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It's been slow for me for a couple of days, arby. Damn it, why can't we have speed and accuracy when we're trying to cut work??

Is it just me, or is Wordie slow as balls today? I'm trying to take my mind off work, damn it! Plus, the server delay is making double posts. (OK, that could just be me clicking the button more than once because it looks like nothing's happening.)

Cripes. Duh! I feel like an idjit now.

I just noticed that John fixed a bug which was preventing me from taking off particularly annoying word on my Favorites list. I think this was because it ended in a period.

I still have two wordlists that are undelete-able it seems... http://wordie.org/lists/8342 and http://wordie.org/lists/14113

Ahem, ahem...
I realized it's just a numbered list. Oops.

Does anyone else feel itchy?

The fact that the same list can be followed by a different number in parentheses, depending on whose profile it is recently favorited under, suggests that Pro's conjecture may not be correct.

*posting as pumpkin*

PS - thanks Pro!

Ooh, really? *is chuffed*

I'm going to bed now, really!

*turns into pumpkin at stroke of midnight*

arby, I think that number states how many wordies favorite that list.

Ok, not to tootle my own horn or anything, but I think I spy with my little eye a bug - I happened to be hanging at palooka's profile and I noticed s/he has my default list (arby's words) favorited. In the list of hir favorites, it says "18" after the list name, but in reality my list has 245 words!

Somebody call the waambulance!

Made of tosh is so awes! My new favorite phrase.

ETA: ™ bilby

Also, are we no longer allowed to use the strike tag? Waaaaaaah!!

*cries like baby*

We all know meta-ideologies are made of tosh.

Tried to add made of tosh and got a 404 error. The URL was malformed:

http://wordie.orgword/?added=made%20of%20tosh

Luckily the phrase was added anyway. Just thought you'd like to know.

ETA: And I see I'm not the first to report this bug. That's what I get for not reading the recent comments!

The list of "Recent Comments & Citations" does not seem to be updating today, although when I click on "more comments" at the bottom of the list I do see all the comments. Just thought I'd mention this.

It's too late Pro. An evil baron force-fed it energy bars and sports tonics.

I know there is still one "listless"* word, one that has never been added. According to a legend.

*You know why I used this word.

It's not an error VO. The world has run out of words. We listed them all. Thanks for your help everybody. You can all go home now.

I'm suddenly getting 500 Application Errors on trying to enter word URLs with words that aren't already in the database, e.g. http://wordie.org/words/meta-ideology

Entering them in the search box seems to redirect to e.g. http://wordie.org/words/word?id=meta-ideology

John, having the words "word search" in the search box makes it impossible to drag the words into it from the page I'm in and make a one-click search. OK, I'm very bad at describing it.
Just try to drag a word into the word search box and you'll understand what I mean.

John - I've been trying to use the random word widget, but it's not, erm, generating random words. E.g. the preview. I'd really like it if you could make this work.

I think this has been mentioned before somewhere, maybe in connection with another word: gnomic has a WordNet (more...) toggle but no extra definitions to reveal.

Thats quite a long comment list for the word bugs and why would part of the def. be windshield???? kind weird if i dont say so myself.

http://wordie.org/lists/update/14733 gave me a 404. updating my description. the description did get updated though.

Adding new words sometimes produces a malformed URL, e.g. http://wordie.orgword/?added=manicule, http://wordie.orgword/?added=metajoke

During the registration, if the login name is already taken, there is no error message when the Register button is clicked, so it is not clear whether you were registered. This is confusing.

John, the Wordiest Wordies page isn't updating--it still has whichbe in the 4000s.

Hold on... Those redirects are only happening when I enter the words into the address bar. I probably used the wrong character encoding somehow, then.

Has something gone wrong with accented characters? I see élan redirects to elan and frappé to frappe, but by attempt to add négatité went awry when the Add Word page accepted négatité/n%E9gatit%E9 but turned it into n%EF%BF%BDgatit%EF%BF%BD on addition.

Whichbe, thanks for the report. that's... ugly! I'll take a closer look and try to rectify it tonight.

John! I can't delete one of my lists. I get a standard error message but this might be helpful, it said: "The uri of the page I couldn't find: /lists/delete/8342".

UPDATE: It gets a little weirder...maybe because it's an "older list" and you've changed code since? Anyway, after hitting "delete" on that list, I went to the words and added them to other lists, and they pop up as new words..so in some way this "delete" did take effect. But then when I go to my "your words" list, it's there. I go in, and I click on "delete" a few times to some random words, just for the heck of it, and BOOM, suddenly the 75-word list becomes a _2_ word list! Then, I delete those two words... and I'm left with a wordlist that says "75" but displays zero. Strange, huh. What do you make of it?

