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I can't find the second tag spammer, though.

Here's the spammer: demataml

From the recent Tags feed it's obvious that there is some spam-tagging going on.

*waiting patiently for new & improved Wordie*

Hi folks, so sorry about the plugged up front page. I'll try to roto-route it tonight or tomorrow. I'm in a mad dash to build nuevo Wordie right now, which will be launched in a few weeks, so it's kind of hard to spend time on ancien Wordie. But a semi-refreshing front page is totally annoying to me too.

Speaking of Wordie++, it's coming along handsomely I think, and will feel very, very much like this one—but faster, and with less bugs :-)

Thanks, bilby---I didn't know about F5.

Me too also. On the F5 vs Home.

Front page F5 refreshes for me but not if I just click on 'Home' as I usually do.

I can't refresh the homepage. Even though I'm signed in, I get the sign-in screen and the comments from a couple of days ago.

Is "Errata" gone for good?

I can get to a current comment page by clicking through the "blog" heading at the top of a page.

The latest comments, etc. are not showing up on the front page for me. I can see them if I click "past comments" but not if I refresh the front page.

Image search is working again for me.

I listed titivate right after cumquat (both hours ago, here), yet the front page feed shows:
Recent words (feed)
to cut the umbilical cord (1)
cumquat (8)
... with titivate nowhere in sight.

Sometimes trying to access website receive:

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:

XID: 1373340549
Varnish

Broken for me:
Firefox, IE.
(Rhymed poetry!)

Working for me on both Firefox and Safari.

Working for me in Firefox. Didn't try IE.

Anyone else having an issue with image search? I can't seem to use it in IE or Firefox.

Browse is still glitchy, I'm afraid. If I click on these...

# monotone thru mooncurser
# mooncurser thru more fun with used syringes!

...the first actually gives 'moon tune thru mordant', the second 'monosemantemic thru moon-noon'.

Thanks! I can. Many appreciations.

Hi Asativum, you should be able to see your comments now.

I can't get to the page listing my comments; maybe the same reason skip's skipped town?

Sorry for double-commenting:) Just had some more info to add.

I can add words to that list in the mobile site, but on the regular display, the addition words don't show up, despite being listed in my profile.

aside from having to load the entire bug list to post a comment..

I can't seem to add words to precisely one of my lists. It asks if I want to register or log in. The other ones are very happy to offer the opportunity to add words

Well, in that case we'd just have to add words to other open lists (of which we have a few now...) to bump it.

By the way, please don't add words to that list because that would put it back in the homepage.

Yeah, I figured. Well... I'll create a couple as soon as I can think of some.
Edit: Ahhhh. I feel like I just had a splinter removed. *sigh*

We'll need to create some new open lists in order to push /lists/randomnesssssssisisisisiisisiaosaso off the 'Recent' list.

Sure would be nice if we could un-bork the front page. Yesterday I thought it would just go away soon enough on its own, but like a bad case of H1N1, it's sticking around. *sigh*

It may be the . that's the problem in toniatriggy@gmail.com; see Prolagus's comment 11 months ago concerning amun.x.

Strangely the recent comments on this list aren't showing up on the "last 100 comments" page.

Edit: just seen prolagus's recent report.

There's a new user, toniatriggy@gmail.com. Profile page is a 404. Is that because of the @ in the username?

Comments on lists (or at least some of them) don't appear on "last 100 comments".

The missing subject lines bug is still there.

Another problem with Browse is that it doesn't seem to be entirely accurate in its categorisation: clicking 'aurek-besh thru autofellatio' is actually producing a page that reads:

# aureation is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurebesh is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurei is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurek-besh is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurelian is listed 2 times and has 0 comments
...
# autoethnography is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# autoethnology is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# autoevolution is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# autoevolutionist is listed 1 time and has 0 comments

Note that the category preceding that one is appearing as 'Atticus thru aurelian' (in reality, Attica to Aurebesh). You have to go into the next category, in which autoevolution is the first word, to find autofellatio.

Pro's profile is still giving a 500 error :/

Cheers. I see the random word feature is also back to normal.

Thanks much for the reports--I've been fiddling about again, if you hadn't guessed :-) It's for the best in the long run, but sorry for the recent collateral damage.

Profiles should be fixed (sorry for disappearing you skipvia), the duplicate derelict has been evicted, and the comment page profiles are properly possessive.

Treeseed, private notes were broken when you reported that, but they should be fixed now. If that's not the case for you would you mind emailing me, and letting me know what browser you're using?

VanishedOne, your comments page is back.

Sionnach, I still have no idea what's causing your duplicates (I can't duplicate the bug). I may email you, if you don't mind, and ask for specifics to help me debug. I'm really sorry about that--I very much don't want a bug to drive away a favorite Wordie, but I can see how it would be maddening.

ǝssɐɔ ʇsǝ ɹnǝʇɐıpɹo uoɯ ǝnb ǝsuǝd ǝɾ

I've had trouble accessing a few profiles. For example http://wordie.org/people/profile/%C7%9Dl%C4%B1%C9%AFs (ie, ǝlıɯs). I thought that one might have been because of the characters, but funnily enough http://wordie.org/people/profile/skipvia is also 500AE.

A very minor bug: derelict is showing up twice on the recent tags page.

The string 'about n hours ago, on x's profile, p said' has started displaying as 'about n hours ago, on x profile, p said' on the recent comments page, but the bug seems not to be showing up on the front page.

Hi John
Prior to today I been able to click on private notes and add to them. Today I am unable to click on them and get the edit box...I can not make any new additions to old private notes.

Thanks.

Judging by a tag on ishy, multiple full stops in tags have the same effect as multiple apostrophes. I can get to the tag page via tags/replaces 'sort of%2e%2e%2e; and 'i guess%2e%2e%2e' in conversation%2e, but Wordie still thinks nobody has used it.

Not sure if it's just me, or IE 8 (which sucks, by the way), but image search button is not working for me on many pages... About to go check Firefox... Where it works just fine.

Thought I'd post here in case anyone else has issues. Bring me the head of Bill Gates.

