some discussion of this before and it wasn't working at all for a while. It looks like it got partly fixed so I figure these events maybe just didn't get whatever the fix was applied. If it makes any difference I'm running IE 6 on XP

The list pf non-working events at the moment seems to be:
Philadelphia Regional
West Michigan Regional
Israel Regional
San Diego Regional
Chesapeake Regional
San Jose Regional
Detroit Regional
Greater Kansas City Regional
Bayou Regional
Great Lakes Regional
Los Angeles Regional
New Jersey Regional
Manchester Kickoff

Chris

[Mark McLeod]

Brandon's life got in the way of fixing that.
You can bypass the problem with those 13 events using a browser other than IE (or applying to the petek registration service).

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=50430

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Brandon's life got in the way of fixing that.
You can bypass the problem with those 13 events using a browser other than IE (or applying to the petek registration service).

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=50430

Thanks, I got it taken care of. Hopefully it will be fixed for real sometime soon. But if there is such an easy workaround there are probably more pressing issues.

Chris

[Adam Y.]

Why is there a captcha to perform a search?

[Ricky Q.]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

Why is there a captcha to perform a search?

Only happens if you aren't logged in. Helps prevent spam bots and so forth.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=60

[SamC]

Could be noting... But when you click the "Spotlight Post" button. I keep getting a message that says, "post you are spotlighting already has spotlights. Please check the spotlight list to make sure your quote hasn't been suggested already. Thanks." I'm pretty sure it is a bug, because after it saying it was already suggested (on about 3 different quotes.) I tried it on some obscure quote and got the same message.

[Greg Needel]

I noticed today there is a problem with CD media and newly uploaded photos. When I come on to CD typically I want to check the new photos so I click the top one that shows up on the forums and it takes me to cd media. The issues comes in when i notice that there is a photo before and after in the "previous" and "next" preview boxes. It seems to me that the system just puts them out of order in some cases, it could be the portal or cd media, either way I thought I should let you know.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by SamSofa330

Could be noting... But when you click the "Spotlight Post" button. I keep getting a message that says, "post you are spotlighting already has spotlights. Please check the spotlight list to make sure your quote hasn't been suggested already. Thanks." I'm pretty sure it is a bug, because after it saying it was already suggested (on about 3 different quotes.) I tried it on some obscure quote and got the same message.

I get the same thing. But I have noticed that it still seems to submit the spotlight quote if you just click the "submit" button anyway, even though it looks like it is just flagging the error.

-dave