What is broken on this site
Please list here anything that is broken at http://ask.sagemath.org.
UPDATE: Please post bug reports at the main askbot development site: askbot.org.
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Harald pointed out that the RSS feed link gives the wrong URL. The right URL is http://ask.sagemath.org/feeds/rss/ which fortunately does work fine.
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I don't know if this is strictly speaking "broken", but it seems odd to me that each question is listed under its own list of "Related questions". For example, on this page the list includes "What is broken on this site". So maybe not broken, but at least tautologous to the point of being useless?
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I receive the e-mail notifications on every new answers and questions, meanwhile I checked to only notify me about the questions asked by me or answered by me. I have also reported this problem on askbot.org and was answered that this bug had already been fixed. Should I just wait for ask.sagemath.org website engine to be updated to the newer (fixed) version?
Thanks.
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Well, it appears to me that right now you are subscribed to "instant" updates on all categories - please take a look at your profile. There was a bug where a stale set of receivers was used to send updates and that was fixed a while ago, including on this site.
Hmm, sorry for the multiple commenting, now I've looked at my own subscription settings (at this point I only subscribe to instant updates on the individually selected questions) and the emails I receive, and it does look like I do get more email than I should... There must be another bug. Thanks for the heads up.
> Well, it appears to me that right now you are subscribed to "instant" updates on all categories - please take a look at your profile. Yes, but I tried to turn them off and on before posting this. And finally decided to turn on the options I would like to use and just wait until the bug is fixed.
I tried to change the title to "What is broken on this site?" and got a big "key error" traceback. So that's something else broken.
By the way, we're using the development version of askbot's source code, as of Aug 18, 2010.
@Admins: Not sure if this is "broken", but: Why is the Q/A link from sage-support sometimes not present?
There is some kind of syntax error in the question "File imports for polynomial rings in sage". Maybe it's user error, but it might be the kind of user error that's prone to happen a lot when there are angle brackets flying around.
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The scope argument is lost and is not in use when moving from page 1 to page N
When for example I only wish to view unanswered questions (clicking unanswered), the url is http://ask.sagemath.org/questions/?sc.... When I click the link to e.g. page 2 the url to that page is http://ask.sagemath.org/questions/?so....
Edit: Note that the answers on page 2 in my example is not only unanswered questions - indicating that if the scope variable is stored in session it doesn't work. If I manually edit the url to go to http://ask.sagemath.org/questions/?sc...&page=2 the scope is used and works correctly.
Moreover, the questions listed on page 2 are not sorted by number of answers. Note, for example, that the question find-f2py_f2cmap-file-from-notebook shows up on page 2, even though all the unanswered questions are listed on page 1.
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What is odd is that if I copy-paste the the first two urls you gave into the new browser window, everything works just fine. The same happens if I click "unanswered" and then "page 2". Maybe somehow whatever is in your search state became inconsistent. Try deleting the cookie - will that help? Did you modify the url manually? Perhaps it is better to use stateless approach and keep everything in the url, but it will take some work. Search state includes: text query, scope, sort order, page number, tag selection and user (the latter is not yet easily accessible). For all that to work in the url, the parameters need to be appended to every relevant link in the main page and updated in any ajax calls, but maybe I'll just get it done. In addition there are ignored tags, stored separately.
Comments disappearing.
I was trying to explain something on this thread
http://ask.sagemath.org/question/1179...
and suddenly in a matter of minutes my comments won't appear on the thread. There is no error. Comments just disappear. I tried posting the comment again no luck. I tried doing the same thing using another browser just to check whether it is a browser issue but same thing happened.
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Is there a way to ban users?
http://ask.sagemath.org/users/789/edi...
This guy just posted spam as answers to two questions in the last few minutes. I have edited them to mark them as spam. But I don't know of any way to stop further such answers.
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The best way to deal with spam is delete the messages and mark user accounts as blocked, but not delete the accounts, that way owner of the corresponding email address will not be able to use that account. If the accounts are deleted - he can create another with the same email address and continue.
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Asked: 2010-08-18 21:06:43 +0100
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hi guys, would you consider posting these issues at http://askbot.org instead? It might actually serve two good purposes - (1) new users of this forum will be more likely to post b/c "what's broken on this site" will not be the first thing they see; (2) - you will increase activity at askbot.org
that said I don't mind at all to follow this thread as I receive updates by email, just thinking that some folks may be put off from using your forum by seeing this on top of the list :). btw, I've already fixed many of the issues mentioned here.
Can the default sort order be changed to "newest"? That might help.
actually you probably want "active" - that way people will see that something is going on at the site, otherwise they are less likely to post.
Presuming the backend is SQL, a "group by" clause could also help (a 2nd level of sorting). I know pure python lets you do multiple levels of sorting as well.