/people/comments/emilywalkin says 'emilywalkin has made 4 comments and citations', but only one is displayed. Meanwhile, people/comments/VanishedOne is giving me a 500 Application Error.

Edit: progress? Today it's giving me a 404.

Apostrophes in tags don't produce 404 pages like full stops, but they do seem to produce 'nobody has used' pages even if the tag is in use somewhere.

Edit: hang on, I think it's double apostrophes that do this. Contrast /tags/dinosaurs 'r us (fully functional) with /tags/ghouls 'n' ghosts (not, although it appears on firebrand).

Later edit: oddly enough though, /tags/ghouls 'n' ghosts?u=VanishedOne works normally.

Me four!

We still love you, sion-sion.

We still love you, sion-sion.

I'm still having my duplicate problem, at least about 90% of the time.
If I try to create a new list, it appears twice on my list of lists.
If I add a word on a list, it appears twice;
comments appear twice.

I can make the second instance of a comment go away by editing and deleting it, but I am unable to fix the duplicate appearance of words or lists.

Since this is really messing up my ability to make sensible lists, it is seriously diminishing the site's appeal, unfortunately.

I'm still having my duplicate problem, at least about 90% of the time.
If I try to create a new list, it appears twice on my list of lists.
If I add a word on a list, it appears twice;
comments appear twice.

I can make the second instance of a comment go away by editing and deleting it, but I am unable to fix the duplicate appearance of words or lists.

Since this is really messing up my ability to make sensible lists, it is seriously diminishing the site's appeal, unfortunately.

...me neither...

I'm using Firefox 3.0.10, and haven't encountered that problem myself.

I'm having that duplicate thing happen again. Could it be a browser thing (I'm using Firefox)?

I'm having that duplicate thing happen again. Could it be a browser thing (I'm using Firefox)?

Sometimes when I enter a comment, the comment box and button disappear from the screen. They return and the new comment is there if I refresh or navigate to the word.

edit: No they don't. It must have been the refresh that entered the word, because I just noticed I lost a comment entirely.

I keep seeing old posts with no body text: on syllogism, for example. I wonder whether they were entered with no content, whether they're failing to load properly, or whether maybe the content was in the title field and this is a manifestation of the vanishing comment title bug.

Hmmmm, double comment here. Was that method acting, or ... ?

John:

Everything I've added within the past hour has shown up in duplicate - both when adding words to lists, or comments on a word page.

John:

Everything I've added within the past hour has shown up in duplicate - both when adding words to lists, or comments on a word page.

Ah, shit. Pro's probly right. Sorry for the exasperated tone.

It may actually be a real bug: your username contains dots, which has caused some trouble to other users if I remember well. I can't visit your list of lists either.

Assuming you're not joking:

Words are contained within lists. "Your words" shows all your lists. Simply click on one of them to see the words within that list.

To create a new list, click on "create new list", right under where it says "jeffrey.t.whitney's lists".

Most people figure this out for themselves. Relax, explore.

When I click on "Your Words" why does it send me to a page of Lists? I want to see the words I have chosen, not a list of lists? It doesn't make any sense at all!!!!

Also, how do I make another list? I can't find any way of doing this!!

http://wordie.org/words/coquettish displays for me; /words/http://wordie.org/words/coquettish doesn't, of course, but if that was what was in your browser address bar you shouldn't have seen a Wordie 404 page at all, since /words isn't a recognisable protocol...

Just got this error when randoming:

Sorry, but I'm a 404 Error, and, as is my nature, I can't find what you're looking for. Try the search box in the upper right, or maybe dig around on the home page.The uri of the page I couldn't find: /words/http://wordie.org/words/coquettish

Argh! The missing subject lines really screw up some conversations!

Working normally for me, two hours later.

There used to be a bug that produced a 500 Application Error (see comment 9 months ago by oroboros), but it was fixed. (I don't know exactly when John fixed it.)

I'm getting a 500 application error when I try the cloud feature on tags. Is that a temporary deal? It worked before, I believe.

Edit: works normally except on the tag ghosted (so far anyway).

Edit: found some others. Appears to relate to the size of the word collection tagged. The larger the collection the greater opportunity for 500 app error.

I was never sure how you made those bold lines in the first place.

It isn't just the subject lines either; the delete option that appears when you edit a comment is also vanishing after a page refresh.

Ha, so it is.

But they have disappeared! I can't read any of those lines anymore.
Edit: I can only read them on the "last comments" page but they don't appear on the word pages.

It only appears when you edit a comment. It used to be there when a comment was started, but John removed that feature a year ago.

What happened to the bold line in comments? For instance, I have often used it on insomnia.

There's some inconsistent escaping in tags that contain /

hindi/urdu viewed on ghungroo points to /tags/hindi\/urdu

However, the same tag appearing on the tags page points to /tags/hindi/urdu

Either way, it's 404'd and changing the / to a %2f doesn't help with this one.

Some interesting " behaviour: there's a tag on Lucy reading aesop rock song "no regrets", but even once I've reconstructed a working URL by changing " to %22, I still get a 'nobody has used this tag' message.

Where housekeeping is concerned, we're waiting for John's posse to saddle up (see features, 3 months ago).

I know this is a fairly common complaint (especially from Vanished One), but can something be done about the excessive tagging on word pages such as admire? This particular case seems to be the result of spamming, but other words are given ridiculously long tags (i.e. whole definitions) or a ridiculously large number of tags out of ignorance from people new to the site, who then simply vanish after making their mess. Can we develop a reasonable protocol for cleaning these pages up a bit?

I'm just not getting used to the bright red rectangle that is the Google ads space on my Wordie home page. Am I the only one who gets this?

Judging by this it's probably associated with the AddThis widget at the bottom of the page.

NoScript is blocking something new on Wordie (bin.clearspring.com etc.). What is it?

I don't know if this is just true from my browser (Firefox ver 2.0), but if I come at the homepage without having logged in, NO CONTENT comes up. Blank page. Once I've logged in, stuff is there. Other pages work, but not the homepage. Is this intentional??