Link: http://wordie.org/lists/8342

This is a weird bug. I did random word and arrived at a certain page, popcorn. I wrote a comment, clicked the Comment button. Comment loaded okay. I then clicked edit, revised my wording. Clicked Comment button again. Page reloaded with comment as I had typed it but under a different word! chaumas

WordNet's own Web interface returns only one result, so there aren't any existing ones failing to display...

Try going to chalybeate and clicking on the more/less button.

I have the same problem with a long entry on my favourites ("sky king, sky king...") which I can't remove - I'm not that bothered about it, but there it is.

John, how can I take "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk." off of my favorites list? It errors out. (I added a space in the middle of the word in this comment just to be space/tables/horizontally-conscious.)

Is there any way to include a slash in a word? I wanted to enter the word "and/or" on a list, but it wasn't accepted, so I resorted to the lamely hyphenated "and-or".

John, I don't remember whether anyone else has this trouble (and I'm too lazy to check right now), but hyperlinks in my list comments (as opposed to word comments) don't seem to be working, even when properly formatted. Any idea why?

True--there are more tags than are on my list(s).

reesetee is not the only person using that tag.

O, I think that tag is essentially for the words on my "It Has a Name??" list--but I'll go in and re-tag without the punctuation. :-)

Hi John,

Warmest congratulations on your 'new addition'! Now to business: reesetee's who knew? tag, when clicked on, doesn't bring up any words. I expect it's because of the '?', yes? So either it's something you can fix or else reesetee needs to delete the '?' if he's interested in people having the benefit of the tag. I, for one, would be a happy camper should the fix go in.

Weird!

John, here's a cute little bug: I have "mingled" on my favorite words list, but it's labeled as "0 wordies list". Why aren't words on favorites lists included in the counts, when "most favorite", "least favorite" and "onomatopoeia that best describes" are?

Haduken is the onomatopoeia that best describes shojimaru.

VO, that probably means it's either someone's favorite or least favorited word.

Haduken is showing as 'One Wordie lists' but with a blank after 'appears in these lists:'.

John, I've figured out one way the word count for an open list can get out of sync with the number of words it contains. I added discumbent to the open list Take it lying down, then deleted it from Mollusque's miscellany. Deleting it there deleted it from both lists, but didn't change the word count on the open list. I then added "discumbent" back to the open list. This added one to its word count, which is now one too high.

This might be related to a similar bug. If a word is duplicated on a closed list, deleting one instance deletes both instances. However, one of the duplicates can be moved without moving the other. The word count is correct after either operation. (I haven't tested shared or open lists.)

There's at least one other kind of anomaly in word counts. The closed list The Ivy League has a word count double the number of words it contains. One of bylanternlight's other lists is empty, but I don't know if this is related.

Hi John. I added a 'word' today, i saluted at six paces commandant lefebvre des noëttes (poem object). I think the ë character is causing a bug that displays the word on the list as i saluted at six paces commandant lefebvre des no�.

John:

Is it possible to fix the bug that causes a 404 error when one clicks on words which include a period? If not, perhaps the default should be not to accept such words (e.g. as currently happens if one tries to include a question mark). Being able to list a word, but not comment on it seems suboptimal.

Thanks

oroboros,
usually you can delete the duplicates this way: edit your comment, save, and the "delete" option appears.

Hi John. I can't delete the duplicated citation on skunk. It's the one with unintended brackets that came thru with the C&P. BTW, the link is an interesting one; maybe you haven't seen the site.

Edit: disregard, John, thanks to Prolagus. I was deleting all text in the edit box, which then didn't give rise to the 'delete' option for some reason. Anyway, now fixed.

Additional details: the aforementioned bug occurs on a Mac, and it happens with two different browsers, Safari and Firefox.

Big problem: Non-members of Wordie can't see beyond the first 100 words in a list that's over 100 words long. I have a list with over 200 words, and people who are logged out can see only the first 100. It doesn't work for the non-member to click on "next" or "all."

This is too bad because I was just promoting Wordie on Metafilter today:
http://ask.metafilter.com/89529/Great-words-that-you-actually-use#1315327

As you can see from the response, people over there are getting interested in Wordie. But it'd be better if they could see my whole list of words.

Might that be the same thing that happens with italics & such? You don't see them when you first press "comment" to post them, but if you refresh the screen (at least in my experiences w/ Explorer & Firefox), they show up.

Pterodactyl, you're not crazy, that bug has cropped up before, and there may be circumstances in which it reappears. I'll look into it. Of course, I also program all bugs to go away when someone else is looking.

Well, gosh darn it, it's working fine now, and I don't understand what's different this time.

*tentatively raises hand*

Hi, I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature, but I can't seem to put more than one link inside of a comment. For example, these should both be links:

Link One

Link Two

...but because there's two of them, they don't show up as links once I submit the comment.

Yarb, that's my secret plot to take over Wordie. Don't tell anyone.

