Alpha Bugs

Post bugs and issues here. Do not hyperlink to the pages, please provide that information separately to the devs for now.

Bugs

Bugs affect the operability of the site.

• Some (most?) saved changes to settings on the "You" pages are not reflected following pressing "save"
• Karma score of -1 means you cannot post as yourself, meaning you essentially remain at -1 forever.
• You can create, edit, and preview journal entries, but they are not saved.

Issues

Issues don't affect the operability, but are inconvenient or undesirable

• Firehose
• Many 404 errors on Help and Preferences page
• Email links and registration email are all NCommander's personal address
• Categories (section and topics) for new submissions need expanding. - (current suggested list is here: http://www.soylentnews.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=33&start=20#p486 - mattie_p)
• Is there a way for users to make posts on submitted stories, or is that an editor-only thing.
• FAQ links don't work when directed to slashcode. Internal links work fine.

Suggestions

• Having the comments section work in a slightly less retro way would be awesome. Specifically: a) clicking on a comment URL shouldn't make the rest of the thread vanish. b) have the site automatically return you to the view you came from following posting of a comment.
• Would like to be able to click on the title, as well as 'Read more...', to go from the main list to an individual story page.
• "Dupe detector" at submission time. Use submitted title to search previous stories for dupes and get user to confirm that what they're submitting really is novel. (partial solution here, in that if you base the submission off a URL, that must be unique - mattie_p)

• Just submitted an article to make sure that function worked ok with no javascript - it does. However, I noticed that the articles are always surrounded automatically with quotes
  • AudioGuy writes "blah blah blah"
• but if your article happens to begin with a quote it winds up like
  • AudioGuy Writes ""blah blah blah""
• which looks kind of odd. Maybe the outer quotes could be left off and something like italicizing the initial text used instead:
  • AudioGuy writes: blah blah blah
  • So quoted text would look like this
  • AudioGuy writes: "blah blah blah"
• Editors will have to check for quotes and make sure they make sense. I'll keep my eyes open for them - mattie_p