The appropriate term should be heisenbug.

A quantum bug: the comments about quant visible under bkerr's comments don't show at quant.

John, on Wordie in the news, NUXiY's and lauren_inretrospective's comments were accidentally swapped.
Plus, what the bear said.

Actually, John... first of all, there's no need to apologize! We know you have a life. :) Second... I'm afraid it's still not working for me in IE (2 different computers), but it does now in Firefox. But as I said, as long as it's working for other people, it's okay with me. I can get to my lists pretty easily, after all. :) Thanks!

My Wordie links are highlighted, clickable, but they don't show the usual little hand icon.
Edit: never mind, it's apparently my browser's fault.

Think I just fixed the list description links thing, c_b. Sorry for the long wait on that folks, slipped past my (rusty, WWII-era) radar earlier.

I use Firefox at home. I think I was having the problem there too; I'll check tonight.

I think it might be a probelm in IE - what browser you on, cb?

Thanks, mollusque. I did try that, and then let it go for a couple days. Just checked again--they're still highlighted but not clickable. *shrugs* Not a big deal for me, esp. if the links are working for others.

I had that problem some time ago, but it seems to be okay now, at least with my lists.

C_b, your link works for me. Maybe you just have to refresh after editing?

I wish I could help John out somehow so he doesn't have to spend his life picking up after us, but let's face it: I don't have the technical cojones. :(

Yes, cb! See my comment about a month ago.

Has anyone else ever had trouble making working links in list descriptions? For some reason, mine come up highlighted, but you can't click on them. (See here for an example, though I have several others. Maybe it's just ME this doesn't work for...?)

Hmm. So much for the %20 theory.

The new "Vince Lombardi" Twitter link works - thanks, John!

On a similar note, here's some inconsistent handling of whitespace characters: this tag contains %0A characters (new line, I think). Linked from the list of recent tags on the front page, its URL contains the %0A characters and the page displays correctly; linked from the tags page, however, it has the %0As stripped out so that it leads to the nonexistent /tags/cannibalismanthropos - humanbeingphagous - feedingon.

(By the way, I see trying to visit tags that don't exist no longer produces a common-or-garden 404, which is nice. Thanks, John.)

The reason (as far as I understand) is that Twitter links need %20 for "space".

John:

I know that I have probably sacrificed any right to mention anything pertaining to Twitter, but I notice that two recent links, to "Vince Lombardi" and "arte rupestre", respectively ended up linking only to the first word in each case. I don't know if this is just a couple of coincidental oversights, or evidence of some kind of more systematic error.

Thanks.

Comments on tags attached to 0 words aren't displayed: there are comments on say what? but you can't see them now that the tag has been retired in favour of say what.

For some reason, when I got asked to log in just now, I subsequently got sent to Wordie Mobile.

I see /lists/ has been fixed at some point: it no longer has my Cryptolects list at the top every time I visit.

Yes! Thank you John!

Login bug should be fixed now--once you log back in, you should stay in.

I uploaded to Flickr a screenshot of a new strange thing that happens when you add a word. Not really a bug, it's just that the page looks different.

Yes! Me too! I had to sign in! *waaaa* Make it stop.

Being asked to login repeatedly happening to me too today.

Last night I made some internal changes (upgraded to Rails 2.3.2), which I think are causing issues with login. Looking into it, thanks for the heads-up.

Today, every time I launch firefox I have to sign in, only on Wordie. Is it happening to anyone else?

That's the . character breaking tags.

Web 2.0 tag
Twitter

I know reporting a bug in WeirdNet is a little redundant and that on the whole we don't want it fixed, but this one may be keeping 'interesting' definitions from our sight: we've known for some time that a few words fail to have definitions displayed even though they can be found at http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn, and I've noticed that this seems especially to affect words ending in -oof (goof, hoof, proof, aloof, roof...). Is there an -oof bug on Wordie's side, or is it 'just' a further dimension of WeirdNettery?

Edit: may I add -(o)ft to this? Loft and left I knew about, but I've also just found no definition on soft... (Raft and daft are normal, though. So is deft, so -eft isn't a guaranteed problem ending. Hmm.)

Aaaagh. *gets hives*

Perhaps it means, 'The "random" misappropriation of it's still aggrieves me somewhat.'

When you do, would you mind terribly getting that stupid apostrophe out of its?

Nobody is listing "random" it's misappropriation still aggrieves me somewhat. perhaps unoriginally but genuinely. djsalinger nevertheless managed to make it the 'least favourite' on his/her profile, where it links to http://wordie.org/words/ — probably an upshot of the " characters. Since we know adding word pages containing " is possible even though links to them break, this one 'should' be in the database as a word page somewhere, but it seems not to have been added. (At least, until I add it and tag it accidental profundity.)

Guess it could be a broswer thing. I'll try different ones when I get home. It's a problem I've had for ever though - see my most recent list for an example.

They're working for me.

Am I the only one who can't get links - internal or external - to work in the list description field?

A problem with Niteowl's 'steampunk steam punk' tag (I mentioned it here a month ago) has turned up again with a tag on doodacky: the tag 'thingamebob whatsit doodah whatsitname' is linking to http://wordie.org/tags/thingamebobwhatsitdoodahwhatsitname, which produces a 500 Application Error.

Regarding list URLs based on the wrong titles: is it my imagination, or did http://wordie.org/lists/meta use to be a working URL? You can see me using it on this page, about four months ago. It's now got to be http://wordie.org/lists/metaphysics-buzz-words-2, so it seems this bug can actually cause previously existing links to break.

FEATURE REQUEST:
"private" word lists

A lot of the Wordie links on the RSS feed seem to be to lists which don't exist? e.g.:

beavers build dams -> http://wordie.org/lists/198837
where do you go to my lovely -> http://wordie.org/lists/129220
unbirdly -> http://wordie.org/lists/198568
etc.

It would be nice to have some easy way of tracking which bugs are still open. Maybe I should extend the length of the features page with that suggestion.

That's exactly what it looks like, VO. I suspected someone else might have reported it but this page is getting so long now I didn't read through all the previous.

