Starting a new thread here for this, as most of the issues listed in the first Sphinn bugs thread - http://sphinn.com/story/124 - have been handled. We’re still seeing a few bugs and random errors, but will be upgrading the platform over the next couple of weeks, and expect that in addition to seeing performance improvements, the remaining bugs will be exterminated.
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Known bugs and other issues:Private Messaging:Inbox popup won’t close in IEAfter sending a message will receive a "Error Number 1" or "Error Number 6" message, and your message will not have been sentRegistration Issues:Hyphens, underscores and other punctuation are not allowed in usernames - even though the "Verify" button ok’s them, upon submitting, an error is returnedIf username, email or password do not validate and you return to register page, the "create user" button is disabled. To re-enable it - re-enter valid information and click the "Verify" button.Misc. Parse Errors:Parse error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting ’)’ in ...9108ff9329.php on line 136 (or 392, or 138)These have to do with how the software we’re using handles cache, and we’re expecting that these, along with some of the other items above will be sorted out when we upgrade. Please list any other bugs, errors, or issues you run into while using Sphinn that are not listed here or on the original thread. Have a feature you’d like to see? Please submit that in the wishlist thread.
Some additional comments about messaging system are over there: http://sphinn.com/story/6634 and http://sphinn.com/story/6529 I hear your call to continue in THIS thread.
Since the date of the change to the new comment system, the "Back" button is broken in my browser.
If you go back and edit a post, and you insert text near the beginning of the post, some of the lines below get longer and longer and longer and "break out" of the comments column into the blue area to the right of the column, and may even get long enough to cause a left-right scroll bar on the browser. The more you edit the post, the longer they get. It has made a complete mess of my post at http://sphinn.com/story/6594 a few minutes ago.
I wanted to comment on http://searchengineland.com/070924-082559.php but when I try that, it wants me to submit the story to Sphinn as a new topic. However, the topic is already discussed at: http://sphinn.com/story/6594 so no new submit is necessary. How to link topics? Conundrum!
@g1smd - thanks for all of this - and yes, we’ll likely see some duplication of topics with the new commenting system at SEL being tied to Sphinn - but hopefully, not too much!
Since yesterday I’ve been noticing that I can’t message any of my friends. Trying again today and I could add info on one but clicking to send didn’t accomplish anything. Using firefox 2.0
There’s one thread where the submit button no longer works. Refreshing the browser, or closing that tab, simply crashes the browser. The javascript for adding a comment appears to be missing, as none of the styling buttons appears for that thread (and just that thread): http://sphinn.com/story/6594
I am having difficulty changing my avatar. Not sure why. Using FF 2.0.0.7
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I would like to change my username - I don’t see that as an option currently. Will this change?
Ditto on the user avatar changes not takign effect (affect?). ...custom built a new one for here, and the system doesn’t want it! I may cry... *sob*Meh, or not - just adding to the pile with this small-ish one.Otherwise, excellent work with the system Michelle. :)Duane
When a story attracts more than about 30 or 40 comments, the Formatting Toolbar at the base of the "Send Comment" box intermittently fails to display, and the Submit button fails to work when clicked. I may have to reload the page several times in order to restore functionality.In extreme cases I might have to try many different URLs http://sphinn.com/story/6814 or http://sphinn.com/story/6814/ or http://sphinn.com/story/6814?abcdef or http://sphinn.com/story/6814?zyxwvu to get the page to load correctly.Once the topic goes past about 50 comments the Formatting Toolbar never loads and the Submit buttonnever works. For example since a few weeks ago I can no longer add comments to http://sphinn.com/story/8639 at all. The story has 73 comments at the moment. There is no way to get the Submit button to work.
No idea where all that odd formatting for URLs comes from.Looks like the parser doesn’t see the spaces between the words.
I can’t change my profile image either. Very frustrating! I click browse, find the file then click Upload and the filename disappears and it continues to show the existing image. What gives?
It must be a caching thing. When I opened a different browser, the new image appeared.
I get "You have already submitted a post today. Your account is less than 7 days old." ... i never submitted a post (today or other day) :(
Calendar Bugs:*** http://sphinn.com/calendar.php?cal_month=11&cal_year=2007&cal_day=01§ion=all_events&go=go"Nov - 4 events for this month" I can only see 3 events listed.*** http://sphinn.com/calendar.php?cal_month=10&cal_year=2007&cal_day=01§ion=all_events&go=go"Oct - 5 events for this month"None are listed.
