Tuesday is Rant Day, the best day of the week for complaining. It's a little known fact that the name comes from the old word Tīwesdæg, the day of the Nordish god Tīwes, who was famous for ranting. And also for waging war, perhaps because he was so angry at not being able to search his forums.
I don't have any personal rants today, except maybe a question to the Wikidot Community: do you guys ever sleep? My inbox is overflowing with traffic from community.wikidot.com: ideas, suggestions, and excellent answers to peoples' questions no matter how complex, or silly. Maybe this is not the best rant, but I need to say "thanks" to you guys.
Speaking of Community, we'll roll-out a major new feature tomorrow (if all goes as planned). We want to emphasize how Wikidot is a community of web sites that work together. Just as the Community supports you, when you use Wikidot, as a free user you will also support the Community. If you're a pro user, you will be able to opt out of this. How are we going to do this? What am I talking about? Tomorrow will bring us the answers. :-)
If there's one thing I love about the internet, it's URLs. Especially ones that link to administration functions on Wikidot.
If there's one thing I hate about Wikidot, it's that my URLs to my admin functions are not only exposed to me, but they're exposed to EVERYONE!
It's SOOO unprofessional having an "Editing Pages" link on my blog, considering that none of my blog-viewers are able to edit anything. I should be able to show that part of my blog only to ME, the administrator.
If only there was an IfUsers module… then my blog would be perfect.
@James, great rant! :-) Now, my idea is for Private module, as proposed on the community wiki. That would let you show links to certain types of user only.
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I find it irksome, though not unmanagable that the editing page doesn't have a place for tags and parents. I have to set those separately. I would love to be able to put tags and parent on any page as I'm editing it to speed up the input of content.
If this is possible and I'm to dense to figure it out please let me know how dumb I am.
I expect your density will be approximately 1010 kg/m³, and your question is not at all dumb. Having to click several times to tag pages and set parents is annoying. There are other problems with tags too, e.g. they're not saved when you backup your site. For what it's worth (because it may be a while before these are fixed), it's issue number 21 on our internal tracker.
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I wanted to change to pro, so i went to page where I am supposed to pay… And although I would pay from Spain (that is where I live), I checked out the drop down menu of the countries you offer and… I was very surprised… There are more than six years that Yugoslavia does not exist, and it is still in this drop down menu… So, would it be too much if i asked to remove it from there, and instead to put six ex-Yugoslav Republics, now all independent countries?
Serbia
Croatia,
Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia (which is also a member of EU!)
Macedonia
Thank you.
One more question: Do i first get 30 days of trial, or I have to pay first? Do you accept Master Cards?
Also, I would like to ask, whose VAT is 22%? This is too way high. I know that Spain has the lowest VAT in EU, but 22% ??? Which country has so high VAT? Until now i thought that Argentina is the leader with 21% of VAT…
Also, does this mean that countries that are not EU members do not have to pay VAT? If so, can I apply as if i come from Serbia (which wouldn't be a lie, as a matter of fact)?
And how do you count a year? 12 months from the month I paid, or from January to December?
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
@Brunhilda: to answer your questions:
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Thanks, Pieter!
Just few questions more:
Is payment address MY personal address, or address of the Bank of my CC? Because if it is just my address, I can put my address in Serbia, and pay with my CC from Spain, without paying VAT. I suppose it depends on the country I choose in that drop down menu that doesn't list Serbia ;)…?
Is this MC problem temporary, or definitely there is no possibility to pay with MC?
PS:And one more tip: if you don't offer any more trial period, then remove it from the button in personal pages of Wikidot memeber. There it still says: 30 days free trial. You should remove it, because it gives false info, and someone might go for it, and find a very unpleasant surprise.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
Good news on MC: that should now work. The address should match your credit card billing address; if you're paying with a Spanish card, you need to pay VAT.
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Every registered user should be able to delete his own forum posts, especially the older versions of the same post.
Now, if you write a stupid mistake to your forum post, and then you edit it later and correct the mistake, everyone is still able to read the older version of the post and you can't do anything about it!
This would be nice for users, but in general forums don't let people delete their own comments, I guess for good reasons.
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Oh, yes they do, usually during the first 72 hours from posting. After that, there is no more possibilities to edit or to erase your own post.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
Yes! I agree!
It should be configurable in admin:manage, "Forum", as to who is able to see previous edits.
Currently it's the first, but I'd like the option to switch to the second:
The message "edited <date/time>" would appear to everyone in both cases, but the ability to view the previous versions should be configurable.
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Phew. I'm sober now. but it would appear that its all to late.
My rant is that when i am trying to scroll down, the screen jumps back to an earlier portion of my text. I have not figured out how to stop that. It makes it difficult to edit past the point where it jumps to.
I've never seen this symptom. Does this happen on all sites or only on some?
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Tfritz, what borwser do you use? To me, it happens in IE8…
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
I've had that happen to me on more than once, however I have found that it's because I use a laptop. My hand falls on the touchpad, and it will click on the text that I was editing. I'm not sure what you are using, but I hope this could be somewhat helpful.
its a common problem with ie6/7/8 users. it becomes more apparent when there is a lot of text in the doc.
Its been mentioned numerous times.
using ie6/7/8 causes some other weird things to happen as well.
unfortunately most wiki admins and serious users don't notice this because they use fire fox.
I am admin, and admin should be god… right? Then why do my page locks keep getting broken, even for pages that haven't been created yet.
I'm using wikidot for the purpose of maintaining a lucid design document for a school project. Thus the website has very limited traffic, and is locked using a secret phrase several words long. I only have three other active members, and I use the word "active" loosely because generally they only pop in to look at what I've done.
Yet, randomly, I receive a message that tells me that my lock has been broken, and that someone else is editing my page. Is this a glitch, a bug, or some uber hacker with nothing to do but waste my time.
Personally, I blame Gremlins.
Admin has no godlike powers when it comes to edit locks, they work the same for all editors on a site. The problem is probably that you start to edit a page in one window, and then try to edit the page again in a second window.
If you get "Page is locked by another user" and you're certain that you're not editing in two places, it might be due to your network changing IP addresses randomly.
Are you forced to sign-in again when this happens?
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Not generally, no.
so is this while you are editing a page, because if so, then what happened was that while you where editing the page, someone else came along, and clicked the edit button, and then clicked "force Lock removal", which basically kicked you out. The reason that is there, is because if I edit a page, but don't save it or cancel it, and navigate away, that page has a 15 minute lock on it, so there is a countdown. As long as you type, and don't just sit there, or leave the page, it will keep the page lock, until someone breaks it. My suggestion, is to go to the page, and click edit really quickly. If somebody has broken the lock, it will tell you who, and then, you can ban/change privileges appropriately.