wysiwyg editor - firefox scrolls like crazy when you hit return while editing a post...

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• the tick box to make something a front page feature turns itself off if the page is reloaded, for example if you attach something
• the method of making features is clumsy at the moment, perhaps a seperate publishing form rather than a tick box would be best.
• make only news be present in the top area
• inserting pictures is very buggy if the image caption is used
• updating the time stamp would be very handy
• a razorwire style affair for urgent stuff
• there should be a note explaining how to add more than one category, i.e. ctrl click
• i think the left and right columns should be a different colour from the main body, perhaps grey to fit the colour scheme?
• revision information should be perhaps hidden from non editors, or perhaps everyone, so that it needs to be clicked on to bring up the box: it may be confusing or whatever for some users.
• perhaps a 'see older articles' button at the base of the newswire? i know that i always look at the bottom to click to see older ones and im sure others will do the same.
• a mass upload method for adding lots of photos would be groovy.
• a seperate category for photos/media might be good, with a column for it in the body of the site.
• a large and obvious 'publish your news' button would be very good.
• automatic cutting for comments should be disabled.

Well I was going to email these but open process FTW:

•  when adding an event (maybe elsewhere), Previewing requires the captcha, OK. But it's not possible to go from the Preview to Publishing by just clicking Save, a new captcha has to be solved.
  Suggest: should only have 1 captcha to be answered.
• It's not clear where to click to view comments on a story. Suggest: Change text to "View X comments" instead of "X comments" (in
  "..?showcomments#comments")
• Is it possible to add Categories in the Create Article page? I've felt
  for a while we need a "Science & Technology" type option
   

FTW :) i like that.

I think we should have those cute little icons beside articles in the newswire saying wether they have media, and what type.

Also, thumbnails beside articles like Bristol would be cool.

A big publish your news button. This'll make it clearer to people that thats the point.

I can't publish my article.  I get the following error when I try to add an image to attach an image to the article.  If poss, could you email alanflemingaberdeen@yahoo.co.uk when this is fixed so I can retry to publish.  Many thanks - new website looks good!

The error is:

The selected file apr15_aber1.jpg could not be uploaded. The file is 47.76 KB which would exceed your disk quota of 1000 MB.

Can we have a "recent comments" page like the old one with a lost of the articles with the most recent comments, when and by who.

Maskedavenger: If you log in and have editor privileges, then on the left you should have a "Moderate Comments" option. That lists comments across the site, most recent first. That might be what you're looking for?

test1

in older articles, text flows onto images at the end of articles. for example:

Software freedom day

Photos of demo against caltongate development

when you block a feature proposal and specify a reason, characters like < > " ' & are escaped twice, leaving them visible as &lt; &gt;, etc.

It isn't possible for a feature proposal to be retracted by its proposer if votes have been cast.

I think the act of proposing a feature counts as a vote?

Either that or a Block does.

Am I right in thinking this could lead to old feature proposals hanging around and cluttering up the notifications?

Proposing something as a feature is not a vote, in the new system (which is still up for criticism/modification). But I did vote for it, but have retracted my vote a minute ago, and mine was the only vote. is it possible for you to retract it as a feature now?

Yeah that worked.

groovy!

There is no attribution for featured articles, that should probably be there.

Also the little icons next to articles on the newswire dont correspond to anything at the moment - for example the Maoist China foreign policy, Venezuela, and cuba articles dont have pictures but have the photos icon (at least i think thats what the icon represents?)

far out man,

Where there is a space included at the end of a hyperlink, this seems to be included before the "/" as the address.

For an example see "eutruth" and "stopcp" links in this story.

I haven't noticed this before, don't know if it's an artefact of being cut n paste from elsewhere, or if it happens with all links that don't have the final "/" entered.

In the list of Upcoming events on the left there, the part in brackets - i.e. "(3 days)" - bumps right up against the event title.

Suggested fix: put a space before the bracket-y bit

needs deleting from the front-page, until it is working. I dont know how to do this.

some more text formatting options would be appreciated - justify particularly!

um, how do i delete something - note to ed - please delete duplicate 11thmay lilya 4ever entry.

text box didnae work on the pc - spread out text so copious use of rtn key needed.

looking good anyway but front page at times hard to follow/understand ;-)

Hi. I think if you create an account you will have the option to Edit / Delete your previously added stories.

As for your "text box" comment, could you give a wee bit more detail about how it wasn't working? e.g. what Operating System and web browser you were using, what features were missing...

The front page is a work in progress. Too many new options at the moment! Let us know what you expect to find and where, it's got a good chance of being used.

Thanks for comments :)

Some html tags (e.g. <h2>), when entered in the Source view, look like they are going to appear in the published article. The WYSIWYG view makes them appear present. But then they get stripped out and heading levels disappear.

This isn't going to be a problem for casual users, only smartarses who try to add html to their posts but it would be nice if the WYSIWYG wasn't such a tease :)

Some thoughts

Theres a lot of white space on the header. Could the user login no go up there and the events section go where the user login is.?  I like the big publish button, it does overpower the horizontal nav a bit though. I find the "an"s are a bit messy, I would have a dash or nothing in there. Beef up the HN text a bit or give it some of the publish button effect for balance - Or not.

 Ch Bob

Like the new site. Much, much, better!

Two problems with the search stuff, however:

1 [major] - It doesn't find everything! I wanted to find an old article of my own, to reference in an email. I used the search with my username ("slarti") as the search string. I got the page at http://scotland.indymedia.org/search/node/slarti with 9 articles only. Not including the one I was looking for! When I searched for a text string I knew to be in the article I found it, and it was by me!

2 [minor] - If you do a search then tick, for example, the "article" tick-box the page you get has the tick-box un-ticked but "type:article" added to the search field. I know in practice this is how these things work, but it could be confusing for folk. Better to have the form extract that from the search string and set the "ticked" status of the box accordingly. If people want to get rid of the filter they might make sure the check-box is un-ticked and not realise the search string has been modified.

Sorry to reply to my own message, but I did some more looking and I've worked out what's going on.

Some of my articles from the old site have been imported as if posted by my user while some have been imported as if posted by anonymous but with "BY Slarti" at the top of the article. The latter were the ones found by the search script --- in other words, it's not searching username/author, just the body of the article. Compare, for example, http://scotland.indymedia.org/node/1961 with http://scotland.indymedia.org/node/2403 Both were articles I wrote on the old site but one is now as if by anonymous (with By Slarti in the body) and one is as if posted by me.

There is an argument for leaving the basic search as it is, but it would be good to at least add a functionality to the advanced search which allowed you to search by author.

Noticed on 800px wide screen that the header and main area were a different size. But after page refresh, this isn't the case any more. If no-one can replicate this, I guess it's a problem at this end...

Ever since the upgrade I've found the site has been intermittently un-available. Sometimes I find it, sometimes it just isn't there. Note that this is not a "404" for a particular page, it's a "site unavailable" error, as if the whole server was down. When it happens, it seems to persist for some time (up to several hours).

Are you having server problems?

Yeah we are having some server trouble. Today the server (which hosts IMC athens and a bunch of other IMCs) was down for a couple of hours. I dunno why and will have to ask our greek comrades what happened.

It won't have anything to do with the new site ;)