Wordie: Bugs: Comments

Comment by Prolagus, 1 day ago

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:08:35 +0000

Fascinating bug. I added è to a list and the character added was ¨.

Comment by mollusque, 1 day ago

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:48:30 +0000

Why doesn't è link to "è"?

Comment by telofy, 1 day ago

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:21:51 +0000

I put html comment signs around the list name. It's just a temporary collection no one should be irritated by scrolling my lists. Oh, right, we need private lists. :-)
(And perhaps there should be a bit tighter restrictions for using html.)

Comment by bilby, 1 day ago

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:20:29 +0000

User telofy has a list titled ,. Although you can see it under 'appears in these lists' you can't click on it and go to it, nor can you see it under http://wordie.org/people/lists/telofy.

Comment by VanishedOne, 4 days ago

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:03:41 +0000

Image search on enter your list in reverse alphabetical order. gives a 404 error; I'm guessing the full stop is guilty.

Comment by VanishedOne, 9 days ago

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:50:04 +0000

Minor error on the tools page: 'Every person has a feed for their recent activity, unless they've shut it off' links back to tools, but the actual option to turn the feed off is under 'edit personal preferences' on one's profile, and the explanation is on Errata.

Comment by telofy, 10 days ago

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:06:42 +0000

On the mobile pages there is a "=" missing:
input type"text" name="word" class="w220"
For example:
http://wordie.org/m
http://wordie.org/m/list/16708

Have fun!

Comment by VanishedOne, 12 days ago

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:41:18 +0000

/tags/the%20assimilation%20of%20a%20smaller%20 entity%20into%20a%20larger%20one., which is displayed on the 'tags' page, gives a 404: a lingering problem with .s, maybe?

Comment by Prolagus, 14 days ago

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:08:05 +0000

John, in the main page, the phrase Add citations and comments to words and lists, or private notes for yourself.... has four suspension points....

Comment by VanishedOne, 14 days ago

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:36:59 +0000

There seem to be problems with Jesterpatch's listings: the profile says Jesterpatch has added four words, but they don't show up either on Jesterpatch's list or as the favourite word, etc. Also, the right-hand box on cute. oh so cute! shows 'first listed by: Jesterpatch (4 words); appears in these lists:' with a blank after that; if the word was actually ghosted, the box wouldn't appear, would it?

Comment by Prolagus, 16 days ago

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:34:19 +0000

John, while it's possible to choose a username with a . in it, the link to that user's lists doesn't work. Just experienced that with amun.x.

Comment by chained_bear, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:59:37 +0000

Okay, that's what it was. My mistake, bilby. I frequently use both ways to add words, and frequently find duplicates in my lists, so I must be wrong about how they got there. Thanks for clearing things up, mollusque.

Comment by reesetee, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:51:00 +0000

Yes, mollusque, I've had the same experience. Not too often, but it's happened.

Comment by mollusque, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:40:47 +0000

If you add a word from the word's page you can get duplicates. If you add it on the list page, you do not get duplicates. If you delete a duplicate word on a list, you delete both instances and have to readd it (except for open lists).

Comment by bilby, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:38:47 +0000

I just tried twice to add an already-listed word to my own lists. Didn't work. I think earlier today it must have been an open list where I managed to add something twice. Oh well, I'm reassured that my maxislack word-checking technique still works on my own lists.
Looks like this isn't a bug report then :-7

Comment by bilby, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:33:18 +0000

Hmmmm, lemme go try it.

Comment by chained_bear, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:25:54 +0000

No, you're right; I do that too. I'm only saying that if it doesn't appear, it does actually show up in the list again somewhere. (At least, for me, it has.)

Comment by bilby, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:06:24 +0000

Curious. I'd swear it's been like this up until, ooh, a week ago maybe. If I didn't know whether I had already added a word to a list and couldn't be bothered scrolling or searching, I'd just enter it anyway. If the word then listed, I'd know it was new to the list. If the word didn't appear, I'd know it was already in the list somewhere.

Comment by chained_bear, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:03:47 +0000

For me, it's always been possible to add a word to a list twice. It will not show that it's been added a second time, if you are entering them on the list page and just hit "enter" (rather than using the 'No one is listing...' pull-down), but when you go scrolling through the list you'll see it twice, often with each occurrence not next to each other. That's been the situation for a while. As long as I can remember, actually, though I wasn't here from the beginning.

Comment by plethora, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:59:27 +0000

How recently is recently, b? Because I've accidentally added the same word to one list twice numerous times: when I've been impatient with my internet and hit the add button twice. So it's been possible the couple of months I've been active.

Comment by bilby, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:55:26 +0000

Re whichbe's recent comment on faq, I also managed to add a word twice to one of my own lists today. Up until recently that wasn't possible. It has been possible of course for 2 (or more) users to add the same word to an open list.

Comment by chained_bear, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:45:39 +0000

Yay! It's updating! Thanks John!

Comment by chained_bear, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:19:34 +0000

I emailed John about this. It happened the same way not too long ago; you can still see recent comments updating if you click "Past comments."

Comment by qroqqa, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:15:32 +0000

Yes. I'm sick of sastrugi.

Comment by reesetee, 26 days ago

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:06:43 +0000

Has anyone else had the home page stalled on sastrugi today?

Comment by Prolagus, 27 days ago

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:08:26 +0000

This is not exactly a bug... On http://wordie.org/comments, list pages URLs are spelled "the old way", like http://wordie.org/people/qroqqa?wl=15760 instead of http://wordie.org/lists/15760. Sometimes (or always? I can't remember) they don't work.

Comment by chained_bear, 28 days ago

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:55:38 +0000

Ooh! That's actually a happy thing, for me. I click through Random all the time but usually go to fast, so when I hit "back" or something, I lost the word I wanted to see again, and it sounds like this way I won't. :) (Sorry you're disappointed, Pro...)

Comment by Prolagus, 29 days ago

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:57:30 +0000

A very, very insignificant point about the recent change in the random feature (the URL - or URI? Whatever - now changes in accordance with the word page you are actually watching, while in the past you could just read http://wordie.org/words/random):
when you refresh, you can't read a new random page anymore. Which is kind of sad, since you have to look for the random button, but it could be worse.

