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  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    edited August 2018
    It came up at the end of March when those of us who'd signed up as the boards started all had to sign in again. The thought is that when the magazine bit is ready all these questions will be answered in the FAQs.
  • Yes, it's something that we're aware of. The cookie concerned with maintaining logins times out after a month - it wasn't until it started logging people out that we realised it wasn't one month since last activity. Sorting it out is a fair way down our list of things for the tech guys to look at.
  • The Rogue wrote: »
    I've noticed that as well. As I visit on two different machines I wondered if cookies on each made that difference but I haven't experimented yet.
    I use, typically, three machines with two different browsers and it happens on all of them.
  • It seems not be happening now so either it has been fixed or it was a figment of our imaginations.
  • No, I noticed it too, but it had stopped by the time you two posted about it.
  • It is intermittent in my observation.
  • Hope this is the right place:

    Have dates and whatever cut across properly in Mystery Worshipper? Specifically, the visit to the Canary Wharf Prayer Room (https://shipoffools.com/mystery-worshipper/canary-wharf-prayer-room-docklands-london/) is given as 21 December 2017 - but the service is described as 'Ecumenical Eucharist for Ascension Day'.

    I know Ascension Day wanders round the calendar after Easter, but I don't remember Easter 2017 being that late.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    I've had to log in twice in two days. The first one was probably the monthly expiration (although the software didn't recognize my password; I had to say I'd forgotten it, and then re-enter it as new), but I'm not sure why it made me log in again today. It again didn't recognize my password, but this time I got away with simply re-entering it.
  • Fawkes Cat wrote: »
    I know Ascension Day wanders round the calendar after Easter, but I don't remember Easter 2017 being that late.

    Easter 2018 was early.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Fawkes Cat wrote: »
    Have dates and whatever cut across properly in Mystery Worshipper? Specifically, the visit to the Canary Wharf Prayer Room (https://shipoffools.com/mystery-worshipper/canary-wharf-prayer-room-docklands-london/) is given as 21 December 2017 - but the service is described as 'Ecumenical Eucharist for Ascension Day'.

    The original report appears to have been filed on 17 May 2007, which was Ascension Day that year. I don't know why the date would show as 21 December 2017. That appears to be the date when the report was ported over to the new site. It is true that there were certain problems that occurred during the porting process, but substituting one date for another was not one of them so far as I know. It will be interesting to see if such anomalies are discovered in other reports.

    Editing the report, I see other problems, so I will correct the date and fix the other problems.

  • Editing the report, I see other problems, so I will correct the date and fix the other problems.

    Thank you.
  • Minor thing. When the Why is the belief in Biblical inerrancy important to people? was moved, it was left on the Purg page. Because it is locked, and one is redirected straight to DH, it retains the new tag for anyone* who did not read it prior.
    This is not really a complaint, nor do I think it has any priority. Just noting.

    *At least me
  • Oh. TY Ck. Is this generally known?

    It has been discussed a few times. And yes, it is annoying.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    You read a thread on the Ship. You think you're on the last page. You post a reply to someone. It appears on the bottom of the page you're on. But then when you look closer, you see that you were not on the last page, but there were some posts you missed.

    I still haven't gotten used to this.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    You need to refresh immadiately after your post has appeared to make sure, especially if it's a fast-moving thread.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    Eutychus wrote: »
    You need to refresh immadiately after your post has appeared to make sure, especially if it's a fast-moving thread.
    No sorry, this is not about fast-moving threads. It is about threads where no-one else is posting. You think you're on the last page, you post an answer, and then you find out you weren't.

    (I'm not asking for changes, just expressing my difficulty in getting used to this.)
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited March 2019
    Ah. Well the same remedy applies (this has happened more than once to me, too, if that helps).
  • It does take you to the last post since you looked, and, if this is not the last page, it is confusing. This might be what you are experiencing.

    The old boards did a similar thing, but the new ones seem to be less clear (for some reason). I don't think there is a lot to be done except remember that sometimes you might miss posts if you are not careful.
  • W HyattW Hyatt Shipmate
    In my experience, posting my comment will end up showing my post immediately following the last post that I already saw (i.e. the last post as of when I started composing my comment). However, my new post shows as the last one and any posts added by other posters since I started composing mine do not show up at all (until I refresh, as Eutychus suggests). I've seen this happen a number of times, even when it is the last page. So my habit is now to refresh immediately after posting.
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    Not important...

