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Here be bugs

the dissident frogman 17 years and 7 months ago

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As with any human endeavor, we shall from now on expect some bugs in the house.

By bugs, I don't mean of course big nasty bugs that would take over your computer, load it with illegal buttermonkey porn pictures with your name on them and attach them to this form. No. I mean, just small, annoying bugs like I forgot to type a ";" or a "}" and that particular page looks like it's been designed by the people behind the logo for the London Olympics, only in my case, it wasn't on purpose and I do mean to fix the bloody thing(1).

It's one thing to test any system in a vacuum, and it's another to let, you know, people just play with it while you step back mumbling “Well, I sure hope they ain't gonna break something, those careless, well, you know, people” but that's the plight of the creator. So I welcome all bug reports, either in the comments of this post, or by email.

Just try to elaborate a bit further than “ Hey, it ain't workin' ”. Spare me the time to find out what “it” is, and why you think “it” is not “working”.

Oh, and please define “working”, thank you.

Update


And so the old wise web designer maxim(2) verifies itself again: a critter has been spotted in the login redirection url, leading new members to a dead end. So if you got an error 404 (page not found) upon login, you may try again as I should hopefully have squashed all occurrences of the nasty bastard.

And thanks to Jb for pushing the alarm button.

Update 2


In the Beginning was John, and John has been helping and supporting me from time immemorial. Should I engage in theogonic delusions, I would definitely hold John as one of my prophets.

Now heareth the Word of John:
I regret having to say that I've run into a glitch. (...) I'd like to add an avatar (...) but your UPLOAD applet rejects it as the wrong file type.
Even though, of course, John is trying to upload the right file type for his membership avatar (a .png file).

It's either a bug, or it's Satan's work.

I will investigate, and shall smite the evil one wherever I find him; in the meantime you can renounce Satan by using either a gif or a jpg file for your avatar picture. I will also, as time permits, add a larger selection of default avatars for you to choose from, if you don't want or can't upload your own.
  1. At no extra cost.
  2. “Never say 'Oops', always say 'Ah, interesting.”

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Comme dans toute entreprise humaine, nous devons désormais nous attendre à quelques dysfonctionnements.

Par dysfonctionnements, je n'entends évidemment pas des gros méchants bugs qui prennent votre ordinateur en otage, l'emplissent d'images de porno de cul de singe avec votre nom dessus et les attachent à ce formulaire. Non. Juste des petits bugs ennuyeux, du genre j'ai oublié un ";" ou un "}" et telle ou telle page a l'air d'avoir été créée par les gars qui ont commis le logo pour les Jeux Olympiques de Londres, à la seule différence que dans mon cas, je ne l'ai pas fait exprès, et j'ai vraiment l'intention de corriger le tir(1).

C'est une chose que de tester n'importe quel système en vase clos, et c'en est une autre que de laisser, vous savez, les gens jouer avec pendant que vous prenez du recul en grommelant “Ouais, ben j'espère qu'ils vont rien me casser, ces bon sang de, vous savez, gens” mais c'est là le fardeau du créateur. J'accueille donc tous signalements de bugs, soit dans les commentaires de cette entrée, soit par email.

Essayez cependant de développer un poil plus que “ Hé, ça marche pas ”. Cela me permettra d'épargner le temps de trouver ce qu'est “ça”, et pourquoi vous pensez que “ça” ne “marche” pas.

Et tant qu'on y est, précisez ce que vous entendez par “marcher”, merci.

Mise à jour


Ainsi, la vieille maxime du sage web designer(2) se vérifie une fois de plus : une affreuse vermine a été repérée dans l'url de redirection du login, dirigeant les nouveaux membres dans un cul de sac. Si vous vous êtes crashé sur une erreur 404 (page not found) après le login, vous pouvez tenter le coup à nouveau, je devrais avoir supprimé toutes les occurrences du petit salopard maintenant.

Et merci à Jb pour avoir sonné l'alarme.

Mise à jour 2


Au Commencement était John, et John m'aide et me soutient depuis des temps immémoriaux. Si je devais succomber à des illusions théogoniques, je désignerai sans hésiter John comme l'un de mes prophètes.

Entendez maintenant la Parole de John :
je regrette de devoir dire que j'ai rencontré un problème. (...) je veux ajouter un avatar (...) mais le formulaire de téléchargement le rejette comme type de fichier non autorisé.
Quand bien même, évidemment, John tente de télécharger un type de fichier autorisé pour son avatar de membre (un fichier .png)

C'est soit un bug, soit l'œuvre de Satan.

Je vais enquêter, et frapperai le Prince du Mal partout où il lèvera sa hideuse tête ; dans l'intervalle, vous pouvez renoncer à Satan en utilisant soit un .gif soit un .jpg pour votre image d'avatar. Je vais également, dès que je trouve un moment, élargir le choix d'avatars par défaut, si vous ne voulez ou ne pouvez pas télécharger le vôtre.
  1. Sans coût supplémentaire.
  2. “Ne jamais dire 'Oops', toujours dire 'Ah, intéressant.”

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1962 - Mike H.

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  • Mike H. Spokane, Wa

It works with Opera and linux 2.4.29.

  • June 09th 2007
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1964 - 2hotel9

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  • 2hotel9 Western Pennsylvania

Like your new Dacha, hope you don't mind me inviting a few dozen not-stupids to come visit!

Oh, and going to try and put you on my bloglines RSS feed. I just started using RSS a few months ago and not too sure if you url will work through them.

  • June 09th 2007
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1965 - the dissident frogman

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  • the dissident frogman France

2hotel9: glad to see you around Man. Please do bring your buddies — mi casa es su casa, and your friends are my friends.

I've tested the feeds in various readers, though hardly any of the online ones. Feeds are rather tricky, and unlike HTML far less forgiving when in comes to coding syntax.

Please do let me know if you have any problem with mine, and I'll look into it.

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  • June 09th 2007
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1967 - 2hotel9

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  • 2hotel9 Western Pennsylvania

It works! Bloglines is the main RSS feed I use for news sources and blogs. It has the fewest problems, so far.

  • June 09th 2007
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1968 - the dissident frogman

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  • the dissident frogman France

Cool. Hopefully, that's one less bug to worry about... I might even be able to get some sleep at last.

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  • June 09th 2007
  • @ 2310 ZULU

1971 - TBinSTL

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  • TBinSTL St Louis MO USA

I'm so embarrassed that I wasn't signed up in the first day! Mea culpa....

I usually check in here every day!

It's so good to see you back! I'll be alerting all of those that will understand the significance of this event.

  • June 10th 2007
  • @ 0448 ZULU
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