Comment by VanishedOne, about 1 month ago

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:48:58 +0000

A very minor quibble: on the Comments page, both the page title and the bold text above the search box say e.g. 'Past comments, 100 through 200', but the text between the previous and next links says 'Comments 101 through 200'.

Comment by she, about 1 month ago

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:08 +0000

Happened again as I added mons mercurii (also, when I manually searched for the word afterwards, it took me to word, which appears to've happened before). Curious!

Comment by VanishedOne, about 1 month ago

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:01:25 +0000

That was reported in a couple of comments two months ago. It doesn't turn up every time one adds a word from the 'Nobody is listing' page; does anyone know exactly how to trigger it?

Comment by she, about 1 month ago

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:59:52 +0000

Hm, trying to add mesothesis, I got the url http://wordie.orgword/?added=mesothesis instead of http://wordie.org/word/.. (which worked? but I had to manually visit the word afterwards).

edit: Aha! It's happening when I add a word from the "No one is listing.." search results page rather than directly into the box at the top of a list.

Comment by John, about 1 month ago

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:42:32 +0000

Yeah, it's an ampersand thing. I'll fix tonight.

Comment by VanishedOne, about 1 month ago

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:09:33 +0000

Based on the few I tried, might that be an ampersand problem?

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 month ago

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:40:32 +0000

Some words belonging to the awesome list aisu can't be opened...

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 month ago

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:41:30 +0000

Thank you, John. :)

Comment by John, about 1 month ago

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:16:20 +0000

Ok, the homepage has stopped exploding and international characters should once again be visible as such. Hopefully things are back to their usual state of only moderate bugginess. Thanks for your patience folks.

Comment by bilby, about 1 month ago

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:42:31 +0000

Np John.

Comment by John, about 1 month ago

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:16:21 +0000

I got careless and decided to update a bunch of shit at once, including low-level server stuff like the version of the language everything is written in (Ruby). So everything going haywire is related to the update, but has nothing to do with the private notes thing. Hopefully I'll be able to work through it all tonight. No data was harmed, fwiw--not sure why unicode characters are displaying wrongly (though I have an idea), but they're still stored correctly in the db.

More later, sorry for the wonky homepage and other stuff.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:26:54 +0000

Okay, my homepage is borked now too. I think it must have been the private notes feature--I noticed it in the same way she mentioned. Curiously, the "past comments" link works (at least for me) and is updating.

Comment by she, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:09:51 +0000

If it's any help, all the special character jumblies seemed to coincide with the new notes feature (which is very nifty!); it feels like I noticed one within minutes of the other.
I'm also using Firefox, but things're displaying fine on other sites, so it seems to be a Wordie issue. What browser are you using, pleth?

Comment by plethora, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:34:57 +0000

All characters are looking fine on my end.
But yes, the homepage is borked by about two hours. The last comment I see is mollusque's on c_b's Words of Dinosaurology list.

Comment by whichbe, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:31:18 +0000

Yeah, right now non-standard characters are looking strange.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:45:24 +0000

V.O., I noticed that too.

Bilby, really? My home page isn't borked at all. Weird!

Comment by bilby, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:16:28 +0000

BTW home page is borked too, still showing 'snapshot' from about 10 hours ago.

Comment by bilby, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:08:29 +0000

Yeah, me too VO. Words with non-standard characters look very odd indeed. Made one half-assed comment about it but thought it might have been a Firefox issue as I've been upgading/switching laptops this week. Mebbe not!

Comment by VanishedOne, about 1 month ago

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:04:53 +0000

Has something changed in the character encoding? I'd have noticed if wordie.org/words/%C3%85%C2%BDi%C3%85%C2%BEekology was failing to display the Ž/ž in Žižekology correctly when I listed it, but it's showing up as Å½iÅ¾ekology now, yet my browser is definitely set to UTF-8. I'm seeing mangled non-Latin characters elsewhere on my lists which I think previously displayed correctly, too.

Edit: hmm, that link to Žižekology does point somewhere else; but the version I had listed must have worked at some point, given the conversation hanging off it.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 month ago

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:14:18 +0000

Hey John, this morning (maybe it's just me), I can see linked/bracketed terms in blue in the descriptions of lists, but can't click on them.

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 month ago

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:06:56 +0000

Ouch! Now it's fixed! It was showing a different number of comments!

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 month ago

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:10:57 +0000

John, just try this:

1- log out
2- visit http://wordie.org/words/toefl
3- visit http://wordie.org/words/TOEFL

Comment by TaciturnYetProlix, about 1 month ago

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:09:18 +0000

Sorry, double post.

Comment by TaciturnYetProlix, about 1 month ago

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:09:16 +0000

The 100 Wordiest list doesn't seem to be updating again.

Comment by oroboros, about 1 month ago

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:26:01 +0000

Attempting to view tag words in cloud format still gives a 500 Application Error. I see that VanishedOne broached this eight months ago. I just wanted to make sure it's on your to-do list, John. It would be a handy display to have for voluminously worded tags.

Edit: Well, dog my cats! Cloud format for the tag "ghosted" gives the 500 error, but, so far, other tag cloud function works fine. Must be something to do with all the words being unlisted. Go calculate!

Comment by TaciturnYetProlix, about 1 month ago

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:23:07 +0000

Thanks John.

Comment by John, about 1 month ago

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:59:36 +0000

Oops, sorry TYP, the page was cached and wasn't being updated correctly. You're in there now :-)

The tagging behavior you're describing is definitely not how it should work. I'll look into it, though it may be a while before I can get to it.

Comment by TaciturnYetProlix, about 1 month ago

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:27:56 +0000

I seem to be well above the threshold for making the list of 100 wordiest, but my user name is not listed. What gives?

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:42:40 +0000

Multiple tagability is very useful as tagmass increases, but the same user shouldn't be able to tag the same word twice.

Comment by Prolagus, 2 months ago

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:37:13 +0000

It happened to me as well, with my bread list...

Comment by whichbe, 2 months ago

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:32:46 +0000

John, I don't think it's a good idea for a word to have duplicated tags of the same tag. I tagged all my DEMON words "demon", then having added a few hundred more, did another MASS-TAGGING, not realizing it would double-tag the same tag upon the previous. Ick, ew, yuck!

