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It's legitimate, but we originally had the survey open for only a shirt time. I've opened it up again for those that missed out. The more the merrier! (reclick the link and you'll be able to help us out)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's my mistake -- I forgot to check the survey duration before I sent out a second round of survey invites last night. This is what I get for trying to squeeze out a bit more late-night productivity! Luckily Chris was up feeding the hamsters at the crack of dawn EST and took care of it. Sorry for the error!
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CP has been really slooooooooooooooooow this morning (say the last 3-4 hours), to the point where both my browsers and I gave up. [I would have been really cheesed if I hadn't saved a copy of a post that took 4 shots to send. ] It's better now, but still not its usual zippy self. Other sites are OK (all over the planet) so I don't think it's my end.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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3 hours ago we had a database issue which has been resolved. I'm currently working to move a bunch of stuff to a different server so you may see minor weirdness, but most likely you won't notice a thing.
Is the slowness still happening? If it is then it's a separate issue because everything's running nice and fast according to all the current monitoring.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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All good now.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Using IE7:
It happens if it takes you too long to finish the reply. If I copy my reply, and then go back to the post I was replying to, and reply again by pasting my reply into the edit field, it works.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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yep, it is a known feature, and has been reported before; it basically tells you to think and type faster, and use fewer and shorter sentences. I guess the disks are filling up.
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I've had it too on Firefox 3.6.9
As barmey as a sack of badgers
Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
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Just recently or continually?
We have a very, very large background process running that ran that I suspect is the culprit.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Never got it before, and never saw it mentioned here, the preview can also be blank, probably under the same circumstances. I just recently got one after a long composing time.
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I myself have not faced this issue yet.
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Nope. It happens every day. It just happened to me about 10 minutes ago or so.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Hi Chris, this just happened to me again about 2 minutes ago. I had spent about 15 minutes composing a reply. It definately seems to be something related to how long before starting the reply and submitting it.
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Found and fixed the problem.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Here's[^] another one spoiling somebody's article.
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Got 'em
Thanks for the catch!
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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I wanted to see this page (it happens to be a T/T page): http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/108316/32-Bit-or-64-bit-OS.aspx[^]
Whenever I enter that URL in a browser (tried FF3.6.9 and Chrome), I get the page as expected; however it immediately then scrolls from the top to "Alternate 2", and the URL bar changes to http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/108316/32-Bit-or-64-bit-OS.aspx#alternate2
This is not what I expect or want.
PS: I also tried IE7 (which I only use when other browsers give me a problem) and that one has a different weirdness; it does not scroll, instead it gives an error dialog stating A run-time error has occured. Line 2325. 'AttControl' is undefined.
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Yep, does the same with me on Chrome.
Dave
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Does it for me too in FF 3.6 and Chrome 6.0. A possible clue for the hamsters: Hitting the back button goes to the top of the page (where I'd have expected to go the first time).
[a final check before posting] Weirder and weirder. That only occurs in FF.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Correct but the last one is the only true permalink. The first could go to different alternates depending on the their sort order (recent, top rated). The second one will always transform to the third.
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So I read a tip/trick[^] and decided to try and vote 3 and provide quite some feedback.
There were several problems with the tip/trick content; those are dealt with in my message there.
There were even more problems with the voting stuff, I'll try and describe them here (before you ask, I'm using FF3.6).
This is what I did: I click 3, then enter text in the magic panel, finally click vote. Nothing happens.
Try again, fail again.
Reload page, now enter text in panel first, then click 3 and vote. Nada.
Try again, with 4 this time. Nada.
Reload several times, hoping to get out of possible caching incoherencies. Nada.
Reload page, try adding a real message ("add message" widget). Aha, it has a voting bar. I click 3, and now it says: "You voted 4, do you want to revote?" or something similar. I click 3, and vote. No dice. I click "publish", now at last there is a message with the content I wanted, but my vote is still at 4. I find no way to change it to 3.
Here is a short list of complaints in arbitrary order:
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The magic panel measures some 2 by 1 inch, much too narrow to allow an easy edit, and much too small to enter a significant message (should I upgrade my vocabulary and start using fewer but stronger words?). The default (or only?) size being so small is a typical Microsoft wrong-doing IMO.
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The magic panel disappears when you leave it (e.g. when you have to scroll the original T/T text to come up with more comments). Fortunately it does not loose what has already been entered. But non-empty entry boxes that disappear are BAD.
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Having entered something in the magic panel does not flag the page as dirty; one can browse away without warning, and loose whatever was entered.
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When creating a new message AND voting inside the message edit page, again a magic panel appears. There really is no need for the bloody thing, I'm already composing a message, what are you going to do with two messages? merge them? throw one away (which one)? it is confusing.
5.
Entering a small text in the magic panel and voting (either 3 or 4), in the T/T page, i.e. without "new message", did not work.
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Voting within the Edit Message page did not work. I'm not sure when the site decided I had voted 4, I was unable to modify it afterwards.
Conclusions:
1.
it just does not work. It is horrible. It may look fancy and attractive, but it fails to offer or perform elementary functions. It also is not intuitive.
2.
It is goodbye T/T for me. I'll stick to articles and forums. Those subsystems work. I can only hope the forums will not be "reworked" to the level of Q&A and T/T.
PS: if you can, please change my vote from 4 to 3.
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