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Fox35 Website Technical Issues
Feb 24, 2007 | 4:43 AM
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Since there's no category in the blogs for "support" or "website issues", in lieu of such a division, I'm starting a thread that maybe others, as well, will make use of.

 

I have had a few issues worth mentioning, for starters:

 

Email Notification:

The e-mail notification for new posts wasn't working for a couple weeks.  Then it was this past week.  In the past couple days, however, it seems to have quit working again.  Have others also had this problem?

 

Paragraph Formatting in HTML:

I'm finding that while in the formatted text editor, the paragraphs display correctly, when going back to read them, the paragraphs spacing (the return after each paragraph) is no longer displayed as it was in the editor.  Putting DOUBLE returns in doesn't help as they seem to be automatically removed.  Only by using TRIPLE returns after each paragraph is the single space preserved.  One must either to this or enter the HTML "BR" command in the html source after the fact.  Is there a setting to correct this or is it a bug in the HTML display?

 

Uploading Avatars:

While this is clearly not a problem for all, I find myself unable to upload an avatar.  I've tried different image formats and sizes as well as disabling pop-up blockers and changing certain settings.  I get the "uploading" animated icon which doesn't go away, even when let for hours.  Has anyone else had this problem and/or know how to correct this?

 

If anyone else has a technical issue this is a good thread on which to post it....

 

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Arky51 read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 10:43 AM

ALL THE ABOVE.
Arky51 read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 10:47 AM

Onoe thing I could mention about the Avatar Upload: you are limited by pixel size. That means, if your *.bmp, or *.jpg file is above 900 KB, it probably won't upload.
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Arky51 read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 10:51 AM

ALARM! I just attempted to comment on misstb2007's Blog,
Arky51 read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 10:53 AM

ALARM! I just attempted to comment on misstb2007's Blog, Rights for Children Under 18. There was nothing on her Newsroom Page.

Whassup wit dat?
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soccormom read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 4:20 PM

All of the above except for the email. I get an email when someone adds a comment to my blog but for no one elses.
soccormom read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 4:24 PM

Another problem is sometimes, not all the comment appear and the only way to see the last comment is to add another comment. All these problems occured when they tried to make it better... If somethin's not broke, don't fix it!
fish247 read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 5:15 PM

As soccermom said. You look at a thread and it will tell you there are 9 comments but only 8 appear. In order to make the 9th appear, you have to make a tenth one. Strange.....
Also, this is not a technical issue but the FOX webmaster needs to consolidate all of the postings about the same subject into one. For instance, the "hiccup" girl. We have well written, well thought out, stimulating posts that are getting allot of responses and in a day or two you have to go pages back in order to find it. If you can screen for indecent material, you can consolidate duplicate postings.
Arky51 read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 5:23 PM

Another issue I would like to be considered:

Some folks have a panel in their News Room that lists shortcuts to the News Rooms of their several other favorite Bloggers.

Othes, who are missing that panel have the ability to build Photo Albums.

Possibly, we could have both?
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Hieronymus read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 7:44 PM

As for the avatar issue, naturally I tried small files (down to 5k) and different formats; no difference. I eventually uploaded a photo to my album and used THAT. Oddly, though, I still had the "uploading" window stay open yet it nonetheless successfully uploaded without telling me (I found out the next day). So there's still an avatar upload issue...

I've been notified for NO POSTS for a while, and now I'm getting notfied for posts on MY blog but not elsewhere. I used to get notified by both, with the exception that being notified for posts on OTHERS' blogs, I would only get ONE for any given thread (and then most posts would not generate any more notifications).

I've NOT seen this problem with having to make a post to see all posts. Wonder why that is?
Hieronymus read my blog view my photos
Feb 24, 2007 | 7:49 PM

Another couple issues:

Truncated messages:
This is more a BAD SETTING than a "bug". Namely, it's that when you make posts, they often get cut off if you post too much. I don't know why we're so limited. I could understand a limit to keep posts from being thousands of words long but right now, the limit is too stringent, sometimes requiring you to past the remaining sentance or two into yet another post. I wish this would be corrected.

Saerching blogs:
Another issue, not exactly a bug, related to what fish said, is the inability to search for favorite threads. At the very least it would be nice to be able to keep "WATCHING" threads you wish to follow. Most other BBS/Blog systems have this, and FOX really should, too....
AUGUSTALLEN28 read my blog view my photos
Feb 25, 2007 | 10:50 AM

im so glad you mentioned this uploading problem, I wrote to fox35 a couple of times about it and they didnt respond :( But I found an answer that worked, it may not be fox, but INTERNET EXPLORER,just download another web browser, (firefox)its free, and it works perfectly. I was so relieved when i was able to upload images.A friend of mine told me about firefox, You should try it, I guarantee it will work.
fish247 read my blog view my photos
Feb 25, 2007 | 4:18 PM

"I wrote to fox35 a couple of times about it and they didnt respond"
Were you surprised?
Arky51 read my blog view my photos
Feb 25, 2007 | 8:13 PM

Still ain't gittin no e-mails on comments, cepen fer my O-riginals.
Hieronymus read my blog view my photos
Feb 25, 2007 | 11:07 PM

August, I'm sure it's a problem with IE but that's when the website needs to be tweaked to have a work-around. What I was wondering is if it was just my computer, installation or OS which was the problem or if it was more widespread. My desktop is disconnect whilst I re-do my office floor so I'm on my laptop only at the moment.

I actually did get an email back about this, in addition to other comments, but the answer was "I don't know". I wish FOX would have a "WEBMASTER" link for website related issues.

Arky, shouldn't that have been "eye-yah my-yoo-ul"? ;-)
AUGUSTALLEN28 read my blog view my photos
Feb 26, 2007 | 9:48 AM

I was wondering the same thing when i was going through all this, maybe it was my computer?,maybe the speed was to slow etc.I have a faster system now and still couldn't upload images. It seems IE has tomany safeguards and security features that prevent it from working properly within the fox35 website. All i did was just turn off pop up blockers/ make sure windows firewall is turned off, -downloaded firefox 2.0, and BAM.it worked so fast i couldnt believe it. ---(fish247)-- and yes i was surprised they didnt respond to my emails.
WOFL read my blog view my photos
Feb 26, 2007 | 1:06 PM

hey, sorry no one from the webteam responded to this blog over the weekend. Wow, there's a lot to address..first, email notification. This issue came to our attention last week and should have been corrected. If you are still not getting email notification or for any web related issues, please email webmaster@foxwofl.com

I too noticed the paragraph formatting problem but found it's corrected if I double space between paragraphs.

Uploading avatars: I'm stumped. Someone emailed us about this and we did respond. I'll foward this blog to the national tech team for their input.

I gotta run right now, but I'll respond to some of the other concerns in a separate post...stand by!
WOFL read my blog view my photos
Feb 26, 2007 | 3:43 PM

okay: soccormom, I too notice sometimes a blog will say it has 2 comments, but when you click on it, you'll see more. I don't know what you mean about having to add a comment to see the others. All I do is click on where it says "add comment" and I can see all the comments without having to post one.

fish: we can't "consolidate" blogs into one. We've said before people are free to start their own blogs, but we will not rank duplicate copies on the community list. We try to encourage people to add comments to a thread already posted.
WOFL read my blog view my photos
Feb 26, 2007 | 3:46 PM

Arky: you CAN have both favorites and photo albums. When you click on someone's blog scroll down and look on the right hand side for a link that says "add to favorites." That should also address the "searching blogs" question.

Again, if anyone has website issues, please email us at webmaster@foxwofl.com
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