Announcing the NI Discussion Forums Upgrade

[smercurio_fc]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

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Laura F. wrote:

• Saverio - I'm not sure about the performance issues you've been seeing.  Does it happen regardless of network or computer? I will be performing an analysis on the performance now that we are upgraded with help from our network team.

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I've seen this both at work (measly DSL connection) and at home (high speed cable). The delay in displaying the main forums page is quite noticeable. 4-5 seconds at least.

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A follow-up. This seems to have gotten worse recently. As I noted, I still see it from work as well as from home. Is anyone else seeing this?

[Laura F.]

Hi Everyone -

This week there was a small change made that might help those of you that experienced a slow down after the upgrade.  Please let me know if you have noticed any change.

• Albert - I've noticed the change in search subscription emails and am working with Lithium to get that fixed.
• Jack - There is an improvement to the search interface that I'd like to turn on, but first I need to do some configuration work. Why are you trying to do a search for all users?  I'll check on using blank keywords in search.  I haven't noticed any issue with using arrow buttons in the editor in Firefox.

Thanks,

Laura

[Laura F.]

In addition, it looks like the Macro drop down issue in Firefox was resolved.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see it working in one place but not another. 

[JackDunaway]

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@Laura F. wrote:

There is an improvement to the search interface that I'd like to turn on

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My comments were more geared toward the search engine rather than the search interface. The interface is so-so (although I'm sure the interface improvement will make it better), but the engine contains counterintuitive logic and returns an incomplete result-set.

Like smercurio_fc, I have lamented to other users that I don't blame them for not being able to use the search engine.

[altenbach]

<third location:>abracadabra<second location:>abracadabraI am not sure if this has been mentioned, but there is another weird editor issue I noticed:

Whenever i paste something (ctrl+v), tho the rich text editor, the insert point jumps to the beginning of the post.

For example, if I place the word "abracadabra" to the clipboard (ctrl+c) and paste it three times (ctrl+v...ctrl+v...ctrl+v) without pressing any other keys, it will be at the following locations: <first location, here was the insert point:>abracadabra. (follow the red highlighted text for the second and third paste location!)

Even worse, since the insert point goes to the beginning of the posts (invisible cursor), we might actually be tempted to hit backspace to erase the just inserted extra text. Bad Idea! Pressing backspace right after pasting quits the current page, losing all edits (except what was saved in the autorecovery).

(This is under chrome using the rich text editor)

[altenbach]

It has happened to me several times that I hit the "Quote" button, when I actually wanted to post something... 😄

The problem is, that the Cancel/Post buttons are all the way at the bottom, often outside the currently visible window, and the intuitive reaction is to press the right-most blue button without really paying attention.

I suggest that the Cancel/Post buttons be duplicated to the top of the editor window, e.g. as follows:

(Still keeping a second instance of the cancel/Post buttons at the bottom as we have now)

[Ray.R]

abracadabraabracadabraabracadabra

I might be a Chrome issue (it's magic).  Firefox is fine.

[JackDunaway]

Another major bug in the search engine. Check out the following progression of steps and the inconsistencies I encountered:

Step 1: I must employ the "hack" of searching common words since an empty search field is no longer allowed.

Step 2: I hit 5770 of the 6171 current posts on the LabVIEW Idea Exchange (that's only 93%, much lower than the 99.9% ballpark estimate I threw out in the above post). Notice the "1 - 10 of 5000 posts" - there could be way more significant digits in that last number. As in, all significant digits. Or at least to the tens place.

Step 3: Attempt to access the last page of results, and it pages me to 3991-4000 posts, also saying I have no result set.

Spoiler

The quantity and magnitude of errors in the search engine is becoming less forgivable as web programming oversights and oopsies, leaning instead toward Dilbertesque design decisions and "am I really seeing this? How could that have gotten pushed out the door?" This comment is not aimed at Laura and crew, but instead the product they have to work with.

[smercurio_fc]

Here's something I've never noticed before. If you click on a link to a post that has a subject that's different than the subject of the thread, the breadcrumb at the top shows the subject of the post of the link, rather than the subject of the thread. For example, if you go to this post (or even the link for this message), the subject of the message is "Run a WHILE loop for 1.0001 iterations", but the thread is the "Rube Goldberg" thread. If you scroll to the top of the page to see the breadcrumb, the last entry shows the subject of the message, rather than the thread you're actually in. At first glance this seemed counter-intuitive. I'm not asking it to be changed, but wanted to bring it up as a side-discussion.

[altenbach]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

Here's something I've never noticed before.

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I actually stumbled across that exact point yesterday, was somewhat confused (what else is new), but did not have time to investigate. 😄