Is this what it looks like? I mentioned that bug here three months ago: it seems to affect only some lists, for some reason...

When I'm on a list page, of one of my own lists, something odd happens when I add a word through the 'add word' box. The list words all disappear. I have an 'add word' box, a 'to' box with a drop-down list, a 'go' button, then under that 'my lists' with all of my lists sorted in alphabetical order. Clicking on any list takes me to the WordieMobile version. If I refresh the page it goes back to the usual list page view, i.e. the 'add word' box with all the previously added words underneath.

I tried to follow the links to /people/randy-meier?wl=19357 which (thanks to sionnach's spam-related pictures) are currently adorning the comment feed, but I got a 404. However, /lists/randy-meiers-list works fine, and /lists/19357 correctly redirects to it...

I expect this is a form of the problem with the . character in URLs: ordinary.madness is apparently a legitimate user name, but /people/lists/ordinary.madness redirects to /lists/.

Speaking of /lists/, why does it seem never to change, if it has the last 500 lists on the site? Every time I end up there I see my Cryptolects list at the top.

Tags containing a question mark also don't work. See symmetrify.

Niteowl has a tag that seems to be broken in an exciting new way: it appears on /people/tags/Niteowl as 'steampunk steam punk', but the link is to /tags/steampunksteam punk, which produces a 500 Application Error. (/tags/steampunk steam punk doesn't work either.)

Nobody is listing 209068. Why don't you?

If you visit new Wordies' recent activity page, all the words they added to their profile page (favorite word, least favorite word, onomatopoeia that best describes him/her, etc.) look normal, but they link to numbers instead.
See here, for example.

Plethora, even when you're logged on, displayed times don't update unless you refresh the page.

I pointed it out once (look for the comment with the word TOEFL)... It has always been like like this, apparently.

I haven't had a lot of time to investigate this thoroughly but...
it appears that when logged out, the times on comments are not up-to-date. For example, on my list Silent Bits and Pieces, when I'm logged out displays,
"8 hours ago sionnach said:
I dream of a world where we will be able to move words among lists in great big blocks, en masse. That's my dream."

When I logged in, the timestamp changed. In truth,
13 days ago sionnach said:
"I dream of a world ..."
It's probably not a big deal, and won't cause a big problem, particularly for those of us who stay logged in pretty much all the time.

But I just thought it was worth noting.

If so, the wording is confusing: shouldn't it say bugs 'has been tagged {some number greater than 1} times, has 5 total tags...' and not, as it does, 'has been tagged 1 time, has 7 total tags...'?

Edit: ah, meta does say bugs has been tagged 3 times, so you must be right. I stand by my comment about the confusing wording, though; I'd have expected the total number of tags to count types, not tokens.

VanishedOne, I think it means that more than one person has used the same tags for the word.

According to its listing on /tags/bunny, bugs has seven tags (although listening device seems to have been removed at some point), but I see only five. This can't be down to an enforced limit, given how many tags are on overtagged, so I wonder whether one of the tags on this word is itself glitched...

This one has been bothering me for a while, from http://wordie.org/tags. At the top, "The last ____ tags added to Wordie"... this dropdown box defaults at 500. If you change the number, it ERRORS OUT. However, the error simply seems to be that no number gets listed at the end of the URL, because if you Manually enter a number at the end of the URL, an actual page is generated. Seems like an easy fix.

John: on the "Active Comments - In the past 24 hours" page ( http://wordie.org/comments/active ) -- the "See all" link at the bottom is not working. It just duplicates the linked thread at the bottom.

ALSO, you really ought to include conversations from tags on this feature.

Hi John.
When displaying "Versicherungsgekkokotzenbedürfnis" on the front page, wordie truncates the word in the middle of the two byte German umlaut "ü", so only the 0xC3 was shown which of course can't be shown.
Something like this might help.

Back again: the random word feature has suddenly started producing a 500 Application Error when I try to use it.

Edit: and three hours later it's working again.

r3v's onomatopoeia is set to blah ... does that count? I just got sent there by the random word feature, which lopped off the terminal question mark and told me nobody was listing blah ... does that count, why didn't I?

I got blocked from adding the version with the question mark to the Wordie Paradox list (though changing ? to %3F worked), but either the block on adding words containing ? doesn't apply to profile onomatopoeia, or it didn't when the page was added.

Edit: I forgot to mention that on /people/recent/r3v the link to blah ... does that count? goes to /words/140718.

The tag page for /tags/scratch'n'sniff claims that 'nobody has used this tag', but in fact it can be seen on gunpowder: a problem with the ' character, maybe? (I wondered whether a deleted account might have put it there, but it turns out to be bilby's tag.)

Comment bug! I posted a comment to suggest pokemaniac to the list called types of collectors. But on the index page, it displays a DIFFERENT LIST NAME for where my comment is. Then, when one tries to click on the comment from the index page, it goes to a completely different list that I had nothing to do with called 9:22 am. Weird, huh.

On µß's recent activity, the link to casual leads to 19215.

That was happening to me for a few days last week, but it's been fine since then. *shrugs*

Anyone else notice a wild change in the font, size, and layout of the pages when adding a word to a list? Also I got an "added" confirmation screen (of sorts) that had the same font issues but was linkless... just kind of freaky.

Looks kind of like this (which looked like that for a while but nobody, including myself, knew or cared why).

Yippee! Thanks, John, I never doubted you.

Callooh! Callay! :) Thanks, John! *scampers off to play with the Aubrey/Maturin list*

O frabjous day! It works! It works!
Thanks, John.

hi folks, sorry again about the long delay, but full-list sorting should be working. Go to your long list, click 'view all', then click any of the sort arrows.

Thanks, sionnach. I have such faith in John's near-miraculous programming powers, that I am sure he will find a fix for this before long.

rolig: Scroll down to about 4 days ago. yarb's comment may be helpful as well.

(I'm glad I'm not the only one asking for this fix)

This question may have already been brought up, but I was wondering if it was possible with a list of more than 100 words to view all the words in alphabetical order. Now, when you click on alpha order, you can view the first 100 in alpha order, but this ability is lost with the next page of words. Can this be fixed?