When I click on the link to this list from the current comments on the homepage while logged out, I am redirected to ressetee's "Animal Magnetism" list. But only when I'm logged out.

Mollusque, you are the bomb, thanks! That gave me the clue I needed. Random comments should no longer be showing up with random words.

John, the problem with random words affects not only commenting on them but listing them. As an example, I found faineance by clicking random word. I added it to one of my lists, but dilatoriness was added instead. The connection between them is that both were on inkhorn's Words, listed adjacently, and on no other list. This pattern is sometimes reproducible: adding a random word that has been listed only once instead adds the next word on the list.

Is anyone else having trouble with links in list description fields?

John, there's a bug with the RSS feed: all the spaces between words are deleted, so that the link doesn't work. At least, this is what happens here in my blog.

Nobody is listing resolutely tangential scriptus. Why don't you?

Random's still screwy. I get a word, make a comment, then go home and find I've made a nasty double entendre or a resolutely tangential scriptus. You don't have to fix it, I'm enjoying the serendipity of chaos for the time being.

Thanks John.

Just fixed the comments search bug.

As for random word, it's returning comments for the wrong word. I redid the query that gets random words a few days ago, and must have busted it, though I just looked at it and can't see anything wrong. I'll keep poking around, hopefully figure it out soon.

Comments bug: more searches, then comments search, list of results comes up but all comments listed link to http://wordie.org/words/word

I for one would be sorely diappointed to go looking for humbuggery, only to get hummus instead.

I think this is a new (hum)bug. I clicked Random Word and the result was the following:

humbuggery

12 months ago artoparts said: Also refers to the chick pea or garbanzo.

about 1 year ago seanahan said:
A Middle Eastern dip. Hummus is to pita as salsa is to chips.

about 1 year ago John said:
Cordelia: "I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan"
Oz: "We attack the mayor with hummus?"
- BtVS, "Graduation Day, pt. 2"

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It's showing me the comments (and lists, listees) of hummus rather than humbuggery.

John, I noticed a problem with tags.
In my list "Italian bread varieties", for example, I use to add 1 to 40 words a day. After adding them, I tag them all, and of course what I do is adding the tags bread and italy to the whole list.
What I see is that the words added first have e.g. 8 total tags, that is 4 times my two tags - and I'm sure they're all mine...
Sorry if I gave a bad description - my English is context-dependent.

*liking the idea of oroboros wielding pruning shears on Wordie*

Hi John, I'm getting a link to the word "true" instead of the intended external link in my comment on molluscan umbilici under Professor von Schmartzenpanz.

I didn't take it as criticism, C_b. No worries, mate! BTW, it seems to me that those listless words wouldn't very often be incorporated in a list, so they'd stand out easily when I'd go through with the pruning shears.

Oh, well, in that case it makes perfect sense. :) I was just curious--not criticizing.

Well, C_b, I planned on pruning 'em out when discovered to have been added to some list. It's just a lark, and a perhaps misguided attempt to somehow provide a 'home for orphans', don'tcha know.

For John: I still get the 500 application error when I click on the listless-tag words. Same if I type, say, Homer Simpson in the search box.

Listlessness won't show up. He just doesn't have the energy.

I hope uselessness returns one day with his brother, listlessness.

That made my day. :)

BLAHAHAHAHAH!!! HA HA HAHAHA!! Oh, ha, ha, ha!!!

You know, it took me this long to get "listless." I've been wondering why oroboros would think these particular words are so low on energy.

*smacks self upside the head*

O, should be fixed now. Listless is back in business.

oroboros, what happens to the listless tag when someone adds the word to a list? Wouldn't you then pull up a ton of listless words that might actually be listful? (which seems like they ought to be wistful instead)

O, I'll look into this tonight. I made some internal changes that screwed various things up, that might be the cause.

Hmmm. John, it looks like you've done something about ghost/listless words. I was tagging interesting ones "listless" as I found them via random word feature, just for the hell of it. Now random words appears not to show any ghost words and if I click on those already having my listless tag, a 500 application error results. Interesting. I'm debating whether to delete my list: "The Unlist"

The random word bug should be fixed now, and a few other little things. Sorry I've been MIA for a bit, crazy couple of weeks.

Image ads are Google on autopilot. They seem to be in the minority, if they become egregious I think I can get rid of them.

Jeez, why are there image ads in Wordie, now?

I reported this bug about a month ago. Happens with Internet Explorer too.

Bilby, I noticed the same thing just tonight. I'm using Firefox also.

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.13 and when I click random word, it will show for example '7 wordies listing phalanx' but on the right side of the screen it won't show which wordies and which lists. If I want to see who is listing phalanx and I have to then type it into the search box and go to the page that way.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or the way things are meant to be.
cheers.

Is there some reason why my comment on mibster hasn't appeared on the front page, while others subsequent to it have?

thanks yarb, i think i just did something that messes up words with spaces in them. looking into it now.

