Bugs and Suggestions

Pete O'Hanlon3-Feb-15 6:21

Pete O'Hanlon

3-Feb-15 6:21

Unfortunately, you saw an issue with the site that happens very, very infrequently. I can appreciate that you are angry but ultimately, what has happened, has happened. Perhaps it's time to calm down for a bit because this is only going to keep you angry and that's not going to do you any good.

Maximiliano Rios3-Feb-15 6:26

3-Feb-15 6:26

I stopped answering to avoid making this a big issue (even when I didn't sleep until 3am to write most of the article) but I keep receiving more comments even when I want to close it.

Pete O'Hanlon3-Feb-15 7:11

Pete O'Hanlon

3-Feb-15 7:11

We care about your health. That's why. We're one big happy family and we want you to be part of the family too. Big Grin | :-D

Maximiliano Rios3-Feb-15 7:18

3-Feb-15 7:18

Thanks, honestly. I feel frustrated because I was writing the article while I was keeping an eye on my daughter that was sick and I was checking out every 10 minutes if she was ok. I went to bed at 4.30am thinking I accomplished something due to I couldn't sleep. It happens sometimes.

Chris Maunder3-Feb-15 7:20

3-Feb-15 7:20

Oh man. That's rough (and scary).

How is she?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Maximiliano Rios3-Feb-15 7:48

3-Feb-15 7:48

She's ok, normal nights when you have a 1 year old girl, children get sick a lot the first years.

Chris Maunder3-Feb-15 8:51

3-Feb-15 8:51

Maximiliano Rios wrote:
children get sick a lot the first years

Doesn't make it any less stressful. Anyway, I'm glad she's OK.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Maximiliano Rios3-Feb-15 8:57

3-Feb-15 8:57

Thanks Chris, I really appreciate it

Richard MacCutchan3-Feb-15 7:22

Richard MacCutchan

3-Feb-15 7:22

Maximiliano Rios wrote:
I didn't imagine I could lose the whole article

A bit of a naive view I think. Why not do most of the work offline so you have it on your PC? Apart from anything else it is generally easier to do that way.

Maximiliano Rios3-Feb-15 7:47

3-Feb-15 7:47

Ok, understood, but we're all more used to Google, DropBox, and so forth, services that's really really weird to lose everything. Nevermind, I don't want to continue talking about how many mistakes I made. Ig you want to say it's my fault, ok, taken.

Richard MacCutchan3-Feb-15 22:38

Richard MacCutchan

3-Feb-15 22:38

I don't want to say it's your fault at all. I just think that preparing a lengthy document offline is probably a better idea. However, I also take Chris's point.

Chris Maunder3-Feb-15 8:46

3-Feb-15 8:46

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
A bit of a naive view I think

I actually agree with Maximilian.

This issue should not have happened. We offer auto-save and so it should work as one would expect.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Chris Maunder5-Feb-15 10:34

5-Feb-15 10:34

Maximiliano,

We've completed some upgrades that do two things

1. Fix a bug that was present that would cause a draft to be overwritten with the template text, thus losing your article if you had not saved it as 'Composing'.

2. Added versioning of drafts so that even if the bug in #1 did occur, you'd have prior versions of the article from which you could recover your text.

This doesn't help what you lost, but it should mean you won't experience this issue again in the future.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Maximiliano Rios6-Feb-15 4:13

Limit max. amount of text for Q&A posts

6-Feb-15 4:13

Thanks for the update. Regards

Jochen Arndt3-Feb-15 3:38

Jochen Arndt

3-Feb-15 3:38

I have just deleted 161,604 bytes of text from a question in Q&A.
How about a limit?

Issue in auto saving of article

Ranjan.D2-Feb-15 14:35

Ranjan.D

2-Feb-15 14:35

Hi,

I am facing this issue for the first time in CP.

I was just trying to draft my article with all the necessary content and I just wanted to be saved automatically (as it used to happen previously) so that later on I can work on it.

Now what I see is, the article that I have been drafting is not saved at all. Also the "Save" and "Save Draft and Exit" button seems to work but does't save my contents.

Sorry If I am re-posting this issue.

Thanks,

Ranjan.D

modified 2-Feb-15 20:47pm.

Re: Issue in auto saving of article

Chris Maunder3-Feb-15 3:55

Re: Issue in auto saving of article

3-Feb-15 3:55

Which article? this one[^]?

There was an issue with loading article content, but that was fixed soon after the issue appeared.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Ranjan.D3-Feb-15 4:07

Ranjan.D

3-Feb-15 4:07

Yes perfect!

Thanks for the quick fix. Hope I did not steel your sleep.

Ranjan.D

Submitted articles/tips for approval have no content...

Andreas Gieriet2-Feb-15 13:16

Andreas Gieriet

2-Feb-15 13:16

The submitted articles/tips for approval have only the "frame" but no content.
This is since one hour or two now.
Cheers
Andi
E.g. see http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=157900&aid=871927[^]
or http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=157993&aid=872117[^]

Re: Submitted articles/tips for approval have no content...

Chris Maunder2-Feb-15 14:40

Re: Submitted articles/tips for approval have no content...

2-Feb-15 14:40

Fixed

cheers
Chris Maunder

Kenneth Haugland2-Feb-15 14:58

Kenneth Haugland

2-Feb-15 14:58

I'm still facing this issue on all types.

No, not fixed

Brisingr Aerowing2-Feb-15 15:33

Brisingr Aerowing

2-Feb-15 15:33

I am having this issue as well.

There is the approval header, then the license/author info blocks. No content.

Not very useful.

e.g. this one.[^]

No content. And it is a new version. I don't think @Sacha-Barber would remove all the content, eh?

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Re: No, not fixed

Chris Maunder2-Feb-15 17:13