Dear CPod (Tech/Site Issues):

Hey, Zhenlijiang, should others add small technical nitpicks (I have two minor annoyances) to this thread or would you prefer to keep it for these specific problems?

Looks the same to me. Have you accidentally resized your browser text? Ctrl+mousewheel or Ctrl and + or - can do that.

Alright:

1: When I add words with the character 三 to my vocab, it gets converted to the character 叁. Thus, my vocab has words like 叁明治 and 第叁方.

2: When searching for words in the glossary, you get to a page called "Glossary" which has a box just below, called "Search". It also says "You can search in English or Chinese.". Despite this box being right below the "Glossay" title, using it to search only gives you lesson search results. To actually search in the Glossary, you have to go up to the little search box in the top right and change the drop-down menu to "Glossary" every time you make a search. The search box on the Glossary page should either be made to search the Glossary, or at least be labelled more clearly so it's obvious that you're searching the Lesson Archives and not the Glossary.

I have one - when you do a search, pick a lesson and find it is not useful, when you try to go back to the Search Results it says you can't.  You have to search all over again.  That is so annoying that if I was a keen searcher it would drive me crazy.  

When searching through someone's profile, and looking through their comments:

If I am on say page 50, and I click on a comment, if I then 'go back' I am taken back to page 1. I then have to find my way to page 50 again, which usually takes a number of clicks since that many pages are not listed at the bottom of the page.

The 'back' button should take you back to the last page you were looking at.

Hi CPod--sorry to nag but shouldn't you put up an alert somewhere very visible telling users that the PM system is out of order?
And please could an announcement be made when it has been fixed--so that until then, we can know that it is indeed still out of order (and not keep making attempts to see if it's working)?

Thank you.

Has there actually been an acknowledgement by CPod that PMs don't work?

Simon, anybody else with questions or minor annoyances on technical stuff, be my guest. It's open mike here!

Hi CPod, very sorry to be a bore; could you please answer this question? Thanks!

re:   

Until quite recently the link beside "username says" at the top of each comment did link to that individual comment; now it only takes us to top of the page it's on. This isn't a major problem; however it was better before. Could this be changed back? Or did this change have to be made for some reason? If so, then I think the rollover should stop saying "link to this comment" so as not to mislead.

Hi CPod, I haven't seen a response from anyone regarding this problem but I hope you're aware of it--in the past few days a couple of other users have also pointed it out.
When we try to reply to others' comments hitting the Reply button, our reply ends up being sucked into some on-site black hole. The conversation gets 顶ed up to the top, but no appearance of our new comment.
This problem doesn't seem to be happening in the lesson discussions, I don't know if it's just in user-generated posts.

It is quite disheartening to lose a comment you've just written especially if it has been a lot of work to look up words etc.

Hoping it is fixed very soon. Thank you

zhenlijiang I can understand how frustrating that would be! I haven't experienced the same problem myself, but I have the tech team looking into it. Will let you know when we've resolved the issue. Thanks for your patience.

Can we use this thread as a general thread to point out problems with the site? If so, I have one. For some reason, sometimes pinyin doesn't display properly on the site. For example, here is a screenshot:

Can you see, some of the pinyin letters are displaying incorrectly? If I cut and paste that text to another window, it displays correctly.

This is due to the fact that some older Microsoft fonts don't contain all vocals with 3rd tone mark.

火 [huǒ] is 3rd tone.

The problem occurs only with ǎ ě ǐ ǒ ǔ ǚ.

ChinesePod cannot change this. In WinXP it occurs with some fonts, and hopefully this problem does not occur with Win7 (I don't have Win7). On a Mac this problem will not occur.

Is it my imagination, or has the font on the conversation page shrunk? I now need my glasses to read this text - and I am short-sighted!

Hey guys,

Sorry for the delay, but the PM system is now working.