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Cuthalion
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 Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:57 am Post subject: New site design - oh HELP! |
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First: I'm glad that OSA has changed to be a place for even more stories and fandoms. But a few changes are more confusing and weird than anything else.
1. I tried to post a Harry Potter-tale yesterday evening, and it took me nearly an hour to figure out that the use of HTML-codes has changed from <> to [] - because the edit-field had shrunk to a small stripe of 0,5 cm... which of course is a problem of my aged iMac. Still - I can't buy a new computer to be able to do revisions on my OSA-tales without replacning the text completely. HELP???
2. What for heaven's sake has happened to the summaries? Are there only three lines allowed for each now? And where have my italics gone? They have at least remained in the stories, why not in the summaries? Those that obviously were too long have been mercilessly cut right in the middle of the sentence. Do I have to rewrite them or is there any other way to get rid of the problem? HELP????
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ElennaElemirre
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:26 am Post subject: |
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Ok so I was just browsing through the Tolkien section when I realize the summaries of 5 out of 6 of the stories said:
This was written while struggling with the dark chapters of Before I go to sleep. I simply decided that I needed some fluff to cheer myself up, and therefore I hereby offer a "brighter" pre-quest Frodo/Lily-tale (with just a tad of angst), two nights, a d
which i found to be extremely odd because even the summary to my own story read that. Is it just me? or is it the site??? |
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ElennaElemirre
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| on checking the rest of the archives, I realized that all of the other ones have the same problem too. Maybe someone should look into this... |
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: Re: New site design - oh HELP! |
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| Cuthalion wrote: | | But a few changes are more confusing and weird than anything else. |
Trust me, changes weren't made just for the hell of it or because confusing and weird is trendy.
| Cuthalion wrote: | | I tried to post a Harry Potter-tale yesterday evening, and it took me nearly an hour to figure out that the use of HTML-codes has changed from <> to [] - because the edit-field had shrunk to a small stripe of 0,5 cm... which of course is a problem of my aged iMac. |
It would have been nice to have you help in the beta-testing phase then. We don't have an old iMac to test on. Yes the HTML tags have been swapped for BBCode. It's on the Add Story/Chapter page.
| Cuthalion wrote: | | What for heaven's sake has happened to the summaries? |
Gee, maybe it's just a bug? A mistake that got introduced in the thirty thousand lines of code we had to review, add to or rewrite? Or better yet, we thought let's all mess with our members' work just for the hell of it.
While we ask for feedback and for errors, bugs and fault to be reported, we expect our members to keep their knickers on when they do it.
| Cuthalion wrote: | | And where have my italics gone? They have at least remained in the stories, why not in the summaries? |
The option for bold, italics, etc. have been taken out for the summaries. Sorry, we didn't set up BBCode to work there.
| Cuthalion wrote: | | Those that obviously were too long have been mercilessly cut right in the middle of the sentence. Do I have to rewrite them? |
Yeah, 'cause we're a bunch of wacked jobs and we just took out our big axes and cut wherever we felt like it. It's a bug. The *whole* summaries are all in the database, fear not. Now that we've been alerted to the problem we're working on rectifying it. Thank you SO much for your patience and for contacting support like we asked everyone to do to report such problems.
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Robbie
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| ElennaElemirre wrote: | | on checking the rest of the archives, I realized that all of the other ones have the same problem too. Maybe someone should look into this... |
Someone (that would be me  ) was looking into it.
All fixed. Thank-you for bringing this to our attention and for allowing us to correct it quietly in the background.
And no, you can't use BBCode in the story summaries. It's also limited to 1000 characters (but anything longer than that has been retained, but won't save from now on).
If you want BBCode and unlimited length, please write to us and volunteer your services to monitor and edit all those sumaries that corrupt the layout of the site or load huge graphics or go on and on and on. But we got a bit tired of it
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| ElennaElemirre wrote: | Ok so I was just browsing through the Tolkien section when I realize the summaries of 5 out of 6 of the stories said:
This was written while struggling with the dark chapters of Before I go to sleep. I simply decided that I needed some fluff to cheer myself up, and therefore I hereby offer a "brighter" pre-quest Frodo/Lily-tale (with just a tad of angst), two nights, a d |
I honestly think those bits of info should be in the author's note or an introduction to a story but not in a summary. 1000 words is very reasonable for a summary, especially since ff.net for example only allows roughly about 210 characters (trust me, I compared several summaries there who have been clipped off). So this is very generous considering that.
I love the listing of bcc codes and I have been playing around with it. I'd love to afford an imac though... 
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Cuthalion
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: If I were a rich man... |
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Rhapsody wrote:
I love the listing of bcc codes and I have been playing around with it. I'd love to afford an imac though..
Oh yes, especially if it was bought used via Ebay, is five years old and not able to show any site properly that was update later than 2005. *sour grin*
And I'm sure that a summary can be written shorter than I did, but so far no one saw any use to complain. But I'm very glad that it's fixed now! Thanks! |
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Cuthalion
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: *deep breath* |
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Dolarabee wrote:
Trust me, changes weren't made just for the hell of it or because confusing and weird is trendy.
Oh, I'm sure that this is the case. They just hit me out of the blue, so to speak, wich led me to posting this outcry of "What the heck has happened here...!?" No need to get angry.
Dolarabee wrote:
It would have been nice to have you help in the beta-testing phase then. We don't have an old iMac to test on.
And I would die to have a new PC, believe me. I just have to cope with my Mackintosh dinosaur as long as I can't afford anything more "modern".
Dolarabee wrote:
While we ask for feedback and for errors, bugs and fault to be reported, we expect our members to keep their knickers on when they do it.
Oh, I'm still fully dressed, and I appreciate the enormous amount of work you put into the various changes. You shouldn't mistake dismay for rudeness.
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Yeah, 'cause we're a bunch of wacked jobs and we just took out our big axes and cut wherever we felt like it. (...) Thank you SO much for your patience and for contacting support like we asked everyone to do to report such problems.
No, you are no wacked jobs, and you obviously didn't use any axe, so much did even a moron like me understand so far. And I had no idea that the point "report bugs" in this section of the forum didn't mean just that, for this is what I did. I honestly beg your pardon, for I had no intention to insult anyone; it was my personal impression that things were weird and confusing, and not an accusation of the admins in general.
And you should have noticed my patience meanwhile, for I took the time to reply, to explain and apologize. Okay?
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Robbie
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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We're fine - we had a long night (and pretty stressful getting it working).
All's good.
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Robbie
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Oh - next warning (as you missed all the other's) Happy Halloween <grin>
(You'll see in about 30 seconds)
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Cuthalion
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: |
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Robbie wrote:
We're fine - we had a long night (and pretty stressful getting it working).
I thought so. *pats your back and offers you a good, strong coffee (and one for Dolarabee, too)*
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Robbie wrote: | Oh - next warning (as you missed all the other's) Happy Halloween <grin>
(You'll see in about 30 seconds) |
Holy Robby! I almost thought that my video card was dying!!! 
Happy Halloween over there!
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Cuthalion
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: Haloween |
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GREAT colors! *huge grin*
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Maram68
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:18 am Post subject: |
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The rum is gone, the challenges are gone!!!
Why is the rum gone?
LOL, Happy Halloween in Oz!
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Maram68
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:20 am Post subject: |
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OOOOOH ..... forgive my intuitive blindness. clickity found .... (Thanks Binks!) the challenges are there, right beneath Tolkien ... (Haven't found the rum yet, but maybe later ...)
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