What is broken on this site

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indeed, the same happened to me too. If anyone does look into this, I wish they would fix the email subjects too, which currently have "[ASK.SAGEMATH] [ASK.SAGEMATH]" prepended. I think one [ASK.SAGEMATH] would suffice.

Same thing here. I tried every possible configuration, including "no email at all", but still keep receiving emails for avery update.

@pang the email tag filter is also broken, so if you set it to anything but "off", you will stop receiving any email at all.

Along these lines, the documentation for sage does not look at all like sagemath.org.

Niles, do you mean edit comment underneath a question or answer? Comments are actually not yet editable, only questions and answer are. Could you post a url where you get the error?

no, sorry for the abuse of terminology, I mean to edit an "answer" that I have provided (like the one we're commenting on now).

Strangely, I get the error when I try to edit some answers, but not others. The following gives an error: http://ask.sagemath.org/answers/65/edit/ it's a link to the "edit" button for my comment at http://ask.sagemath.org/question/20/the-tachyon-object-used-for-rendering-plots

hopefully by the time William returns I'll write a script that fills in the missing post revisions. Apparently exception fired after the question got saved but before the revision record would be created.

thanks for checking into this; if this problem only affects questions from the first half day or so of asksage, then maybe it's not worth spending too much time on. But if the fix is easy, that would be great :)

The About page is also empty.

this is available to site admins through settings->flatpages

Its been more than a year that this is reported. The Privacy page and About page are still empty/useless.

Its been more than a year that this is reported. The Privacy page and About page are still empty/useless.

I can't get email to work now either.

don't know. should they? right now there is s no "delete forever" function, so potentially garbage posts may appear in those "related questions" what do you think?

On this page, I see links for "test question [deleted]" and "Does asking a question work? [deleted]". Maybe we should include only questions that a not-logged-in user can browse? I don't know if this is easy/efficient to do.

oh, I get it now. Will hide them in the next version until there is a "hard delete" function in place. Thanks!

You may be confused with the fact that votes only apply to the question itself (not votes on answers).

there is a 60s caching delay to update front page, so votes on question will appear a little later. cache invalidation could be better.

I see. Why would one vote up a question? Anyway, I also saw questions that supposedly had no answers, while having had them for a number of hours. Sorry I don't have any examples now.

kcrisman: Presumably so unanswered questions can be sorted by upvotes. It's just a "use-case" you may or may not have interest in personally.

@kcrisman, those broken counts have been fixed, but the 60s cache delay is still there it will most likely go down or be removed in the future. as for why upvote a question - well maybe you have a point, but @ccanonc is right - the questions can be sorted by votes that's what "popular" tab is for.

Apparently you do have 11 karma, though?

Yes. After someone replied to the post I linked above I was bumped to 11 karma and was able to submit the answer to the original question I wanted to answer. I realize this is not a problem for me now, but it is a hindrance to new users.

This seems like something wrong more generally with askbot -- they might appreciate hearing about it at askbot.org

niles: I know :-), but Evgeny is still listening and it's great to keep him around!! ;) Thx Evgeny!

I agree with Niles - I'd appreciate if bugs and issues were reported on askbot site. That would in fact help the forum project because people often decide to use software based on the activity on the site.

The problem here is that MySQL full text search automatically drops short words (I don't remember the actual number). This will be fixed when forum supports Postgres or standalone search engines like solr or sphinx.