Folks,
I tweaked the caching and things seem to be running better and the site seems zippier and more responsive. This is good.
The bad is the missing checkbox on the comment form. I’ve spent 2 hours working on it, to no avail. It should be working and it isn’t, and we can’t update the %&*(#$%& theme, so it’s strictly DIY.
I don’t remember if M4 is back on the West coast or not, but I’m waiting a few more minutes before texting him for help. I’m sure he’ll look at the documentation and code and find the right thing immediately.
In this case, WordPress updated the privacy checkbox and it should just work…clearly it does not. Once that’s fixed, I shall return to working on the redesign.
Alain the site fixer
To see if a plugin would solve the issue, I tried it briefly. Sorry if it caused any confusion. I’m stepping away to take care of some things but I’ll be back in a bit to see if M4 has any suggestions or has solved the issue.
Elizabelle
Thanks for Recent Comments being back. A favorite.
Wishing you the best, and your back troubles over. Ouch. Cheers.
Mr Mack
Not complaining…but I am curious. This website seems to struggle quite a bit, and you have done a remarkable job, but what, in laymans terms, is the issue? I remember someone asking if it is the ads, and it made me wonder if there is significant income from them? If not, why do they stay? You may not be at liberty to disclose, and that’s cool, I’m just wondering.
Alain the site fixer
@Elizabelle: It’s the least I could do. I still want to replace that with a better, less resource-intensive widget, but for now, it was easy. Hopefully it makes the comment box crap sting just a bit less. M4 is interviewing, so he will take a look this afternoon. I emailed him what I’d found so hopefully that jumpstarts him. Off to real-world things, back later.
smintheus
Yesterday the site started giving me links to edit/delete comments that other people had posted. (It started after I accidentally tried to double post a comment, don’t know if that was the cause.)
Mike J
They did a buncha stuff wrt GDPR checkboxes, but is that the same as the “remember me” checkbox? Obviously there is some overlap with intent, but is it the same checkbox?
Miss Bianca
@Elizabelle: I second the kudos. Really missed Recent Comments.
Thanks, Alain, seems like keeping up with FYWP has been brutal!
Aaaannddd…looks like it’s time re-fill the nym space!
Amir Khalid
If anyone can sort out the hot mess under the hood of this blog, it’s you guys.
Procopius
I notice the Naked Capitalism blog has also lost its “remember me” check box. I don’t know if they use WordPress, but it’s not Disqus which has its own set of problems that never seem to affect me. Their blog only retained the info for that thread. If you went to a different topic you had to log in all over again and you can’t do it from LastPass. I notice my data is in the appropriate boxes, even though the checkbox is miissing, which is the was a cvomment section ought to work.
Amir Khalid
I just checked out the new theme. I do hope we don’t have threaded comments forced upon us..I don’t think I could stomach that.
Doug R
Is it just me, but my browser remembers my nyms. Since I’m not that creative, Two left mouse clicks gets me to choose among four nyms and then between about four email addresses. Works for me in Chrome and Firefox.
No one has cared to reply why I’m talking out my ass-does everyone use IE?
Doug R
@Doug R: In Chrome:
Settings->Advanced->Passwords and Forms->Autofill Settings
Kelly
My Chromebook is showing a “Page attempting to load scripts from unauthenticated sources” message I haven’t seen on this site before.
Haroldo
This is a nym test…..
FlyingToaster
@Doug R: Don’t have IE, on any platform.
Generally I’m Mac, work: Firefox with umpteen extensions; home can be either Firefox or Chrome or if everything else is bollixed Safari. Home&Away is the old iPad4, with Chrome or Safari, in desktop mode because I really cannot stand the mobile version of anything (seriously, ugh) on a 9″ screen.
Firefox tends to work, but I can’t see most of the ads due to NoScript/Ghostery; Chrome I can see everything not blocked by FacebookDisconnect, and the ora.tv ad doesn’t crash Chrome. Safari just seems to load everything slowly. Firefox definitely remembers my nym, as does Chrome on iOS.
Right now I have to click in the “Name” and “Email” boxes, which shows the pulldown with my nym and politics mail. Not all that inconvenient.
Brachiator
I tried to edit a comment, and all kinds of stuff broke. Only a partial edit box was presented and I could not enter anything. I had to kill the entire tab and go back to Balloon Juice again.
Firefox on the desktop.
J R in WV
@Brachiator:
Yeah, edit went to hell yesterday late. It went from telling me I wasn’t authorized to edit the comment, probably part of the no nym syndrome, if it doesn’t remember who you are, it can’t validate you’re authorized to edit…
Then it got to where the edit controls went kind of transparent, very odd.
James E Powell
@Amir Khalid:
Where can we see the new theme? If there was a link, I missed it.
JWL
The same just plain mean strategy proved one of the final nails in the coffin of the republican party in California.
Alain the site fixer
Ok, so a bunch of issues to respond to:
1) edit comments – desktop is borked. It is likely caused by the caching and I’ve not nailed down the issue.
2) edit comments – mobile is gone and doesn’t seem to show up. Could be related, could be its own issue.
3) mobile site has a few other pressing issues: ipad layout, ads need tweaking, etc.
4) commenting on both desktop and mobile site missing checkbox so you have to reenter info
5) New theme is not ready for show. It is being worked on, slowly. It is not yet public so please leave it alone. Any feature or setting you don’t like is there because I’m playing, learning, evaluating, testing, or haven’t gotten to it yet. In some cases, there will be a loss or gain of functionality that will piss off some. This is necessary because we have certain constraints under which we must perform, and the status quo is not tenable. In order to some improved functionality, it is possible that some feature or tradition might change, but until we’re ready to seek testers, please don’t bitch about things. There’ll be plenty of time and open minds when the time comes!
6) I have fixed the (FINALLY) mixed content issue and so now the site is showing Secure all the time, as it should. Huzzah! I removed something from the Google Ads script so hopefully that didn’t block all Google ads, and it’s just re-scanning the site to plan ads. If I did, I will work with our ad guy to address.
Amir Khalid
@James E Powell:
There was a link in one of John Cole’s tweets.