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nothing loads after ADVERTISEMENT
Google Ad problem? Everything on the blue pages load, right up to the ADVERTISEMENT part of the Google Ad sidebar, then nothing loads after that. (screen shot)
Thousands of unviewed links? That can't be!
Is it just me? The bluepage seems to think I have thousands of unviewed links while here in the grey it lists two. As addicted as I am to this place, I know SOMETHING is wrong...
Forced login - what?
I just got forced to login when loading either MetaFilter or MetaTalk, with a statement that only logged-in folks can post. What's that about?
Posting form not available on thread
Am I the only one that can't post to this thread? Meaning, the posting form isn't available.
Request to update MetaTalk posting page for IE.
Dear Matt: given that most people here use IE, when will you modernize the MetaTalk posting page? You've known for ages that anyone hitting the "Back" button to edit their post will lose everything because of IE browser settings.
When will it be as easy as the MetaFilter one? How is someone who knows no HTML supposed to post to MetaTalk with the appropriate links, bold and italic emphases and whatever?
When will it be as easy as the MetaFilter one? How is someone who knows no HTML supposed to post to MetaTalk with the appropriate links, bold and italic emphases and whatever?
"Page Has Expired" after preview
After testing links in preview of both Posts and Comments, I hit "back" and get "Page Has Expired". (Dingoes Ate My FPP!) Happens in IE6, but not in Mozilla. Yes, I've eaten all my cookies. Is this something I need a computer to know about?
em-dash rendering problem
Can't get this posted...
I miss Pete Wilson, to be honest. But, apparently, I can only say it once in that particular thread. I've tried posting the sentiment multiple times in that thread, but when I hit "post" nothing happens. [more inside]
links breaking uup words make threads unfindable
The famous "bohemian rhapsody" post is utterly impossible to find with the normal search methods, due to the way the words are divided up into more than one hyperlink. If I didn't know it was y2karl's post I wouldn't have been able to find it at all. Also, search doesn't seem to let you search the text within the title tags, either.
MetaTalk archives have stopped indicating new comments
MetaTalk archives (e.g., May) have stopped indicating new comments. This makes it hard to find recent comments in threads that have fallen off the main page.
Logging in direct to main?
Is there a reason why when logging in one isn't redirected to the index page? Having to click the link everytime is annoying and it would seem better to be automatically redirected. I did a quick search here on MetaTalk, but saw nothing about it...
MF hanging Safari
Has anyone noticed a problem with MF and Safari >=0.67? These are the builds with tabs; 0.73, the first public release, went into open beta today. I often find that the MF home page will hang Safari until it's done (spinning cursor, can't scroll, can't leave the page early, no interaction at all.) This doesn't seem to happen with the lofi page (or anywhere else).
Trouble loading the front page, and being redirected.
I tried to load up metafilter earlier and it was taking a while. I noticed at the bottom of my explorer window it said something like "Opening page http://www.b4ta.com/metafilter" Then the page failed to load entirely. I'm confused.
Recently posted not in "sort by recently posted" view
I recently posted a comment in this thread, but it doesn't show in the 'sort-by-recently-posted' option for the front page of MeFi (which I can't find a way of linking to).
What's up with that?
What's up with that?
Link with Coldfusion Error
This link gives a ColdFusion error. Other archived ones around it don't.
Metafilter is eating my comments!
Metafilter is eating my comments! I click on "Preview" and on the next page, I get "Comment Preview" and no comment underneath. The only thing that appears underneath is the line of links: Home About Archives, etc.
discrete comment deletion
The coment count for this thread is two higher on the 'lofi' page than on the regular front page. Is this a bug or did Matt do a little discrete comment-deletion (I admit I go to 'lofi' at least once a day for its 'bonus content' - nudge nudge, wink wink)
Title bug
Slight problem with the new titles. In Moz (1.2.1) When you center click the link while the title is up, it doesn't go away.
[This Is Good] script bug
This may not be strictly a Mefi bug, but...
I wanted to use the [This Is Good] script for the first time today, on this thread, and found the following error message:
"Sorry, something's broken.
