Issues with new forum software

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Issues with new forum software

Sean Lange

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April 1, 2019 at 3:09 pm

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I have seen several issues. I am only addressing the ones I have not yet seen others mention.
- Search results, used to have the author’s name. Not there anymore.
- QOTD – no discussion? Doesn’t show the number of answers, just the percentage.
- Editing my profile – every time the page loads it puts characters in the password field and if I forget to remove them my changes to other properties don’t get saved and I have to start the edits all over again.
- Posting replies is incredibly slow.
- Loading “Latest Topics” is incredibly slow.
- When Quoting a response it puts in a number (UserID?) instead of the person’s name.
- When posting there is always a strange box below the text which seems to be some leftover debugging stuff as it changes with the current HTML element.
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Michael L John One Orange Chip Points: 27054 More actions · Answer 1

Agree with all of the previously written issues, and the site is extremely slow.

Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
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http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/

HappyGeek SSCoach Points: 18729 More actions · Answer 2

Site is really slow I get error 504 gateway timeout error. Agree on the QoTD, there was sometimes an issue of discussion on percentiles (how did so many get it wrong? and then an explanation of changing teaching methods), or is this a political correctness rule to not exclude those who got it wrong in case it offends? Also on posts why is the OP counted as a reply? Post a question and immediately there is 1 reply displayed, this means new questions are overlooked! It should say 0 replies as it used to do, IMHO.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 3

The funniest part is that I got a 504 gateway timeout when posting this....but apparently it posted anyway.

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Need help? Help us help you.

Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

Need to split a string? Try Jeff Modens splitter http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

ZZartin SSC-Dedicated Points: 30920 More actions · Answer 4

There doesn't seem to be a recent posts option anymore, there's only latest topics which doesn't help if you want to see recent responses to older topics.

Dave Convery SSCrazy Points: 2159 More actions · Answer 5

Re: the password issue, which browser are you using?

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 6

Dave Convery wrote:

Re: the password issue, which browser are you using?

Firefox - 65.0.2 (64-bit)

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Need help? Help us help you.

Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.

Need to split a string? Try Jeff Modens splitter http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.

Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/

Dave Convery SSCrazy Points: 2159 More actions · Answer 7

Dave Convery

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April 1, 2019 at 4:19 pm

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Thanks - we're looking into it.

drew.allen SSC Guru Points: 76985 More actions · Answer 8

I posted something with a bulleted list, and it didn't retain the bullets. I tried converting to use the BBCodes for ul/li, and it still didn't work.

Also, there doesn't seem to be any padding between paragraphs, so it's harder to read.

Drew

J. Drew Allen
Business Intelligence Analyst
Philadelphia, PA

Dave Convery SSCrazy Points: 2159 More actions · Answer 9

We've switched the CSS for bullets this afternoon - if you refresh you should be able to see them. If that doesn't fix it can you point me at the offending posts?

This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Dave Convery.

drew.allen SSC Guru Points: 76985 More actions · Answer 10

It's not fixed. I'm using Chrome (73.0.3683.86), and it doesn't show the bullets or the indentation. I also checked IE (11.592.17134.0) and it doesn't show the bullets, but it does show the indentation. It works best in Microsoft Edge (42.17134.1.0), but it's still using the same style of bullets for all levels.

Drew

J. Drew Allen
Business Intelligence Analyst
Philadelphia, PA

pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63494 More actions · Answer 11

Is it possible to collapse some of the forums like you could on the old version of the website? Super handy to minimize the stuff I'm not currently interested in.

(I kinda miss the format bar too... that made things WAY easier!)

pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63494 More actions · Answer 12

Another weird thing... What's up with the way this version of the forum software counts responses? It looks like it's counting messages in the thread and not responses. In the previous version, if you posted a question and there were no responses, the response count was zero. Now it's 1.

Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 13

Firstly, thank you all for the hard work on this site.

ZZartin wrote:

There doesn’t seem to be a recent posts option anymore, there’s only latest topics which doesn’t help if you want to see recent responses to older topics.

I'd like to second this. If we could have the "View active topics" option back, that would be great. Thanks.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736150 More actions · Answer 14

Most Active is the same as "Active Threads" in the old software. This is the list of threads that have had replies. I've submitted a bug to change the verbiage.

For counting, we could change back to 0, but not sure how disruptive this is for taking forum updates. I'll add a bug to review this.

For bullets:

a bug is filed
We're looking at it