Comment by reesetee, 2 months ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:27:40 +0000

Ditto. Yay!

Comment by chained_bear, 2 months ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:42:57 +0000

I emailed the slack bastard and he said it's fixed. :) Yay!

Comment by plethora, 2 months ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:46:09 +0000

Uh-huh. Me too.

Comment by Prolagus, 2 months ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:40:52 +0000

It is! I'm using http://wordie.org/comments.

Comment by plethora, 2 months ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:30:20 +0000

The home page is broken?

Comment by Prolagus, 2 months ago

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:40:07 +0000

I visited this page to point out the same thing as MiaLuthien.

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:40:18 +0000

When I click on the link from v.'s profile to that user's lists, I get redirected to the last 500 lists on Wordie.

Comment by reesetee, 2 months ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:20:54 +0000

I had trouble yesterday for quite a while, but today it seems fine. (Using Firefox 3.)

Comment by plethora, 2 months ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:36:04 +0000

I thought that was just me...

Comment by johnmperry, 2 months ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:28:50 +0000

What gives?

wordie was off air about six hours yesterday, and today for about three. Can't be just me, because nothing moved on during that time

Comment by VanishedOne, 2 months ago

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:10:16 +0000

yarb's must be the second-best-worded bug report yet, just slightly behind 'The apparent loss of woolded bumpkin is particularly grievous'.

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:33:45 +0000

And a list named Biff! has eaten up my favourites list.

Comment by skipvia, 2 months ago

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:16:19 +0000

Hi John, sir. I apologize for ever calling you a slack bastard, if, in fact, I ever actually did that.

On my profile page are multiple listings of two lists ("Technically It Means" and "To Busy to Scratch Myself") and one word (whippersnapper) that I did not favorite. I rarely use that feature of Wordie. What gives?

*backs away slowly, bowing repeatedly*

Comment by MiaLuthien, 2 months ago

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:28:14 +0000

I have a question about the Most commented on section. Currently I see these words listed:

tappen (47)
shaken baby syndrome (34)
fraught (22)
word war (22)
suave serpens (22)
all my fecal memories of you (21)
crumpet (16)
nowheresville (16)
punctuation (16)
albatross (14)

Now, why isn't there marmite with its 41 comments, or basonym with its 45? Both of them are on the most active threads page, but they don't appear on the most commented on list. Why is that? I haven't seen any change on that list for several days now. Is it broken? Or is the fault on my end (I've cleared the cache)?

Comment by she, 2 months ago

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:11:35 +0000

Wordie's going all 500 Application Error on me when I add a word to a list (of mine, or anyone else's). Listing isn't unsuccessful; it just won't show anything but an error until the page is refreshed. Curious!

Comment by John, 2 months ago

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:49:08 +0000

The past comments page bug should be fixed.

Comment by plethora, 2 months ago

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:56:21 +0000

I was just on my way over to say the same thing, VO.

Comment by VanishedOne, 2 months ago

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:32:16 +0000

Is anyone else finding that /comments?o=100 is now producing a 500 Application Error?

Comment by reesetee, 3 months ago

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:46:44 +0000

It's been slow for me for a couple of days, arby. Damn it, why can't we have speed and accuracy when we're trying to cut work??

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:26:42 +0000

Is it just me, or is Wordie slow as balls today? I'm trying to take my mind off work, damn it! Plus, the server delay is making double posts. (OK, that could just be me clicking the button more than once because it looks like nothing's happening.)

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:36:54 +0000

Cripes. Duh! I feel like an idjit now.

Comment by whichbe, 3 months ago

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:55:35 +0000

I just noticed that John fixed a bug which was preventing me from taking off particularly annoying word on my Favorites list. I think this was because it ended in a period.

I still have two wordlists that are undelete-able it seems... http://wordie.org/lists/8342 and http://wordie.org/lists/14113

How to make things more complicated than they are

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:19:28 +0000

Ahem, ahem...
I realized it's just a numbered list. Oops.

Comment by dontcry, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:33:08 +0000

Does anyone else feel itchy?

Comment by sionnach, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:12:25 +0000

The fact that the same list can be followed by a different number in parentheses, depending on whose profile it is recently favorited under, suggests that Pro's conjecture may not be correct.

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:01:20 +0000

*posting as pumpkin*

PS - thanks Pro!

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:59:30 +0000

Ooh, really? *is chuffed*

I'm going to bed now, really!

*turns into pumpkin at stroke of midnight*

Comment by Prolagus, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:49:12 +0000

arby, I think that number states how many wordies favorite that list.

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:46:38 +0000

Ok, not to tootle my own horn or anything, but I think I spy with my little eye a bug - I happened to be hanging at palooka's profile and I noticed s/he has my default list (arby's words) favorited. In the list of hir favorites, it says "18" after the list name, but in reality my list has 245 words!

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:26:31 +0000

Somebody call the waambulance!

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:18:45 +0000

Made of tosh is so awes! My new favorite phrase.

ETA: ™ bilby

Also, are we no longer allowed to use the strike tag? Waaaaaaah!!

*cries like baby*

Comment by Prolagus, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:02:52 +0000

We all know meta-ideologies are made of tosh.

Comment by arby, 3 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:58:48 +0000

Tried to add made of tosh and got a 404 error. The URL was malformed:

http://wordie.orgword/?added=made%20of%20tosh

Luckily the phrase was added anyway. Just thought you'd like to know.

ETA: And I see I'm not the first to report this bug. That's what I get for not reading the recent comments!

Comment by rolig, 3 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:40:56 +0000

The list of "Recent Comments & Citations" does not seem to be updating today, although when I click on "more comments" at the bottom of the list I do see all the comments. Just thought I'd mention this.

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:34:48 +0000

It's too late Pro. An evil baron force-fed it energy bars and sports tonics.

Comment by Prolagus, 3 months ago

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:06:38 +0000

I know there is still one "listless"* word, one that has never been added. According to a legend.

*You know why I used this word.

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:36 +0000

It's not an error VO. The world has run out of words. We listed them all. Thanks for your help everybody. You can all go home now.

