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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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.
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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!
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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
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.
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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?
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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.
Here are two more features that would be great that I just encountered at http://tex.stackexchange.com/
- as soon as I typed the question title, a list of "related questions" popped up, letting me browse and see if the question had already been asked
- I could post without creating an account (a captcha was enabled, though, and I had to give a name and email address)
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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
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This was because I hadn't setup the mailserver yet. I've now setup the mailserver.
Sometimes the "favorite" button does not appear when I navigate to the homepage.
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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.