Yarb, I do that too. Much easier than trying to sort.

Tags hate periods; 500.

Thanks, yarb.

*duh. feels like a particularly retarded fox*

'nach: I just view all and then do a ctrl-F (or whatever) search in my browser for the word in question.

Thanks, John.

Sionnach, sorry about the long delay, I'll look into that and post when there's a fix.

It really would be helpful to be able to view entire lists in alphabetical order. Currently this is not possible because of some kind of weird interdependence between the 'sort alphabetically' and 'list all' commands, which has been described previously.

The inability to do this makes it hard, for instance, to check whether a given word has been added to any list with more than 200 entries. You can list the first and last 100 in the alphabet, but if you want to see the entire list, the only option is unalphabetized.

garyth123's "logic" list has the following URL:
http://wordie.org/lists/logicalbiscotti-s-omniglottery-2
where
http://wordie.org/lists/logicalbiscotti-s-omniglottery
is a list by logicalbiscotti.
http://wordie.org/lists/logic is a list by soden, and supposedly garyth123's list URL should be
http://wordie.org/lists/logic-2
which doesn't work.
I just thought you might want to know.

A couple of times today, random word has taken me to the home page.

The random word feature just took me to http://wordie.org/words/http://wordie.org/words/coquettish: I'm guessing maybe it's been entered in the database somewhere, but whereas that page was a 404, entering http://wordie.org/words/coquettish in the search box took me to word. So maybe it's a glitch in the random word function instead.

*cheering and clapping*

*Cheering!@*

Lists should be deletable again. Sorry for the long delay on that.

That wasn't a lie, exactly, Pro. My education is over, my commitments to the school are not.
And I'm still partying :P

I dunno what pleth 'n pro are talking about, as I generally steer clear of tags. But I am having the same problem as everyone else, as far as deleting lists is concerned - i.e., for the most part, I can't. And I don't believe it is related to special characters.

(I suspect, though I haven't done much to verify my suspicion, that if I were to purge a list of all its words, one by one, that then it would be deletable. But this is such a tedious option, I'm too lazy to put much energy into testing it)

You told me your high school days would be over on Dec 8th, and you started to party one month earlier.

Would I lie to you?

Argh! It's true!

On a tag's page, when I view the list of words on which I've used that tag, I can delete everyone's comments.

John,
On the page http://wordie.org/people/comments/user , a comment on a tag page is listed as a comment on the corresponding word page.

There were only alphabetical characters in my list.

There are only alphabetical characters in the words on /lists/diamond-cuts.

My theory about this non-delete list bug, based on recent experience: as far as what's causing it, I believe it to be that if the list contains any words with "somewhat unusual characters" (perhaps anything that's not alphabetic?) that's what causes the phantom words and phantom list. The only way to avoid this bug is by manually deleting all the words of a list before hitting "delete list".

Just adding my voice to the chorus of those unable to delete lists.

List deletion attempts can produce a 500 Application Error instead of a 404; that's only happened to me once, though. Either way, the list doesn't get deleted.

Ah. Yes. Thanks.

No, not that one, chained_bear. This is what he means.

VO, are you talking about the different appearance--the kind of "scrunched" appearance--of a list as you type in new words? (i.e. not add them through the pull-down menu on the "Nobody is listing..." page) I never thought of that as a bug. I kind of like it. Condenses the words so they're easier to scroll through quickly as I'm adding stuff, and it's easier to see if I've added something already. And I if it bothers me, I can just refresh--so I assumed it was a kind of beneficial bug. A borderline feature, if you will.

Of course, if that isn't what you're talking about, all bets are off.

The bug that messes up list pages after additions is afflicting John's own brand new Meat list, so whatever it is, it isn't just affecting older lists.

Ok, good, now I can sleep in peace again. =)

Everyone has a few minutes delay. It's actually handy, because it gives you time to edit your comment if you see a typo. Although sometimes a comment posts immediately, if it comes in just before an update. Use the "past comments" link to see items that haven't hit the home page yet.

Umm, I'm not sure if this is a real problem or if it is meant to be like that, but there is always a few minutes delay before I can see the updates. Meaning that when I add a word or a comment or something, I have to wait five minutes or so before I can see it on the front page. It's a bit irritating and I just want to know if it's only me or everyone else, too.

I switched to Internet Explorer and the problem's fixed, so, it's gotta be Mozilla.

Edit: I reloaded Firefox and now it's working right. :o)

No problems here--and I have the update. Odd.

Could be a Mozilla thing, oro. I declined the update this evening, and now when I try to d/l it, it's telling me there's an error in the update.

I've also got to refresh the page to show the comment I've just written!

I'll say! I just got a Firefox update. I can't add books on LibraryThing either. I hope it's not a Mozilla screwup. :o/

VanishedOne, I'm having the same problem (the one you describe for your "Meta" list). It's ugly, isn't it?

Working for me, oroboros.

It appears that the edit function for comments is tango uniform. Anybody else agree?

c_b: Thanks. It's odd. It seems like last week there was one of my lists for which things worked in the normal way (though I can no longer remember which one, of course), but in general it doesn't work. I appreciate your diagnostic help.

Sionnach: right. Then click alphabetize again, and it should sort your "view all" list in alphabetical order. What I meant was you really only have to do three clicks--not four as I implied--but since I couldn't remember which one to start with, you'd end up doing four anyway.

I just went and tried it on one of my 300-word lists. I clicked view all, then an alphabetizing arrow, then view all again, and it worked fine for me. Then I tried it the opposite way (alphabetize, then view all) and it didn't work.

And then I tried the working way on another list and it DIDN'T work.

So, as mollusque said, perhaps it just isn't working right now.

Alphabetization beyond the first 100 has been broken since John added sorting of comments.

c_b: It doesn't work for me. Also I don't understand when you say you can't remember what order to click them in - you've specified it - "alphabetize, view all, alphabetize, view all". When I click "alphabetize" I get an alphabetical list of 100 words, when I click "view all" the resulting complete list is de-alphabetized. I don't see any way around this.