Don't know why, but this script has stopped adding new posts to the database, and I'm too busy with Christmas right now to figure it out. I'll work on it soon after the Holidays, I promise. Sorry!
So, all the other users of that script - in that thread and others - I guess it ain't doing what ya thought, sadly. Is it something on the Mefi end thats causing it to freak out?
I wanted to use the [This Is Good] script for the first time today, on this thread, and found the following error message:
"Sorry, something's broken.
Don't know why, but this script has stopped adding new posts to the database, and I'm too busy with Christmas right now to figure it out. I'll work on it soon after the Holidays, I promise. Sorry!
So, all the other users of that script - in that thread and others - I guess it ain't doing what ya thought, sadly. Is it something on the Mefi end thats causing it to freak out?
Nothing is being posted?
I've "previewed"... hit "post", the button reacts, the aura around the button glows, but nothing is sent as far as a reply is concerned.
Waaaaaaaah!
Halfway down the thread, the indent disappears and the remainder replies are flush hard left.
Could this be my problem?
er, our problem?
Thanks.
Waaaaaaaah!
Halfway down the thread, the indent disappears and the remainder replies are flush hard left.
Could this be my problem?
er, our problem?
Thanks.
Multiple appearances of trackbacks
Several blog entries make multiple appearances in the trackbacks of the shuttle thread: does MT's trackback function re-ping the server every time a single post is updated (as so many of us were doing yesterday as the shuttle story developed)?
I can no longer Post to Metafilter in IE5.1 or Mozilla (Mac 9.2)
I can no longer Post to Metafilter in IE5.1 or Mozilla (Mac 9.2). But I can here. Why?
New window not wanted
Clicking on "Metafilter" on my userpage ("X comments to Metafilter") opens the site in a new window.
Can't log out
Am I the only one having trouble logging out? I click "logout", and it just spins me around to the homepage, and I'm still logged in. Tried closing the browser, rebooting, etc. No dice. This has happened on multiple computers (public ones, unfortunately) that have previous had no problems with logging out.
Weird Mefi bug
Most weird thing I've seen on Metafilter in a while. I got this
-1073741819 (0xc0000005)
When I hit the home page. More suspicous - I had just read the Dick Cheney thread.
-1073741819 (0xc0000005)
When I hit the home page. More suspicous - I had just read the Dick Cheney thread.
Is the login down?
Is the login down? I guess that's what I get for logging out.
Amphetadesk error message
Playing with Amphetadesk, and got this error message:
AmphetaDesk could not determine the format of http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml.
AmphetaDesk could not determine the format of http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml.
Link&Think Archive pointing to the wrong year
The Link & Think Archive on MeFi Homepage today points to the 2001 archive - http://www.metafilter.com/linkandthink.mefi. I know we can see 1/12/2002 at http://www.metafilter.com/lofi.mefi. Is this deliberate? Just curious.
Weird blank section showing up in Mozilla
Just posted this thread in Mozilla. Reading the front page in Mozilla briefly showed a huge blank section between the last line of my post and the "posted by" line. The blank section didn't show up in IE and is fixed now in Mozilla. What happened? (FWIW, I'm absolutely sure I didn't include 25 or so blank lines at the end of the post.)
Is the anti doublepost code broken?
Hard-to-read trackback
Trackback is almost illiegible in the plain text theme (black text on dark blue).
There is a minor bug with the text stylesheet.
There is a minor bug with the text stylesheet. The a:hover in the head class is not declared, causing the text to disappear into the white background when moused over.
Mozilla crashes in spellcheck
There has been discussion about this before, but I'm wondering if at this point I am the only one having this problem: Mozilla 1.1 in XP crashes about every other time I try to use the spell checker in MeFi (MeTa seems to behave better).
br clear bug
Posts which contain [br clear=all] (but, you know, with sharp pointy brackets) cause the following text on the front page to drop below the side bar in IE6 (Win XP).
Also, how does the 'clear=all' benefit the 'br' tag?
Also, how does the 'clear=all' benefit the 'br' tag?