    I currently see 4 pages available in All Saints. But clicking on page 3 or 4 gives me no threads and a "No discussions were found" message. FYI.
  • One of us forgot to recalculate all the thread counts after moving old threads from All Saints. That's fixed now.
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    Thank you Alan for your technological wizardry.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    When I glance at The Styx pn the main page, I keep seeing this as Software Shagging List. I may be getting to the stage of needing glasses or a cleaner mind
  • Possibly unimportant but in case it isn't, I just got this error message:

    "Unknown column 'Active' in 'field list'"
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    Yes, it seems to happen after a comment has been posted when you try to edit it.
  • Ok apols if that's been already discussed to death, I've not been following this whole thread.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited April 2019
    No, it seems to be a new "feature" since the upgrade. Much like the command to "type your comment". I wonder if that's editable...?
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    To clarify, the "unknown column" message appears when you cliick "save comment" after an edit; but the edit is published.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    I've gotten that error too.
  • peasepease Tech Admin
    edited April 2019
    Should be fixed now.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    I’m getting something which I’ve not noticed before when I ‘Preview’ a comment. The first couple of lines are inset as if to wrap around my avatar, but the preview appears with an opaque background over the avatar, and only its extreme left hand edge is visible.

    Even if this was working properly it doesn’t really make sense as the avatar is not displayed like that anyway when the comment is posted.
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    I've noticed over the past few days that sometimes when I click a thread in which, say, there are 15 new posts, I get taken to the last post, rather than the first post I have not read. It does not happen all the time, and does not seem to be linked to if the 'new' posts span a page or not. This is on an Android phone.

    No biggie...just oddly inconsistent.
  • I see this regularly and I have wondered if it happens when I re-visit a thread during the same web-session. I've not actually experimented on this, though.
  • I'm getting it too - on my phone, not so much on the laptop. I'd assumed it was another sign my phone is not doing so well. I'm pretty sure it's not revisiting the same thread
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    Seems I'm in the best company, then. :smile:
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    When comments are filed on Mystery Worship reports that were ported over from the old site, as opposed to freshly filed on the new site, the software appears to select a photo at random from reports recently filed.

    To correct this, I have to edit the report that was commented on and re-upload the photo. Then I have to edit the comment and replace the path to the photo with the correct path after re-upload.

    The most recent occurrence of this was the comment filed on St Peter & St Paul, Chingford, London. The photo that the software chose was for St John's, Notting Hill.

    This is one of several anomalies that I have noticed in the Mystery Worship software, all of which I have previously reported. I've been silently dealing with them, but it does create work for me and I'm not getting any younger.
  • Miss Amanda, I for one appreciate the work that goes into these boards and have commented before on speed of posting them. Thank you, that process sounds exasperating.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Thanks. There are other anomalies too that I have previously reported.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    The italics code doesn't seem to work for me today.
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    I wrote a comment to post on the Host board. I have clicked on "Post comment" repeatedly, but nothing happens.
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    I opened a new window and typed the message again. This time it was posted.
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    On my phone (Motorola, Android) it sometimes, rarely, gets stuck when I'm writing some drivel and no buttons (Preview, Save Draft, Post Comment) work. A refresh and all seems good -- like your new window Moo.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    Climacus wrote: »
    On my phone (Motorola, Android) it sometimes, rarely, gets stuck when I'm writing some drivel and no buttons (Preview, Save Draft, Post Comment) work.
    This happens to me when the post is auto-saving over a slow connection.

  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    Ah...that makes sense. Thank you. My connection has been a bit on-and-off of late.
  • A question: the thread "In which Piglet gets ..." seems permanently stuck at the top of my list, with a small blue "i" to the left of it. Can I move/dispose of this in any way?
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    It's "announced", which means it has recent and newsworthy information on it - most recently, @Barnabas62's temporary leave from hosting. It will be unstickied in a day or so.
  • I guessed as much - thank you.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    After signing in, I click the discussion box and it asks me to sign in again. I do but I can't access via the discussions button after I do. Is anyone else having this problem today?
  • On the mobile display (cell[phone) of the posting page, there is no "link" icon, which means that if you want to do a nice link you manually have to type in
    [url=<webpage>]Text which will display[/url]
    
    . I've been doing that routinely, but wonder if it is fine to just post the link and forget about manually doing BBCode. Like this here: https://forums.shipoffools.com/discussion/comment/150557/#Comment_150557
    and again within this non-URL-captured link.

    Or can we get the link icon added to the mobile version? Which is I think a preferred solution. It looks like a 2-link chain.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    On my iPhone, I’ve created a couple of keyboard shortcuts which significantly reduce the number of keystrokes needed for a URL. So ‘+u’ gives me [url= and ‘-u’ gives me [/url] and the only other special character I need is a ‘]’ immediately after the URL.
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