Official "Things that are Broken" thread

[creditcardfree]

I think I'm missing the ability to delete comments on the blogs...someone posted twice to my blog and I was going to clean it up and delete one. I don't see the delete/edit buttons. This is epecially important if I get a spam type comment. Thanks again!!

Update: It seems to be working now! Thanks for fixing...or maybe I just missed it.

[DayByDay]

The first thing I did when I saw the new look is click on the little "new post" button on each thread. It finally works for me! The button never worked for me in the older version. It would always show the very first post of the thread anyway which has always driven me batty.

Thanks for the changes!

[nate]

It says savingadvice.com. I tried basic and the spacing seems better. Which should I be on?

Yeah it was supposed to be on basic. Not sure why it would have you on the other one. I think i can lock that in for everyone though.

[nate]

Hey! Great new look!

By the way, the "Most Talked About Entries" section in the blogs all_entries page has a parsing error. The URL is repeated twice.

Thanks! Fixed

Additionally, it appears that the forum is rendered in fixed width now? On my screen (at work), I have to center the scroll bar in order to see the whole page. It's not a huge deal if it's something that's difficult to fix.

This is strange to hear. You mean the scroll bar on the bottom of the browser you have to center? Is your screen resolution set to really low (800x600 something of that sorts) at work? That's the only reason I can think of that you would see a scroll bar there. Can you take a screen shot?

By the way, I'm totally digging the universal login. It is universal now right? Can't be sure just yet. Anyways, keep up the good work!

Yes, you should only have to login once for everything now. That's the hope anyway.

[PaydayLoner]

This is strange to hear. You mean the scroll bar on the bottom of the browser you have to center? Is your screen resolution set to really low (800x600 something of that sorts) at work? That's the only reason I can think of that you would see a scroll bar there. Can you take a screen shot?

Same here. I now have to scroll left to right at my normal screen setting of 800x600, but I didn't used to.

The only inconvenience is that I can't find any way to make the font size easy to read and not have to scroll, unless I switch to accessibility view with font sizes ignored and then set my zoom to 80%.

If I set the screen resolution higher and zoom in to enlarge the font, the width stays the same, so I have to scroll again.

There's one other forum I go to that's the same way. The rest are the way this one used to be. Don't know enough about code and stuff to know what does it, but like Broken Arrow, I'd guess it has something to do with a fixed width.

It's no big deal. Not a problem at all. But just wanted to say that I noticed something different about the width too, same as Broken Arrow.

[Broken Arrow]

This is strange to hear. You mean the scroll bar on the bottom of the browser you have to center? Is your screen resolution set to really low (800x600 something of that sorts) at work? That's the only reason I can think of that you would see a scroll bar there. Can you take a screen shot?

Sure thing. Here's the screen shot.

Resolution is 1024x768. I left the horizontal scroll bar alone to show how much of it is cut off.

Yes, it's a work computer, so I'd rather not mess with the desktop layout.

But it's not a big deal if this is asking too much and ends up breaking the forum's formatting. I can easily pop into full screen mode to see everything without sideways scrolling.

[creditcardfree]

Yeah it was supposed to be on basic. Not sure why it would have you on the other one. I think i can lock that in for everyone though.

Okay, I switched myself to basic. The spacing seems better.

Also I do not have a scroll bar at the bottom of my screen so that must not be happening with all of us.

I still think the spacing seems double spaced on the blogs home page. I can't even see the bottom of the first post with out scrolling down a bit. And I have to scroll much farther down to see all the newest entries. Obviously, I have to scroll some regardless!!

[dmontngrey]

should be fixed now

I'm still getting the "page not found" error when clicking on a blog author's name.

[nate]

Yes the website is at a fixed width of 1024 pixels meaning any screen resolution lower than that will cause scroll bars, sorry payday. BA, in your case (since you are at 1024) you can simply get rid of the link box on the right side of your screen (or drag it to the bottom) so the browser can use the full width. Don't know if you want to do that with your work computer, just saying thats the reason for the scroll bars.

[nate]

I'm still getting the "page not found" error when clicking on a blog author's name.

Thank you, fixed.

[Broken Arrow]

you can simply get rid of the link box on the right side of your screen (or drag it to the bottom) so the browser can use the full width. Don't know if you want to do that with your work computer, just saying thats the reason for the scroll bars.

Because it's a shared work computer, and that side bar is work-related, I really don't want to that. But like I said, this is not a big deal.

By the way, love the new format on the home page! A lot more intuitive than the old one. I'll be honest, I hated the old one and never read it. It was like a huge clutter to me.

[cptacek]

Yes, this is fixed. I logged out. I also logged in several times before I realized I was already logged in. At the top off the forum home page and blog home page, it still says 'Join Now' or 'Log in'....so I didn't realize I was still logged in. So, that may need to be corrected to eliminate confusion. I do see where it says 'welcome creditcardfree' about an inch or so below now, but only on the forum page. On the blog home page, it is not clear that I'm logged in. Earlier today, it showed a tab for My Blog when I was logged in. I'm not seeing that now.

I had this problem today. I logged in a few times before realizing I was logged in.

[cptacek]

When I click on the email link sent to me because I have posted on a thread, it sends me to the second page of comments, even though there are currently 9 pages of comments and I have read all pages.

I am on Firefox, it gets sent to gmail, and I open in a new tab, if that helps.

[creditcardfree]

I had this problem today. I logged in a few times before realizing I was logged in.

Actually, I'm still having issues with knowing whether I'm logged on or not. Often I already am, but especially on the blog side where I spend most of my time, it often doesn't show I'm logged in. If I go to forums, it states I'm logged in at the top of the screen, once I move back to blogs without logging in again, it shows My Blog. So, am logged in, but it isn't consistent with showing me that.

[jeffrey]

Nate is aware and is trying to figure out the issue