Posts by Apognophos

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Site issues: Dec 30 Update

by Simon in

first of all, some apologies - i had planned to spend the last couple of days getting everyone signed in to the new site and sorting account issues out but i wasn't getting over the flu as i thought, i got worse.

i've probably had 4 hours sleep in the last few days.

anything that requires too much thinking isn't going to happen right now.

Apognophos

Sorry to hear it. I figured there was a reason we weren't hearing much from you. Get well soon! I'll try not to pile on with too many more bug reports :->

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Please post new forum feedback or questions here

by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

Point to someone's avatar to get the pop-up, and you can click on their topic or thread count. Topics Started is not really working right, though.

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by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

You guys are small fries, mine is stuck at 21 :-)

Here's a slightly-alarming bug I found today:

Notice the middle search result of these three. I was searching for "Russell quote" at the time.

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by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

Search terms that include quote marks (") cause a Server Error. I guess this means we can't do phrase searches?

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by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

Oh dear. My unread PM count went from 0 (correct) just this morning to 22. Looking through my inbox, a lot of old, read PMs are now marked as unread.

Also, the bug seems to be back where I get stuck on "Queued for processing", though currently I am in Firefox in Windows.

Finally, the whirligig that goes round and round for the current step in the posting process seems to have palsy. it vibrates noticeably as it turns.

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Conspiracy Theorist groups similar to the Watchtower

by enigma1863 in

i was watching a you tube video on charlie veitch and i could not help but see the parallels with his experience with truthers and the ex jw experience with the watchtower.

what do you think?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_uyzitc_90.

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Apognophos

Another point I thought was interesting, from the second half of the interview, was when Veitch says that conspiracists are "fetishizing" evil. They are obsessed with the supposed control that evil forces have over humankind and they make morbid videos about all the evil they are doing. It's an unhealthy fascination with the monsters supposedly lurking under mankind's collective bed.

It's been pointed out on the forum that Witnesses seem to talk about Satan more than Jesus at times, because they're fixated on the control that Satan has on this world. They like to remind people in their public talks and literature about the terrible things in the world and how badly we need to be saved from them.

This is not totally a coincidental alignment, as I think Veitch is saying that some conspiracists actually have religious views which are similar to the views of fundamentalists who believe that Satan is in control of our world. So really the conspiracists are sometimes related to the very sort of religion that we were a part of. Other times they only believe that men are behind these conspiracies (the Illuminati), or aliens (the greys).

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by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

Okay, sounds good. Though I'm curious about:

That is by design for SEO purposes

:-O You mean even the part where it says "Jehovah Witness"? :-/ It didn't say that on the old forum, did it?

Edit: Yay, my PM count is fixed, thank you!

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by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

Also, PMs carried over from the old forum have bare HTML in them. I'm pretty sure you already know about this, Simon. I know you said you could enable some markup for PMs, so hopefully they will stop looking like this at some point:

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<br />"Here's a sample."

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Conspiracy Theorist groups similar to the Watchtower

by enigma1863 in

i was watching a you tube video on charlie veitch and i could not help but see the parallels with his experience with truthers and the ex jw experience with the watchtower.

what do you think?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_uyzitc_90.

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Apognophos

At 6:00 in the second part of the interview, he talks about how members of the movement had to attack his credibility when he left the movement, because for them it's a kind of religion, so they couldn't just let him go and say, "Well, he disagrees with us".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2TjLuguKXs

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by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

A few new issues:

- when copying the text of a PM, the line breaks or paragraph breaks all vanish and the text gets pasted in as a monolithic block

- in PMs and forum posts, instead of just the user avatar's square area being clickable, the clickable area continues invisibly running down the page underneath that icon; mousing over that white space will show the same link as when pointing to the avatar itself

- the colon-hyphen-slash sequence in URLs seems to be turning into an emoticon now -- see below

Just a review of past issues that are still open:

- the unread PM inbox counts are still off; unfortunately a number of users are seeing that message to download an app to read their messages, which, combined with the wrong unread PM count, may be causing people to download malware (they should be more computer-savvy, of course, but well, you know)

- the text "Discuss anything Jehovah Witness, JW.org or WatchTower society related" has the issues I mentioned here, most notably the missing "'s": http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/12020001/please-post-new-forum-feedback-questions-here?page=10

- when viewing your own profile, it gives the correct post count across all threads you've participated in, but gives only your own created thread count, e.g. "4,264 posts in 43 topics" -- I've created 43 topics but I've posted on hundreds, which don't seem to be viewable

- the quote-style button cannot turn off the quote style for selected text, at least in Firefox on a Mac

I know you have a lot on your plate, so this isn't meant as a nag. I'm just an obsessive organizer and I like to report bugs :-)