If you keep clicking "alphabetize" and "view all," and "alphabetize" and "view all," you will get a total list on one page that's all alphabetical. I can't remember what order you have to click them in, but it does work--I use it all the time.

Sorry to harp on this, but it is still impossible to get an alphabetical listing for an entire list with more than 100 words. The request to list all words cancels the alphabetization.

Furthermore, if one scrolls down through the first 100 alphabetized words and hits 'next', one doesn't necessarily get the next 100 in alphabetical order. So there is some serious interference between the viewing and alphabetization functions.

Borked homepage?

VO and Pro--that Poetrie bug is (as you know) my list. As I recall, I made some lame-brained coding error w/ the first attempt and couldn't get back to it to fix/edit. So rather than bother John, I re-posted the list with the correct coding. I may have mentioned this to John back in the Dark Ages, but up to now it hasn't bothered anyone except me. :-)

I've just seen an external link that lacked the usual arrow image after it: might that be because it was an https:// link?

Testing
Testing
Testing

Edit: yes, it looks as though the code that checks for external links only works for http://.

"pluralistic society" is producing bad links on the comments and front pages: they lead to http://wordie.org/words/ instead of http://wordie.org/words/%22pluralistic%20society%22

Edit: it's the same in this comment, so presumably it'll happen everywhere on the site.

Presumably something to do with what the list description says: 'Ignore that doppelganger version (coding goof)--here's the *working* one!'

John,
on woman, one of the two (?) links to "Poetrie: Fishing on the Susquehanna in July" links to poetrie instead.

Hi John -- I went to delete a list today and got 404'd instead. Now I can't figure out any way to delete the list.

(Not a big deal, obviously, but I figured you might want to know.)

See home – I can't get to the front page and certain other links.

John, Basil's gone berserk. I believe he intends to post to every last blessed Wordie profile. And clicking on his name brings up a 404 message. Help!

It used to be that you had to sort alphabetically and then show all. But as of today one cancels the other.

For lists with more than 100 words, I often find it impossible to get an alphabetically ordered display of the entire list. If I do an alphabetic sort, it will show the first 100 words in order, but if I then press 'next' or 'display all', it resorts to the reverse order in which they were added. And if I start from where the entire list is displayed and ask for an alphabetic sort, it defaults to the first 100 words.

This doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen often enough to be mildly annoying.

It would be far more convenient if the 'sort' and 'display' functions operated independently of one another. That is, requesting a sort would ideally leave the display mode (100 words or entire list) unaltered.

Something's gone weird with the Meta list: when I added a word from the list page, the listed words vanished, and instead of seeing the words listed with the new addition included, I got my list of lists.

I tried adding another word to Meta, and got the same effect: image. I couldn't replicate the effect when testing on another of my lists, so it seems to be list-specific.

John, thanks for fixing everything! All seems to be working fine today. :-)

(grr)

chained_bear, chained_bare, are you polar bears?

That's not me. chained_bare is my evil twin.

I don't mean to sound persnickety, but people already think my username has something to do with bondage rather than being a description of the badge of the sixteenth earl of Warwick, so I'm just setting the record straight. I do not pal around with naked chained things (or people). :) As you so eloquently put it, "(grr)."

See also marathon of phony umbrage taking.

chained_bare: delete doesn't complete the action (grr) but add does, and making a comment (obviously) does. I haven't tried move.

No, sionnach, you're not the only one. However, in my experience it does complete the action (I've been clicking "reload" every time). Also if you click reload and you've just added a word, it loads the word page for some reason. Until you try again by typing it in.

There was, however, a period of several hours today when the site simply wouldn't load. I was surprised to be able to get on it again this evening.

Just to note that the site has been seriously messed up for about 12 hours now. Every time I press the enter key, I get an error message. Whether it's to add, move, or delete a word, or to add or edit a comment - same error message. Sometimes the actions will have been carried out, despite the error message, sometimes not.

I assume that I'm not the only one experiencing these difficulties?

Ditto, moving words from one list to another. I would hope there's one fix for all...

Edit: I also get the application error when deleting a word. For some reason toothache occurs twice on one of my lists. Tried to delete one of 'em, but no joy. Then I moved one of 'em to my Potpourri list and tried to delete it there. Couldn't be done. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the duplication? Anyway, application error is making things pretty inconvenient to work/troubleshoot the system.

Edit 2: The 'delete' option is not shown on a comment edit. Again, all these accompanied by the app error.

Ditto.

I also got a 500 from wordie.org/words/add when adding a new word: I don't know whether that's connected to the commenting problem.

Lately when I post a comment I get a 500 error. I have to refresh to see my comment.

Sorry about today's loss of brackets. In the process of upgrading some stuff and got a little ahead of myself. Hopefully I'll get a chance to fix it tonight.

all words bracketed

I experienced the same problem as bilby, but then it righted itself again.

The problem of some bracketed expressions being processed improperly seems to crop up on a regular basis. It tends to happen when more than one such expression is included in a comment - the first one is processed correctly, later instances are not. On occasion, if I have wanted to include more than one link, it's been necessary to distribute them across multiple postings.

I missed all of that, but it does look like a number of bracketed words in posted comments aren't "taking"--no link, just brackets showing. Related, perhaps?

There's something weird with the way comments are displaying - well, a lot of them aren't - on the front page.

I've had the same message. Actually, this is the first time in hours that I've been able to get onto Wordie at all.

I've had this error message a few times today:
Ruby on Rails framework version 2.1.2 seems to be corrupted. Please reinstall it. This can be done with the following command:

/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080810/bin/gem install rails --version 2.1.2

Framework that failed to load:
Rails framework version 2.1.2

In http://wordie.org/people/comments/username?o=some_number, some values of o (which are lower than the member's total comment count) produce 500 Application Errors: see discussion on punctilio. This affects multiple members and I've only got it to happen with values of o above four digits. E.g.

http://wordie.org/people/comments/chained_bear?o=14000
http://wordie.org/people/comments/reesetee?o=14000

"Most Active Threads" has gone all 500 Application Error on me. :-(

The 'Check out the last 500 lists' page doesn't seem to be updating. The 500 I can see there at the moment look like they're from at least a month ago. Yes, tried clearing the cache and all that.

