Thread "The duck's 12 step program. Post here if you found a bug/design error." in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 11:09AM, Sep. 10, 2011

ozoneocean wrote:
There's nothing I can do about that "!" account…

But really, what a stupid thing to call yourself. People that do that just because they can in a system really have to take what they get I'm afraid- sure you've got that as your account name luvy, but you've got all the issues associated with it too as well now. It's a trade-off.

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OK, Darwin, I CAN do something about awards! So you have them all back now! There is no top 50 award in the system though, so either you imagined that or it got lost in the change-over. The next one after 100 is top 10, then top 5 is the last one. There's also no 4th year, it only goes up to two. :(

But there are friending trophies and forum posting tophies AND your feature trophy!

Dude you're awesome…I probably did imagine the 50, or was wishful thinking, or something. Never quite made it to the top ten or anything, I think the hightest I ever got was about 35…I was still damn proud of that considering how many comics there are here.

I didn't even think about the Feature! LMAO! So thanks for looking out for me!

Posted at 8:09PM, Sep. 10, 2011

@Darwin- no worries! 35 is pretty damn good!!

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To the asrewipe that messed up the "!" account:

YOU'VE BEEN REPORTED TO CYBER POLICE!

Oh, and I know who you are because…
I BACK-TRACED YOU!

CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME! >:[

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I wiped that account so that issue no-longer exists now.

Posted at 7:09PM, Sep. 11, 2011

ozoneocean wrote:
@Darwin- no worries! 35 is pretty damn good!!

I have you to thank for that high a count - with the feature and all! The other time was because Hchan cross promoted me!

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 12, 2011

ozoneocean wrote:
There's nothing I can do about that "!" account…

But really, what a stupid thing to call yourself. People that do that just because they can in a system really have to take what they get I'm afraid- sure you've got that as your account name luvy, but you've got all the issues associated with it too as well now. It's a trade-off.

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OK, Darwin, I CAN do something about awards! So you have them all back now! There is no top 50 award in the system though, so either you imagined that or it got lost in the change-over. The next one after 100 is top 10, then top 5 is the last one. There's also no 4th year, it only goes up to two. :(

But there are friending trophies and forum posting tophies AND your feature trophy!

Speaking of trophies, in mine there is no indication of what each one means they're just square pictures. Shouldn't there be a rollover or descriptions of some kind for each one? Also, if it only goes up to two years, then I should have a second year one seing as I've just past my two year anniversary on Friday and there is only a one year one on my profile.

Posted at 8:09PM, Sep. 12, 2011

darth_paul wrote:
Speaking of trophies, in mine there is no indication of what each one means they're just square pictures. Shouldn't there be a rollover or descriptions of some kind for each one? Also, if it only goes up to two years, then I should have a second year one seing as I've just past my two year anniversary on Friday and there is only a one year one on my profile.

OK, you've got the second year now :)

Ya, rollovers are something they'll need to put in again, but for now:

1: comic page, 2: 100 pages, 3: 500 pages, 4: 1000 pages
5: top 1000, 6: top 100, 7: top 10, 8: top 5
9: Created a comic?
10: 1 forum post, 11: 100 forum posts, 12: 1000 forum posts, 13: 10000 forum posts?
14: comic book feature trophy, 15: comic strip feature trophy,
16: 100 firends, 17: 1000 firends
18: standard member trophy, 19: custom profile.
20: member for 1 year, 21: member for two years.

Posted at 11:09PM, Sep. 12, 2011

When browsing/searching comics, results are ordered alphabetically, when I really would want them listed by popularity.
The default search page is ordered by popularity, but if I try to view page 2 or add any search conditions, it defaults to alphabetic.
All of which would be fine if I wanted to look for one specific comic, but I wanted to browse through the one's I haven't read yet.

Posted at 2:09AM, Sep. 13, 2011

Actually the only place comics are listed by popularity is the top ten list on the front page of the site.
The search page just lists them in order of "likes" which is a different thing. Any comic can get into that list. :)

But I agree, a "sort by popularity" would be a good option!

Posted at 8:09AM, Sep. 13, 2011

ozoneocean wrote:
OK, you've got the second year now :)

Ya, rollovers are something they'll need to put in again, but for now:

1: comic page, 2: 100 pages, 3: 500 pages, 4: 1000 pages
5: top 1000, 6: top 100, 7: top 10, 8: top 5
9: Created a comic?
10: 1 forum post, 11: 100 forum posts, 12: 1000 forum posts, 13: 10000 forum posts?
14: comic book feature trophy, 15: comic strip feature trophy,
16: 100 firends, 17: 1000 firends
18: standard member trophy, 19: custom profile.
20: member for 1 year, 21: member for two years.

Thanks! 8-)

Posted at 10:09AM, Sep. 13, 2011

I'd settle for sorting by "likes" if I could view page 2 and onwards that way.

