ARCHIVE: Snarkpit v6 Bugs

Hi, i cant change the page theme to "sp_blue" it changes back to black after one refresh

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I've stumbled upon an old post on this site that linked to a Snarkpit.com/... url. So I was asking myself... at the bottom of your list of more important things to do with this site... would it be theoretically possible to replace references to "Snarkpit.com/..." with "Snarkpit.net/..."?

I know this is so unimportant, it's pretty ridiculous, but I felt like mentioning it.

Sorry milkshake, I'll check it out as soon as I get a chance.

That's been mentioned before reaper, and yes it would be very possible to fix it by running a simple script to replace 'snarkpit.com' with 'snarkpit.net' in all posts.

I'm just a little wary of running queries like that on such a large database as the forums since if anything goes wrong it can be a pain to fix (or restore backups...), so I've kinda just left it for the time being.

larchy said:
I'm just a little wary of running queries like that on such a large database as the forums since if anything goes wrong it can be a pain to fix (or restore backups...), so I've kinda just left it for the time being.

Yes, please don't take any risks of this sort for a silly little fix. I shouldn't have even brought it up.

you cant change the personal photo nor can you delete it (avatar works - but photo doesnt)

I tried to update the second and third pic on my Offload map and it wouldn't work. ctrl f5ing didn't work ether. It look like it upload fine it just never change the pics. Help?

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I wonder why the bug hasnt been fixed yet that shows one extra reply in every thread. Shouldnt be that hard to fix I guess. Oooohh a RE-ply .. no its just my OP

There is a bug with multiple nested quotes.

Na, that's not a bug, that's a forum game built right into the site! -Way to go larchman!

(seriously, I don't think it needs fixing)

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Gwil said:
There is a bug with multiple nested quotes.

Multiple.... Is a EXTREME understatement.

EDIT: Uh, gee, i don't have any kind of bugs to report, other then the banned glitch that you already fixed

Hahaha.

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Kampy said:
I wonder why the bug hasnt been fixed yet that shows one extra reply in every thread. Shouldnt be that hard to fix I guess. Oooohh a RE-ply .. no its just my OP

Um, it's really more of a labelling error tbh. It's just a count of the total number of posts, including the first one. You're probably thinking the first post should be excluded from the count... wasn't my intention.

Changed the column label

The order for multiple arranging the page numbers for lists that go over many pages seems rather strange and inconsistent for the first and last ones. It seems the order should always display the number of the current, previous, next and first/last 3 pages. But it doesn't show the next one for the first 3 or displays a ellipsis between adjacent pages... hard to explain...

Basically, this: I think I remember some even stranger results for lists with <9 pages.

Not really a bug so much as it just being the way I've done it. I don't really see where there is any sort of problem though, other than perhaps if you're on p3 it isn't showing the p4 link. Can't see the issue in any of the others.

Well, wouldn't it make sense if they were all consistent? Me likes the 3 pages in the middle.

But I don't think I understand it wholly. -Whatever you think is best!

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I got 100 Snarkmarks now (just noticed lol) but I can't setup my country flag yet.

It still shows me this: Earn 100 snarkmarks to select a country flag!

Maybe I got something like 99,7 Snarkmarks?

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Ok it's fine now, I hope no one else will have the same problem.

Will there be more unlocks in the future?
I was thinking of making a thread called "Post your unlock ideas"

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I made a small change as you would need over 100 for the country flag - set it to be 100 or more which is what it's labelled as I think.

If anyone has any ideas for any more things like this then by all means float the idea. If I can find the time I don't mind implementing anything reasonable.

Prolly posted already but, the search feature doesn't work very well. At least not as well as it once did.

I typed in "recently read" a forum title and it couldn't find it. I had to seek it out manually... Snarkpit is to large to seek things out manually.

and

The "whos online" needs to be by registration date.

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I just noticed, after I added a comment, it says I posted it at 10:30am, however it's 11:30am in Melbourne. I've checked the control panel and in the settings I do have it set in Australian Eastern Time which is appropriate timezone for Melbourne. I'm thinking, it's probably to do with daylight savings, but thought I'd just let you know because it's incorrect.

