Posts by Dani

Did you recently upgrade to the latest browser version? Maybe there's something funky going on with it? As rproffitt says, do other browsers still work fine?

I'm not near my computer right now (just on my phone being an insomniac in bed) but I would guess fb_share? Isn't there documentation next to each endpoint saying what scope is required for it?

Has this now been fixed by any chance?

Super strange ... I just tested a copy and forwarded it to you. Seemed to work fine from my desktop, but on my iPhone, it landed in 'Clutter' (Use MS Exchange) and the body message was blank. I think it's because you have some weird characters in the email where you wish a happy holidays in multiple languages.

You need to edit your OAuth settings on the Facebook website to specify the domain and URLs that will be used for the redirect_uri in the OAuth flow.

Did you create the OAuth flow yourself or are you using some type of existing plugin?

You're attempting to go through the OAuth flow (Facebook login, Google+ login, etc.) from a website that has not been authorized. How did you end up at this link? What were you trying to do?

Did it ever work for you, by any chance?

It sounds to me like a cookie issue, but I only have access to an iPhone and I can't reproduce this on Chrome for iOS. Can someone who has an Android please test it out?

Should be fixed now.

You shouldn't be, nobody's complaining, bugs happen to everyone, (and especially to me).

I shouldn't be working on fixing bugs? Huh?

OK, figured out why the article title wasn't working properly and fixed it.

Still working on this, sorry.

For some reason the counters were off, and recalculating them fixed the problem with the wrong number of replies. Still working on why the article title is being double-HTML escaped.

OK, will check it out!

Google offers a lot of free functionality ... such as a CDN to serve jQuery, Google fonts, reCaptcha, Analytics, DFP, etc.

A lot of these features are designed to create google's vision of what the web should be like, accessibility, UX, etc.

Does google data mine? Absolutely. Does that mean you shouldn't use it? Not in my book. Other opinions may vary.

You're not supposed to send the app secret when redirecting to the OAuth dialog page. Only when exchanging code for an access token. Can you please show us the requests you're making? Thanks!

Done deal.

What does the HTML code look like in your document head where you link to jQuery? Are you using a jQuery CDN such as Google's hosted version of it? Perhaps the file you're using is corrupt?

There's a history of the edit that moderators can see. There's currently not a public flag saying the post was edited. We should have one, you think? I believe we used to.

Ooooh, we used to do this, but then we switched from Apache to Nginx, and Nginx doesn't use .htaccess files. I think we did something along these lines:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^daniweb.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.daniweb.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

I wish I could just pull up the exact rules I had. :( Hope this helps.

Something like this should do the trick ...

div {
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

Has to copy cookie to from working login,to other computer just to get login to work.
So not been happy with this Dazah change,have not been active here for a while to.

I'm not able to fix problems unless people tell me about them :(

What error message did you get in attempting to login?

Do you by any chance have lots of instances of DaniWeb open? Many browser tabs? Open on multiple computers? etc.

I went to check to see if it's happening to me and realized I'm not getting my email updates at all, since June! Hmm ... Will investigate.

That's so strange. Did this just start? Or has it affected previous issues as well?

Unfortunately your post has been lossed. Chalk it up to a weird network glitch and, in the future, whenever you take a long time to write a post, copy it to the clipboard before hitting submit just in case.

We have made some JavaScript changes lately so maybe clearing your browser cache might help any inconsistencies?

Yes ... I was finding that it was making the pages way too cluttered looking mainly because, in the case of most of the programming forums, the synopsys just was unreadable code.

You can still see it by hovering over the article title.

You think it's a bad move?

Should be corrected now.

We trim leading and trailing whitespace that is submitted by forms. Since it's not intuitive, I'll correct this behavior.

Bug fixed.

Just returned home from my trip to California and re-added it to the Finder menu.

Fixed.

By logging out, I'm signalling that I'm done with that page.

I can see how that would be true for pages only accessible when logged in. The site's current behavior is such that when you log out, you are immediately returned to whatever page you were on (so when on a forum thread, if you log out, you're returned to the forum thread). I can see why that behavior isn't intuitive for pages only accessible when logged in.

Shouldn't Area 51 and the Inbox page be the same?

The reason they aren't is because the Inbox requires specific Dazah functionality and Area 51 doesn't. But, yes, that distinction is really a behind-the-scenes thing. As far as an end user should be concerned, the behavior should be the same.

What you're describing is the intended behavior.

You are accessing the message inbox.
You click log out.
It logs you out, and then redirects you back to the page you were just on (in this case, the message inbox).
The message inbox is a member-only feature controlled by Dazah.
Dazah informs you that it's needed to power DaniWeb's social features and asks if you want to continue.
You click Continue to log back in.
You end up logged in again.

When moderators delete posts, they are not actually removed from the database. In fact, moderators still have access to deleted content. This is important because, every so often, we will have a spammer come back and beg for forgiveness and to be unbanned, and we need to have a complete history of their posts to see whether or not their ban was justified.

Additionally, it's quite often the case that one moderator will delete someone's posts, and they continue posting. A different moderator needs to see the complete picture in order to figure out whether they deserve a slight slap on the wrist or a permaban.

Not having access to the complete picture would make it impossible for a team to effectively moderate.

When posts are deleted, the rep/votes associated with the deleted posts remain, as you suspected. The reason for this is because if a spammer received negative reputation and has a low quality score, and then they subsequently have ther posts deleted, it's important to show that they still deserve that low quality score. Otherwise, spammers would all have a perfect quality score if all trace of every bad post they ever made was always erased.

My guess is the new code base fixed this problem?

Diafol, you hijacker!!

Cereal, bug should be fixed in that you should no longer be getting a 500 error. However, there is currently a 5000 character maximum.

Diafol, you're seeing that because those private messages have always been sent by the system, on your behalf, each time you edit/delete someone's post, as a moderator. Our new system now allows you to see your complete conversation history, so you're actually able to see the messages that the system sends to other people on your behalf. (Previously, they appeared one-off in your Outbox).

Thirdly, attachments will be returning soon to private messages.

Not feeling well today, but I'll check it out tomorrow.

At least other areas seem to have settled down.

What do you mean? Do you mean with regards to how buggy the system was upon launch?

Because it has no replies.

He doesn't have the same bug. One of his posts that received a downvote has been deleted. We DO factor deleted posts into post quality score because if a spammer receives a bunch of downvotes and subsequently has all of their posts deleted, they still should have a poor quality score.

The only problem now is ... what are you going to do about the downvote you have?

There was an incredibly weird inconsistency in the database where there were seven cases of the vote counting against the voter instead of against the author of the post.

At the current time, you can't (You'll be able to soon). In the meantime, just upload a new photo in its place (or something blank, if you prefer.)

What image are you referring to? Your profile picture on Dazah?

Thanks! Problem fixed.

Would you be able to private message me your login credentials so I can try logging into your account to debug this? I'm not able to reproduce it myself.

OK, thanks! I'll add to my TODO list.

Regarding this favorite forums list, it's super hard to debug because I'm seeing the correct list for myself.

Just reporting, not asking for a fix.

Hi,

I'm really sorry, but I fixed this. I know you weren't asking for a fix. I hope this is okay.

Hmm, according to the database, Software Development should be one of your favorite forums, tinstaalf. It even shows it being recalculated today. And hielo, the database is showing your four previous favorite forums as the ones picked out for you.

It does, indeed, look like you're seeing someone else's. Hmm ...