I've noticed that some words with recent comments no longer appear to exist: plum duff, woolded bumpkin, malpolon monspessulanus.

The apparent loss of woolded bumpkin is particularly grievous.

John: My comment about question marks and periods was more to seek corroboration that my experience is the same as everyone else's, not a request to change anything, so please don't sweat it.

I agree with trivet that listing the top 50 most popular words in a 7-day window seems to add little over listing the top 10*, because most words on the longer list have a frequency of only 2 or 3.

* Actually, trivet didn't say this explicitly, but I think it was implied.

John, two questions:

Is the list sorting now on auto-alpha instead of chronological?

Could the "most wordied" list go back to a top ten instead of the 50(?) that it is now?

Thanks,
t

K thanks, I'll try that.

Chained_bear, I've noticed that too--but I discovered that if you just refresh the page after you've posted, all seems to be okay. :-)

Edit: Oops, VO and I posted simultaneously.

I've always found that the formatting would appear on a page reload.

Hey John, I'm not sure if this is actually a bug or not, but it bugs me so I guess it counts. :) When I make a comment with italics or a link in it and post it, then notice I made a spelling mistake, as on goffer... When I edit the comment and re-post, the formatting or link is gone. It's still in the comment box, but doesn't appear once it's posted.

For a while I've been getting around this by editing the comment again, copying the text, posting again (still shows up without formatting), then deleting that original comment and reposting a new one. However, as on goffer, I don't want to delete the original comment because someone's answered it. So now it's sitting there without italics, in the back of my fevered brain, slowly boring a hole through my gray matter as I try to concentrate on things like work. Thoughts? (About the formatting glitch, I mean, not my fevered brain.)

Hey guys, the lists bug is fixed (thanks VO, you called it).

Sionnach, some punctuation has special meaning when used inside a URL, so if a word or phrase contains, for instance, a question mark, the server gets confused. I can better escape special characters to allow their use. It's kind of a nutty week, I'll try and get to it this weekend.

I think the problem there is that the links are to e.g. http://wordie.org/list/1996 rather than http://wordie.org/lists/1996

Hey John, howzit Bro? Here's another entomology matter to look at: when I search for say, 'poetrie' in the search all lists box, clicking on any of the results produces a '500 application error'.

This comment will self-destruct in 5 seconds. Buena suerte, Senor John....

By trial and error, I think I've figured out the following:

Entries containing a question mark are not accepted by wordie, though exclamation marks are OK (is there a reason why question marks are taboo in main entries?).

Entries containing a period are accepted; however, if you try to add a comment to such an entry, you will receive an error message. Is there a way to fix this?

This is based on my experience using Firefox.

Thanks, John.

Connarts, thanks much for the report. It was a bug from adding bulk taggings, which was only affecting IE. Since I had only tested in Safari and Firefox, I hadn't noticed it. Really appreciate you bringing it to my attention.

hmn, I woud love to tag my words or view them as a cloud etc but those links do not work. Are they 'Future Features'?

here is the page: http://wordie.org/lists/13114

thanks!

Another thing I noticed is when I enter a word in the "search" box, just to see if it's ever been added before (or if I've spelled it right), if it's never been added it is supposed to bring up a page saying "nobody has added ___. Why don't you?"

It does that sometimes, still, but lately (past week or so) it sometimes brings up an ordinary-looking word page with "0 Wordies list" at the top. Which means it could certainly be a ghost word, except that when you click on anything on that page, such as "add to your list," it brings up an error page calling John terrible names like "slack bastard."

It doesn't much bother me, as there's a perfectly good work-around, but I thought I'd mention it.

That makes three of us.

I'm having the same problem that chained_bear is having.

John, on one of my lists, when I went to edit the description, the highlighted links aren't an option--I just get a straight-line cursor and can't click "add tags," "edit," "delete," "cloud," or anything but the arrows next to "alpha." Anyone else having this issue?

Also, testing with ghostliness as well as mackem suggests favouriting a ghost won't work, and image searching it will return a 500 Application Error.

Oooh, John's going to be happy...

Maybe our gremlin is a Geordie.

A couple of bugs today:

- Clicking on "see more" from a comment search takes me to word.

- The entry for mackem doesn't display the word itself as a header, and attempting to comment returns a 404.

Yes: now that I've added them from a list page, the drop-down box appears, so it's presumably something to do with ghostliness.

Attempting to list internalism and externalism just now has produced a 404 for /words/import_to

I just tried a non-ghost, and that performed okay, so it may be a ghost-specific bug.

On profiles, the 'least favourite word' and 'onomatopoeia that best describes' links have an extra /word/ so that e.g. the least favourite word bugs would lead to http://wordie.org/words/word/bugs (and so in practice they all lead to word).

It had been broken, but I think it's good now. It's working here, at least.

