MetaTalk posts tagged with meta and bugs

bug: can't submit an AskMe question

scarabic — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:14:32 -0800

bug: can't submit an AskMe question. The final "post" button just reloads the page, like the "preview" button. Firefox 2.0.0.1.

Missing MeTa

Meatbomb — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:09:08 -0800

I have never seen a completely disappeared MeTa post before today. Given what passes for normal on MetaTalk, I fear that there must have been a truly unspeakable horror contained within it to merit this special handling. Do I walk on dangerous ground, merely speaking that post's name? If so, I take it all back, I saw nothing, there never was a thread 1347... what was that number again? I forget now.

Coldfusion Errors

Civil_Disobedient — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:52:14 -0800

ColdFusion fun: 1.0000000000000002 must be within range: (-1 : 1)

Backwards comments page

Mwongozi — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:32:44 -0800

Everyone who has posted in this thread has a backwards comments page, in most browsers anyway.

Why do escape characters disappear?

scarabic — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:07:53 -0800

Simple html escape characters appear to work in the live preview but don't come through correctly. Is this a bug or intentional?

Looks like the time zone code is broke.

intermod — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:34:59 -0800

Looks like the time zone code is broke. Everything is showing up PST for me, even though I've got Eastern set.

Tags For Deleted Posts Need To Be Deleted

tellurian — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:33:46 -0800

It would seem to me that a deleted post with tags would be more useful than a tag that hasn't any posts. [example] (if the tags hadn't been deleted). Why aren't all deleted posts purged of tags [example] so that search results are less questionable?

When comments are marked as favorites, the return to post link goes to the wrong place.

bigmusic — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:07:09 -0800

When comments are marked as favorites, the return to post link goes to the wrong place.

Weird Favorite Behavior?

brownpau — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:09:26 -0800

Couple of issues here. I just accidentally marked a post as a favorite (stupid new mouse). Could the "favorited" confirmation page include a link to my favorites management list, or better yet, an undo? Also, from this this favorited confirmation page, the "Return to post" link is broken.

Why is the date on the last FPP wrong?

Meatbomb — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:40:38 -0800

Is it just my display, or is everyone seeing the latest FPP in the blue as being posted July 6?

Doesn't make sense unless MetaFilter is coming from the South Pacific.

My Comment Page Stalling During Load

five fresh fish — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:14:57 -0800

Whenever I visit http://www.metafilter.com/index.cfm?sortby=mycommentedthreads the page load stalls at about 36kb for a good ten to twenty seconds. Every time. What's up with that?

robots.txt gives "500 Internal Server Error" on all subdomains

Sharcho — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:18:03 -0800

robots.txt gives "500 Internal Server Error" on all subdomains

Bug when posting an FPP

matteo — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:59:06 -0800

Unable to post a FPP, I had to try several times. Firefox 1.5, Windows 2000. Error message inside.

MetaTalk Comments Bug

matthewr — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:27:49 -0800

Bug: Try going to a user's MetaTalk comments page (example).

If you click on the page numbers at the bottom, offsets don't seem to work. Therefore, clicking on page 10 should return comments 451-500, but actually returns comments 1-500. Presumably, if everyone who sees this clicks on page 109, and therefore requests all 5437 comments, the world will explode.

New Layout Bugs

Happydaz — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:56:55 -0800

I found a few browser-specific bugs with the new layout, is anyone else experiencing these?

1) The main logo for MeTa,MeFi, AskMe and Projects works fine, except when you click on the comments for a particular post. Once you do this, my browser is telling me there's a broken image above the main logo, to the left. It appears there's a missing border or something that usually would fit nicely into place to make all the images play happily together. (I'm using the latest version of IE.)

2) In Safari on my crappy preferences-locked Mac at work, the default text color on Projects is yellow main links, white background, with my text set to (of course) white. I'm willing to accept this is just a stupid Safari bug I'll have to live with, I just wondered if anyone else was experiencing a similar problem.

Sharpreader is Combining RSS Feeds

Zair TL — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:09:22 -0800

For the past week or so, Sharpreader has been combining Metafilter and AskMetafilter feeds, even though I'm subscribed to each separately. In other words, my Ask Metafilter feed (http://ask.metafilter.com/rss.xml) is picking up Metafilter threads, and my Metafilter feed (http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml) is picking up AskMe feeds. Things used to work properly, and I haven't changed anything at my end. Is anyone else seeing this?

Consecutive Non-Spaces Are Breaking RSS Feed

ricecrazy — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:34:18 -0800

Consecutive non-spaces in MeFi descriptions. See the title tag (the repeating dollar signs)? That gets translated into a headline in the MeFi RSS feeds. It's currently breaking the layout on my RSS page. Can we please not do this?

Wrongwaygoback Redirects to Metafilter

Mwongozi — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:09:41 -0800

wrongwaygoback.com = MetaFilter. Huh?

Old Copyright Info

terrapin — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:58:29 -0800

I notice the copyright information on The Grey, The Blue and The Green all say 2000-2003.

Trackback Errors

Steve_at_Linnwood — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:40:23 -0800

Trackback in this thread is out of wack.

DHTML Popup Problems

o2b — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:16:56 -0800

The DHTML popups are driving me batty, and they won't go away. More inside.

Can't log in from the MeTa front page.

swift — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:39:35 -0800

Clicking the metatalk link on the front page gave me the metatalk banner and the message below. I was finally able to log in to metatalk via the "category list" button in the banner. No doubt this is Godzilla-related.

Two Small Questions

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 01 Jul 2002 13:14:41 -0800

Two itsy-bitsy questions and one trivial, infinitesimal footnote:

1)On MetaTalk's front page it says "There have been no links and no comments posted since your last visit". Since posts here aren't required to have links wouldn't it be better to say posts or, following the wording on the posting box, threads?

2)Why, when you go back to revise your new post, does the category selected always jump back to bugs? (Some posts mistakenly attributed to bugs are impossible to find through the category archives).

Footnote: Does anyone else feel slightly disappointed when they check in on MeTa and there haven't been any new posts for what seems like ages? Is this ethically deplorable in any way? ;)

Problem opening MeTa links in a new window in IE6.

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:01:41 -0800

IE6, running on Win98SE. I have "open links in a new window" selected in my profile customization, but they open in the same window anyway.

Cannot Access Thread

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 08 May 2002 12:51:20 -0800

[provisional post]As I can't comment on mr_crash_davis's thread, but the "post a new thread" feature is working, this is just to say that, when I try to access MetaFilter I get a "Do you want to download MetaFilter?" window.