Internal errors in MetaFilter and MetaTalk
Ehh, what's up, mat? Both metafilter and metatalk seem to be internal-erroring at random places, sometimes all you get is an error, sometimes it shows part of the page and then prints the error and quits half way through. This happens both with opera and lynx.
Problem with MeFi displaying really large text.
In Windows XP version 2002, using either Mozilla 1.1 or IE6, renders Metafilter with really big letters that make reading the site difficult. Anyone got any solutions?
I can't post comments at all
I can't post comments at all: when I click "Preview", I do not see any preview and there is no "Post Comment" button. It's not a browser-display issue; I checked the page source and no preview or submit form is being sent.
Some textads are too wide
Some TextAds are too wide (on standards-compliant browsers). "www.ArtSwag.com" and
"STICKERS*PINS*SHIRTS For angry ranters and the people who love them" are two examples. It increases the width of the in which it and the sideblog are nested, thereby reducing the width of the main content column, not to mention leaving a large gap between the right-hand page margin and the sideblog.
The culprit seems to be the title field. A multiworld title with spaces will wrap in the ad-box; the above two examples are long (but within 20-char limit) one-word titles. Can something be done?
"STICKERS*PINS*SHIRTS For angry ranters and the people who love them" are two examples. It increases the width of the in which it and the sideblog are nested, thereby reducing the width of the main content column, not to mention leaving a large gap between the right-hand page margin and the sideblog.
The culprit seems to be the title field. A multiworld title with spaces will wrap in the ad-box; the above two examples are long (but within 20-char limit) one-word titles. Can something be done?
Change in the style sheet weirds out Opera
Opera users now see the a page margin on the homepage, where there wasn't one before (presumably due to a change in the style sheet).
Bold, Italic, and link tag buttons were missing
(Mozilla 1.1 WinXP) While I was able to post a comment to a FPP on MeFi the Bold, Italic, and link tag buttons were missing.
Minor quibble with drop-down menu
Here's a minor quibble: when you sort the front page by "recent comments" the drop-down menu goes to "recent comments" accordingly and you can then select "date" and the page will reset.
However, if you choose "most comments" or "my comments" the menu goes automatically to "date" so you can't reset the page to date-ordered posts in one click. You have to, for instance, select "recent comments" and then select "date".
This is probably very taxing on the server. Is there any cleverer way round it?
[IE6/W2K Pro]
However, if you choose "most comments" or "my comments" the menu goes automatically to "date" so you can't reset the page to date-ordered posts in one click. You have to, for instance, select "recent comments" and then select "date".
This is probably very taxing on the server. Is there any cleverer way round it?
[IE6/W2K Pro]
Whatever it was, I can't see it anymore
Is anyone else seeing this sort of thing in threads? just wondering what could be causing it.
Mozilla 1.1b on OSX
Mozilla 1.1b on OSX
While in the comment preview, links to use info don't work.
While in the comment preview, links to use info don't work. [detail inside]
Mozilla error when I hit preview.
Hitting preview in Mozilla gets you the preview page without the inputted text and no "post" button.
Meafilter Search option missing options
The MetaFilter Search option is initially only showing options (2)threads only, and (4)users, but the results page has all four options. Change, bug, already covered?
MetaTalk category list is broken
metatalk category list link is broken.
Minor bug in "My Comments" sorting
Minor bug in "My Comments" sorting which predates the new server. When you pick "My Comments" the drop down on the newly sorted page defaults to "date", therefore you can't go back to sort by date from sort by my comments.
links to metatalk from profile are not working
links to metatalk comments and threads posted from user profile pages don't work (links to metafilter comments and threads posted work fine). or, at least this is the case in ie5, macos9.
The quadruple post is a Konqueror bug
I'm really not being an ass over here. It just looks as though I've located an obnoxious bug in Konqueror 3.0.1. Anybody else have the same problem? (more inside)
Bug in Mozilla 1.0
When I try to post a comment in Mozilla 1.0, the Preview screen shows "Comment Preview:" without the text box/buttons. This is only true in MeFi, not MeTa.