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.
there should be a possibility to enter mathematics in (la)tex notation (this was already mentioned in another thread, I just repeat it here)
Hello!
A strange thing happened today. DSM answered my question, but after some hours this answer disappeared. Is something wrong with the forum or has somebody deleted it? If the latter - why?
Thanks.
The only reasonable explanation would be that he deleted his own answer... Maybe he will tell you better.
Is it possible to use topic titles for the subjects of notification emails, instead of "news from Q&A forum"? This would help to keep track of "threads."
Also, it seems the "From:" header for these emails is missing or blank. Could we set it somehow to the post's author, e.g., Ann_A_Lytic@donotreply.sagemath.org?
Thanks, Evgeny, for your help!
it's possible, but in general people may not always feel like sharing their email address with everybody. the "From" email address is set in file settings.py with variable DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL - it's probably blank right now and the only way to access it is from the server
the other thing that is wrong with notifications - "content-type" is wrong and you see html tags in plain text. The repository version should have it fixed now.
Mitesh, this is weird that you did not get karma increase for the upvote. I'll add 10 points manually and keep a look at that.
Thanks for setting up more specific subjects for emails! Would it be possible to put just a [fake] "AskSage" in the "From:" header? I ask because I'm looking for a simple way to filter the emails in Gmail to apply a label.
I thought I could leave the 'birthdate' section of my profile blank, and got a similar long error traceback from DEBUG=True.
...and also got error message when trying to post this. Others who post here, note that the post goes through even though there's an error--just go back and refresh the page rather than re-post and then have to delete the duplicate (like I did :)
also, error message (white text on yellow background!) when I posted the previous comment.
I've fixed this in the gihub repository
tooltip for karma change log items, from a user page:
The tooltip says "N points added for . . ." whether the points were added or subtracted.
Is "no answers" broken? So far every question on this site has at least one answer, but on the front page some are flagged as having no answers (e.g., the question about searching source for a particular algorithm) . . . is this somehow a feature instead of a bug?
Yes, that was an indirect result of the email issue. The author of askbot has written a script that will retroactively fix this, however, I can't run it until 1-2 days from now, due to a family vacation starting now.
ah; enjoy!
Great, this answered a question I had, I think.
Here are two more features that would be great that I just encountered at http://tex.stackexchange.com/
Yes this feature is very popular, will definitely add it. Thanks!
I have used ask.sagemath.org for ten minutes and have experienced an error like the above twice: Just after having registered, I got an error. Unfortunately, I didn't keep the error message. It was something to do with relaying a request to a funny email-address, like "qu777@something". However, my registration _was_ successful and my question was posted. When I tried to edit my question (to add "Thanks, Johan"), I got an "Index out of bounds" error. I still do, so if it is of interest, I should be able to get the full error message. Regards, Johan
This was because I hadn't setup the mailserver yet. I've now setup the mailserver.
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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.