Yah, I've been noticing that the "cloud" feature doesn't seem to work on public lists. Is that just me? Or is it not working on other lists too?

Thanks yarb, fixed. Also fixed word list cloud view, which had been busted.

Random word seemes to borked, john. I'm getting a 500 error.

Hi John,
Image search doesn't work with words containing an apostrophe.

Hi John,
I'm trying to add "good & plenty" and have gotten the application error message a couple times. Is it because of the ampersand?

I've found when landing on a 'Nobody is listing' page while logged out that the login/register links seem not to do anything.

John, the page generated by the random word button no longer shows whose lists the word appears on.

Wordie tells me the cat is there; I can't vouch for its being alive or dead.

"Mr. Potato Head is now mobile."
how could you let him get behind the wheel..?! he's still doing community service for his last DUI...

You added it to your list, VanishedOne - but are you sure it's there?

Mr. Potato Head is now mobile.

You can also add Schrödinger's cat to your lists, but if you do George McFly may never meet Lorraine.

Thanks VanishedOne. Your suggestion works for me too.

I managed to add it by going to the list page and using the box there, so it's apparently a problem with the dropdown rather than anything inherent in Schrödinger's cat itself.

For some reason Wordie won't let me add Schrödinger's cat to any of my lists. How weird is that?

When you click on "add to your list" no drop-down menu appears. Any ideas, John? May be the apostrophe problem listed below.

Not bad when you're up against Boiling Point.

"Can't seem to move Mr. Potatoe Head" is the best bug report I've ever seen.

Hi John,
Can't seem to move Mr. Potatoe Head. Might it be the period after the Mr? I get the 500 Application error.

Maybe the same thing that causes problems with the apostrophe is happening here.

On the page listing someone's tags, the total for number of comments is wrong.

Still seem to be having problems with words containing an apostrophe. I cannot seem to add the term shepherd's purse or solomon's seal to my list.

Oddly, the random word feature now brings up different words -- but says none of them have been listed, even when they have...

yes, the same goes for me with blue suburban sky..drat! :P

No, wait... when I click on it in my comment it seems somebody is listing treedancing. Oh well.

That's suddenly happening to me too. Although it's given me some delicious-looking words, so I'd like it to be kept as an option if possible.

Apparently nobody is listing treedancing yet; why don't I?

my apologies for being redundant if this has already been brought to light.. but whenever i click on the "random word" feature, it returns with a "nobody is listing 'such-and-such', why don't you" message instead of a listed word. is it just my computer?

The list search and apostrophe bugs should be squashed. I also noticed that at some point when I was tightening security, I accidentally squashed the ability to embed video in comments. Fixed now.

I just noticed a problem with the list search feature. The "search again" form on the results page doesn't work... instead of searching for what I type in the field, it searches for an empty string (and of course returns no matches). So if I want to perform a second search, I have to go back to the main list search page.

Hi John,
There is apparently some kind of bug surrounding the use of an apostrophe...for example in the word four o'clocks...words of that nature do not seem to respond to movement from one place to another on the site. I have encountered this problem with other words containing apostrophes. Is it me?

Just so seanahan. The slavs might have to get a free pass on the lowercasing :-)

I imagine John, that at some point you call toLowerCase or the Ruby equivalent on the string before putting it into the database. Since Ž is not a-zA-Z, the method would not doing anything to it. I doubt any programming language is smart enough to recognize the bizarre Unicode characters that have upper and lower case associated with them.

Edit: I'd actually meant to use square brackets as in regex syntax for a-zA-Z. Obviously that didn't work, but I think it turned out well anyway.

Thanks yarb, good to know. Some funky character set issue I imagine, I'll look into it.

Just a very minor thing: Wordie defaults the case of a word to lower, except (it seems) with accented characters. So Žižekophobia and žižekophobia have different entries. Probably not worth worrying about though as I can't think of any other examples.

Thanks! It was worth it. :-)

Thanks, adding from a word page should be fixed. Artifact of upgrading the server last night.

It's not just you r_t. I too am getting the dreaded 'gone all 500' error.

Great Wordie, the "add to your words" function on the word pages doesn't seem to want to cooperate today. (Unless it's just me.) I'm getting the ol' 500 message.

Precisely, John--only far more erudite, of course. :-)

The Great Wordie? Is that kind of like The Great Pumpkin?

koldewyse: done

You'll have to take that up with The Great Wordie Himself. :-)

Hmmm. But why shouldn't we see if a word has been listed in someone's profile? On the other meat hook there's an element of mystery there, and I like mystery.

It might be in someone's profile. I don't think words on those pages show up as listed by anyone.

I clicked on yezt! today when it appeared on the Recent Words list on the main page. On the word page it said 1 Wordie listed yezt! however on the right there was no 'first listed by' and no 'appears on these lists'.