I've just found a little bug thanks to SamCom and his map "A Brief Detour":
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[URL=http://img299.imageshack.us/i/alittlebug1.jpg/][IMG]http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7481/alittlebug1.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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In the "Maps" section of the site, under Left 4 Dead 2 there is only Tower - Survival, and not my map next to it, Ladenisty - Survival.

Edit: It seems it does only show maps with a 4 or 5 star rating (as I heard from Riven).

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That's a good catch Tnk, Worth looking into to get fixed.

And yea, Nib, that's why it shows up like that. I would agree though, it feels like a bug because it was an oversight. We should probably make it so that if a game has less than 10 maps for it, regardless of their rating, those maps should cycle on the maps page if that game is a featured game. and then also, since we don't have many maps rated, perhaps we should lower the shown ratings to 3-5 instead of just the 4 & 5 rated maps.

And while I'm at it, there's two things I'd liked fixed hehe

[*] when adding a new map or editing an existing map on the map edit page, when you click the 'select games' list, the games are not listed alphabetical like they are on the maps landing page. They're listed as most recently added to the DB with the most recent towards the bottom. Can we make that list alphabetical too? Sometimes we gets maps listed under the wrong game and users tell me they didn't know we had their game listed.

[*]This is for admins: When selecting the order of featured games for the maps landing page, (the "up/down" options). They don't work like they're supposed to most of the time. Depends which ones you select but no matter how long you play around with it, there are some combinations which are just impossible. It's like a little puzzle.

Hopefully these are issues that can be fixed easily. I understand you're especially busy this time of year larchy.

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Riven said:
[*] when adding a new map or editing an existing map on the map edit page, when you click the 'select games' list, the games are not listed alphabetical like they are on the maps landing page. They're listed as most recently added to the DB with the most recent towards the bottom. Can we make that list alphabetical too? Sometimes we gets maps listed under the wrong game and users tell me they didn't know we had their game listed.

Yes, it would be really great if this gets fixed. Right now it's just the newest game at the bottom, and the oldest one added at the top.

I think this has been discussed before as well.

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Was magically fixed 30mins before you posted Nib

Everything else is still broken.

lol Didn't check when I posted

Magic can do a lot of things.

Edit: New bug (probably). When you click one of the screenshots of my map, it opens a window smaller than the image itself. Probably because I used widescreen pictures.

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Yay! The Add a map page is fixed, but the Edit map page is still borked.

*smiles with bright shiny teeth!

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Riven said:
Yay! The Add a map page is fixed, but the Edit map page is still borked.

*smiles with bright shiny teeth!

That's your favorite smiley isn't it?

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naw, my favorite "smiley" (if you could call it that) would be the your beverage here cup and or jumping cow. => gonna drink some happy milk

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New bug that's been "bugging" me for a while now.

If there are multiple spoiler tags in different posts in the same topic, the ones from the first post always opens up, no matter if you clicked one from a different post or not.

Also thanks to Myth for confirming this.

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I just got through performing some tests, as well as checking some existing posts...

The issue indeed is there, and surprisingly so wasn't always.

The spoiler tag is performing other weird actions too, such as making another tag where none was specified, and/or adding an extra tag within a tag when only one was included.

Strange indeed...I'll have larchy take a look at it..

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Small bug: If you are in an article, interview at least and you try to go to your profile, you cannot leave the article.

I was re-reading my interview and clicked on my name at the top that says "Welcome Orpheus!" to go to my profile and it refuse to link there.

From any other page IE "general forums" it works fine though.

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Nothing big, but on the front page, the text "Articles & Downloads" is sometimes touching the time from how long ago it was posted.

Screenie:

[IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/mm4eo8.png[/IMG]

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Dunno if the terms still apply cause my HTML is old. Looks like the table isn't quite big enough to accommodate all the text on that line and it is set up so it will not create a third line. Hence it is crowding the text.

It might help if the word "Downloads" is shrunk to "Dloads" or "DNLD" (or some other acronym.)

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Nobody uses tables anymore. :P I think they're actually defunct as of HTML5.

The actual issue is that there's no CSS to say it should act this way or that depending on width.

