Two bugs in the new TPM
1. If you look at a user's profile, the "latest posts" section shows the user's oldest posts, not their latest posts.
2. If you try to post a comment after you've been inactive for a while, a username/password box will appear after you hit "submit", and will tell you that you have to log in. If you then type your username and password, and hit submit, it will tell you that your username and password are invalid. Every time. I know that I'm not typing them wrong, because if I simply hit "submit" again after it told me "invalid", without modifying them, it always accepts them.
Bonus question:
3. Is there a place to post bugs?
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Uh, and HTML comments don't work in Cafe posts.
Regarding #1, I just looked at some other people's "latest posts", and they're ordered correctly. Mine, however, is ordered backwards, as I described in #1.
February 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah ha! No, it's the latest comments section, not the latest posts section, that's ordered backwards.
February 25, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
We're working on both, Zell.
The first is just an issue of a cross-wire that will be straightened shortly, the second is a little tougher.
Basically, the site kicks folks off after they've been inactive because it's making sure we don't get bombarded with spam. So we're trying to work out a way to make sure folks don't get logged off mid-session without allowing tons of new spam in.
Sorry for the trouble.
February 25, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Zell is correct in all his points. Comments are from long ago. "Blogs" from the old Cafe are still missing. System logs you out and then calls you a "fake." But ignoring the "fake" attack, you can log back in anyway.
I believe this is being worked on. I believe..... And I trust that if we believe long enough, we "will" be "saved."
Hallelujah!
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February 25, 2008 10:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe we should get Mr Obama to log in and post about how great change would be, and "Yes, We Can Edit Our Own Posts".
February 25, 2008 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Andrew,
How about adjusting the "Recommend this" so each of us can only enter a recommendation once. Also, how about adding a button where we can each vote once to dump a post. Perhaps each dump the post vote will subtract one recommend vote.
In order to login to comment I have to enter an incorrect password, which is rejected, then enter the correct password.
February 25, 2008 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Chris,
You can only recommend once, and we're working now to make sure that system can't be gamed.
I'm not sure if an anti-recommend would be productive (might just create recommend wars), but we'll discuss.
And can you email help at talkingpointsmemo dot com so that we can sort out that password issue? Not sure what's going on there.
February 25, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he's talking about the same password issue I described in the main post:
1. Be logged in.
2. Go to some page with a comment field.
3. Leave your computer.
4. Come back the next morning.
5. Type a comment into that comment field.
6. Hit "submit".
7. TPM claims that you have to log in, and a username field and a password field appear. What you typed is still in the comment field.
8. Type in your username and password.
9. Hit "submit".
10. TPM claims that your password is invalid. What you typed is still present in all three fields - comment, username and password.
11. Hit "submit", without bothering to change the username and/or password that TPM just claimed was invalid.
12. Your comment is submitted, and you are logged in.
February 25, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is correct if confusing. It took me awhile but I figured it out just as you have.
February 25, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Same. That it's weird bug. Why aren't your login credentials recognized the first time? Still, much better than a few weeks ago when you never knew if your post had registered.
February 25, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
For the record, I'm opposed to anti-recommend. It did create recommendation wars at the old cafe. People with good posts often received low ratings from readers who just disagreed with them.
To prohibit gaming the system, why not require that users be logged in to recommend and then track recommendations by login to prohibit multiple recommendations? I don't see any other way b/c neither IP address tracking nor cookie tracking prevent spoofing.
February 25, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink