September 24, 2007 at 2:22 am
Hi,
Congratulations on the new look. I'm sure you'll get lots of feedback, most negative ('cause that's how people work), but there's no denying that a lot of work has gone into this, so I think kudos are in order.
Moving on to the feedback on the new layout of the QotD area.
WHAT I LIKE:
1. Ability to search by tag/category
2. Ability to review answers and answer distribution of questions I answered before.
3. Overall standing shows my position in the full ranking instead of only the top-10 names.
WHAT I DISLIKE:
1. No way to choose to see more than 10 questions at once, so that I have to click and wait endlessly if I ever want to review some older questions or check if I have any unanswered questions in some categories. I prefer to have a longer loading time once and then being able to scroll quickly through a long list.
2. Overall standing no longer shows the per category scores. Since the overall score also includes the points I scored (or failed to score) for categories that I am less interested in, I always paid more attention to the per-category scores of my favorite categories. I can't find those anymore.
FINALLY, A BUG REPORT (probably for a combination of 2 bugs!)
Steps to repro:
1. Go to QotD page
2. Click in Filter by Tag dropdown
3. Select "Analysis Services (13)" from the list
The page will now load with a list of 10 questions. There are no links to the next page, and the button to clear the filter is missing as well.
I have seen more categories where less questions were shown than the listed number. I have also seen more categories where the Clear Filter button was missing. These issues seem to be separate, unrelated bugs.
September 24, 2007 at 11:42 am
Hugo,
Thanks and we'll add these to the list. Probably be delayed a little with more pressing issues, but these are good suggestions.
Steve
September 24, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Got beaten to the punch on this one (AS bug).
Thanks for all the quick fixes Steve.. and Steve... and Steve :D.
September 24, 2007 at 4:13 pm
There's an "older Questions" link on the left side. It's not intuitive, but that will get you other questions.
Still on the list as something to look at and maybe change the look/feel of these.
September 24, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Steve Jones - Editor (9/24/2007)
There's an "older Questions" link on the left side. It's not intuitive, but that will get you other questions.
Hi Steve,
There usually is such a link - but it's missing if I select the category Analysis Services (and a few other categories). See the attached screen capture.
September 24, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Yes Steve, there's really something missing for that category. I've not seen that anywhere else. Also there's no reason for the unset filter button to NOT show, ever.
September 26, 2007 at 1:29 am
Hugo Kornelis (9/24/2007)
There is such a link - but it's missing if I select the category Analysis Services (and a few other categories).
Interesting update - since today's question was in the Analysis Services category, I decided to see if adding a question fixed the issue. It did, but only partly.
1) The next page / prev page / clear filter buttons now do appear.
<speculation>
It seems as if showing the clear filter button is somehoow tied in with the next/prev page buttons, so that if a single page holds all questions and the prev/next page buttons can be removed, the clear category button is removed as well.
</speculation>
2) In the category list, the total number of quesitons in this category is shown as (13). Which is odd, since that same number was mentioned monday. Should the additional question not have bumped the total up to 14?
3) The list is still incomplete. I see ten questions on the first page, and one on the second page, for a total of 11, instead of the quoted 13 or the expected 14 questions.
<speculation>
On the old version of the site, when the score per category was displayed, I sometimes noticed that some players had a score of over 100% in a category. I answered all questions that were available, and yet some scores exceeded my "points attempted". I have assumed that this might have been caused by removal of questions that were controversial after some people already had scored points on them. Can it be possible that those "ghost questions" are still around somewhere, messing up the totals per category in the category drop down list?
</speculation>
September 26, 2007 at 2:07 am
It would be better if we can have a filter for unanswered questions, in case if anyone wants to check for unanswered questions....:P
--Ramesh
September 27, 2007 at 9:33 am
It is based on all questions, which means future questions, and it's a Priority 2 bug. Not critical, but it's up there.
We are asking for a few filters (answered, unanswered, correct, incorrect), as well as not showing future questions.
We also are looking to get more questions on the page or at least a drop down to pick 10, 20, etc.
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