Posts by Dani

And how to control what is on that homepage? If there is going to be no member control of the homepage, this reminds me of Microsoft's Windows Mobile homepage fiasco. They forbid the user from changing the Windows Mobile homepage.

An algorithm controls what is on the homepage. It's based on your usage across the site, and is similar to your Facebook feed, Reddit feed, Quora feed, etc.

Does the homepage seem a little bit better now? It's still a work in progress.

You clicked on an endorsement suggestion button in the email to endorse diafol. Unfortunately, diafol has deleted his membership. I fixed the bug in which it will no longer suggest deleted members in the future.

There’s a max limit on image dimensions that can be uploaded. The left one is over the limit but the right one should be fine. I’m not sure why you’re not seeing the error message.

Yeah, the homepage algorithm seems to work really well for people who visit any amount less frequently than once per week (which is 99.9999999% of traffic). Once you start visiting more than once a week, we simply don't have enough new content to keep up. I agree DaniWeb needs to make more sense for regulars, so it's something I'll work on once I return from my trip.

Currently on vacation for Thanksgiving. Will take a look at this next week.

You must use .on() with code dynamically inserted into the DOM.

Does just this specific query fail? Perhaps there is something wrong with the connection?

Is the html code available when the javascript runs? Are you putting the JS code inside the $(document).ready(function() { } );? You might also want to look at using .on() instead, such as something like $(document).on('.btnGenerate', 'click', function(event) { } );

Note I just typed this code out manually so it might have a typo.

Are you doing e.preventDefault() or (e).preventDefault()?

I'll be able to fix this if you give me an Imgur link that doesn't work for you.

I'm pretty sure it's related to the specific image or file trying to be uploaded.

I think you might have missed my last post.

It might be the specific image you're trying to upload?? Please link to it on Imgur and I will download it from there and try to attach it.

What do you mean no more direct messaging for you?

Test test test.

It might be the specific image you're trying to upload?? Please link to it on Imgur and I will download it from there and try to attach it.

Try clearing out your browser cache. Do you use browser plugins?

Worked for Chrome. Now testing Safari. I'm on MacOS.

And a perfect opportunity for that page to show articles about ...

Those are definitely some good ideas, and things I've thought about in the past, but have not yet gotten around to. I understand the value of the homepage, and it's not going to be backburnered for too much longer.

Also, image upload looks broken.

How so? What errors are you getting? What isn't working?

Something that would actually really help me to fix up this algorithm is to link me to topics that actually are of interest to you, but aren't appearing on the homepage ... e.g. is the algorithm bad in such a way that there's stuff that you think it should be showing you, but it's not? (It should be noted that if there are new posts in a topic we think you'd be interested in, we'll display it on the homepage, but once you read it, whether you accessed it via the homepage or otherwise, it disappears from the homepage).

You visit DaniWeb too frequently. We don't have that much new content coming in lately. The algorithm has decided that there's simply nothing new that could possibly be of interest to you since your last visit.

It's fine to use that as the selector. Use an #id when there is only one per page. Otherwise, using .classes makes sense.

The Javascript that you have does, indeed, not submit the form, and stick the value of data-idx into the idx variable.

This is fixed, but it might take 24 hours for browser caches to clear before it goes itno effect. Or, you can clear your browser cache to force the update.

Yes, the 2 points should be deducted if the comment is removed. I'll look into fixing this tomorrow. Thanks for the catch.

I guess my confusion comes from the fact that the endorsement system hasn't changed since it was created. From a user experience perspective, I'm trying to figure out what it is about the current design that made you first notice its functionality now, all these years later.

You can only endorse people for skills in one of our top-level forums (e.g. Software Dev, Web Dev, etc.) How would you know that someone is skilled in Web Development if they've never posted in any of our Web Dev forums? It's been like this since we created the endorsement system.

Yes, it’s always been the case that you can only endorse members for forums in which they have made at least one post and received at least one upvote.

That page with your personalized endorsement recommendations lists member/forum combinations in which you have personally engaged with that member in that forum.

The page that you're looking at is not designed for you to hunt for the person your want to endorse.

If you know who you want to endorse, you can do so directly from within their profile, by clicking the Endorsements tab.

The page in the screenshot is when you don't know who you want to endorse.

Sorry, I'm confused by your confusion. Can you try to explain to me why you're confused so I can see if there's some way I can improve the user experience?

Same as always ...

• Go into a member's profile and click the endorsements tab
• In the sidebar, click "Endorse Members" (this link used to be in the top navigation menu, which of course has been moved to the sidebar).

I completely swear by jQuery. I love it. I also love that I randomly stumbled upon the fact that the founder follows me on Twitter, but that's another story entirely. That being said, I tried jQuery Mobile a couple of years ago, and found it to be the most buggy POS I've ever come across. It never made it into any of my production code. I, also, found it to not offer much more than swipe events. There are alternative frameworks out there for iOS.

Incidentally, the reason why inline image functionality does not currently exist is because I was unhappy with the way the old platform handled it, and wanted to take some time to come up with something a bit better. We're cornered into using Markdown syntax (which, incidentally, still works if you choose to handcode your inline images).

I'm in bed with a cold. Inline image functionality is coming soon. A homepage change is coming soon as well.

This is our algorithm's way of saying, "You visit pretty often, and we don't have that much exciting new content lately. There really isn't anything else we think you'd like to see that you haven't already seen."

Will be fixed soon. Stay tuned.

Thanks!!

You could use a js and a css minifier with a version after them (e.g. the timestamp of when the minified happened e.j. app.js?156855452) that way when you change things none should clear their browser cache (in real word production projects that is not an option to ask from visitors)

Yes, we already do that, to a degree. We roll our own JS and CSS minifier that then caches the minified version of the file server-side. We use a query string with a version number, but that part is manual, and I only update it about once per day, despite making about 500 code changes daily this first week of launch. Once things settle down a bit, it will be a non-issue. That being said, I can look into something that stores the version and automatically tacks on the query string, but I don't think there's a super easy way to do that with my current setup.

You're welcome. Thanks for the suggestion!

You need to clear your browser cache.

It collapses now :)

OK, then what you're experiencing is the intended design.

I'll wait for more feedback to see if it should be closed automatically.

No, I understand what you're saying.

I just want to make sure that, even when expanded, it's possible to scroll down to the bottom of the page and see the last post.

Can you take a screenshot and show me what it looks like? (Note you can click on the purple bar to minimize it).

Are you using an older web browser by any chance?

No, it's just supposed to hang out at the bottom of the page (and not cover up any posts).

Would the expected behavior be for that to happen? I never thought of doing that LOL.

And thank you for your comments! This has been the result of lots of late nights!

All fixed. Thanks for the catch!

OK, I'm able to reproduce this! Hold on while I investigate ...

To clarify ... you click the thumbs up link in the bottom left corner of a post and a whole new page loads??