http://www.instructables.com/answers/Why-do-shortcuts-not-appear-even-though-Ive-hig/

The pictures in each step of my instructables do not appear in the box to be viewed larger even though I am logged in and I am a pro member. I noticed this was a problem viewing another members Instructables also.

The rating system sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Sometimes shows the stars when it's rated sometimes doesn't. I have tried this on various computers. My preferred browser is Google Chrome and usually on a Mac, iPhone or iPad. But I've heard about this problem from people who have used different systems to mine when they have tried to rate me.

graphical search is only working when right click and open in a new tab.

refresh doesnt fix

im using windows xp professional with google chrome

also now and then the add comment button seems to be a link to the top of the page. refreshing the page seems to fix it though

Anyone monitoring this page?

Time to start a new thread...

Comments have stopped working. Reloading or refreshing the page has stopped working (used to fix the problem).

Can't get comment editor to load.

Using Safari on a Mac. Tried Firefox and have same result.

Prior to today there were no issues with comments.

Anyone else?

Earlier today I couldn't open a forum topic directly....couldn't even post it in the bug reports.....had to EMAIL it in *sigh*

I tried to email you guys because the "Project of the Day" (Deer Fly Traps) image is not loading on the home page.

I figured no one got the email, so I tried going to the "BUGS" page, but its now not loading either.

I get a "Please excuse me, that was very impolite..." message and a lot of code...

BUGS PAGE LINK

Reporting a reply to comment bug:
I hit the reply button on 2 of my comments and do not get a reply box to input text. I don't get please refresh your page or any message from the program. It simply does nothing as if the page froze up. However the page is fine. I went to a different Instructable on my page and I could not reply to any of the comments either. I hope I explained this well enough. Thanks for reading!
Sunshiine

OK guys this is weird:
I came back here to report that I commented on 2 members Instructables and the comment went through fine. So I came to this page to comment under my bug report about the comment button and tried to reply and the comment box would not load. I then tried to make a new comment and could not get a box. So I logged out and tried again and this box showed up. Let see if it will work.

I've been trying to upload my video instructable all day today, but keep running into the same problem. As you've requested, I've made some screenshots and attached them into a word document.

I've been using Windows XP while using Chrome, IE ver.8, and Firefox. I've also tried using our Mac that runs iOS X while using Safari and Firefox.

Typically, it keeps asking me to refesh the page, but if it doesn't, then the "updating" bar remains and I've allowed it to run for several hours, but never progressed from there.

I would really like to get my video posted for one of the competitions and I'm running out of time. I've put a lot of hard work (as I'm sure many others have also) into preparing their instructables.

Can someone please help or have some other means to post our video instructables.

Thanks!
Dwight

If you have a list of bugs to work on this should probably go at the very very bottom of that list but there seems to be an issue with the dollar sign $ when using the search bar. When I search for my most recent project, $tars, a few of the results show up as 'tars' but when I click the link the correct '$tars' title shows up on the actual project steps pages.

I'm guess it has something to do with being a special character. I'm not sure if the $ is dropped off when used in the middle or at the end of the word and this may be something to check out. Also I'm using Mac OS X, Version 10.7.2 and Safari 5.1.2.

Attached are two screen shots that show 'tars' and the correct '$tars' page that it leads to.

Lately I have been on the move so I try to go on instructables on my iPod every time I get wifi, such as if I stop at Dunkin Donuts. But when I try to login, the box just keeps jumping around the screen and it's hard I see what your typing in and it's hard to even login. I have the latest os and updated the iPod barely a month ago. And I'm using safari... But I don't think that helps much. Sorry ill add pictures when I get home, I'm currently on my Ipad. Also as a good ad on you guys should make a add pictures button for mobile devices. That would help allot I would suggest.

Your mobile site does not function correctly. I have an Ipod touch 4th genoration and running safari. it has no problems and running IOS 5.01 when I search something it just brings up descusion forms. Also when I finally get the search to work then the pics dont come up. When i log in as my acount as soon as i search something it logs me off my account. It happens every time i search the instructables mobile website i always have to switch to full site. I have talked to my cousin and it does the same thing for him (but sadley he is not a member) To me all of this are bugs!

This may be an issue at my end, but as of late, whenever I make an edit to one of my instructables, the "Intro" text field goes blank. I've gotten into the habit of copying and pasting my intro text to get around this, but it is frustrating.