Can you change the URL of zetahydrae on the news page to http://www.zetahydrae.com/? I switched from a tumblr subdomain recently.

Update on my last comment. The only thing I seem to have difficulty moving is "j'oublie tout, donc je suis :)". Is it something to do with the :) at the end?

Or maybe Wordie has a temporary aversion to French?

I created an 'Open' list. When I look at the words there I have the option to delete or move, just like any other list. Delete doesn't work for words not listed by me, though I haven't tried move.

Hi John. Happy New Year! Getting a "500 application error" when I try to move a word from one list to another.

I won't complain. It gave me a chance to catch up on comments! :-)

Whatever you did seems to have helped, John; Wordie is faster today than usual.

I think I'm a bug. The reason the site was down all morning? Because I put up the 'maintenance' page for a one minute procedure late last night, then forgot to put the site back up. Oops.

Tags are happening again. Time for a wash, O.

Yep, still the case for me too. No tagee no washee. ;o)

Same problem as SoG--500 Application Error when I try to tag a word.

Can't seem to tag anything just now, John. Keep getting the old "500 Application Error" message.

Thanks again John for the retouches ... may you have many train rides.

One bug that bugs me is that when you make a comment on one of your own lists and have notification turned on you get an email that says:

You have made a comment on one of your own Wordie lists.

etc.

I still fart a lot when I can but my short term memory is holding up. I don't need notifications to remind me of my own citations.

Thanks,
B

thanks c_b, the list links should be working now.

That's been known to happen before when the words in question were somewhat less than perfectly formed; see my post below about "befuddlement and swearing questionmark".

John--I've noticed, I think since we got the feature enabling others to contribute to lists, that when you click on "more" under a comment on the front page, you get taken... right back to the front page. It didn't happen for every comment, but... it was only today that I thought maybe that's true only for comments on lists that have other contributors added to them...?

Anyone else noticing the difficulty of reading full comments from the front page?

Hi John; I can't go deeper than 500 into my comments w/o getting the error msg. It sure would be great to be able to have a >last function as well as >next! Or, a spectrum of page numbers on which to click.

Woohoo!

Thanks Minerva, should be fixed now.

I'm unable to view all my words on one page. And when I click on the next page link, nothing happens.

Ditto.

Hmmm... when I try to see someone's tags, I am instead taken to my first list. Odd.

John,
From my Wordie lists, when I click on the link for my comments or my tags, I get an error screen that insults you as a person and as a webmaster.

Yo, o! Hillary's detritus should be gone now.

Looks like group lists aren't quite ready for prime time. Hopefully I'll kick them out the door tomorrow night.

update: changed my mind and launched it; brief announcement over at features.

Hi John, you ole site master you! The "Hillary" post on my potpourri list has no delete option. Like to get rid of her pathetic ass, iffn you don' mind...por favor!

;O)

Er...John, you've been working too hard. That's two words. ;->

Thanks for the spam alert sionnach, the Hillary bot has been zapped.

Sarra, thanks for the bug report, that'll be fixed tomorrow, when some new features go live. I'll go into greater detail when they're announced on Errata, but for now I have just one word: group lists.

The ubiquitous Hillary-bot has paid us another visit (actually, I guess, in her last incarnation she was called Helga, but her cyborg soullessness shines through, regardless of choice of moniker), with news of available medications. Fortunately, there is a convenient delete link immediately adjacent to her little spam dropping.

Yes. I have had the same experience that sarra describes when trying to edit my profile - specifically, HTML commands to create links in the "more about you" box are unsuccessful in creating the desired links.

I think the list description bug has eased itself a bit, but other editing ones still stand: the "more about you" box on my profile is currently choking. It's a symptom of a longstanding bug where sometimes, when a comment contains external links, they vanish upon editing and become no more than text. Which is better than nothing, but still perplexing.

Oroboros, I believe I just fixed issue with the 'delete' link showing up when it shouldn't. U, you'll have to find another outlet for your nefariousness.

I managed to add test but got this 3 times when trying to look at the comments:
"The uri of the page I couldn't find: /words/test"

Hmm, I must seize this opportunity to do some damage before the curtain falls on my nefariousness... ;-)

Hi o, thanks, good catch. Will fix tonight.

Hey John; should I have the delete option on all these comments? A "mad deleter" could wipe 'em all out don'tcha think?

Edit: Now the option is gone after posting this. Here's what happened: I was deleting some of my otiose comments on this page and noticed that I had the option to delete not only my own comments but anybody's! For a trial I deleted one of your's which was moot...and it's fer sure gone! Gonna try it again now and see what happens...

Edit II: Here's the skinny. When I edit a comment to a blank box, then delete it, the delete option appears for all other comments on the page as well. It seems I've noticed this before but when it seemed to "fix itself" I forgot about it. What happened this time is I noticed the seeming fix but was able, by experiment, to cause the anomalous recurrence.

