DemonGoddess Posted January 14, 2016 Author Report Posted January 14, 2016 @HP_Reader, The chapters you mention in the first story, display correctly. The second story also loads, but with the diamonds. As I said, to fix that temporarily, set your browser to utf8. As the database is 9.3GB, the conversion is going to take me some time. So rather than wait, I'd go ahead and set that in your browser. In the meantime, I'll also set the charset where it asks for it in the file itself in header information. That'll help somewhat, but won't correct it entirely.
Guest sherlocked17 Posted January 16, 2016 Report Posted January 16, 2016 Yeay I can read pages like a book now! But rating a story has disappeared? Reviewing still possible, doesn't rating work on mobile devices?
DemonGoddess Posted January 16, 2016 Author Report Posted January 16, 2016 Rating has not been restored as of yet. Given that people used this as a tool to harass authors who write pairings in some fandoms that they don't like, and downrate it out of spite, I'm pondering never having it return. At least not in its old form of being completely anonymous. I'd like to be able to track that form of trolling, the downrating.
Guest sherlocked17 Posted January 16, 2016 Report Posted January 16, 2016 I loved the ratings.... But maybe it could be like kudo's at AO3? Because people are more inclined to give out kudo's than comments... I receive more ratings than reviews...
DemonGoddess Posted January 16, 2016 Author Report Posted January 16, 2016 I'm not saying the ratings won't come back. What I AM saying is that they should not come back in their current form. It's been used to abuse authors far too many times over the years.
Guest sherlocked17 Posted January 16, 2016 Report Posted January 16, 2016 I'm not saying that you did, only suggesting something in a friendly manner, but I get it you're miffed
DemonGoddess Posted January 16, 2016 Author Report Posted January 16, 2016 Nope, not miffed. I am a terse sort of person when I communicate. Especially when I'm in the middle of things. What I would LIKE to see with ratings (and I'll go over this with manta) is that who rated how is not necessarily visible, except to staff. Reason for that being when there are stories with 4 and 5 ratings all of sudden getting downrated to 1 and 2? It's a spite thing. I need to be able to find the ones doing it. This would also require login for rating, and it would no longer be truly anonymous. By doing this, it'll kill instances where this is used to abuse authors for no apparent reason. (The reason is almost ALWAYS a disliked pair)
Guest sherlocked17 Posted January 16, 2016 Report Posted January 16, 2016 Thanx for clearing up and no I don't like flames either.
DemonGoddess Posted January 16, 2016 Author Report Posted January 16, 2016 as far as I'm concerned, downrating out of spite is troll behavior
Guest 24CaratCoal Posted January 17, 2016 Report Posted January 17, 2016 Honestly, making the rating system something you have to log in to use seems completely fair to me. It's way too easy to abuse otherwise. Grantee I don't think I've ever personally used it, but there definitely are those out there who love to abuse that sort of power when there are absolutely no reprecussions for them. I do have a question though, have the banner ads always been so wide? The banners themselves only take up somewhere around a third of the screen, but I've noticed that the viable clicking area (not all that good with computers, so I'm honestly not sure what to call that empty space that acts like it's a part of the banner) actually goes across nearly the entire screen. I'm mentioning it because I'm using an old iPad and with the touch screen I'll sometimes be scrolling down the page and then suddenly find myself being shunted to amazon in a new tab. It's very jarring. The same thing happens with the 'report' button on reviews, but that's a problem across the internet as a whole. I figured I should mention it tough, I doubt a normal computer would be phased by it, but when your finger is your curse yeah. Still, thanks for all your guys' (and more prominently gals') hard work. You've all done a great job on this site.
Guest sherlocked17 Posted January 17, 2016 Report Posted January 17, 2016 Ehm the hits are voided as well? I know I'm a nuisance but I noticed this as well...
DemonGoddess Posted January 17, 2016 Author Report Posted January 17, 2016 @24CaratCoal The banner ads have not changed in size. They're still 468x60. If you meant the area in which they're displayed, I could always reduce the physical size of the table, to make it so it's more mobile/touch screen compatible. The table size has also not changed. You're right, on a desktop, this is not an issue. @sherlocked17 No, the hits are still accumulating. The DISPLAY of them relies on old code database calls which will kill things, which is why the display of them in new code is not yet restored. You can see them in the general story listings.
Guest Desert Sea Posted January 18, 2016 Report Posted January 18, 2016 Hey DG - I can't seem to find the cumulative hits (all of the views I have looked at have the same number from over a week ago) - maybe I'm in the wrong spot?
BronxWench Posted January 18, 2016 Report Posted January 18, 2016 It should still be accumulating in the general listings, under the Latest Stories page view.
Guest Desert Sea Posted January 18, 2016 Report Posted January 18, 2016 It doesn't look like it. The same number as everywhere else that I have viewed, and the same number since things went down. Hmmmm.
BronxWench Posted January 18, 2016 Report Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) @Desert_Sea, Ack, let me check with DG. I'm not seeing them tick up either, although they are apparently accumulating in the database records themselves. Our coder was working like mad just to get certain features re-enabled. This one is likely still on her list of things to restore. Be patient with us as we get everything up and rolling again. Edited January 18, 2016 by BronxWench
DemonGoddess Posted January 18, 2016 Author Report Posted January 18, 2016 yep, they're accumulating in the db. Just not visibly. She said something about working on it after work today.
Guest Desert Sea Posted January 19, 2016 Report Posted January 19, 2016 Coolio, thanks. I've had to manage coding disasters in the past and it is hell stressful. I hope you are all doing ok.
DemonGoddess Posted January 19, 2016 Author Report Posted January 19, 2016 Yeah, we are. Thanks for asking!
MorbidFantasy Posted January 21, 2016 Report Posted January 21, 2016 Lol silly me. I just made a new thread reporting the hit counter freezes before seeing this here thread. Well as long as the database is still functioning I'm sure things will work out.
YaoiLemonadeLover Posted January 24, 2016 Report Posted January 24, 2016 It would definitely be nice to have the story title show up in the tab/browser title again. This seems to have broken since the server upgrade.
YaoiLemonadeLover Posted January 24, 2016 Report Posted January 24, 2016 Nope Definitely broken. Individual titles no longer pass to the browser through the header html tags, only the generic one.
BronxWench Posted January 24, 2016 Report Posted January 24, 2016 Nope Definitely broken. Individual titles no longer pass to the browser through the header html tags, only the generic one. Are you talking about the label that appears on the individual browser tabs? If so, it's not broken. It simply displays differently. That will happen when we upgrade to the new php and code. My work in the archive requires that I often work with close to a dozen tabs open at once in my browser window. More than that, and I wouldn't be able to read anything on the tab that was longer than three letters unless my browser was set to full-screen, so I'm really not getting the issue here.
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