If it's me, please let me know. Thanks.

the problem i always get is when i go to the 7th or 8th page of a search, go to an instructable , but when i go back to search it brings back the first page of results instead of the 7th or8th. i am not aware if this is a bug or not. please tell me if u fix the problem

u guys posted domething on ur facebook page, about uploadinf a photo of a 5 sided paper star and ofering 3 months pro membership for it, and i did as asked and got nothing : \ i was quite dissapointed by this false offer.

when i am posting comments the sometimes dissapear without being deleted as if they were never there...

Im trying to make a video instructable, but everytime I go back to edit the unpublished video, the updating files pops up then an error message appears and I have to refresh the page. REPEATS.. over and over again. By the way it doesn't recognize my instructable as unpublished- like a ghost file or something and next to the word unpublished, it has the number (0) when ever I obviously have (1) instructable in it.

I also would like to say that you cant start a new instructable after this glitch occurs, and you cant delete the unpublished video instructable yourself. You have to ask a manager at instructables.com to delete it for you. THIS IS A HUGE BUG, the creator of their own instructables should be able to manage themselves.

I would like this to get fixed as soon as possible please. Thankyou!

Bug? The new Instructables shop page does not have a link back to the home page. Not sure if this counts as a bug or a suggestion, but there you go.

Image:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/864/2012010321h2653.png

OS/Browser:
Not caused by OS/Browser, but Win 7 64bit, Google Chrome.

I don't even bother with the Q&A any longer, seeing as none of mine ever show. I'm sure it has nothing to do with my browser or hardware but I'm typically on Firefox, on Linux Mint. And I'm not talkin' they show up and disappear, they never even see the light of day. I really liked the concept as opposed to forums.

There is also a typo on the Shopbot Challenge Contest page. Here's the pic, if it is not seen then go to http://cl.ly/D2RJ As you can see it says I nstructables in the Submit paragraph. There is a space after the I in Instructables.

I posted a long comment before, but the browser didn't remember what I said...and it also copied something else! So I'll just post the Layman's terms.

At http://www.instructables.com/account/gopronow?type=TYPE5&sourcea=footer clicking on a Free Account button when already registered redirects you from http://www.instructables.com/account/register?redirectToNxtPg=true to the submit page, http://www.instructables.com/about/submit.jsp. It should just be detected that you are already registered with a Free account and it should either:
a) not appear
b) bring you to a page that says "You already have a free account!" and possibly, after, "Would you like to upgrade to a Pro Account?", etcetera.
I will also guess that if you were a Pro member, the button would still be there. It should not be there or, instead of the Paypal link it brings me to, if I was a Pro member it should bring me to a page that says "You are already a Pro member! Would you like to (cancel) or (renew) your membership?"

Hope this helps the site to be more user-friendly. I hope it helps despite me losing all my extra details!

Im not sure if this is a bug or my impatience but when i post a comment on an ible, i can only see it on their page if im logged in? Perhaps it could just take time to go through your servers?

When I type in my user name, I can press enter and it will log me in without me typing in my password. That is a pretty terrible bug!

ok the glitch about the dissapearing posts happened on my other one about this.

First off, I was using my iPad when plugged into my MacBook pro, an when I tried to type in my username, the login screen moved up and down while I was typing, and, it made it impossible to click on the password bar, also, . Some of the things I typed did not show up, this was also when iPad was plugged into the macbookpro, and it was still going up and down as I typed, my mom was trying to fix the iPhoto app on the MacBook pro as all this was happening, I was able to replicate this many, many, times!!!!'!!!'!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But when unplugged It seemed to work again we have verizon Internet, my email is t3sla2@yahoo.com , my free trial account name is silvermonk25, (ps., last night I posted my first instructable and it was slot of fun!!!!!!!!!!)

When I first tried to type in this box, I started typing and it did not show up! Also, when I tried to atatch a photo to a comment, it did not show up, it happened all5 times I tried!!!!!!! My username of my trial account is silvermonk25

You have your prize pictures messed up on the Coffee Challenge.

When I try to add a new image comment when editing an instructable, the comment rectangle only appears as a square on the top left instead of where I clicked. I think this started a month or so ago.

Also the comment square is not yellow but rather a grey dotted line.

I'm using mac os 10.6.8

When ever I login whilst viewing one of my Instructable's I get the following message:

I have been trying to sign up for a member ship using my Facebook Id. But every time i click on Log in with Fb.. The page restarts n nothin happens.. this is the same prob even for the comments Fb button. Had to fill a sign up form To get access to comments.

comments keep appearing and disappearing on my instructables. at one time I saw my instructable had 2 comments ant the next day both of them disappeared, but it still said it had 2 comments.