P.S.: Refreshing the page removes the delete option.

Ah. Just posted that on the other page, VO (and I won't type the...er..."word" again here)--Words we add to our profiles show up as unattributed, I believe.

VO, my link didn't work because I didn't properly count the number of a's, etc.--just giving a flavor of that word listing, if you will.

Found it! Onomatopoeia that best describes Faintheart.

The search links worked for me: I can't find this word among Faintheart's words.

Ah. The correct link is http://wordie.org/words/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*thud*.

I just clicked on that link in the previous post and got a 'nobody is listing' page.

John, VanishedOne pointed out that on the page aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*thud* we can't see the person who listed it. Thanks to a comment on that page, it looks like faintheart.

So, I did a search of Wordie looking for that user, and got several results, but couldn't click on any of the links.

Any ideas? Did I do something wrong?

Ooh, here's a real bug - clicking "Comment" with no text in the box results in a 500 Application Error.

*acts helpful*

Also I don't know if this is a bug or if I should even bring it up (because my favorite Obnoxious HTML tags aren't listed in the "Some HTML" popup, and yet old comments using them still display correctly) but it looks like HTML doesn't display on the home page in comments. At least, my little strike tag doesn't (on WeirdNet, if you must know). This is unfortunate because it makes my comment make much less sense.

Because it's All About ME!! *twirls*

I like the subject line! Many of my comments won't be nearly as witty without them.

Oh, I do not miss that subject line, but didn't notice it was gone. I'm glad someone noticed and patted John on the head for removing it--I was just blissfully unaware.

Like when driving from upstate New York into Vermont, and something feels different and good but you can't put your finger on it, until you realize (or someone tells you) that billboards are illegal in Vermont. You suddenly realize that you've NOT been missing them.

np, I just noticed it. Like someone else said, the lack of the subject box is noticeable for its absence and it wasn't absent from the edit box. I can almost hear the hounds of the Baskervilles not barking furiously :-)

ha! bilby, that's excellent, fantastic way to give a bug report. i'll remove the subject line from the edit window too, tonight.

Great.

Yep, removed the subject line late last night. I agree, it does look a bit naked, but it didn't seem to be used much, and it did occasionally cause confusion. I figure if someone wants a subject heading, they can fake it with 'strong' tags.

Good eye, uselessness. I didn't even notice until you pointed that out.

So John, did you remove the subject line field for comments? I guess that always was a bit extraneous, and a point of confusion for new users... but pages look so weird without it now! .;-)

o, deleting the user should have fixed the posts. if that's not the case, could you send me a link? i can delete the helga ones manually, and fix the script so that nuking a user also gets rid of any detritus they left around.

Thanks much SoG, I just nuked that user.

Looked like the work of a bot. Really hope that doesn't become a regular thing.

Somebody called Helga seems to be inserting spam comments with a link to a site selling replica watches. Twelve of these comments so far.

Okay, I was just using the "search comments" feature and I discovered that on the results page, the search form at the top does not work -- it searches for a null string, rather than the value I type. So if I want to perform a second search, I have to go back to the main search page.

Is it acting like 'befuddlement and swearing' as described in my comment from 'about 1 month ago'? I found the feed links pointed to wordie.org/words/.

Hi John; this comment of trivet's--

"oroboros, I feel like I've seen a list of these somewhere, but I don't remember. Neat idea!"

when you click on the 'more' link it doesn't go anywhere. I don't have the moxie to click thru all my lists to see if I can find it that way (time for bed).

Add tags box position should be back to where it belongs, thanks.

Seems to be a problem with the "add tags" box. It appears in an odd position at the top of the page and won't allow you to specify parts of speech.

This is true, VanishedOne, because neither jennarenn nor I could make a comment on this page, but for some reason were able to comment on the bug page. Anyway John says all is fixed now. :)

The problem with the comment box not appearing on this page has clearly been fixed; regarding the one with delayed comment appearances, it seems from the comment feed that some people are talking about that on bug (or will later turn out to have done).

Cheers. (I'm still seeing a 500 from the weird URL-based one, but it seems to be an exceptional case.)

As mentioned on slack bastard, viewing tags as clouds seems to produce the 500 Application Error. As far as I can tell it's the case for all tags (though the list of tags can be viewed as a cloud); also, the tag http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unchurched {dictionary.com} (edit: but with square brackets instead of {}) seems to produce a 500 anyway.

Thanks, John! I was having the same problem as c_b, but I couldn't even get to this page. And I thought caffeine was addictive.... ;-)

Oops, sorry c_b, an artifact of the paging stuff I added last night. Should be fixed.

And comment counts are back, this time for good, I hope.

Help! John, when I click on "more" under any of the comments on the front page, I get "Nobody is listing ____. Why don't you?" and I can't read any comments or see any word pages unless I list the word!

