Technical Issues

[TelephotoMarigold]

Has anyone reported the Fan Fic section as having glitches?  Now you can't comment on any story that has been finished.  Some links to stories appear as "quotes" in reply boxes. 

[Dan F]

Has anyone reported the Fan Fic section as having glitches?  Now you can't comment on any story that has been finished.  Some links to stories appear as "quotes" in reply boxes. 

​I presume you're talking about the Comments forum in the NDL? I've now switched Archiving off for that forum so the topics will become available again shortly.

The idea behind the Archiving system is that it disables topics that haven't been active for a set amount of time (it's currently set at a year). These are then moved into a separate database in order to reduce load on the server, which on a forum of this size is very significant.

Obviously there are a few situations where this isn't ideal (I did overlook the Comments forum when I was disabling it in certain places a few weeks back), but if someone has something of significance to add to an old topic then it can be un-archived.

As for the topic links/previews, it's something I'm very much aware of and have mentioned in the staff room. Again, it's useful in some situations but a pain in others where we've got existing lists of topics which have changed. QA has just mentioned in the staff room that she's gradually working through the FanFiction index in order to fix things in there. There is a workaround to avoid it when posting which I mentioned here.

[Slade]

I've Unarchived the topics in question so they should be available again within a few minutes.

Thanks again!!

[TelephotoMarigold]

Has anyone reported the Fan Fic section as having glitches?  Now you can't comment on any story that has been finished.  Some links to stories appear as "quotes" in reply boxes. 

I presume you're talking about the Comments forum in the NDL? I've now switched Archiving off for that forum so the topics will become available again shortly.

The idea behind the Archiving system is that it disables topics that haven't been active for a set amount of time (it's currently set at a year). These are then moved into a separate database in order to reduce load on the server, which on a forum of this size is very significant.

Obviously there are a few situations where this isn't ideal (I did overlook the Comments forum when I was disabling it in certain places a few weeks back), but if someone has something of significance to add to an old topic then it can be un-archived.

As for the topic links/previews, it's something I'm very much aware of and have mentioned in the staff room. Again, it's useful in some situations but a pain in others where we've got existing lists of topics which have changed. QA has just mentioned in the staff room that she's gradually working through the FanFiction index in order to fix things in there. There is a workaround to avoid it when posting which I mentioned here.

Yes, the Fan Fic index has some issues.  Other writers stories have appeared in the list under my username. Some story titles appear in 'quote' boxes as opposed to being links. 

Section breaks I put in chapters in my stories no longer appear meaning that I need to go in and edit chapters. 

With regards to the stories themselves even when archived in the NDL or Vault people were still able to comment on them. 

 

 

[Dan F]

Has anyone reported the Fan Fic section as having glitches?  Now you can't comment on any story that has been finished.  Some links to stories appear as "quotes" in reply boxes. 

I presume you're talking about the Comments forum in the NDL? I've now switched Archiving off for that forum so the topics will become available again shortly.

The idea behind the Archiving system is that it disables topics that haven't been active for a set amount of time (it's currently set at a year). These are then moved into a separate database in order to reduce load on the server, which on a forum of this size is very significant.

Obviously there are a few situations where this isn't ideal (I did overlook the Comments forum when I was disabling it in certain places a few weeks back), but if someone has something of significance to add to an old topic then it can be un-archived.

As for the topic links/previews, it's something I'm very much aware of and have mentioned in the staff room. Again, it's useful in some situations but a pain in others where we've got existing lists of topics which have changed. QA has just mentioned in the staff room that she's gradually working through the FanFiction index in order to fix things in there. There is a workaround to avoid it when posting which I mentioned here.

Yes, the Fan Fic index has some issues.  Other writers stories have appeared in the list under my username. Some story titles appear in 'quote' boxes as opposed to being links. 

Section breaks I put in chapters in my stories no longer appear meaning that I need to go in and edit chapters. 

With regards to the stories themselves even when archived in the NDL or Vault people were still able to comment on them. 

Well as I said, QA is currently working through the FanFic index trying to fix things which is quite a long and tedious process. The 'quotes' you mention are actually the topic previews I mentioned, which are a new feature of the board software.

With the Archiving I was referring to another feature of the forum that we activated not long ago which was preventing those old topics being replied to, not our own process of 'archiving' the topics into the NDL - it's now fixed in that forum anyway.

[TelephotoMarigold]

Just had a report that a user has been trying to comment on my stories but the board won't let her. 

[Dan F]

You'll have to be a bit more specific - which section is the story in?

It should be working in the completed and the in-progress fictions (I haven't re-enabled it for the abandoned fics in the Vault)

[Natasha]

Just about every week now the Australian and Spoiler section asks me to log in and its getting a little annoying. Yes I have cookie enabled, its only just started happening the past month and now its asking me to log in to the whole forum :/

 

 

[dvj1208]

Just about every week now the Australian and Spoiler section asks me to log in and its getting a little annoying. Yes I have cookie enabled, its only just started happening the past month and now its asking me to log in to the whole forum :/

I had reported the same issue in another thread and I got the following response.

I am being logged out of forums that require passwords once every week - Spoiler Section and Australian Discussion. However, I stay logged into BTTB. Is there a way out of this?

I know there is an issue with being logged out of the forum every so often, which that may be related to - Chris is going to look into it at some point.

Hope that helps

[Inactive User]

Anyone does have this problem while uploading artwork artwork into your artwork threads?? I do use tinypic to upload avatars but it's really annoying because I have to keep re-editing my post to add in them again.