PF5 Problems & Errors: Report & Discuss

[Wrichik Basu]

One bug...

While adding media items, there is an option to delete the entry before saving. That is not working. On clicking it, nothing happens.

...and one question:

In PF4, we used to have a widget in the RHS panel that showed recently added videos. Is there any plan to bring that back?

 

[DaveC426913]

This must must one seriously important article! I just got 38 (thirty-eight) alerts in a row about it! (And I'm not even subscribed to alerts from any media postings.)

@Wrichik Basu added the media item Operating Systems (NPTEL):- Lecture 26: Transcations and lock-free primitives read/write locks - Today, 4:17 AM

 

[Wrichik Basu]

This must must one seriously important article! I just got 38 (thirty-eight) alerts in a row about it! (And I'm not even subscribed to alerts from any media postings.)

@Wrichik Basu added the media item Operating Systems (NPTEL):- Lecture 26: Transcations and lock-free primitives read/write locks - Today, 4:17 AM

That same problem! Even upgrading to PF5 didn't solve it! And mysteriously you are the only person receiving these alerts. Paging @Greg Bernhardt...

 

[DaveC426913]

That same problem! Even upgrading to PF5 didn't solve it! And mysteriously you are the only person receiving these alerts. Paging @Greg Bernhardt...

I wonder if my handle is hard-coded into some .cfg file somewhere on PF's servers...
Wait, what's this? 37,394 individual half-cent deposits into my PayPal account from PF...

Actually, everything's just fine Greg. Nothing to see here...

 

[Wrichik Basu]

@DaveC426913 Did you receive alerts for the 51 videos that I uploaded after the ones you mentioned?

 

[DaveC426913]

@DaveC426913 Did you receive alerts for the 51 videos that I uploaded after the ones you mentioned?

No. At least, not yet.

[ EDIT ] Sunuvagun. Those are all unique uploads! I didn't realize it at first - I thought they were all the same (they are all the same time: 4:17). Lectures 4 thru 28 are visible in my alerts. Probably more after-the-fold.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

No. At least, not yet.

Problem seems to be exactly same as before. You are getting alerts for only some of the media categories, particularly the ones under Other Science.

Can someone else test by uploading a video to the Computing category in media gallery? I want to see whether only my uploads generate the alerts, or all uploads in those specific categories.

 

[PeroK]

If I am replying to a thread and a new reply comes in while I am still editing mine, the Latex I have in my reply can get zapped. E.g:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...avitational-field-part-3.983410/#post-6289798

I'm not sure you can actually see it happening, but when you post the reply, the Latex gets zapped.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I'm not sure you can actually see it happening, but when you post the reply, the Latex gets zapped.

Yeah this is a known issue. Not sure on solution at the moment.

 

[fresh_42]

Yeah this is a known issue. Not sure on solution at the moment.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think it only happens to text included by # #, not by . Unfortunately - at least on my German keyboard - the sharps doesn't take any time, whereas needs a lot. Anyway, if true, it should by an important hint for the programmers.

 

[Charles Link]

If I am replying to a thread and a new reply comes in while I am still editing mine, the Latex I have in my reply can get zapped. E.g:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...avitational-field-part-3.983410/#post-6289798

I'm not sure you can actually see it happening, but when you post the reply, the Latex gets zapped.

I've experienced the same problem. It can arise also when you try to edit a post, for what can be minor corrections, and it can be very frustrating when, instead of making the improvement, the whole post, i.e. the latex, basically crashes. Getting it back can be painstaking. In one case, after a couple unsuccessful attempts, I started an identical but different post, and scrapped the original.

 

[Stephen Tashi]

Today, with my Firefox 69.0.1, the preview function of the editor truncates long quotations. If I ignore this defect and post a message with a long quotation, the entire quotation appears. For example, post #2 in https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...nal-variance-intuitively.987588/#post-6329366 didn't preview correctly.

 

[phinds]

Today, with my Firefox 69.0.1...

Which is quite a few updates behind. Why not update and see if you still have the issue?

 

[symbolipoint]

Which is quite a few updates behind. Why not update and see if you still have the issue?

Let me guess - phinds is using Windows 7 ?

 

[phinds]

Let me guess - phinds is using Windows 7 ?

No, Win 10 Pro 64 bit and Firefox 75.0 (64 bit)

 

[symbolipoint]

No, Win 10 Pro 64 bit and Firefox 75.0 (64 bit)

I mis-identified the quote.

It was or is Stephen Tashi, who may still be using Windows 7 ? If it is you, Stephen Tashi, but you are on Windows 10, you should be able to update to version 75 of Firefox.

 

[pbuk]

Problem

• Insert link tool in BBCode editor strips ' characters from URLs.

Steps to reproduce

1. Copy a URL containing a ' character to the clipboard e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law.
2. Select the Insert Link icon (or press Ctrl+K) in the WYSYWIG BB code editor.
3. Paste the URL, add some text for the link and press Insert.
4. Select the Toggle BB code icon.

Desired behavior

• Illegal ' should be encoded as %27 so the link becomes some text.

Actual behavior

• Illegal ' is stripped from the URL so the link becomes some text which does not identify the same resource.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Desired behavior

• Illegal ' should be encoded as %27 so the link becomes some text.

Actual behavior

• Illegal ' is stripped from the URL so the link becomes some text which does not identify the same resource.

For me, both the links open up the same web page. To be specific, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphys_law opens the same page as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law. Don't know if it's the same for other websites as well.

 

[pbuk]

For me, both the links open up the same web page. To be specific, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphys_law opens the same page as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law. Don't know if it's the same for other websites as well.

No, if you look at the top of the page (or at the HTTP traffic in Developer Tools) you will see that the first page is redirected to the correct one. I could probably have chosen a better example, but this one seemed appropriate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphys_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

This problem is a common one in web development but is easily overcome using functionality built into every web development environment I know of - for instance in JavaScript you simply need to call encodeURIComponent() on the raw string, a fuction which is available in every browser including IE since IE5.5.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I have submitted it to the devs. The editor is Froala.

 

[Ibix]

Minor one, but the links to pages of multi-page threads seem to have vanished (in the last few days) from the top of the page on my mobile (Firefox on Android). They're there at the bottom, and at both top and bottom in desktop.

 

[russ_watters]

That can't be good...

 

[Tom.G]

It works for me here in California.

 

[OCR]

That can't be good...

Yeah, I got that too. . . .

But. . . only when I clicked on your profile button. . .

JK

.

 

[Tom.G]

Still works in Southern California. I just read the most recent post, #15, by mfb that said SN4 passed cyrogenic test.
What part of the world are you in on?

 

[OCR]

What part of the world are you in on?

The flat part. . . .

.

 

[mfb]

The forum was gone for a while (nothing accessible, 410 error message on every page) but then recovered.

 

[Tom.G]

The flat part. . . .

Well... there's the problem!
To be on the flat part you would have to be an infinite distance around the (almost) sphere. Ergo, it would take infinite time for that Forum to get to you.

p.s. Ah, I see @mfb warped space-time and brought you back in range. Heavy-Duty dude there!

 

[OCR]

Ah, I see mfb warped space-time and brought you back in range.

Looks like he brought my twin along two too. . . .

.

 

[Tom.G]

Yup, seems that a version of the Twin Paradox sneaked in during a "Reply" operation!

Try replying to that line in your post #506, we may have found a matter replicator. (or at least an Electron replicator) (FREE ENERGY, FREE ENERGY)