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.
The privacy policy linked on the footer as "privacy policy" goes to a template page that is currently empty. IOW there is no privacy policy.
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 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?
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.
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.
The title of each page ends with "ASKBOT: Open Source Q&A Forum". That's not really something broken, but maybe it makes sense to change it to something more specific.
I thought I could leave the 'birthdate' section of my profile blank, and got a similar long error traceback from DEBUG=True.
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.
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.
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.
Asked: 2010-08-18 21:06:43 +0200
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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.