Bug Stomp
Upgrades and changes sometimes have unpredictable results, so post your bugs and glitches in here and I'll get out my trusty wrench and get to fixin'!
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Thanks for the info!
Has anyone been successful? I'm trying to figure out whether I've just been doing something wrong - and perhaps many of us have.
Also, does anyone have an informed opinion about how much the slowness of the Forge might be do to the hangers-on? I often log in and see someone being mentioned as having been on for an hour or more; I click on the name and discover someone with no bots. They are not all from Leeds, by the way.
For serious botmakers the ratio of bot improvement to person-person chatting time is fairly large, especially when things are working well. Perhaps this could be made a requirement for extended membership. Or at least, that they should chat with the bots once in awhile.
If the hangers-on are not contributing to the slowness, I don't begrudge them a place to chat, but the slowness has really been a pain, especially lately when we have to work on-line because of problems with the import.
Psimagus? I bet you have more information on this.
Has anyone been successful? I'm trying to figure out whether I've just been doing something wrong - and perhaps many of us have.
Also, does anyone have an informed opinion about how much the slowness of the Forge might be do to the hangers-on? I often log in and see someone being mentioned as having been on for an hour or more; I click on the name and discover someone with no bots. They are not all from Leeds, by the way.
For serious botmakers the ratio of bot improvement to person-person chatting time is fairly large, especially when things are working well. Perhaps this could be made a requirement for extended membership. Or at least, that they should chat with the bots once in awhile.
If the hangers-on are not contributing to the slowness, I don't begrudge them a place to chat, but the slowness has really been a pain, especially lately when we have to work on-line because of problems with the import.
Psimagus? I bet you have more information on this.
I wish I did. I don't think people logging on, even just to chat Leedsishly with each other, causes much of an overhead in itself - it's only ASCII text after all, and even a professional typist would be hard pressed to exceed a very few bps.
I can only concur with the Prof that it's the *&^% ISP doing some sneaky bottlenecking on the account to boost their profits (bandwidth=money for these people after all.)
It certainly never used to be a problem when we were running from a partition on his home PC (sorry, Mac)
I can only concur with the Prof that it's the *&^% ISP doing some sneaky bottlenecking on the account to boost their profits (bandwidth=money for these people after all.)
It certainly never used to be a problem when we were running from a partition on his home PC (sorry, Mac)
Possible sign of progress: While my transcripts are currently showing up on Thursday, 26 April, when I go to "Today," I no longer get the "Tumbleweeds" message. Or it might be completely meaningless.
My transcripts are on the right day too! The whole Forge is working great, fast and smooth! I love it.
I hate to be the party pooper, but Brother Jerome's transcripts are on April 29th (that's a slight improvement I think,) but Brother Ignatius, Albot123 & Kid Boron's transcripts are all still on January 9th, with plenty of subsequent tumbleweeds 
And the importer still doesn't seem to be working
And the importer still doesn't seem to be working
I had thought that one could use a single asterisk in keyphrases, e.g.,
I * thought so.
This would match on "I thought so" but also on "I really thought so" or "I heard the soprano-voiced harem guard say that he thought so", the idea being that the * can be replaced by anything or by nothing. But recently, whenever I try to put a lone asterisk into a keyphrase in the online language center, I get the message, "Keyphrases may not contain punctuation - yur keyphrase has been adjusted to conform to this" or something like that, and when I look at the keyphrase that has actually been entered, the asterisk has been deleted. Am I mistaken about something, or is this a bug?
I * thought so.
This would match on "I thought so" but also on "I really thought so" or "I heard the soprano-voiced harem guard say that he thought so", the idea being that the * can be replaced by anything or by nothing. But recently, whenever I try to put a lone asterisk into a keyphrase in the online language center, I get the message, "Keyphrases may not contain punctuation - yur keyphrase has been adjusted to conform to this" or something like that, and when I look at the keyphrase that has actually been entered, the asterisk has been deleted. Am I mistaken about something, or is this a bug?
That happens to me a lot. Just retype in the keyphrase Don't just add the * and keep trying until it goes in with out the message.
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