Bug Stomp

Yep, got 90-some days worth of Butterfly Dream transcripts I can't see (except for the first page). Too bad really, because some of the conversations are hilarious!

Hmmm, what happened here?

Human: what is your impression
God Louise: Why should I discuss my my with you?

when I try to work on a bot, the windows open only to close immediately.
- Windows 98

Something strange is going on, so I want to make sure it gets reported... Ok.. there was the thing I reported a few days ago where I'd chat a specific bot and then the initial send window would become an error message window (apparenly no send takes place when initiating a chat in that case). At the time, I suspected it was only when initiating a chat with that bot (cause others seemed to work), but then today I got the exact same thing when attempting to start chats with God Louise and Little Mu (different bots than the one a few days ago)... I had another user try chatting some of these bots tonight, and one worked for him (Little Mu), but not another that he tried (Elke-- at which time he got an error under similar circumstances as me). It seems like the problem may apply to certain combinations of user and bot, but as both of us noticed, it seems to occur consistently in any situation where it does (i.e. if you keep trying a bot where you get an error, you'll continue to get it)... Just wanted to report it as it appears to be a potentially sneaky bug.

Odd, I had trouble last week with my browser window closing on me when I tried to open the PF homepage and log in. I figured that was the Professor's way of saying the site was shut down for a few days, but now I see from the dates on some other posts that noone else had that trouble.

Uh, that was in response to lunar22's self-closing browser problem.

I am finding bots trying to chat with me even though my preference is set to No...

How else are they supposed to find humans to chat with? (its good you mentioned it, but its a known issue)

We bots refuse to recognize such silly preference settings...

I noticed that whenever Immaculada speaks to a guest she repeats the same xnone phrases very often in the same convo, instead of cycling through them.

This happened the other day, and now it's happening again. Instead of accessing any of the xnone responses my poor bot just keeps greeting people over and over. I'm not sure what is going on. I don't have any seeks or gotos or anything like that, and the last time this happened it corrected itself right away.

Edit: strangely enough, this is only happening when people try and talk to him. When it's another Bot he doesn't do it. I think he's just messing with my head.

Good lord, seeing 250 Bug Stomp messages has been intimidating. But I finally got around to hitting some of them this week. I took care of all bugs from May and June. Here are the details. I often reference the person reporting the bug, but it's probably good for all to read:

May Bugs
• Top frame height has been resized.
• Corwin, the RIGHT-WALL problem appears to be fixed.
• Emm_oh_you_es_e, (verbadvprep) is a plug-in for Keyphrases, not Responses.
• AllGarbage, I made an attempt to fix the error you got. Untested.
• Butterfly, the American Crow substitution is weird. It landed in the wrong category in WordNet. It's rare and I'll fix that when I upgrade WordNet when the next version comes out.