Let’s discuss bugs in Heterotic Beast.

Hmmm. /users/nnn/posts?monitored=true doesn’t seem to return anything, here on Golem. But it works fine on my test installation.

Both are running in production mode. The test installation uses sqlite3; this one uses mysql. The (admittedly complicated) SQL join seems not to work on the latter.

Hah! Fixed, now. Boolean comparisons are not the same in SQLite3 and MySQL. Finding a syntax that works in both was … umh … fun.

This place doesn’t seem to remember me at the moment. *sigh*

Is the colour of the icon next to the forum title meant to tell me if there’s new stuff there? If so, it’s not always in sync.

When I click on a discussion/whatever then it takes me to the top of the page. It would be more sensible if it took me to the point where I last read up to (which I presume it knows).

It would be more sensible if it took me to the point where I last read up to (which I presume it knows).

How does Vanilla keep track of what posts you’ve read?

Incidentally, if you want to get a feel for what Vanilla looks like but don’t want to sign on to the nForum, I have a test forum set up: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~stacey/Mathforge/Test/. I can easily add any plugins from the nForum that you might want to play with.

Vanilla stores some information in the user database, including the last comment in each discussion that you read.

May I suggest ”Other users online: XYZ”.

Okay, that’s odd. I suggested the above having seen the “Users online: distler” message, and not seeing my own name. Now I click back to the forums list and I am listed there this time. So either it got it wrong first time, or you’re playing with the code and I should shut up and let you get on with it.

Deleting the first post in a topic leads to a “page does not exist” error.

No it doesn’t.

Deleting the only post in a topic, also deletes the topic. Possibly, the redirect (which normally goes to topic#show but, in this case, should go to the forum#show because the topic no longer exists) is incorrect.

Fixed.

Long lines (of code?) make the posts a bit wide. Currently, my view on http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/forum/forums/instiki/topics/bugs#post_77 has all the posts reaching in to the grey region on the right-hand side.

This place just remembered who I am. So that seems to be working now.

Minor: Account names get lowercased. I created an account “David Tanzer” from the signup page, but it gets recorded as “david tanzer.” I find it somewhat unsettling to see proper names in lower case. But its easy enough to workaround by updating the database.

The culprit is

  before_validation :normalize_login_and_email

in app/models/user/validation.rb.

The point is that we don’t want a “David Tanzer”, a “david tanzer” and a “dAvid tanzEr”. The normalize_login_and_email downcases both the login name and email address, associated to an account, to put them in canonical form (before checking the database to see if there is already an account with that name/email).

While downcasing the email address is clearly the right thing to do, it’s not so clear that’s the “right” thing to do for the login name. I’ve fixed it so that we just make a case-insensitive check on uniqueness.

That a good resolution. Thanks.