Anyway, most of this stuff isn't going to get fixed. It would be nice if it was as simple as altering some style properties ... but it's not.

Obviously, Larchy is gone (though he could be asked to look at something again), but frankly ... the code-base is a mess. It's a bit too clever for its own good. In a vein attempt at elegance it's convoluted and it doesn't even follow standards. (the entire thing is written like HTML encased in PHP, instead of the other way around like it's suppose to be) So when trying to find things, it's very difficult, since everything is a giant fill function of some HTML code to a String which goes through some template system that's entirely useless.

Not to detract from the work done. It's just a very non-conventional hacked approach that is more trouble than it's worth to maintain. (Likely why Larchy left it in the first place :P)

In any case, fixes and updates to the current site are very unlikely as a result. (Most of these issues people have described are actually because there's duplicate implementations of various features in different places ... as a result some behavior works one way from someplace and another way from another, and it's ridiculous trying to track down which is doing what.)

Just a heads up of the situation, I guess.

This reminds me of the stories I'd always hear about old C programmers writing the most convoluted efficient code because it ensured job security since no one else could figure out what the hell was going on.

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My bad I guess. It just seemed possible to search out the word "Downloads" and shortening the word.. But, its really not hurting anything either.

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It would change every iteration of where it's displayed. That's not a great solution.

The better solution would be to detect when there's too many words and cut it off with a " ... " in there to keep everything looking nice.

But I ran into an immediate wall when trying to fix the Spoiler tag issue. I have no idea WHY it happens. It doesn't seem to happen in the area where the spoiler code is, it seems to either happen where it's called or in the regular expression used to detect it.

It immediately felt incredibly futile since these kinds of errors seem to be persistent throughout the site, and it looks more like an issue with design, than programming logic ... so, there's not really a lot you can do to alter what's there outside of tearing stuff out and rewriting it.

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Seems like the best solution is for me to not suggest solutions using my 10 year old information on web pages.

I never knew changing one word could impact so much. Wait.. I take that back. I said "Sorry" once. It was life altering.

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Yes, dynamic pages are different :P (Though, they were very popular 10 years ago too)

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We really need to establish that this thread is moot cause I almost went to go off topic...

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Like I said, My wife is a programmer, and has written a web page from scratch for KCOS TV, its nothing like this, but I am sure given some time she could work up a nice new page, one that would be easier to fix should it need to be. I will talk to her about it tomorrow, when I get home from work.

Crono said:
Obviously, Larchy is gone

He's still online at steam quite often where he, for no reason, blocked me.
On my friends list of steam via the internet I can still see him being online at some moments.

Not being spy-ish at all

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Lack of programmers isn't really the issue.

Nib, that's strange. Are you sure there was no reason? :P

One thing I like having with my steam friends list is people I'm actually some sort of friends with, not just acquaintances. It doesn't make sense to have a giant list of 100 people or something (that's what communities are for) where you don't have direct contact with the people very often.

I can tell you that, "Blah blah blah has signed on" gets annoying fast.

Also, spy is not the term for that ... stalker is. :P

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Crono said:
Nib, that's strange. Are you sure there was no reason? :P

One thing I like having with my steam friends list is people I'm actually some sort of friends with, not just acquaintances. It doesn't make sense to have a giant list of 100 people or something (that's what communities are for) where you don't have direct contact with the people very often.

I can tell you that, "Blah blah blah has signed on" gets annoying fast.

Also, spy is not the term for that ... stalker is. :P

Haha yes stalker is the word I was looking for

Haha but it wasn't like that, there was this annoying fellow (believe me, I am not one of those guys who have about 80 fake friends and only 20 real friends at steam. This just used to be a good friend but apparently is an asshole) and I wanted to check if he was online at the moment, and that's when I noticed larchy was online. I signed in, and he wasn't there.

There can't be a good reason, we always used to play matches in Left 4 Dead 2, and if he thinks I was annoying (for whatever reason) he couldn't just mentioned it and I'd have remained quiet.

Edit: Oh and I think I remember that you can change the notifications per user

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Oh I think you're right, I think there is per-user control for notifications.

That is strange, for sure. But best not to assume things. It is his account, after all, he can block whomever he wants.

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