That means that you visit the random word page more often than any other on Wordie.

This is not really a John issue but I thought it worthwhile to add it here for the sake of curiosity.
I am now using Firefox 3.03, a recent upgrade. There is now a button on my Toolbar that links to 'Most Visited' sites. Currently the site at the top of 'Most Visited' is 'Wordie: Adult movie'. Actually I can't recall ever visiting the Wordie page for Adult movie. Side-note: I just checked, it does exist and is listed by 1 Wordie. When I click on its link from the 'Most Visited' menu I get taken to a random Wordie page. Really.

Adding a tag to a word seems to break the 'all tags' cloud for that word until a page reload: the cloud disappears but the toggle link is still 'hide', and no amount of clicking makes the tag cloud reappear.

Fascinating bug. I added è to a list and the character added was ¨.

Why doesn't è link to "è"?

I put html comment signs around the list name. It's just a temporary collection no one should be irritated by scrolling my lists. Oh, right, we need private lists. :-)
(And perhaps there should be a bit tighter restrictions for using html.)

User telofy has a list titled ,. Although you can see it under 'appears in these lists' you can't click on it and go to it, nor can you see it under http://wordie.org/people/lists/telofy.

Image search on enter your list in reverse alphabetical order. gives a 404 error; I'm guessing the full stop is guilty.

Minor error on the tools page: 'Every person has a feed for their recent activity, unless they've shut it off' links back to tools, but the actual option to turn the feed off is under 'edit personal preferences' on one's profile, and the explanation is on Errata.

On the mobile pages there is a "=" missing:
input type"text" name="word" class="w220"
For example:
http://wordie.org/m
http://wordie.org/m/list/16708

Have fun!

/tags/the%20assimilation%20of%20a%20smaller%20 entity%20into%20a%20larger%20one., which is displayed on the 'tags' page, gives a 404: a lingering problem with .s, maybe?

John, in the main page, the phrase Add citations and comments to words and lists, or private notes for yourself.... has four suspension points....

There seem to be problems with Jesterpatch's listings: the profile says Jesterpatch has added four words, but they don't show up either on Jesterpatch's list or as the favourite word, etc. Also, the right-hand box on cute. oh so cute! shows 'first listed by: Jesterpatch (4 words); appears in these lists:' with a blank after that; if the word was actually ghosted, the box wouldn't appear, would it?

John, while it's possible to choose a username with a . in it, the link to that user's lists doesn't work. Just experienced that with amun.x.

Okay, that's what it was. My mistake, bilby. I frequently use both ways to add words, and frequently find duplicates in my lists, so I must be wrong about how they got there. Thanks for clearing things up, mollusque.

Yes, mollusque, I've had the same experience. Not too often, but it's happened.

If you add a word from the word's page you can get duplicates. If you add it on the list page, you do not get duplicates. If you delete a duplicate word on a list, you delete both instances and have to readd it (except for open lists).

I just tried twice to add an already-listed word to my own lists. Didn't work. I think earlier today it must have been an open list where I managed to add something twice. Oh well, I'm reassured that my maxislack word-checking technique still works on my own lists.
Looks like this isn't a bug report then :-7

Hmmmm, lemme go try it.

No, you're right; I do that too. I'm only saying that if it doesn't appear, it does actually show up in the list again somewhere. (At least, for me, it has.)

Curious. I'd swear it's been like this up until, ooh, a week ago maybe. If I didn't know whether I had already added a word to a list and couldn't be bothered scrolling or searching, I'd just enter it anyway. If the word then listed, I'd know it was new to the list. If the word didn't appear, I'd know it was already in the list somewhere.

For me, it's always been possible to add a word to a list twice. It will not show that it's been added a second time, if you are entering them on the list page and just hit "enter" (rather than using the 'No one is listing...' pull-down), but when you go scrolling through the list you'll see it twice, often with each occurrence not next to each other. That's been the situation for a while. As long as I can remember, actually, though I wasn't here from the beginning.

How recently is recently, b? Because I've accidentally added the same word to one list twice numerous times: when I've been impatient with my internet and hit the add button twice. So it's been possible the couple of months I've been active.

Re whichbe's recent comment on faq, I also managed to add a word twice to one of my own lists today. Up until recently that wasn't possible. It has been possible of course for 2 (or more) users to add the same word to an open list.

Yay! It's updating! Thanks John!

I emailed John about this. It happened the same way not too long ago; you can still see recent comments updating if you click "Past comments."

Yes. I'm sick of sastrugi.

Has anyone else had the home page stalled on sastrugi today?

This is not exactly a bug... On http://wordie.org/comments, list pages URLs are spelled "the old way", like http://wordie.org/people/qroqqa?wl=15760 instead of http://wordie.org/lists/15760. Sometimes (or always? I can't remember) they don't work.

Ooh! That's actually a happy thing, for me. I click through Random all the time but usually go to fast, so when I hit "back" or something, I lost the word I wanted to see again, and it sounds like this way I won't. :) (Sorry you're disappointed, Pro...)

A very, very insignificant point about the recent change in the random feature (the URL - or URI? Whatever - now changes in accordance with the word page you are actually watching, while in the past you could just read http://wordie.org/words/random):
when you refresh, you can't read a new random page anymore. Which is kind of sad, since you have to look for the random button, but it could be worse.

A very minor quibble: on the Comments page, both the page title and the bold text above the search box say e.g. 'Past comments, 100 through 200', but the text between the previous and next links says 'Comments 101 through 200'.

Happened again as I added mons mercurii (also, when I manually searched for the word afterwards, it took me to word, which appears to've happened before). Curious!

That was reported in a couple of comments two months ago. It doesn't turn up every time one adds a word from the 'Nobody is listing' page; does anyone know exactly how to trigger it?