Yeah, let’s get this submission bug fixed. My account is newer than 7 days, and it says it’s been 2 days since my last submit. But also, it’s been under 24 hours? Apparently, just by VIEWING the submit form, it counts as a submit? This is killing me for time sensitive news.
From my profile screen, select the list of topics that I have supposedly voted for, the "Sphinns" tab, The list contains a random selection of topics many of which I haven’t even read, yet alone commented on or voted for in any way.
Same thing as SlightlyShadySEO - just by VIEWING the submit form, it counts as a submit
There is a "hole" one-post-wide between http://sphinn.com/upcoming/page/1/ and http://sphinn.com/upcoming/page/2/ .Watch when a new story is posted.The bottom story vanishes off the bottom of http://sphinn.com/upcoming/page/1/ and does NOT appear at the top of http://sphinn.com/upcoming/page/2/ right away.Once another story has been published, the story at the bottom of http://sphinn.com/upcoming/page/1/ also vanishes and only now does the other story re-appear at the top of http://sphinn.com/upcoming/page/2/As far as I can see, Page 1 shows story 1 to 25 and Page 2 shows story 27 onwards...I could be wrong, but I have seen this effect several times.
Spam posts that have been completely deleted, now return "This link is no longer valid" in the body text, but still return the title of the spam post in the title tag. The page is also returned with a "200 OK" HTTP status code. This still leaves the page open to indexing, and some suplicate content issues.Is there any way you can get the HTTP header to instead return a "404 Not Found" error? Then the title tag will be irrelevant anyway. The 404 will tell bots to not index the content on that page at all.Requesting: http://sphinn.com/story/180061. GET /story/18006 HTTP/1.1Connection: Keep-AliveKeep-Alive: 300Accept:*/*Host: sphinn.comAccept-Language: en-usAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflateUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)2. Server Response: 200 OKDate: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:02:56 GMTServer: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7eX-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8+etch7~bpo.1aaa+tigertech2Connection: closeContent-Type: text/html
On the Networks page when I sort by Sphinns Cast the sort is not in numerical order...It isn’t a big deal as I was curious to see who the top sphinners were.
One reason for slow loading is that many pages call for http://sphinn.com/calendar/scripts/md5.js which currently returns 404 Not Found.
One other bug is that spaces seem to "stick" and make words that are not actually in a URL suddenly become part of the URL. See post above. It seems that editing a post makes some of the spaces in the post become either non-breaking spaces, or entity-encoded spaces, and they are no longer treated as normal spaces.
I submitted an article yesterday (my first submission ever) sphinning Marketing Pilgrim’s article on Nine Inch Nails promoting/releasing their album online...It simply vanished from my "submitted" tab (in my profile) an hour or 2 later. I checked and could not find anyone else sphinning that article. Why would it just vanish?
Nearly the same forme as DarkMatter - I signed uptosubmit somethng fascinating my profile shows a submit in the summary view, but nothing is listed under the submits tab and my article does not appear,which is too bad because I want to talk about it!
My Sphinn vanished too:http://sphinn.com/submit.php?url=http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/how-to-score-a-private-vip-tour-of-the-googleplex/
There’s a call to /calendar/scripts/md5.js on every page of Sphinn, and that call always throws an error.
There’s an odd interaction with Opera.When editing a previously posted comment, the regular spaces in the comment get turned into non-breaking-spaces which then causes weird formatting issues (line will not break and escapes out of the right side of the comment area).
Threads with more than 30 replies in cannot be replied to from Opera as TinyMCE fails to load the posting and editing controls on screen. Additionally, when exiting from such a thread (by loading a new page, or closing the tab), the browser is fatally crashed.
New-line characters, between paragraphs, when posting from Safari, are thrown away by TinyMCE. To insert a blank line between each paragraph, you have to insert TWO blank lines in the editor box.
In the DOM, there are links to several dozen "about:blank" documents.What is that all about?
According to the DOM, there seems to be dozens of links to editor_content.css, every other one of which is blank.I’m trying to work out what that means and where it comes from.
There are chunks of CSS within the [body] of the HTML page, within [style] tags. That isn’t a valid use.CSS can only be defined "inline" inside an HTML element, or within a [style] element within [head], or inside an external stylesheet file.