I have a problem with two instructables in my, “Your working on 2 Instructables”.
There called “Jacobs ladders”, These messed up when I made them.

I want to delete them but they will not load so I can delete them.

When I click on edit a page comes up saying “Updating”.

Then this came up.
There's been a problem updating your Instructable. Please refresh this page.

When I go to refresh the page it goes back to the updating page and updates forever never fixing the problum.

I am having a problem with my published article... Nothing major. I publish it early day yesterday and even after the update the instructable is still not up. I recognize that they are not put up right away, i was just curious.

When downloading certain file types from Instructables such as PCB files,
they are downloaded as .tmp files.

I had a hard time figuring out the problem, and after a bit of experimentation found that changing the file extension solved the problem.

its probably a minor issue but could save many instructables user a bit of headache if it had the correct extension.

Hey i just realised it is also on jimmy proton's account page account look:


i'm running on ubuntu 11.10 with AMD Athlon XP and a packard bell PC

sometimes my comments wont post /show and it doesnt shhow the ddeleted message

i received an email today stating that there was a potential security breach to my account with the bank of sweden, even though i dont have a bank of sweden account, the reason i am reporting this here is because it was addressed to "madmans firework emporium" this is the only site that i use that alias on, causing me to suspect a problem here

I tried to get the PDF version of "Build and fly a paramotor safely" several times and I got a 1kb pdf file. I tried from 2 different computers. Any other instructable I picked up worked properly. (Login was right, I refreshed the page, used either Firefox or Explorer but nothing.)

Here is the link

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-and-Fly-a-Paramotor/

I'm not sure if this counts but when I try to make or edit an instructable on my HTC smart phone, the loading bar freezes and thats as far as it gets. I've tried multiple times and made sure that my acount was in order but its only via mobile. I haven't had this problem on any other web site so I'm inclined to think its a glitch here. No screen shot available, sorry.

nothing really intense, but the send me the password email thingamajig button never works for me. Im on saffari.

I don't know if it's been mentioned here but when I'm not logged in I click on the "view all steps on one page" button. The page refreshes but stays the same unless I'm logged in. A pop up box telling me to log in to view the instructable in this way, like it used to before the site was re-worked would be better than the false hope. It would encourage new browsers to join the site as well, that's what encouraged me to become a member in the past.

It is funny the things you notice when someone asks you to look for them. I noticed these two when I used Internet Explorer version 7.0.5730.13 on a Dell Latitude with Windows 7.  Whenever "Contests" is clicked on the different Contest options do not line up with their appropriate boxes.

The other thing I noticed was that when I read the rules for Contests some of them have "A" and boxes repeated over and over such as on the "Make It Glow" challenge http://www.instructables.com/contest/glow/?show=RULES

I know that, that is a screen shot from an IPod Touch but it does the same thing on my computer.

not a bug...but your instructions above doesn't say WHERE to submit.

Here is my bug...

1. I created two instructables- A photo version and step-by-step version. When I attempted to delete the photo version an "ERROR" message flashed. Then it refreshed the page and had a button saying "Are you sure you want to delete.." I created a second photo version and attempted to delete again. The same second long "ERROR" message appeared followed by the "Are you sure..." button.
2. Macbook OS Software10.5.8 Chrome
3. Sorry no photo available due to short message flashed. It is reproducible though.

Please let me know if I need to resubmit this somewhere else.

there is a bug......as far as i think :-

when u click login at the top right corner a pop-up window is displayed where you are required to enter the login details.

if you don't enter anything, and click login, then also you get logged in w.r.t. the facebook account opened in any tab of the same browser.

This should not be so as not all of our email id's are on facebook. For a person having multiple id's for different purpose, it is a hassle when you are using facebook at the same time as instructables.com.

It is wastage of time to first logout and then login with you'r other id. Hope to see this resolved soon !

not sure if this is the place for this.....

Picture number: 12 is not giving a close up on this link:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Tube-Screamer-clone/step2/Quick-run-through-of-the-etching-process/

I'm using windows XP not sure about any other specs.

Thank you for your time.

Also (yet another) bug is that no matter he size of the picture you upload to the comments (at least for me on a MacBook 6,1 October 2009 model 2 gb ram 250 gb hdd running Safari 5.1.2 on 10.6.8) when you click on it it will be displayed as 500 something by 300 something instead of something even close to the original size (in my case 1280x800). Here is a picture (I am showing a screenshot of me displaying a screenshot on Instructables, hmmm...weird...).

Stay golden, ponyballs.