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I'm Too OLD For This wrote:

erik wrote:

I just saw a 500 error for the first time (ironically, right after I made the above post). It was caused by a mysql config issue, which I just resolved. Let me know if you see another.

Performing any search on the forum posts returns the 500 server error page.

Also the autosaving or something in the post box is making things very difficult to type on a phone because it is putting the cursor in the wrong places sometimes after typing a word and generates garbled words at the end.

I can't get the search bug to reproduce. If you click this, do you get a 500? Have you tried recently?

The search is now working for me

I'm Too OLD For This wrote:

The search is now working for me

Thanks.

WRT to the post reply bug, what phone/browser are you running? I can't get that to reproduce on Safari or Chrome on an iPhone or iPad or Kindle Fire.

Anyone having a similar experience? If so, browser + device helps the most.

erik wrote:

WRT to the post reply bug, what phone/browser are you running? I can't get that to reproduce on Safari or Chrome on an iPhone or iPad or Kindle Fire.

Anyone having a similar experience? If so, browser + device helps the most.

I'm using Firefox Mobile with the Google Keyboard. It doesn't happen everytime but I've encountered the issue about 5 times over the past couple of days.

I'm Too OLD For This wrote:

erik wrote:

WRT to the post reply bug, what phone/browser are you running? I can't get that to reproduce on Safari or Chrome on an iPhone or iPad or Kindle Fire.

Anyone having a similar experience? If so, browser + device helps the most.

I'm using Firefox Mobile with the Google Keyboard. It doesn't happen everytime but I've encountered the issue about 5 times over the past couple of days.

OK, good to know. I think I can get close to reproducing that setup on a Kindle Fire. I'll add it to my list. Thanks for your help.

Very difficult to use on the iPhone

All the white sea around everything is going to give me a headache.

I didn't read through all the responses but I wanted to give my two cents as a web developer. I think that the changes are pretty good but not great. My impression though is that Erik is the only web developer supporting LRC (I've only ever seen him posting on the forums). The changes are impressive given that he is managing the full stack. He's doing the job of at least a 5 person team. I think the changes to the site are sub-par as a result of his skills being stretched across so many technologies -- think jack of all trades, master of none saying.

With all that, I think that LRC would be better off hiring more developers to support the website. Otherwise the website will continue to look amateurish.

I agree! I think all the changes are good but this does seem like a nice step. Thanks letsrun!

I’ve gotten some 404 Error on iPhone, but it clears. Of course I’m grateful for changes, sockpuppets tend to hinder honest posting; there are some extremely knowledgeable posters who limit their postings & don’t reveal their identities to trolls.

I also get a 500 error when searching, but I'm using "alan webb" to search. Not sure if "" is a rejected character? Used to doing this to search for content between "".

WebDev12359 wrote:

I didn't read through all the responses but I wanted to give my two cents as a web developer. I think that the changes are pretty good but not great. My impression though is that Erik is the only web developer supporting LRC (I've only ever seen him posting on the forums). The changes are impressive given that he is managing the full stack. He's doing the job of at least a 5 person team. I think the changes to the site are sub-par as a result of his skills being stretched across so many technologies -- think jack of all trades, master of none saying.

With all that, I think that LRC would be better off hiring more developers to support the website. Otherwise the website will continue to look amateurish.

not sure if it's worth the money. this forum does not get THAT much traffic. And i doubt the improvements would drive much more. people come here for discussion. And we get discussion.

Can you make it possible to search by user? I'd love to be able to see the recent posts made by Renato Canova, but to do that now, I have to search for "Canova" then sift through all the posts mentioning Canova where he may or may not have actually posted.

Milton Friedman wrote:

Can you make it possible to search by user? I'd love to be able to see the recent posts made by Renato Canova, but to do that now, I have to search for "Canova" then sift through all the posts mentioning Canova where he may or may not have actually posted.

This would be a useful feature.

I agree with this wrote:

Milton Friedman wrote:

Can you make it possible to search by user? I'd love to be able to see the recent posts made by Renato Canova, but to do that now, I have to search for "Canova" then sift through all the posts mentioning Canova where he may or may not have actually posted.

This would be a useful feature.

Yep, I'm going to implement this when I add within-post search functionality (probably this week).

Yeah, that's fine. I agree that it serves as a good conduit for discussion. It'll just never really be that great of a website without the investment in the right people supporting it. But I'll continue to use it so there's that.

Mine has significantly more white space on the sides than what is shown here. I tried to paste a screen shot in to show you, but it wouldn't paste for some reason. Happy to email it to you if that would be helpful, but since this is page 2 of 12 pages so far, I'm guessing someone else may have shown you already. I'm using Chrome.

Whoops! Forgot to quote the post, so here's try number two. Apparently I need more wake up time this morning.

Mine has significantly more white space on the sides than what is shown here. I tried to paste a screen shot in to show you, but it wouldn't paste for some reason. Happy to email it to you if that would be helpful, but since this is page 2 of 12 pages so far, I'm guessing someone else may have shown you already. I'm using Chrome.

Atomic Party Chair wrote:

Mine has significantly more white space on the sides than what is shown here. I tried to paste a screen shot in to show you, but it wouldn't paste for some reason. Happy to email it to you if that would be helpful, but since this is page 2 of 12 pages so far, I'm guessing someone else may have shown you already. I'm using Chrome.

Are you using an adblocker? Screenshot to

would help