Bug still exists -- "Last by" are all my name in "My Conversations"

rich
December 19, 2007 at 03:51 PM posted in General Discussion

Something I've been hesitating to address as a bug since I thought it would have been noticed/fixed by now, but when I go to Conversations -> My Conversations, all of the names in the "Last By" are my name!  This can't be right, as this should specify who posted last, not that I posted there.  Of course I posted there.  I would really like this to actually say the last user to post, as I use this to determine IF there are any new posts since I posted (if it does say "Rich" I don't bother reading, now they all say "Rich").  Appreciate if this is looked into.

 Regards,
"Last by"

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xiaohu
January 12, 2008 at 10:31 PM

John,

I noticed this bug still exists in the Mobile version of Chinesepod, as well as several others.

In the mobile version, on many of the conversations, I click to enter the conversation and it takes me back to the Main Coversations screen.

Also the majority of the dialogues and transcripts are either scrambled or fragments of conversations, or out of order.

Hope you guys can look into it.

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rich
January 12, 2008 at 03:19 PM

well, never mind about that last bug report... aparently in the big change last month (or was that November? grad school makes me lose time) it stopped liking user names with UPPERcase names, so "Rich" was no longer good. Once I changed it to something else (which then gave me a weird profile saying my membership expires in 1970) and then back to "rich", it works. Still, funny that it took me over a month to figure this out, and that usernames weren't just all lowercased automatically by default.

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rich
January 12, 2008 at 03:14 PM

A long overdue THANKS!! for fixing this bug I brought up. Haven't even been checking here since Christmas.

Still don't get why whenever I change something on my profile that it complains about my username, saying it has to be from 4-32 characters, which it is, at the 4.

Rich

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marcelbdt
January 05, 2008 at 04:04 PM

There seems to be a different bug in the conversation sections. Sometimes the comments are not presented in the order they have been entered, which can make it hard to follow. I have seen this several times. For example: In http://chinesepod.com/lessons/the-scene-of-the-accident/discussion Amber seems to answer a question, long before Henning asks it. This should be an error int he PHP code, timestamps not being correctly written or not correctly read.

Also, it would be nice (but not necessary) to be able to "preview" a comment befoire submitting it...:)

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John
January 04, 2008 at 03:49 AM

We're happy to do it! (You don't know how much I hate these bugs...)

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xiaohu
January 03, 2008 at 01:43 AM

Thanks for fixing that Chinesepod team! Boy John wasn't kidding when he said come New Year you guys would get right on it...that was FAST!

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rsmith91
January 02, 2008 at 06:32 PM

It's working fine again now. Thanks :)

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excuter
January 02, 2008 at 04:16 PM

yey, it works now,thanks guys! :-)

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RJ
January 02, 2008 at 11:30 AM

This seems to be working now btw.

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xiaohu
January 01, 2008 at 11:54 AM

By the way to everyone here in the Chinesepod family and comminity...新年快乐!, 恭喜发财, 身体健康, 万事如意!

Make 2008 the greatest year yet!

小虎

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calkins
December 30, 2007 at 06:19 PM

John, will that be the Gregorian New Year or Chinese New Year? ;) 新年快樂 (xīn nián kuài lè)!

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rsmith91
December 30, 2007 at 04:59 PM

You should tell your tech people they can't go to the ChinesePod New Year party until they sort this out. :)

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nicolas
December 30, 2007 at 12:55 PM

I support this request

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John
December 30, 2007 at 04:59 AM

I had hoped it would be fixed by now, but it's at the top of the priority list for right after New Year's Day.

Happy New Year, everyone!

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xiaohu
December 29, 2007 at 10:41 PM

Thank you for getting involved to fix this John!

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John
December 28, 2007 at 03:19 AM

I am personally getting involved to get this fixed ASAP!

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xiaohu
December 28, 2007 at 01:37 AM

Unfortunately the problem still exists, now I just go into the All Conversation index and don't even bother looking in the My Conversation index since, short of manually checking every one, there's no way to determine it someone has posted after me or not.

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excuter
December 27, 2007 at 02:41 PM

你好, Marco welcome and thanks.

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marc0
December 27, 2007 at 04:50 AM

Hey guys!

We are really sorry for the delay. We'll definitely check this and thanks Rich for bringing this up to our attention...appreciate it!

By the way...I am Marco - new addition (i believe i can already say that!) to Cpod team! Yey!

Thanks!

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excuter
December 26, 2007 at 03:58 PM

still not...hmm, nobody seems to care...well, I do...maybe it´s just to keep me commenting everywhere so that it´s true that I was the last...

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rich
December 23, 2007 at 09:24 PM

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

Funny no comments from any of the ChinesePod techies to reassure us that it will be looked at and fixed. All I want for Christmas....

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excuter
December 23, 2007 at 05:39 PM

still not fixed... ;-(

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GreyPhoenix
December 19, 2007 at 06:04 PM

Same here - thanks for bringing it up!

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excuter
December 19, 2007 at 04:14 PM

me too ;-(