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[INfisherman]

What/how are you accessing it? That's part of the puzzle that's missing.

OT sorry - hi Gemmie!

 

[Gemmie]

OT sorry - hi Gemmie!

*waves hi*

I'm trying to figure out how worm is accessing WS, although ALL the info gathered from folks is helpful.

And no, I'm not part of the IT team. I just like trying to understand how things work. Data is always helpful

 

[worm]

What/how are you accessing it? That's part of the puzzle that's missing.

Good catch. I was using an iPad from the stone age and it's much better on this tab. Thanks.

 

[Fraize]

Update: What's interesting is that the link opens fine in Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge as Missing Persons Discussion (only one / after 60 in the URL) but won't open in Google Chrome and has two // in the URL when you click on Missing Persons Discussion forum.

This is odd.

Thanks, @GuyfromCanada! That link should include '/forums/' in it, so instead of "https://websleuths.com/missing-persons-discussion.60/" the link should be "Websleuthsforums/missing-persons-discussion.60/". I think there are some caching involved in showing you the old link, but clicking on a link missing /forums/ between the website and the forum-name will not route to the correct location.

There are several layers of caching between the server and your eyes, including on your browser, your internet-service-provider, your VPN (if you have one), our host's regional caching servers scattered around the world, our host's local caching, and the PHP code that runs websleuths has its own short-lived cache. The only thing that we have control over is your browser's caching, and the only ways to fix that is through forcing an update (for example deleting cookies, and clearing cache from your browser), using a different browser, a different computer, or a different network (like your phone's mobile-network, public-wifi, or what have you).

There are a few links to that forum in this thread that uses the wrong link (from before we fixed the bug) that won't work at all. If you keep seeing the old link on the home-page, let me know!

 

[Fraize]

And this next issue might be hard to visualize.

OK, so before I hit Post on my above thread, my information kept changing right before my very eyes. I ran several tests, thinking it was when I highlighted something, or hovered my mouse over something, but it appears it just happens over 'time'. I counted "one one thousand, two one thousand", etc. and got to 11. So 10 seconds-ish?

What was changing was the red font would go back to black, and the "Thank you" at the bottom was overwritten with "May 12, 2024". My hand was NOT on my mouse so I didn't accidentally do something. I hope like heck it's WS and fixable, and not my computer!

Before:

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After 11 seconds or so (red underlines done by me to point out the areas):

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In order to get things back to the red font and "Thank you" at the bottom, I had to hit Undo (Ctrl-Z) which removed the date at the very bottom, AND turned the red font back back to red, but then I had to do a (Ctrl-Y (Redo) which then brought back my "Thank you". I did this about 6 times as I was taking notes and trying to figure out exactly what it was doing.

I want to add that I waited a bit before posting this to see if anything changes and it didn't. That makes me wonder if it has anything to do with the bulleting I had in my last post since I don't have any bulleting here (those are SS's above). Please do let me know if anything doesn't make any sense and I'll try my best to clarify.

Thank you.

Hey @Gemmie - I'm going to need more info, so can you message me privately?

 

[GuyfromCanada]

Thanks, @GuyfromCanada! That link should include '/forums/' in it, so instead of "https://websleuths.com/missing-persons-discussion.60/" the link should be "Websleuthsforums/missing-persons-discussion.60/". I think there are some caching involved in showing you the old link, but clicking on a link missing /forums/ between the website and the forum-name will not route to the correct location.

There are several layers of caching between the server and your eyes, including on your browser, your internet-service-provider, your VPN (if you have one), our host's regional caching servers scattered around the world, our host's local caching, and the PHP code that runs websleuths has its own short-lived cache. The only thing that we have control over is your browser's caching, and the only ways to fix that is through forcing an update (for example deleting cookies, and clearing cache from your browser), using a different browser, a different computer, or a different network (like your phone's mobile-network, public-wifi, or what have you).

There are a few links to that forum in this thread that uses the wrong link (from before we fixed the bug) that won't work at all. If you keep seeing the old link on the home-page, let me know!View attachment 565249

It's working now, after clearing the cache for the second time. Thanks.

 

[iulia]

@fraize I've been having the same issue that @Gemmie was describing earlier with the search results not coming in a chronological order. This affects me very much and I would really love it if it could be fixed. Pretty pretty please.

I attached a picture with a random search where the first 3 results seen ok but the 4th one is not. The rest of the results of this search are not chronological either, they go from 2025 to 2024 and back to 2025. I use the search function a lot and lately I've had to spend a lot of time looking at search results to make sure I don't miss anything.

Thank you for your time.

 

[Friday Fan]

Oh Jeez:


I kept getting a banner about push notifications. I kept closing it and got a strange message about how important push notifications are.
I was trying to screenshot the banner message, but then I accidentally enabled push notifications.

I really don't want push notifications. (Unless they are important notifications from the mods)
How can I disable them?