*missing the comment fix*

The comment counts seem to come and go fairly randomly.

My lists have lost their comment counts: e.g. '...has been listed 1 time, with comments'

Thanks, John! All better.

Aye, Johnnie lad. Good on ye, matie! Like layin' carpet, eh? Bubble down here, pops up yonder 'n vicey versey or otherwise...

Many thanks, John! Linking is one of the best features of Wordie.

oroboros, reesetee et. al., I finally fixed the multiple-brackets-not-linking bugs (see pineapple express).

Suke, I can't duplicate that--are you (or is anyone else) still having trouble with 'Your Words'? If so, please email me (john-at-wordie.org), and let me know what kind of browser you're using.

err..i have a problem with Your words section..it wont open..is it a bug of mine or the site? thanks

Thanks r&o (hm, sounds like a railroad). Yeah, I smurphed links at some point, will revisit later today.

John, just noticed today that if I try and wrap more than one word in a comment in brackets, only the first one "takes." Like this.

*trying to think of a comeback for that*

*not succeeding*

That's okay, teaching others the basic tags is pretty much the cross I've borne for years as punishment for learning HTML in 1995. I don't even think about it anymore. I build web sites in my sleep. :-P

Yup, I figured it was just me. Thanks, uselessness, that worked. I'm brand spanking new to web design and don't have all the basics memorized just yet.

Regular HTML should do the trick. In the case of creating links, try the following code:

<a href="URL-GOES-HERE">TEXT-GOES-HERE</a>

I'm assuming that's what you were looking for, if not... *screams for John's attention*

This bug is probably mine, not the site's, but I couldn't find an answer elsewhere. I can't seem to get an external link to show up/function as an external link. What am I supposed to be entering in order to have it work?

Hey John... Is it just me and my stupid computer, or is the list I entered last night (Prosie: The Crisis) coming up all wonky? It comes up in Times New Roman, it looks like, and whenever I make a comment or edit one, it gives me an error message.

It's not a big deal--it's still functioning and readable--but is there anything I can do to fix it?

The word content of a list vanishes from the page when you edit its description (it's still there, if you navigate back to the list page after editing). I also can't seem to delete a list description.

I see you matched my username to my e-mail address.

I'm not sure whether this qualifies as a bug or just some eccentric records in the autocompleter, but I ended up at http://wordie.org/words/%22befuddlement%20and%20swearing%22%20questionmark and I find that it has an entry and I can comment on it, but the links in the comments as they appear on the wordie.org feed, and in the lists if I add this entry to a list or to my favourites, point to wordie.org/words/

The feed for the 'random words' widget, previosuly busted, is now fixed. Thanks for the bug report, VanishedOne :-)

frangarnes, should be fixed--moving a word should now update its word page so that the 'appears in these lists' column is correct.

It seems that the bug I reported yesterday (via e-mail) is fixed now. Thank you! // EDIT: Opps! Not at all! The lists of words are updated in an odd way... //
I will report about features I think could be useful, especially about tags. I have to post a comment in the word features, isn't it?

Maybe that stuff is on the bug (singular) page...? Signed, Too Lazy to Go Look. ;)

Seems as if there ought to be information on this page about actual insects, too. Or viruses. The various kinds of bugs could interact.

Yes, I've seen that too, arby. I just refresh the page and usually everything sorts itself out.

Or you (meaning commenters - not you, John) could use tinyurl to shorten the URL to minimize the chances of it getting caught in the truncate bit.

npydyuan, that's a known bug. the code for truncating the comments isn't smart enough (which is another way of saying, I'm not smart enough :-). what it's doing is chopping the comment in the middle of the youtube embed tags, and the munged tags then screw up the rest of the page. it needs to figure out if the chop point is inside a tag, and then either chop the whole thing, or move the chop point to the end of the tag. i'll work on it.

arby, i see some weird behavior with html in comments, but i'm not sure what's causing it. one thing i see is that sometimes you submit a comment, and tags aren't visible. but if you reload the page that was commented on, they become visible. which is some artifact of using ajax for the comments; exactly what, i'm not sure. i'll keep digging.

I know this was discussed before on your profile in the context of wonky HTML, but what about well-formed HTML? Is there a limit to how many tags we can use per comment? I seem to only be able to use 1 or 2 (2 italics or 1 link) at a time. If I remove one, the other will then show up. Weird! Is it just me?

Anyone else have this problem? If there's a link to a Youtube clip in a comment, no further content gets loaded (Safari, Mac) below that comment on the latest 400 page.

Fixed! Damn, you're quick. :-)

oops, once again i accidentally moved forward something that was half baked. fixed.

I'm dying here...

Firefox, too...

Right... all I get is "Comments since your last visit" followed by... nothing!

John--blame it on IE again (or not), but the recent comments page seems to be broken today.

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