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New PA Site: Noticed a couple of bugs
torgie
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Here are a few bugs/improvements I discovered when playing around with the new site. I'm not sure if this Forum is exclusively for forum bugs, but it seemed close enough!
1) Index page: Quickly scrubbing the mouse back and forth over the pseudo-accordion thumbnails of the 4 comics causes the one that's current in focus to expand indefinitely.
2) Header: If you quickly click a link or button that opens an overlay multiple times, multiple instances of the overlays appear all stacked on top of one another. For example, the "account info" overlay is an AJAX call to /clubpa/account. It's quite likely that (as happened to me) there will be a bit of a request/response delay loading that overlay. Users could repeatedly click the link since it appeared to fail, resulting in the bug.
3) Comic page: Not sure if this was intentional, but the top and bottom "Random Comic" buttons go to different comics. Maybe that's how the old site worked? But, assuming ORDER BY RAND(), that's two DB queries that require an filesort instead of one. Could be slowing things down.
1) Index page: Quickly scrubbing the mouse back and forth over the pseudo-accordion thumbnails of the 4 comics causes the one that's current in focus to expand indefinitely.
2) Header: If you quickly click a link or button that opens an overlay multiple times, multiple instances of the overlays appear all stacked on top of one another. For example, the "account info" overlay is an AJAX call to /clubpa/account. It's quite likely that (as happened to me) there will be a bit of a request/response delay loading that overlay. Users could repeatedly click the link since it appeared to fail, resulting in the bug.
3) Comic page: Not sure if this was intentional, but the top and bottom "Random Comic" buttons go to different comics. Maybe that's how the old site worked? But, assuming ORDER BY RAND(), that's two DB queries that require an filesort instead of one. Could be slowing things down.
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2) mm will address this after i sleep
3) old site didn't have a random comic feature, but i assure you it is more efficiently implemented than an order by rand(). which i did not know was a thing, but sounds fantastically tedious.
2) ok!
3) Always assume the worst
Either the function that picks the random comics is glitched or I just used up my "you won the lottery" beat-the-odds moment on something incredibly, incredibly lame.
Regarding #2 above, I just now experienced a delay when trying to view the account info overlay, so I clicked repeatedly... Then I saw the account info flash up for a half second and go away, never to return (until page reload when I clicked one more time and waited patiently until it popped up).
A few things I've noticed:
1a) Weird behavior at http://penny-arcade.com/clubpa: If I load the page with my zoom set to 100%, the big blue $10 and $30 bubbles block the top few comparison items (most notably, the two items that are unique to the $30 tier). Scrolling does not move them. If I zoom out to 90% or less, the bubbles don't move, still blocking the top few items. If I reload the page (with zoom now defaulting to 90% or less), the bubbles move themselves to be above the two lists. I can then zoom back in to 100% and the bubbles stay put, and now if I scroll up and down the bubbles move with me (but still dock above the list when scrolled all the way up). I tried changing browsers but found the same behavior on Chrome and Firefox.
2a) The music note with lyrics after Tycho's post turns a neat green color when hovered over/clicked, but no longer gives info about artist or song. Bug, or new Google Challenge feature?
3a) Will there be a new podcast/RSS feed for ClubPA that will include PA Staff episodes? Or will it be the same feed from the Kickstarter?
For 2a: I see them fine on Windows 7, Chrome 32
Tried hovering again this morning and the track and artist info is now showing up for me too.
* i accidentally clobbered the dlc page when we launched. all of that should be up to date at this point. i was also slow in putting up s03e01 of dlc, but that should be available to club pa members as of a couple hours ago.
* there is a known issue where attempting to log in via email does not work. it's on my short list for fixes, but for now, use your username. sorry for the inconvenience
* i'm also looking into the constant signout issue. please make sure you have cookies enabled - i'm sure you do, but it is one thing that would keep you from maintaining your session.
thanks everyone for your patience and bug reports!
Also, are there any plans to make the entire comic collection available for download for Club PA members? I'd love to have a local copy so that I can use them as a rotating wall paper on my desktop.
(I've been getting random sites to redirect to some dashboard URL? and all that's on the page is telling me how Vanilla is totally working and such. It also happened in a pop-up in the corner of the screen where the "Draft saved" thing was supposed to be.)
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Visit front page->load->wait a second->whole page blanks and reloads->no more reloading.
After that navigate to Podcast page->loads->wait a second->whole page blanks and reloads->no more reloading.
Doesn't happen on the Comic page but does in a lot of other places I navigate to.
Also the Staff podcast doesn't seem to show up in the RSS feed. The RSS feed link on the Staff Podcast page is the same as the regular podcast. Not sure if it's supposed to have its own or it should be included in the regular feed. Either way I currently can't get it through RSS.
(Mac OS X 10.9, chrome and firefox)
PA Mainsite and other properties are having network issues right now, but the correct people know about it and are working on it.