ETA: Was able to fix it be going into my "Preferences".
I unchecked "Push" because I get overwhelmed when I have too many push notifications.

 

[Fraize]

Oh Jeez:


I kept getting a banner about push notifications. I kept closing it and got a strange message about how important push notifications are.
I was trying to screenshot the banner message, but then I accidentally enabled push notifications.

I really don't want push notifications. (Unless they are important notifications from the mods)
How can I disable them?

If you mean browser-based notifications, that depends on your browser.

If it's Chrome, Google's support answer is here. If it's Firefox, Mozilla's support answer is here. On Safari, Apple's support answer is here.

You can also set it within Websleuth's settings in your User-preferences.

 

[Friday Fan]

If you mean browser-based notifications, that depends on your browser.

If it's Chrome, Google's support answer is here. If it's Firefox, Mozilla's support answer is here. On Safari, Apple's support answer is here.

I fixed it, by clicking "Preferences" on my profile.

From there I was able to edit push notification preferences.

 

[Gemmie]

Search is no longer working as of a short while ago, @fraize. I'm either getting NO hits (depending on who I'm searching for, or 1 out of VERY few. Here's one example:

I get just ONE hit (below), and you've posted more than once in this thread.

Here is another example. MassGuy posts a LOT (he's #1 for the Highest Reactions Score on under the Members tab). However, if I search Everywhere for his posts, I get ONE hit. ONE. That's not correct. lol

The only search result I get.

What happened? I sure hope that's fixable!

 

[Fraize]

If you mean browser-based notifications, that depends on your browser.

If it's Chrome, Google's support answer is here. If it's Firefox, Mozilla's support answer is here. On Safari, Apple's support answer is here.

Search is no longer working as of a short while ago, @fraize. I'm either getting NO hits (depending on who I'm searching for, or 1 out of VERY few. Here's one example:

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I get just ONE hit (below), and you've posted more than once in this thread.

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Here is another example. MassGuy posts a LOT (he's #1 for the Highest Reactions Score on under the Members tab). However, if I search Everywhere for his posts, I get ONE hit. ONE. That's not correct. lol

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The only search result I get.

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What happened? I sure hope that's fixable!

The new search-functionality improves the search function a great deal across the board, but the one thing that it doesn't do is allow for search-results in reverse-chronological sorting by default. While you can't please everybody all of the time, the mods have told me that they simply can't operate without reverse-chronological search results on by default.

Currently the only way to set that as the default is to disable the improved search-feature.

In order to do that, however, I have to rebuild gigabytes of search-indexes. Until that's complete, search is going to be very slow and return fewer results.

 

[Fraize]

This has been going for about an hour and a half, now.

 

[Gemmie]

The new search-functionality improves the search function a great deal across the board, but the one thing that it doesn't do is allow for search-results in reverse-chronological sorting by default. While you can't please everybody all of the time, the mods have told me that they simply can't operate without reverse-chronological search results on by default.

Currently the only way to set that as the default is to disable the improved search-feature.

In order to do that, however, I have to rebuild gigabytes of search-indexes. Until that's complete, search is going to be very slow and return fewer results.

Thank you for letting me know what's going on with search, and that you're fixing reverse-chron search. Thank goodness the Mods can't live without that cuz what Mods want, Mods get (which means I get it too. lol).

 

[iulia]

That explains why in the past hour the search results were chronological but the most recent ones were from 2012-2011. I figured something was in the works. Thank you @fraize for taking care of this.

 

[Rolypolyoly]

Loving all the new emojis, especially the much needed lol. I am regretting not asking for an edit button in DM's though, that would have been much appreciated

 

[iulia]

Loving all the new emojis, especially the much needed lol. I am regretting not asking for an edit button in DM's though, that would have been much appreciated

Omg, thank you for mentioning the emojis, I haven’t noticed them and wouldn’t have checked otherwise. Greatest new feature!

 

[Gemmie]

Loving all the new emojis, especially the much needed lol. I am regretting not asking for an edit button in DM's though, that would have been much appreciated

I SECOND the ability to edit our posts in DMs!!!! That has made no sense to me why we can't do that.

 

[Gemmie]

Errr... you have new emojis? I have the same old ones. Wahhhh....

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And I SECOND the ability to edit our posts in DMs!!!! That has made no sense to me why we can't do that.

OHHHHHHHH... THOSE emojis!!! I hadn't noticed that there's a HUGE list of them that I have to scroll down for. Maybe they've always been there and I never noticed the scrollbar. LOL

Glad you brought that up!

 

[Rolypolyoly]

OHHHHHHHH... THOSE emojis!!! I hadn't noticed that there's a HUGE list of them that I have to scroll down for. Maybe they've always been there and I never noticed the scrollbar. LOL

Glad you brought that up!

Nope, they're definitely new