*This* page currently has 491 HTML warnings, many of which are fatal in some browser configurations.Typical time to load, and render, a page is much more than 10 seconds, often 15 to 20 plus.
This image, called from many pages: http://sphinn.com/templates/yget/images/tablefteftB.png returns a 404 Error.
Noticed some strange behaviour here on the Sphinn counts. Not a serious bug but thought I’d mention it here in case it relates to something else. Once a story goes hot, it no longer takes account of the desphinns in the count. Before it went hot, it had subtracted the 2 desphinns. Once it went hot, it added them back on. I only noticed because the sphinn plugin on my site shows the "true" count. Look at them both and you will see the issue. http://sphinn.com/story/47900
This thread is broken, yet no-one cares.Desphinn count doesn’t work right (and it has been mentioned several times), yet no-one cares.Threads crash above a certain size for many users (and it has been mentioned several times for months now), yet no-one cares.Has Sphinn been abandoned by its developers?
@szaAFAIK Danny is considering abandoning Pligg. They have heavily modified it now but the underlying code is just not up the current demands of the site. That explains why fixes to the existing code have not been done. Personally I’d build this in RoR. Would take 2-3 weeks and I’ve been seriously impressed with the speed and reliability of a load balanced mod_proxy/Mongrel setup. It’s so much easier to adapt existing code to fit new features but of course the framework helps hugely.
Im getting this error when I try to submit!Fatal error: Call to undefined function logSpam() in /var/www/html/sp/sphinn.com/libs/link.php on line 934
Messaging seems to be broken again. I get Error 1 after each time I try to send a message.
When typing comments in the Desphinn comments box, typing a question mark seems to reset the message character count back to zero, or somesuch, such that you always then get the "You must type at least 50 characters" error message. This happens even if you have actually typed at least that much. <div><div></div><div>Removing the question mark makes the error message go away. Posted from Safari.</div></div>
Add an Event Error message: Warning: Header may not contain more than a single header, new line detected. in /var/www/html/sp/sphinn.com/calendar/includes/add_event.php on line 93I received this error message, then the event posted. I then tried to add my advanced class and received this error message again.
The spell-checker thinks "Sphinn" is misspelled! "Desphinn" too.C’mon guys! :-) P.S. I love Sphinn!
I am having some troulbe getting the message... Warning: Document may not contain more than a single header.in /var/www/html/sp/sphinn.com/docs/includes/add_calendar.php on line 101.Anyone knows a fix or workaround?
Still can’t get my avatar to change. I browse and select the file, hit upload and nothing happens. Cleared cache, tried in different browsers, tearing my hair out...
Okay, I take that back, Someone must have done something because it just updated - although not above I notice...
I keep getting a message saying "The following words are prohibited: –" with no words listed or highlighted. I've tried to submit a number of articles, and regardless of content I get the same error message.
Twice now, I have gotten "That post has already been submitted by someone else. Please go and vote for it!" when I click on the link, it shows that I was the one who submitted it first. The big problem is that it's pulling in the description for these posts from an old post I submitted so it doesn't make any sense. I'm not even given the option of creating a description or editing my existing one that's wrong.
When I log in I always click "remember me", but it never does. I'm using FF. It's been this way since the revamp.
This post - http://sphinn.com/story/127462 is showing the wrong title / description / link - It's different than what was there originally on Friday -
I know this, because the SEJ post was a nice look at my own SEO Automatic, Iphone app ;(
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-automatic-tool-now-for-the-iphone/13344/
which now shows no Sphinns...
@searchcommander - the issues with submissions being overwritten has been resolved. you can re-submit the search engine journal post if you like, but I'd need to hear from the person that submitted story 127642 in order to make any changes to submissions tied to that account. if that is not the story you voted on, and you'd like your vote removed, i can also do that for you. let me know or drop a note to admin@sphinn.com - cheers, Michelle
Thank you @Michelle - Well I don't know that person, and i'm not gonna bug 'em, but I do believe none of those votes were for that particular story.
@Ros and other members that noted the problem remaining logged in - please note that this issue has been resolved, and be sure to select "remember me" if you are prompted to login again. You will not be logged out but will remain logged in until you log yourself out via the link at the top of the page.
I noticed that yesterday...YIPPEE...