Hm, trying to add mesothesis, I got the url http://wordie.orgword/?added=mesothesis instead of http://wordie.org/word/.. (which worked? but I had to manually visit the word afterwards).

edit: Aha! It's happening when I add a word from the "No one is listing.." search results page rather than directly into the box at the top of a list.

Yeah, it's an ampersand thing. I'll fix tonight.

Based on the few I tried, might that be an ampersand problem?

Some words belonging to the awesome list aisu can't be opened...

Thank you, John. :)

Ok, the homepage has stopped exploding and international characters should once again be visible as such. Hopefully things are back to their usual state of only moderate bugginess. Thanks for your patience folks.

Np John.

I got careless and decided to update a bunch of shit at once, including low-level server stuff like the version of the language everything is written in (Ruby). So everything going haywire is related to the update, but has nothing to do with the private notes thing. Hopefully I'll be able to work through it all tonight. No data was harmed, fwiw--not sure why unicode characters are displaying wrongly (though I have an idea), but they're still stored correctly in the db.

More later, sorry for the wonky homepage and other stuff.

Okay, my homepage is borked now too. I think it must have been the private notes feature--I noticed it in the same way she mentioned. Curiously, the "past comments" link works (at least for me) and is updating.

If it's any help, all the special character jumblies seemed to coincide with the new notes feature (which is very nifty!); it feels like I noticed one within minutes of the other.
I'm also using Firefox, but things're displaying fine on other sites, so it seems to be a Wordie issue. What browser are you using, pleth?

All characters are looking fine on my end.
But yes, the homepage is borked by about two hours. The last comment I see is mollusque's on c_b's Words of Dinosaurology list.

Yeah, right now non-standard characters are looking strange.

V.O., I noticed that too.

Bilby, really? My home page isn't borked at all. Weird!

BTW home page is borked too, still showing 'snapshot' from about 10 hours ago.

Yeah, me too VO. Words with non-standard characters look very odd indeed. Made one half-assed comment about it but thought it might have been a Firefox issue as I've been upgading/switching laptops this week. Mebbe not!

Has something changed in the character encoding? I'd have noticed if wordie.org/words/%C3%85%C2%BDi%C3%85%C2%BEekology was failing to display the �/� in �i�ekology correctly when I listed it, but it's showing up as Žižekology now, yet my browser is definitely set to UTF-8. I'm seeing mangled non-Latin characters elsewhere on my lists which I think previously displayed correctly, too.

Edit: hmm, that link to �i�ekology does point somewhere else; but the version I had listed must have worked at some point, given the conversation hanging off it.

Hey John, this morning (maybe it's just me), I can see linked/bracketed terms in blue in the descriptions of lists, but can't click on them.

Ouch! Now it's fixed! It was showing a different number of comments!

John, just try this:

1- log out
2- visit http://wordie.org/words/toefl
3- visit http://wordie.org/words/TOEFL

Sorry, double post.

The 100 Wordiest list doesn't seem to be updating again.

Attempting to view tag words in cloud format still gives a 500 Application Error. I see that VanishedOne broached this eight months ago. I just wanted to make sure it's on your to-do list, John. It would be a handy display to have for voluminously worded tags.

Edit: Well, dog my cats! Cloud format for the tag "ghosted" gives the 500 error, but, so far, other tag cloud function works fine. Must be something to do with all the words being unlisted. Go calculate!

Thanks John.

Oops, sorry TYP, the page was cached and wasn't being updated correctly. You're in there now :-)

The tagging behavior you're describing is definitely not how it should work. I'll look into it, though it may be a while before I can get to it.

I seem to be well above the threshold for making the list of 100 wordiest, but my user name is not listed. What gives?

Multiple tagability is very useful as tagmass increases, but the same user shouldn't be able to tag the same word twice.

It happened to me as well, with my bread list...

John, I don't think it's a good idea for a word to have duplicated tags of the same tag. I tagged all my DEMON words "demon", then having added a few hundred more, did another MASS-TAGGING, not realizing it would double-tag the same tag upon the previous. Ick, ew, yuck!

Ditto. Yay!

I emailed the slack bastard and he said it's fixed. :) Yay!

Uh-huh. Me too.

It is! I'm using http://wordie.org/comments.

The home page is broken?

I visited this page to point out the same thing as MiaLuthien.

When I click on the link from v.'s profile to that user's lists, I get redirected to the last 500 lists on Wordie.

I had trouble yesterday for quite a while, but today it seems fine. (Using Firefox 3.)

I thought that was just me...

What gives?

wordie was off air about six hours yesterday, and today for about three. Can't be just me, because nothing moved on during that time

yarb's must be the second-best-worded bug report yet, just slightly behind 'The apparent loss of woolded bumpkin is particularly grievous'.

And a list named Biff! has eaten up my favourites list.

Hi John, sir. I apologize for ever calling you a slack bastard, if, in fact, I ever actually did that.

On my profile page are multiple listings of two lists ("Technically It Means" and "To Busy to Scratch Myself") and one word (whippersnapper) that I did not favorite. I rarely use that feature of Wordie. What gives?

*backs away slowly, bowing repeatedly*

I have a question about the Most commented on section. Currently I see these words listed:

tappen (47)
shaken baby syndrome (34)
fraught (22)
word war (22)
suave serpens (22)
all my fecal memories of you (21)
crumpet (16)
nowheresville (16)
punctuation (16)
albatross (14)

Now, why isn't there marmite with its 41 comments, or basonym with its 45? Both of them are on the most active threads page, but they don't appear on the most commented on list. Why is that? I haven't seen any change on that list for several days now. Is it broken? Or is the fault on my end (I've cleared the cache)?

Wordie's going all 500 Application Error on me when I add a word to a list (of mine, or anyone else's). Listing isn't unsuccessful; it just won't show anything but an error until the page is refreshed. Curious!

The past comments page bug should be fixed.

I was just on my way over to say the same thing, VO.

Is anyone else finding that /comments?o=100 is now producing a 500 Application Error?

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 "ghosted" 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, 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.

Where we talk about bugs. Previously done on John's profile, if you want to see the historical record.