Comment by VanishedOne, 3 months ago

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:06:53 +0000

I'm suddenly getting 500 Application Errors on trying to enter word URLs with words that aren't already in the database, e.g. http://wordie.org/words/meta-ideology

Entering them in the search box seems to redirect to e.g. http://wordie.org/words/word?id=meta-ideology

Comment by Prolagus, 3 months ago

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:14:00 +0000

John, having the words "word search" in the search box makes it impossible to drag the words into it from the page I'm in and make a one-click search. OK, I'm very bad at describing it.
Just try to drag a word into the word search box and you'll understand what I mean.

Comment by yarb, 3 months ago

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:35:56 +0000

John - I've been trying to use the random word widget, but it's not, erm, generating random words. E.g. the preview. I'd really like it if you could make this work.

Comment by VanishedOne, 3 months ago

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:55:27 +0000

I think this has been mentioned before somewhere, maybe in connection with another word: gnomic has a WordNet (more...) toggle but no extra definitions to reveal.

Comment by alincarman, 3 months ago

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:01:21 +0000

Thats quite a long comment list for the word bugs and why would part of the def. be windshield???? kind weird if i dont say so myself.

Comment by cheekyboots, 3 months ago

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:30:44 +0000

http://wordie.org/lists/update/14733 gave me a 404. updating my description. the description did get updated though.

Comment by VanishedOne, 3 months ago

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:12:36 +0000

Adding new words sometimes produces a malformed URL, e.g. http://wordie.orgword/?added=manicule, http://wordie.orgword/?added=metajoke

Comment by ivan, 4 months ago

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:24 +0000

During the registration, if the login name is already taken, there is no error message when the Register button is clicked, so it is not clear whether you were registered. This is confusing.

Comment by mollusque, 4 months ago

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:37:04 +0000

John, the Wordiest Wordies page isn't updating--it still has whichbe in the 4000s.

Comment by VanishedOne, 4 months ago

Sun, 25 May 2008 20:23:42 +0000

Hold on... Those redirects are only happening when I enter the words into the address bar. I probably used the wrong character encoding somehow, then.

Comment by VanishedOne, 4 months ago

Sun, 25 May 2008 20:21:42 +0000

Has something gone wrong with accented characters? I see élan redirects to elan and frappé to frappe, but by attempt to add négatité went awry when the Add Word page accepted négatité/n%E9gatit%E9 but turned it into n%EF%BF%BDgatit%EF%BF%BD on addition.

Comment by John, 4 months ago

Sun, 18 May 2008 18:19:11 +0000

Whichbe, thanks for the report. that's... ugly! I'll take a closer look and try to rectify it tonight.

Comment by whichbe, 4 months ago

Sun, 18 May 2008 17:57:43 +0000

John! I can't delete one of my lists. I get a standard error message but this might be helpful, it said: "The uri of the page I couldn't find: /lists/delete/8342".

UPDATE: It gets a little weirder...maybe because it's an "older list" and you've changed code since? Anyway, after hitting "delete" on that list, I went to the words and added them to other lists, and they pop up as new words..so in some way this "delete" did take effect. But then when I go to my "your words" list, it's there. I go in, and I click on "delete" a few times to some random words, just for the heck of it, and BOOM, suddenly the 75-word list becomes a _2_ word list! Then, I delete those two words... and I'm left with a wordlist that says "75" but displays zero. Strange, huh. What do you make of it?

Link: http://wordie.org/lists/8342

Comment by bilby, 4 months ago

Wed, 14 May 2008 14:08:44 +0000

This is a weird bug. I did random word and arrived at a certain page, popcorn. I wrote a comment, clicked the Comment button. Comment loaded okay. I then clicked edit, revised my wording. Clicked Comment button again. Page reloaded with comment as I had typed it but under a different word! chaumas

Comment by VanishedOne, 4 months ago

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:09:43 +0000

WordNet's own Web interface returns only one result, so there aren't any existing ones failing to display...

Comment by bilby, 4 months ago

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:06:10 +0000

Try going to chalybeate and clicking on the more/less button.

Comment by yarb, 4 months ago

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:57:42 +0000

I have the same problem with a long entry on my favourites ("sky king, sky king...") which I can't remove - I'm not that bothered about it, but there it is.

Comment by whichbe, 4 months ago

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:48:10 +0000

John, how can I take "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk." off of my favorites list? It errors out. (I added a space in the middle of the word in this comment just to be space/tables/horizontally-conscious.)

Comment by rolig, 5 months ago

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:19:15 +0000

Is there any way to include a slash in a word? I wanted to enter the word "and/or" on a list, but it wasn't accepted, so I resorted to the lamely hyphenated "and-or".

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:21:46 +0000

John, I don't remember whether anyone else has this trouble (and I'm too lazy to check right now), but hyperlinks in my list comments (as opposed to word comments) don't seem to be working, even when properly formatted. Any idea why?

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:08:02 +0000

True--there are more tags than are on my list(s).

Comment by chained_bear, 5 months ago

Thu, 08 May 2008 03:00:18 +0000

reesetee is not the only person using that tag.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:24:53 +0000

O, I think that tag is essentially for the words on my "It Has a Name??" list--but I'll go in and re-tag without the punctuation. :-)

Comment by oroboros, 5 months ago

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:41:36 +0000

Hi John,

Warmest congratulations on your 'new addition'! Now to business: reesetee's who knew? tag, when clicked on, doesn't bring up any words. I expect it's because of the '?', yes? So either it's something you can fix or else reesetee needs to delete the '?' if he's interested in people having the benefit of the tag. I, for one, would be a happy camper should the fix go in.

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:52:04 +0000

Weird!

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:09:50 +0000

John, here's a cute little bug: I have "mingled" on my favorite words list, but it's labeled as "0 wordies list". Why aren't words on favorites lists included in the counts, when "most favorite", "least favorite" and "onomatopoeia that best describes" are?

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:23:04 +0000

Haduken is the onomatopoeia that best describes shojimaru.

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:01:00 +0000

VO, that probably means it's either someone's favorite or least favorited word.

Comment by VanishedOne, 5 months ago

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:41:48 +0000

Haduken is showing as 'One Wordie lists' but with a blank after 'appears in these lists:'.

