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Site upgrade - comments
August 2, 2012 - 11:24am
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Generally, it looks good, and the Search feature is finally up to speed, but I'm still not getting PM notifications. The best upgrade is to Rabble Features, which I think is spectacular.
ETA: It'd really make my day if someone could change "Save" to "Post" in the Comment section.
I'm still occasionally getting this message:
Page Unavailable
The page you requested is temporarily unavailable.
We're redirecting you to the homepage in 5 seconds.
(Error 503 Service Unavailable)
Page UnavailableThe page you requested is temporarily unavailable.
We're redirecting you to the homepage in 5 seconds.
(Error 503 Service Unavailable)Agree with Boom Boom, the uprgrade to the Rabble Features looks great. Also really like being able to paste text and links into my posts without having to use the "Paste Text" box, and not having the line spacing get screwed up when I paste text.
Still don't see any sign of the 'keep me logged in' button. Grrrrr!
LT, fyi on the "keep me logged in," it's been temporarily disabled for consistency while the upgrade, er, expresses itself. It will make a reappearance later. Sorry for the inconvenience!
"upgrade," my arse.
My guess is that I'm not the only person who got a poorly-worded personal message last night with no point other than to insult, since the sender seems to be gone.
Just noticed there isn't any button to flag that sort of thing as offensive.
Not complaining, since it is easy enough to drop a line. But it is just the first time I noticed.
Well I'm feeling left out now. No insulting PMs lately at least.
Those insulting PMs should be reported to the Mods.
Yes. My guess is that someone already has, since the person is gone. But just in case, I figured a mention here would take care of it, and kill two birds by pointing out that there is no offensive message option.
Pages are still taking an inordinant amount of time to load.
Also, there was no notice at all that there was anything in my inbox - not on the main page, nor even on my home page. I just happened to open it on a hunch. If this is the same for everyone any of you might have messages waiting that you don't know about.
Perhaps you did get lucky, SJ.
The removal of the email/forward function from the articles and blog pieces on the Rabble frontpage should be put back. It is good for the pieces and Rabble that these pieces are forwarded. Please put it back OK?
I occasionally now - used to be all the time with the upgrade - get this message when I post (and the page goes to full black):
The page you requested is temporarily unavailable.
We're redirecting you to the homepage in 5 seconds.
(Error 503 Service Unavailable)
I hit 'refresh' then the post goes through.
FWIW, Facebook is buggy/slow on dial-up, too.
I t s r e a l l l Y S l o WW
Brutally slow actually. I will give you the benifit of the doubt and just guess that Harper has a team of Denial of Service servers trained against your good people.
Unusably slow in my opinion. (I am on high speed), gawd help anyone on a phone connection. Open new rabble pages or new discussions in a new tab every time and you might have a chance. Open 5 at a time and maybe the 1st one will be loaded by the time you get back to look at it. (if you are lucky). These days, nobody bothers with slow sites so fix it quick or disappear altogether.
I t s r e a l l l Y S l o WW
Brutally slow actually. I will give you the benifit of the doubt and just guess that Harper has a team of Denial of Service servers trained against your good people.
Unusably slow in my opinion. (I am on high speed), gawd help anyone on a phone connection. Open new rabble pages or new discussions in a new tab every time and you might have a chance. Open 5 at a time and maybe the 1st one will be loaded by the time you get back to look at it. (if you are lucky). These days, nobody bothers with slow sites so fix it quick or disappear altogether.
And while techies are fielding requests, I'd like to put in for a sex button. The font should be size 11, wing dings or Times New Bohemian and step on it.
good one Fidel but I don't have my heart set on a sex button. It's still slow but I am patient.
I just thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. You never know because they can do some amazing things these days.
Any estimate when it will cease being slow? I find it excruciating to hang out here these days.
Would it be possible to have the most recent posts at the top as the defaut. Sometimes the button that should do that doesn't seem to work.
You can say that again!
This morning I'm getting this message:
Validation error, please try again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator.
I opened a new window, loaded babble, and was able to post again.
Yeah, I got one as well. Upgrade my expletive, expletive.
When in active topics we used to be able to access the forum topics on the left-hand side. Now it seems we can't do it and an extra step has been added. Why is that?
Comment viewing options - very impressive! Good work, techies.
The retro look and feel of a 28.8 kbs modem over dial-up was a nice touch. It's like a shout-out and a nod to all the netroots of the past you know.
Getting this message tonight when I post:
I just got that tonight for some reason.