What is broken on this site

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This was because I hadn't setup the mailserver yet. I've now setup the mailserver.

...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

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.

There are a whole bunch of questions affected by the mail server issue. I'll try to see what can be done through the django admin interface...

Even though the mailserver is configured, the corrupted questions are still in the database.

John, I agree and little things like this one do matter. I'll clean that up.

I've finally figured out what John's referring to. I didn't even notice that column on the right-hand-side of the page. How are the related questions computed, through the tag system?

at the moment it's 10 questions with overlapping tags, not sorted or ranked in any particular way.

this one is fixed now

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.

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 :)