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:03:57 +0000

John, I've figured out one way the word count for an open list can get out of sync with the number of words it contains. I added discumbent to the open list Take it lying down, then deleted it from Mollusque's miscellany. Deleting it there deleted it from both lists, but didn't change the word count on the open list. I then added "discumbent" back to the open list. This added one to its word count, which is now one too high.

This might be related to a similar bug. If a word is duplicated on a closed list, deleting one instance deletes both instances. However, one of the duplicates can be moved without moving the other. The word count is correct after either operation. (I haven't tested shared or open lists.)

There's at least one other kind of anomaly in word counts. The closed list The Ivy League has a word count double the number of words it contains. One of bylanternlight's other lists is empty, but I don't know if this is related.

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:04:38 +0000

Hi John. I added a 'word' today, i saluted at six paces commandant lefebvre des noëttes (poem object). I think the ë character is causing a bug that displays the word on the list as i saluted at six paces commandant lefebvre des no�.

Comment by sionnach, 5 months ago

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:03:06 +0000

John:

Is it possible to fix the bug that causes a 404 error when one clicks on words which include a period? If not, perhaps the default should be not to accept such words (e.g. as currently happens if one tries to include a question mark). Being able to list a word, but not comment on it seems suboptimal.

Thanks

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:47:03 +0000

oroboros,
usually you can delete the duplicates this way: edit your comment, save, and the "delete" option appears.

Comment by oroboros, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:39:32 +0000

Hi John. I can't delete the duplicated citation on skunk. It's the one with unintended brackets that came thru with the C&P. BTW, the link is an interesting one; maybe you haven't seen the site.

Edit: disregard, John, thanks to Prolagus. I was deleting all text in the edit box, which then didn't give rise to the 'delete' option for some reason. Anyway, now fixed.

Comment by jaltcoh, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:00:04 +0000

Additional details: the aforementioned bug occurs on a Mac, and it happens with two different browsers, Safari and Firefox.

Comment by jaltcoh, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:59:14 +0000

Big problem: Non-members of Wordie can't see beyond the first 100 words in a list that's over 100 words long. I have a list with over 200 words, and people who are logged out can see only the first 100. It doesn't work for the non-member to click on "next" or "all."

This is too bad because I was just promoting Wordie on Metafilter today:
http://ask.metafilter.com/89529/Great-words-that-you-actually-use#1315327

As you can see from the response, people over there are getting interested in Wordie. But it'd be better if they could see my whole list of words.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:15:50 +0000

Might that be the same thing that happens with italics & such? You don't see them when you first press "comment" to post them, but if you refresh the screen (at least in my experiences w/ Explorer & Firefox), they show up.

Comment by John, 5 months ago

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:07:19 +0000

Pterodactyl, you're not crazy, that bug has cropped up before, and there may be circumstances in which it reappears. I'll look into it. Of course, I also program all bugs to go away when someone else is looking.

Comment by pterodactyl, 5 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:18:50 +0000

Well, gosh darn it, it's working fine now, and I don't understand what's different this time.

Comment by pterodactyl, 5 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:16:46 +0000

*tentatively raises hand*

Hi, I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature, but I can't seem to put more than one link inside of a comment. For example, these should both be links:

Link One

Link Two

...but because there's two of them, they don't show up as links once I submit the comment.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:27:29 +0000

Yarb, that's my secret plot to take over Wordie. Don't tell anyone.

Comment by yarb, 5 months ago

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:44:09 +0000

When I click on the link to this list from the current comments on the homepage while logged out, I am redirected to ressetee's "Animal Magnetism" list. But only when I'm logged out.

Comment by John, 5 months ago

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:19:52 +0000

Mollusque, you are the bomb, thanks! That gave me the clue I needed. Random comments should no longer be showing up with random words.

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:33:03 +0000

John, the problem with random words affects not only commenting on them but listing them. As an example, I found faineance by clicking random word. I added it to one of my lists, but dilatoriness was added instead. The connection between them is that both were on inkhorn's Words, listed adjacently, and on no other list. This pattern is sometimes reproducible: adding a random word that has been listed only once instead adds the next word on the list.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:05:49 +0000

Is anyone else having trouble with links in list description fields?

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:34:28 +0000

John, there's a bug with the RSS feed: all the spaces between words are deleted, so that the link doesn't work. At least, this is what happens here in my blog.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:00:03 +0000

Nobody is listing resolutely tangential scriptus. Why don't you?

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:53:52 +0000

Random's still screwy. I get a word, make a comment, then go home and find I've made a nasty double entendre or a resolutely tangential scriptus. You don't have to fix it, I'm enjoying the serendipity of chaos for the time being.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:34:05 +0000

Thanks John.

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:14:41 +0000

Just fixed the comments search bug.

As for random word, it's returning comments for the wrong word. I redid the query that gets random words a few days ago, and must have busted it, though I just looked at it and can't see anything wrong. I'll keep poking around, hopefully figure it out soon.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:52:38 +0000

Comments bug: more searches, then comments search, list of results comes up but all comments listed link to http://wordie.org/words/word

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:07:28 +0000

I for one would be sorely diappointed to go looking for humbuggery, only to get hummus instead.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:09:18 +0000

I think this is a new (hum)bug. I clicked Random Word and the result was the following:

humbuggery

12 months ago artoparts said: Also refers to the chick pea or garbanzo.

about 1 year ago seanahan said:
A Middle Eastern dip. Hummus is to pita as salsa is to chips.

about 1 year ago John said:
Cordelia: "I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan"
Oz: "We attack the mayor with hummus?"
- BtVS, "Graduation Day, pt. 2"

---------------------------------------------
It's showing me the comments (and lists, listees) of hummus rather than humbuggery.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:38:43 +0000

John, I noticed a problem with tags.
In my list "Italian bread varieties", for example, I use to add 1 to 40 words a day. After adding them, I tag them all, and of course what I do is adding the tags bread and italy to the whole list.
What I see is that the words added first have e.g. 8 total tags, that is 4 times my two tags - and I'm sure they're all mine...
Sorry if I gave a bad description - my English is context-dependent.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:49:19 +0000

*liking the idea of oroboros wielding pruning shears on Wordie*

Comment by mollusque, 6 months ago

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:12:44 +0000

Hi John, I'm getting a link to the word "true" instead of the intended external link in my comment on molluscan umbilici under Professor von Schmartzenpanz.

