MetaFilthy bug?

March 2, 2007 1:28 PM

I know that this is an issue best addressed by the creator of MetaFilthy, but before I email him, I wanted to make sure that it's really a MetaFilthy bug, and not some problem on my end, and Metafilter is pretty much guaranteed to have the internet's largest population of MetaFilthy users. So: Is anyone getting a MetaFilthy bug when they open a MeFi page saying "Exception in Metafilthy.showIfValidURL NS_ERROR_DOM_INDEX_SIZE_ERR Index or size is negative or greater than the allowed amount line 1012 of undefined undefined"?
posted by Bugbread to MetaFilter-Related at 1:28 PM (39 comments total)

Yep; for the past day.
posted by mr_roboto at 1:49 PM on March 2, 2007

Wow - two sentences to run a joke into the ground. New record?

And I had that a couple of days ago, but seems to have fixed itself.
posted by vronsky at 1:51 PM on March 2, 2007

Yeah, I started noticing the problem today.

Matt, while I know you have no obligation to help other devs with their add-ons, have you out of curiosity done any changes to MeFi in the last 48 hours or so, which might help the dev figure out how to fix the add-on, if he were to choose to do so?
posted by Bugbread at 1:52 PM on March 2, 2007

"Wow - two sentences to run a joke into the ground."

I don't follow. What joke?
posted by Bugbread at 1:53 PM on March 2, 2007

have you out of curiosity done any changes to MeFi in the last 48 hours or so, which might help the dev figure out how to fix the add-on, if he were to choose to do so?

Nothing major has gone live yet (there are a couple features I'll roll out next week), but maybe it's the new link format thing?

Oh wait! I remember what I did yesterday: I added "skip to content" hidden links to the sites, so that I could surf mefi on my blackberry pearl easier.

There's just a new skip to content link right after the body tag (with a css display:none on it) and a named target of "content" halfway down the page on the front pages, or right after the nav on other pages.

Perhaps there's a conflict with the content target I added and whatever voodoo metafilthy runs with.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:58 PM on March 2, 2007

I get it too; I assumed it was a Firefox issue. Probably not, then.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:08 PM on March 2, 2007

Cool, thanks folks, for letting me know that it isn't just me, and thanks, mathowie, for giving the details necessary so maybe Diffenbach can fix it.
posted by Bugbread at 2:12 PM on March 2, 2007

Piggybacking, does anyone run Metafilthy with the Mefi Navigator Greasemonkey thing? Do they play nice together?
posted by juv3nal at 2:30 PM on March 2, 2007

I too would like to know what the joke is.
posted by languagehat at 3:00 PM on March 2, 2007

Yes, they play nice together.
posted by joshuaconner at 3:24 PM on March 2, 2007

bugbread posted "Is anyone getting a MetaFilthy bug when they open a MeFi page saying 'Exception in Metafilthy.showIfValidURL"

Yeah, I'm geeting that too.

Me, I'd uninstall metafilthy until Monday, then reinstall and see if it prompts you to update.

No, wait, I'd go into the Metafilthy options (Firefox menu: Tools|Add-ons|Metafilthy, "Options.." button) and un-check "Indicate the last read comment in each thread", under "Comment Tracking". That way, I could still use Metafilthy to fix the comment box size and for quoting comments (but only in the blue and green, not metatalk!), and Metafilthy would still notify me Monday if and when a new version is available.
posted by orthogonality at 3:27 PM on March 2, 2007

Ah, sweetness, I now have wide comment boxes and quoting ability again! And I may or may not be looking forward to Monday! I suppose I should drop a line to Diffenbach to let him know about the workaround, but, honestly, logging into my home email from here at my work account is a pain in the butt, so I'll just hope that he's noticed this thread.
posted by Bugbread at 3:37 PM on March 2, 2007

What is joke, please?
posted by boo_radley at 3:57 PM on March 2, 2007

A joke is something said to make people laugh.
posted by found missing at 6:57 PM on March 2, 2007

Sorry, boo, but by order of the Mathowie in Chief, all future "MetaFilter Inside Jokes" are required to be SO inside that at least 95% of members will have no idea what you're talking about. This one logged in at an impressive 99.2% (including me, I have no idea what vronsky was referring to).
posted by wendell at 7:07 PM on March 2, 2007

I added "skip to content" hidden links to the sites

Me and my lynx browser thank you.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:17 PM on March 2, 2007

I'll just hope that he's noticed this thread

Heh.
posted by Wolof at 7:24 PM on March 2, 2007

THE JOKE IS "Metafilter is pretty much guaranteed to have the internet's largest population of MetaFilthy users". CUE THE LAFF TRACK.
posted by Plutor at 8:10 PM on March 2, 2007 [1 favorite]

MetaFilter is filmed before a live studio audience.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:35 PM on March 2, 2007 [1 favorite]

(rippling chuckle)
posted by flabdablet at 4:53 AM on March 3, 2007

Plutor: I'm the one who said it, and it wasn't a joke. It was a light-hearted phrasing, I will admit, but certainly not meant to elicit laughter.
posted by Bugbread at 4:55 AM on March 3, 2007

I remember what I did yesterday: I added "skip to content" hidden links to the sites, so that I could surf mefi on my blackberry pearl easier.

