An attempt to create bugs in the commenting system.
Post comments here, attempting to create errors in the commenting system.
Keep track of the steps you take to create those errors.
Post a comment detailing those steps here, so that others can try to recreate your error.
Then we'll get the error fixed!
Resources:
Navigating large-response topics
*****EDIT 20110115@0930PST*****
FOUND BUGS
## = has been passed along to the dev team to look into and fix
** = Fixed/Done
********END EDIT********
(more awesome bug photos)
Keep track of the steps you take to create those errors.
Post a comment detailing those steps here, so that others can try to recreate your error.
Then we'll get the error fixed!
Resources:
Navigating large-response topics
*****EDIT 20110115@0930PST*****
FOUND BUGS
- **When clicking on a forum topic, the default sort is "active" when clicking prev/next the link changes the sort to "newest" changing the order of comments.
- **When a comment thread is featured, the order of the posts change from being ordered by threads, to ordered chronologically (see photos in comments for details)
- **When you comment, there's an inability to reply to the comment you just left. (not fixed-feature)
- **When responding to a lot of comments without replying, comments get double posted (occasionally)
## = has been passed along to the dev team to look into and fix
** = Fixed/Done
********END EDIT********
(more awesome bug photos)
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The commenting bugs I know about are
The latter two will not show up until there are more than one page's worth of comments posted. This is my contribution to starting the population.
(Oh, a whole car-park just floated past on the news - glad I'm not in Oz)
So, TNG or Voyager?
The giant rats in Talons of Weng-Chiang, plus the little Peking Homunculus, completely freaked out a nine-year-old Kite - I genuinely watched it from behind the sofa.
xD Behind the couch, I love it.
>shrug<
The full text of my comment read (with words replacing the >'s so they don't get converted:
(Uh...whoops. Didn't mean to make the whole stinkin' thing (anglebracket)strong(anglebracket) - sorry.)
Shouldn't the dash have been bolded, along with "sorry.)"?
<strong>this text is bold</strong>
produces
this text is bold
(BTW, I got the literal angle brackets by using HTML entities -- ampersand lt semicolon and ampersand gt semicolon.)
The weird thing, though, is that it seems to have bolded everything after it anyway - but it didn't bold the dash, which was after it.
(Ah, thanks - I couldn't remember how to get them)
Is this topic now redundant?
Or is it lying on the slab, waiting for the Dev Team to poke at its innards?
There's also the issue of the occasional double post, which would be nice to find the cause of (occasional sucks).
...a zombie topic!
When I replied to this comment and went back to my You page it said that I had 1547 comments and the one that I had replied to has disappeared. Now I have an orphaned reply on the forum.
FIRST BUG
Take a look at the featured comment thread which starts with my initial comment. Caitlinsdads' reply, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" (Jan 11, 2011. 2:21 PM) was a direct response to my comment at 2:12 pm.
The order of comments has been scrambled by the sticky tag. Specifically, the entire subthread is now ordered strictly chronologically, rather than threadwise.
Featured
Not Featured
The Next/Prev Bug is Alive!
With 107 comments in place, I confirm the next/prev bug is operating, and I think I've even figured it out (see the end of this post). I'm viewing this topic "sorted by active" (the default).
The last comment on the first page (1-100) is mine from 11 Jan at 5:50 pm (first image below).
On the same page, Matt's thread beginning "This is going to be totally Awesome!" appears about halfway down the page (second image below).
But then, following the next >> link shows Matt's thread again, this time claiming it's comment #101 (third image below).
And I think I see why! Notice in that third image, the "sort by:" flag has changed to newest (instead of active). The URL for the next >> button has "sort=NEWEST" hardwired in. I believe that the code should be set up to pass the user's same sorting request into the next and previous buttons as is currently displayed.
I suspect that the posting action doesn't actually regenerate the page with a server-side query, but rather just modifies the local HTML cache with the new comment block (assuming that's possible with HTML4). Note also that the regenerated page has the same "nesting level" bug for which Matt posted pictures.
Doing an immediate refresh takes care of it, and REPLY works fine.
I was going to use the toothbrush bristles as legs, but I accidentally hot-glued them into a large blob.
Fortunately, I'd found a toy tyre on the pavement just an hour before, and it was still in my pocket.
Beats a handbag any day of the week.
Oops.
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The latest Bond screenplay has been written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan.
It lives down around 300 feet below sea level, and it kind of like the aquatic relative of the rollie-pollie...
...so cool.
Ewww
Look what my Science clubbers made!
Is that a magnet on the bottom?