Comment by oroboros, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:03:20 +0000

I didn't take it as criticism, C_b. No worries, mate! BTW, it seems to me that those listless words wouldn't very often be incorporated in a list, so they'd stand out easily when I'd go through with the pruning shears.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:31:53 +0000

Oh, well, in that case it makes perfect sense. :) I was just curious--not criticizing.

Comment by oroboros, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:27:15 +0000

Well, C_b, I planned on pruning 'em out when discovered to have been added to some list. It's just a lark, and a perhaps misguided attempt to somehow provide a 'home for orphans', don'tcha know.

For John: I still get the 500 application error when I click on the "ghosted" words. Same if I type, say, Homer Simpson in the search box.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:30:18 +0000

Listlessness won't show up. He just doesn't have the energy.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:09:29 +0000

I hope uselessness returns one day with his brother, listlessness.

Comment by jennarenn, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:19:24 +0000

That made my day. :)

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:21:17 +0000

BLAHAHAHAHAH!!! HA HA HAHAHA!! Oh, ha, ha, ha!!!

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:15:16 +0000

You know, it took me this long to get "listless." I've been wondering why oroboros would think these particular words are so low on energy.

*smacks self upside the head*

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:34:34 +0000

O, should be fixed now. Listless is back in business.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:53:09 +0000

oroboros, what happens to the listless tag when someone adds the word to a list? Wouldn't you then pull up a ton of listless words that might actually be listful? (which seems like they ought to be wistful instead)

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:45:53 +0000

O, I'll look into this tonight. I made some internal changes that screwed various things up, that might be the cause.

Comment by oroboros, 6 months ago

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:38:55 +0000

Hmmm. John, it looks like you've done something about ghost/listless words. I was tagging interesting ones "listless" as I found them via random word feature, just for the hell of it. Now random words appears not to show any ghost words and if I click on those already having my listless tag, a 500 application error results. Interesting. I'm debating whether to delete my list: "The Unlist"

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:25:44 +0000

The random word bug should be fixed now, and a few other little things. Sorry I've been MIA for a bit, crazy couple of weeks.

Image ads are Google on autopilot. They seem to be in the minority, if they become egregious I think I can get rid of them.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:04:40 +0000

Jeez, why are there image ads in Wordie, now?

Comment by mollusque, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:19:18 +0000

I reported this bug about a month ago. Happens with Internet Explorer too.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:37:56 +0000

Bilby, I noticed the same thing just tonight. I'm using Firefox also.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:22:12 +0000

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.13 and when I click random word, it will show for example '7 wordies listing phalanx' but on the right side of the screen it won't show which wordies and which lists. If I want to see who is listing phalanx and I have to then type it into the search box and go to the page that way.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or the way things are meant to be.
cheers.

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:43:21 +0000

Is there some reason why my comment on mibster hasn't appeared on the front page, while others subsequent to it have?

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:52:23 +0000

thanks yarb, i think i just did something that messes up words with spaces in them. looking into it now.

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:02:13 +0000

I've noticed that some words with recent comments no longer appear to exist: plum duff, woolded bumpkin, malpolon monspessulanus.

The apparent loss of woolded bumpkin is particularly grievous.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:29:32 +0000

John: My comment about question marks and periods was more to seek corroboration that my experience is the same as everyone else's, not a request to change anything, so please don't sweat it.

I agree with trivet that listing the top 50 most popular words in a 7-day window seems to add little over listing the top 10*, because most words on the longer list have a frequency of only 2 or 3.

* Actually, trivet didn't say this explicitly, but I think it was implied.

Comment by trivet, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:47:17 +0000

John, two questions:

Is the list sorting now on auto-alpha instead of chronological?

Could the "most wordied" list go back to a top ten instead of the 50(?) that it is now?

Thanks,
t

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:30:20 +0000

K thanks, I'll try that.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:14:48 +0000

Chained_bear, I've noticed that too--but I discovered that if you just refresh the page after you've posted, all seems to be okay. :-)

Edit: Oops, VO and I posted simultaneously.

Comment by VanishedOne, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:35:29 +0000

I've always found that the formatting would appear on a page reload.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:15:06 +0000

Hey John, I'm not sure if this is actually a bug or not, but it bugs me so I guess it counts. :) When I make a comment with italics or a link in it and post it, then notice I made a spelling mistake, as on goffer... When I edit the comment and re-post, the formatting or link is gone. It's still in the comment box, but doesn't appear once it's posted.

For a while I've been getting around this by editing the comment again, copying the text, posting again (still shows up without formatting), then deleting that original comment and reposting a new one. However, as on goffer, I don't want to delete the original comment because someone's answered it. So now it's sitting there without italics, in the back of my fevered brain, slowly boring a hole through my gray matter as I try to concentrate on things like work. Thoughts? (About the formatting glitch, I mean, not my fevered brain.)

Comment by John, 6 months ago

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:02:41 +0000

Hey guys, the lists bug is fixed (thanks VO, you called it).

Sionnach, some punctuation has special meaning when used inside a URL, so if a word or phrase contains, for instance, a question mark, the server gets confused. I can better escape special characters to allow their use. It's kind of a nutty week, I'll try and get to it this weekend.

Comment by VanishedOne, 6 months ago

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:07:44 +0000

I think the problem there is that the links are to e.g. http://wordie.org/list/1996 rather than http://wordie.org/lists/1996

Comment by oroboros, 6 months ago

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:12:22 +0000

Hey John, here's another entomology matter to look at: when I search for say, 'poetrie' in the search all lists box, clicking on any of the results produces a '500 application error'.

This comment will self-destruct in 5 seconds. Buena suerte, Senor John....

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:22:50 +0000

By trial and error, I think I've figured out the following:

Entries containing a question mark are not accepted by wordie, though exclamation marks are OK (is there a reason why question marks are taboo in main entries?).

Entries containing a period are accepted; however, if you try to add a comment to such an entry, you will receive an error message. Is there a way to fix this?

This is based on my experience using Firefox.

Thanks, John.

Comment by John, 7 months ago

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:04:05 +0000

Connarts, thanks much for the report. It was a bug from adding bulk taggings, which was only affecting IE. Since I had only tested in Safari and Firefox, I hadn't noticed it. Really appreciate you bringing it to my attention.