But what will bardic think?
posted by grouse at 6:39 AM on March 3, 2007

My interpretation was that Vronsky is unfamiliar with metafilthy, and believed that bugbread had coined a supposedly amusing neologism for Metafilter and proceeded to overuse it in the service of reporting an ordinary Metafilter bug.

I'd never heard of it until this post, though I gathered what it was from context.
posted by nanojath at 2:16 PM on March 3, 2007 [1 favorite]

nanojath writes "My interpretation was that Vronsky is unfamiliar with metafilthy, and believed that bugbread had coined a supposedly amusing neologism for Metafilter and proceeded to overuse it in the service of reporting an ordinary Metafilter bug."

Holy shit! I think you're right! Thanks! (I'd flag you as Best Answer if I could).
posted by Bugbread at 2:31 PM on March 3, 2007

It also explains the part where vronsky says "I had that a couple of days ago, but seems to have fixed itself.", which I was puzzling about because there's no way it could fix itself without a new version of MetaFilthy coming out, or using the workaround described above.
posted by Bugbread at 2:32 PM on March 3, 2007

(I'd flag you as Best Answer if I could).

It's fine to mail cash.
posted by nanojath at 2:45 PM on March 3, 2007

Whoa, sorry bugbread and others, I'm an idiot. Misdirected snark from some other thread. I'm better now.
posted by vronsky at 4:51 PM on March 3, 2007

there are a couple features I'll roll out next week

oooh!

excited!
posted by exlotuseater at 9:41 PM on March 3, 2007

Huh...nanojath's hypothesis was so good, and yet the RFO was actually different.

Sorry, nanojath, no check in the mail for you.
posted by Bugbread at 4:12 AM on March 4, 2007

No nano was right. I meant I had been reading too many snarky threads in a row and misunderstood your post. Hence I am twice an idiot. So pay up, nanojath is a clever fella.
posted by vronsky at 5:33 AM on March 4, 2007

bugbread, I really think you need to ask yourself about your motives in obfuscating what's at issue here. Pay up.
posted by grouse at 5:41 AM on March 4, 2007

Ok, nanojath. Email me your physical address, and the money will be on its way.
posted by Bugbread at 6:39 AM on March 4, 2007

Now that's just silly.

I actually got a piece of bread with a (dead) bug baked into it once when I was a kid. Had trouble with bread for a few of weeks after that. But I got over it.
posted by nanojath at 9:42 PM on March 5, 2007

How the hell did I miss this in my search? I just asked this same question, and now feel silly because I didn't see this thread.

Goddamn Yahoo search won't let me sort results by date, so I get 9000 MeTa-related hits on "metafilthy" but couldn't determine if any of them were recent.
posted by caution live frogs at 9:06 AM on March 8, 2007

An XML (Or JSON) api would be nice
posted by delmoi at 10:35 AM on March 8, 2007

If the author of Metafilthy happens to check this thread, do you think he'd tell us about an update on this issue?
posted by chiababe at 6:14 PM on March 8, 2007

bump
posted by exlotuseater at 2:45 PM on March 10, 2007

orthogonality typed "bugbread posted 'Is anyone getting a MetaFilthy bug when they open a MeFi page saying "Exception in Metafilthy.showIfValidURL'

"Yeah, I'm geeting that too.

"Me, I'd uninstall metafilthy until Monday, then reinstall and see if it prompts you to update.

"No, wait, I'd go into the Metafilthy options (Firefox menu: Tools|Add-ons|Metafilthy, 'Options..' button) and un-check 'Indicate the last read comment in each thread', under 'Comment Tracking'. That way, I could still use Metafilthy to fix the comment box size and for quoting comments (but only in the blue and green, not metatalk!), and Metafilthy would still notify me Monday if and when a new version is available."



bugbread typed "nanojath writes 'My interpretation was that Vronsky is unfamiliar with metafilthy, and believed that bugbread had coined a supposedly amusing neologism for Metafilter and proceeded to overuse it in the service of reporting an ordinary Metafilter bug.'

"Holy shit! I think you're right! Thanks! (I'd flag you as Best Answer if I could)."

Sorry, just testing Metafilthy.
posted by roll truck roll at 6:00 PM on March 31, 2007

Oops, that was even more obnoxious than I meant for it to be.
posted by roll truck roll at 6:01 PM on March 31, 2007