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)
The color scheme.
Maybe a secondary consideration, but I think uniformity of look & feel between http://sagemath.org/ and asksage could be an important way to indicate to new users that asksage is a real part of the sage community, and encourage them to use it. The color scheme and overall look of the google groups page is vaguely similar to that of sagemath, but this is quite different.
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At least sometimes, the number of answers/votes on a given question on the front page are just wrong. It's hard to give an example that will be current when anyone reads this, as it seems unpredictable, but you can probably find your own.
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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.
Sometimes the "favorite" button does not appear when I navigate to the homepage.
tooltip for karma change log items, from a user page:
The tooltip says "N points added for . . ." whether the points were added or subtracted.
Should deleted questions be listed under "Related questions"?
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On this page, I see links for "test question [deleted]" and "Does asking a question work? [deleted]". Maybe we should include only questions that a not-logged-in user can browse? I don't know if this is easy/efficient to do.
The search field does not find the following post with query "EOF" (no quotes):
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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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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.