Comment by chelseagirl, 7 months ago

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:09:18 +0000

hmn, I woud love to tag my words or view them as a cloud etc but those links do not work. Are they 'Future Features'?

here is the page: http://wordie.org/lists/13114

thanks!

Comment by chained_bear, 7 months ago

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:38:12 +0000

Another thing I noticed is when I enter a word in the "search" box, just to see if it's ever been added before (or if I've spelled it right), if it's never been added it is supposed to bring up a page saying "nobody has added ___. Why don't you?"

It does that sometimes, still, but lately (past week or so) it sometimes brings up an ordinary-looking word page with "0 Wordies list" at the top. Which means it could certainly be a ghost word, except that when you click on anything on that page, such as "add to your list," it brings up an error page calling John terrible names like "slack bastard."

It doesn't much bother me, as there's a perfectly good work-around, but I thought I'd mention it.

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:19:32 +0000

That makes three of us.

Comment by ofravens, 7 months ago

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:07:36 +0000

I'm having the same problem that chained_bear is having.

Comment by chained_bear, 7 months ago

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:25:01 +0000

John, on one of my lists, when I went to edit the description, the highlighted links aren't an option--I just get a straight-line cursor and can't click "add tags," "edit," "delete," "cloud," or anything but the arrows next to "alpha." Anyone else having this issue?

Comment by VanishedOne, 7 months ago

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:24:53 +0000

Also, testing with ghostliness as well as mackem suggests favouriting a ghost won't work, and image searching it will return a 500 Application Error.

Oooh, John's going to be happy...

Maybe our gremlin is a Geordie.

Comment by yarb, 7 months ago

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:48:58 +0000

A couple of bugs today:

- Clicking on "see more" from a comment search takes me to word.

- The entry for mackem doesn't display the word itself as a header, and attempting to comment returns a 404.

Comment by VanishedOne, 7 months ago

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:33:23 +0000

Yes: now that I've added them from a list page, the drop-down box appears, so it's presumably something to do with ghostliness.

Comment by VanishedOne, 7 months ago

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:31:45 +0000

Attempting to list internalism and externalism just now has produced a 404 for /words/import_to

I just tried a non-ghost, and that performed okay, so it may be a ghost-specific bug.

Comment by VanishedOne, 7 months ago

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:16:58 +0000

On profiles, the 'least favourite word' and 'onomatopoeia that best describes' links have an extra /word/ so that e.g. the least favourite word bugs would lead to http://wordie.org/words/word/bugs (and so in practice they all lead to word).

Comment by John, 7 months ago

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:36:06 +0000

It had been broken, but I think it's good now. It's working here, at least.

Comment by chained_bear, 7 months ago

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:38:24 +0000

Yah, I've been noticing that the "cloud" feature doesn't seem to work on public lists. Is that just me? Or is it not working on other lists too?

Comment by John, 7 months ago

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:24:26 +0000

Thanks yarb, fixed. Also fixed word list cloud view, which had been busted.

Comment by yarb, 7 months ago

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:24:18 +0000

Random word seemes to borked, john. I'm getting a 500 error.

Comment by Treeseed, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:44:33 +0000

Hi John,
Image search doesn't work with words containing an apostrophe.

Comment by Treeseed, 7 months ago

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:00:21 +0000

Hi John,
I'm trying to add "good & plenty" and have gotten the application error message a couple times. Is it because of the ampersand?

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:31:37 +0000

I've found when landing on a 'Nobody is listing' page while logged out that the login/register links seem not to do anything.

Comment by mollusque, 8 months ago

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:17:00 +0000

John, the page generated by the random word button no longer shows whose lists the word appears on.

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:50:20 +0000

Wordie tells me the cat is there; I can't vouch for its being alive or dead.

Comment by julia, 8 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:03:36 +0000

"Mr. Potato Head is now mobile."
how could you let him get behind the wheel..?! he's still doing community service for his last DUI...

Comment by yarb, 8 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:47:18 +0000

You added it to your list, VanishedOne - but are you sure it's there?

Comment by John, 8 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:29:43 +0000

Mr. Potato Head is now mobile.

You can also add Schrödinger's cat to your lists, but if you do George McFly may never meet Lorraine.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 8 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:36:12 +0000

Thanks VanishedOne. Your suggestion works for me too.

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:30:34 +0000

I managed to add it by going to the list page and using the box there, so it's apparently a problem with the dropdown rather than anything inherent in Schrödinger's cat itself.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 8 months ago

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:27:42 +0000

For some reason Wordie won't let me add Schrödinger's cat to any of my lists. How weird is that?

When you click on "add to your list" no drop-down menu appears. Any ideas, John? May be the apostrophe problem listed below.

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:19:10 +0000

Not bad when you're up against Boiling Point.

Comment by yarb, 8 months ago

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:22:23 +0000

"Can't seem to move Mr. Potatoe Head" is the best bug report I've ever seen.

Comment by Treeseed, 8 months ago

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:13:20 +0000

Hi John,
Can't seem to move Mr. Potatoe Head. Might it be the period after the Mr? I get the 500 Application error.

Maybe the same thing that causes problems with the apostrophe is happening here.

Comment by mollusque, 8 months ago

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:44:36 +0000

On the page listing someone's tags, the total for number of comments is wrong.

Comment by Treeseed, 8 months ago

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:56:19 +0000

Still seem to be having problems with words containing an apostrophe. I cannot seem to add the term shepherd's purse or solomon's seal to my list.

Comment by Asativum, 8 months ago

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:47:24 +0000

Oddly, the random word feature now brings up different words -- but says none of them have been listed, even when they have...

Comment by julia, 8 months ago

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:50:22 +0000

yes, the same goes for me with blue suburban sky..drat! :P

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:20 +0000

No, wait... when I click on it in my comment it seems somebody is listing treedancing. Oh well.

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:46:22 +0000

That's suddenly happening to me too. Although it's given me some delicious-looking words, so I'd like it to be kept as an option if possible.

Apparently nobody is listing treedancing yet; why don't I?

Comment by julia, 8 months ago

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:50:45 +0000

my apologies for being redundant if this has already been brought to light.. but whenever i click on the "random word" feature, it returns with a "nobody is listing 'such-and-such', why don't you" message instead of a listed word. is it just my computer?

