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I’ve had a couple readers complain that the Commenting form is no longer saving their name and email address. I can’t replicate the bug, having tried it on multiple browsers and my phone as an unlogged-in user. I’ll have the developer look into it, though.
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The site has been running nicely and quickly since its upgrade, and hasn’t redirected me to annoying spam/virus sites like it used to.
One possible bug I’ve noticed: it sometimes has seemed to show an earlier version of the comments page, and I have to refresh to see new comments as well as new upvote/downvote scores.
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had to fill in name and email again
@Andy:..it would be nice if the edit comment timer was a bit longer.
How about the rest of the day.
James,
In terms of the commenting bug, its consitently not saving the info on the most recent Mozilla/Firefox beta Windows build.
Also, this is a visual bug, but the OTB header on my mobile Android browser is wrapping in a way that initially takes up a good chunk of the screen. It’s an easy CSS fix.
Beyond that, the site is running GREAT. Congratz on a very successful relaunch!
[lol… I just wrote that it isn’t saving the information and then forgot to go back and fill it in.]
@MarkedMan: OK, on my Mac, once I filled it in for one post, it was filled in as I clicked around and opened other posts in new windows. Just now I closed all the windows and then reopened one immediately and the filled in information was still there. However, earlier I had closed all of OTB (but not the browser) and probably was away for 15 or 20 minutes and when I reopened OTB the information was not there. Hope that’s a clue for your web guru.
Had to fill in name and email again
@Liberal Capitalist:..As a new feature, I’m not the only person that would like to have the ability to include an image.
I suspect that spambots like Bungles, Jake and JKB can’t wait to flood these threads with
Pud’s ugly mug.
Small potatoes in the big scheme of things, but I’m not really loving the font on the comments. Or maybe it’s the font size, I don’t know, but I find them more difficult to read than the old site.
Congrats on a pretty successful re-launch, though! And I do enjoy the articles on the right sidebar, that’s kinda handy.
@many: I’ll send Jason a note on the caching issue. I’m not seeing it but it seems common enough. Ditto the retention of user data.
@Andy: I’ve made some tweaks to the comment editing plugin settings that might help. Among other things, I’ve enabled editing for 15 minutes vice 5. That should be enough time to fix typos and whatnot but not so much that users completely change posts after getting comments.
@Liberal Capitalist: As noted in a previous post, our old comment voting plugin is obsolete. This one has fewer features but is functional.
@Jax: It’s the same font, just bigger.
@Erik: Yeah, that was a design choice but I’m pushing for another option. The Quick Takes concept as it applies to the main page doesn’t make sense for mobile. Too small. I think the better option is to, for small screens, draw from the “blog” feed but that causes some other issues.
A negative: for some reason there appears to be a long delay before new comments show up.
I forgot to log this one with my developer. Done now.
