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legerdemer
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I got one author favorite today.
TxRad
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TxRad
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They have been hit or miss at best.
lovecraft68
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They were back for a couple of days for me, now they're gone again.
There's a thread in the AH asking about the un-fav notification. That has not been around for quite awhile. No explanation as to why other than maybe the site felt it makes people feel bad?
But without it no one not on the 250 list can keep track of their favs accurately.
Now they have no Chance whatesoever.
The fav feature is one of the most important for authors, not on that list, which is the majority so I can see a lot of people getting frustrated with this and rightly so.
This is why for the last few years when we were hearing about all the new features coming I was never in a hurry to see them, because of all the issues and glitches it causes.
There's a thread in the AH asking about the un-fav notification. That has not been around for quite awhile. No explanation as to why other than maybe the site felt it makes people feel bad?
But without it no one not on the 250 list can keep track of their favs accurately.
Now they have no Chance whatesoever.
The fav feature is one of the most important for authors, not on that list, which is the majority so I can see a lot of people getting frustrated with this and rightly so.
This is why for the last few years when we were hearing about all the new features coming I was never in a hurry to see them, because of all the issues and glitches it causes.
sr71plt
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Well, and the fact that they never include what the users have been asking for or fixing what the users point out are broken.
lovecraft68
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Yup, I made that point in the thread asking about the 'unloved' feature.
lovecraft68
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right now my RA is showing everything back to May of 2009.
Mine is heading back to 2010......I just saw the comments on my first ever story
On the plus side I did see three author fav with today's date
Imagine if that was a new feature....your RA is your entire history? There would be people going through counting up their favs
BurntRedstone
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The recent activity date filters may have returned to normal behavior but I don't believe the author favorite reporting functionality has.
The last author favorite response I saw on my account during the time when the recent activity list was showing everything was on June 20 or the 22nd. Since the recent activity list went back to normal there have been no author favorites in the list (not even the test one I asked a friend to do). Additionally, the one that was around the 20th is gone and the most recent one is back on the 16th.
This still seems broken. I tried finding other responses to this in the forum but this thread seems to be it.
The last author favorite response I saw on my account during the time when the recent activity list was showing everything was on June 20 or the 22nd. Since the recent activity list went back to normal there have been no author favorites in the list (not even the test one I asked a friend to do). Additionally, the one that was around the 20th is gone and the most recent one is back on the 16th.
This still seems broken. I tried finding other responses to this in the forum but this thread seems to be it.
lovecraft68
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Yeah its still a mess. I saw one fav a couple days ago and it disappeared, If you're on the top 250 list you can see they are being added every day, but that is a very small amount of the writers on this site.
Like you I did a test. I faved myself and it did not show. Then I un-faved myself and that showed up. That means somewhere in the system it is tracking them.
So...the unfavs are showing, but favs not.
This is a very important feature to the authors here and its a shame there has been no update on this or no sense of urgency in getting it fixed.
BurntRedstone
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Yeah its still a mess. I saw one fav a couple days ago and it disappeared, If you're on the top 250 list you can see they are being added every day, but that is a very small amount of the writers on this site.
Like you I did a test. I faved myself and it did not show. Then I un-faved myself and that showed up. That means somewhere in the system it is tracking them.
So...the unfavs are showing, but favs not.
This is a very important feature to the authors here and its a shame there has been no update on this or no sense of urgency in getting it fixed.
Thanks for the confirmation. I haven't seen much information on this and was beginning to worry it was gone forever.
That said, it appears they are working on a new control panel which will hopefully give us a little more control (fingers crossed). I know that stuff can be tricky so they likely have their hands full.
Waiting with a 'Christmas Morning'-like anticipation for the new toys. If they manage to toss in a bug fix for this before that, all the better.
lovecraft68
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Are you also seeing the glitch that if someone favs a story and you click the story link, the link is an error page?
But is someone comments and you click the story title, that works.
BurntRedstone
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Nope, haven't seen that one... yet!
Related question on how favorite authors works:
I added favorite authors and noticed that those authors favorited me back. I thought people were just being kind, but I just added two more and immediately saw reciprocal additions from each of them. Is the system automatically doing this, or do you think both happened to be online just now?
I added favorite authors and noticed that those authors favorited me back. I thought people were just being kind, but I just added two more and immediately saw reciprocal additions from each of them. Is the system automatically doing this, or do you think both happened to be online just now?
legerdemer
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I've seen this one too!
lovecraft68
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My guess is that would be yet another glitch.
At least you're seeing favorites, I'm still seeing nothing.
In fact I just tried again to fav myself to see if it showed, then un-fav and now when I faved myself my name is not even showing up on my list of favorites
lovecraft68
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This is past fucking ridiculous on 4/21 Manu started a thread to beta test the new control panel, that was close to three months ago and not only is it still not ready, but the existing one is becoming more broken by the day.
What this is, is flat out half ass and cheap. This site is far too large for one person-or two if Laurel works on these things too-to upgrade it one small piece at a time and move on.
Each move causes more issues they can't-or won't- figure out and by the time they move across the board where they started is already screwed up again.
Spend some fucking money on having some pros come in and do it, do it quickly, and do it right.
But hey as long as the general board and the blurt threads are working, there's really no concern on the sites end.
What this is, is flat out half ass and cheap. This site is far too large for one person-or two if Laurel works on these things too-to upgrade it one small piece at a time and move on.
Each move causes more issues they can't-or won't- figure out and by the time they move across the board where they started is already screwed up again.
Spend some fucking money on having some pros come in and do it, do it quickly, and do it right.
But hey as long as the general board and the blurt threads are working, there's really no concern on the sites end.
lovecraft68
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This site has limped along with broken pieces everywhere-including an admission the Volunteer Editors feature was never finished and um, how old is that?
Now because they have to-and really do have to-upgrade to be able to work with the new phones and apps, they're trying to yank an enormous dinosaur into the modern era one tiny piece at a time and with the same duct tape they've always used.
4/21 Manu started the thread about beta testing the new control panel, close to three months later no new one, and the old one is more broken than ever with a new glitch every day.
But, hey....as long as the General Board is functioning, who cares, right?
Now because they have to-and really do have to-upgrade to be able to work with the new phones and apps, they're trying to yank an enormous dinosaur into the modern era one tiny piece at a time and with the same duct tape they've always used.
4/21 Manu started the thread about beta testing the new control panel, close to three months later no new one, and the old one is more broken than ever with a new glitch every day.
But, hey....as long as the General Board is functioning, who cares, right?
lovecraft68
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weird glitch with the post, how appropriate.
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geronimo_appleby
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This site has limped along with broken pieces everywhere-including an admission the Volunteer Editors feature was never finished and um, how old is that?
Now because they have to-and really do have to-upgrade to be able to work with the new phones and apps, they're trying to yank an enormous dinosaur into the modern era one tiny piece at a time and with the same duct tape they've always used.
4/21 Manu started the thread about beta testing the new control panel, close to three months later no new one, and the old one is more broken than ever with a new glitch every day.
But, hey....as long as the General Board is functioning, who cares, right?
it's time for you to go back to work, man.
Having done similar jobs, both under other people and for myself, I'm a little more sympathetic. A site like this, with so much original code, must be a monster to maintain. It's very, very time consuming. Everything takes longer than you estimate and you have no free time. (If pros did it, I'm guessing it would turn into a full rebuild from scratch.) You're right that it will take more volunteers or pros to help, but this is the site we have to work with. I wish I could offer to help, but something like this is way outside my area of expertise.
I added and removed a couple of more people and saw the same thing. I think it's just wildly misreporting on the Recent Activity page right now.