Comment by John, 8 months ago

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:49:42 +0000

The list search and apostrophe bugs should be squashed. I also noticed that at some point when I was tightening security, I accidentally squashed the ability to embed video in comments. Fixed now.

Comment by uselessness, 8 months ago

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:12:03 +0000

I just noticed a problem with the list search feature. The "search again" form on the results page doesn't work... instead of searching for what I type in the field, it searches for an empty string (and of course returns no matches). So if I want to perform a second search, I have to go back to the main list search page.

Comment by Treeseed, 8 months ago

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:30:28 +0000

Hi John,
There is apparently some kind of bug surrounding the use of an apostrophe...for example in the word four o'clocks...words of that nature do not seem to respond to movement from one place to another on the site. I have encountered this problem with other words containing apostrophes. Is it me?

Comment by John, 8 months ago

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:10:43 +0000

Just so seanahan. The slavs might have to get a free pass on the lowercasing :-)

Comment by seanahan, 8 months ago

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:22:08 +0000

I imagine John, that at some point you call toLowerCase or the Ruby equivalent on the string before putting it into the database. Since Ž is not a-zA-Z, the method would not doing anything to it. I doubt any programming language is smart enough to recognize the bizarre Unicode characters that have upper and lower case associated with them.

Edit: I'd actually meant to use square brackets as in regex syntax for a-zA-Z. Obviously that didn't work, but I think it turned out well anyway.

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:42:58 +0000

Thanks yarb, good to know. Some funky character set issue I imagine, I'll look into it.

Comment by yarb, 9 months ago

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:30:14 +0000

Just a very minor thing: Wordie defaults the case of a word to lower, except (it seems) with accented characters. So Žižekophobia and žižekophobia have different entries. Probably not worth worrying about though as I can't think of any other examples.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:56:15 +0000

Thanks! It was worth it. :-)

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:53:42 +0000

Thanks, adding from a word page should be fixed. Artifact of upgrading the server last night.

Comment by sionnach, 9 months ago

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:23:39 +0000

It's not just you r_t. I too am getting the dreaded 'gone all 500' error.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:04:28 +0000

Great Wordie, the "add to your words" function on the word pages doesn't seem to want to cooperate today. (Unless it's just me.) I'm getting the ol' 500 message.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:21:00 +0000

Precisely, John--only far more erudite, of course. :-)

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:04:34 +0000

The Great Wordie? Is that kind of like The Great Pumpkin?

koldewyse: done

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:57:29 +0000

You'll have to take that up with The Great Wordie Himself. :-)

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:34:24 +0000

Hmmm. But why shouldn't we see if a word has been listed in someone's profile? On the other meat hook there's an element of mystery there, and I like mystery.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:28:20 +0000

It might be in someone's profile. I don't think words on those pages show up as listed by anyone.

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:16:04 +0000

I clicked on yezt! today when it appeared on the Recent Words list on the main page. On the word page it said 1 Wordie listed yezt! however on the right there was no 'first listed by' and no 'appears on these lists'.

Comment by koldewyse, 9 months ago

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:20:45 +0000

Can you change the URL of zetahydrae on the news page to http://www.zetahydrae.com/? I switched from a tumblr subdomain recently.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 9 months ago

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:06:32 +0000

Update on my last comment. The only thing I seem to have difficulty moving is "j'oublie tout, donc je suis :)". Is it something to do with the :) at the end?

Or maybe Wordie has a temporary aversion to French?

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:08:51 +0000

I created an 'Open' list. When I look at the words there I have the option to delete or move, just like any other list. Delete doesn't work for words not listed by me, though I haven't tried move.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 9 months ago

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:46:26 +0000

Hi John. Happy New Year! Getting a "500 application error" when I try to move a word from one list to another.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:23:47 +0000

I won't complain. It gave me a chance to catch up on comments! :-)

Comment by mollusque, 9 months ago

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:18:38 +0000

Whatever you did seems to have helped, John; Wordie is faster today than usual.

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:53:50 +0000

I think I'm a bug. The reason the site was down all morning? Because I put up the 'maintenance' page for a one minute procedure late last night, then forgot to put the site back up. Oops.

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:27:53 +0000

Tags are happening again. Time for a wash, O.

Comment by oroboros, 9 months ago

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:27:37 +0000

Yep, still the case for me too. No tagee no washee. ;o)

Comment by skipvia, 9 months ago

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:02:52 +0000

Same problem as SoG--500 Application Error when I try to tag a word.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 9 months ago

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:06:33 +0000

Can't seem to tag anything just now, John. Keep getting the old "500 Application Error" message.

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:15:38 +0000

Thanks again John for the retouches ... may you have many train rides.

One bug that bugs me is that when you make a comment on one of your own lists and have notification turned on you get an email that says:

You have made a comment on one of your own Wordie lists.

etc.

I still fart a lot when I can but my short term memory is holding up. I don't need notifications to remind me of my own citations.

Thanks,
B

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:58:56 +0000

thanks c_b, the list links should be working now.

Comment by VanishedOne, 9 months ago

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:41:38 +0000

That's been known to happen before when the words in question were somewhat less than perfectly formed; see my post below about "befuddlement and swearing questionmark".

Comment by chained_bear, 9 months ago

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:50:03 +0000

John--I've noticed, I think since we got the feature enabling others to contribute to lists, that when you click on "more" under a comment on the front page, you get taken... right back to the front page. It didn't happen for every comment, but... it was only today that I thought maybe that's true only for comments on lists that have other contributors added to them...?

Anyone else noticing the difficulty of reading full comments from the front page?

Comment by oroboros, 9 months ago

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:21:13 +0000

Hi John; I can't go deeper than 500 into my comments w/o getting the error msg. It sure would be great to be able to have a >last function as well as >next! Or, a spectrum of page numbers on which to click.

Comment by Minerva, 9 months ago

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:22:58 +0000

Woohoo!

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:18:45 +0000

Thanks Minerva, should be fixed now.

Comment by Minerva, 9 months ago

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:41:37 +0000

I'm unable to view all my words on one page. And when I click on the next page link, nothing happens.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:48:35 +0000

Ditto.