Posted at 12:09PM, Sep. 13, 2011

Missing my trophies too. Just didn't scroll that far down my profile.
I had the forum posting trophies, the one for my feature, posting up to 500 pages, and the years of membership, as well as the profile trophies.
I know I had the forum post trophies, so the maniac one can't be 10000 (cause I don't have 10000)

Posted at 12:09PM, Sep. 13, 2011

ozoneocean wrote:
darth_paul wrote:
Speaking of trophies, in mine there is no indication of what each one means they're just square pictures. Shouldn't there be a rollover or descriptions of some kind for each one? Also, if it only goes up to two years, then I should have a second year one seing as I've just past my two year anniversary on Friday and there is only a one year one on my profile.
OK, you've got the second year now :)

Ya, rollovers are something they'll need to put in again, but for now:

1: comic page, 2: 100 pages, 3: 500 pages, 4: 1000 pages
5: top 1000, 6: top 100, 7: top 10, 8: top 5
9: Created a comic?
10: 1 forum post, 11: 100 forum posts, 12: 1000 forum posts, 13: 10000 forum posts?
14: comic book feature trophy, 15: comic strip feature trophy,
16: 100 firends, 17: 1000 firends
18: standard member trophy, 19: custom profile.
20: member for 1 year, 21: member for two years.

@ozone:Forum maniac is 2,500 posts, not 10,000.
So, what's going on with trophies?
I don't care about most of them, but it would be nice if I could have my featured comic trophy back. : )

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 14, 2011

What's going on with the trophies? No idea :(
All I know is that some were deleted apparently from some profiles. Lucky mine were still there though because it helped me work out how to restore them to people…one by one :(

Yup, you're right about the 2500 posts too! Well spotted!

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 14, 2011

I came across two things that may or may not have been mentioned.

I've added an assistant to the "Duck and Quail" comic (gunwallace) but whenever he posts a comic with author notes it still looks like it is me doing it. Is this a well known bug or is it some setting we're missing?

Also, posting a .GIF comic page/comic title with transparency doesn't work. It just leaves white where the transparency should be. Pretty sure this used to work fine a while back during the launch…? (It works in the forum though. )

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 14, 2011

VegaX wrote:
I came across two things that may or may not have been mentioned.
I've added an assistant to the "Duck and Quail" comic (gunwallace) but whenever he posts a comic with author notes it still looks like it is me doing it. Is this a well known bug or is it some setting we're missing?
Also, posting a .GIF comic page/comic title with transparency doesn't work. It just leaves white where the transparency should be. Pretty sure this used to work fine a while back during the launch…? (It works in the forum though. )

I've noticed the assistant thing too for older posts in my comics. (prechange over)
I have also noticed that .gifs don't hold transparance very well. But .pngs seem to work. I haven't tried with the title bar, but my last page for the awards is partially transparent and it is a .png.

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 14, 2011

The assistant thing I am sure I've seen mentioned before but I can't remember in what context. I think it was probably on one of their internal 'stuff we're going to fix next' list which never got gotten to.

The .gif thing, hmm. I can't say I know if that worked for comic pages or not. I know they have had trouble with image types on the new server, something about how "python wants everything to be a jpeg" (or something ridiculous sounding like that which I don't understand the logic behind). Thanks for reporting it though.

Just to keep you guys informed, we've had no news about the state of Wowio/DD/etc. other than just carrying on as it was. They were able to help us fend off a determined spam attack but I think that was largely done in their free time, and bringing someone back in who had left the company.

Posted at 4:09PM, Sep. 14, 2011

Hello everyone. I'm new here and I'm actually trying to do something fairly simple, but it's just not working…
I'm trying to change a few simple things on my page layout; making text bold, changing background color…etc. I'll make my changes, hit save, then when I refresh the page it goes back to the default setting. All of my changes have been erased! What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for your help on this…

Posted at 1:09AM, Sep. 15, 2011

Hi swoobie, sorry you're not having a good experience so early on.

Unfortunately the only 'fix' we have for layout editor problems is to suggest that people use Chrome. Chrome seems to work with no problems, while other browsers work irregularly (firefox especially). Not the best solution but the only one we have.

Posted at 2:09AM, Sep. 15, 2011

I've left some suggestions here: http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/topic/174619/?page=1#latest

One thing though, did you click "deactivate layout mode" after you were finished your layout editing?

The changes are only saved when you do that.

Posted at 5:09AM, Sep. 15, 2011

skoolmunkee wrote:
The assistant thing I am sure I've seen mentioned before but I can't remember in what context. I think it was probably on one of their internal 'stuff we're going to fix next' list which never got gotten to.

The .gif thing, hmm. I can't say I know if that worked for comic pages or not. I know they have had trouble with image types on the new server, something about how "python wants everything to be a jpeg" (or something ridiculous sounding like that which I don't understand the logic behind). Thanks for reporting it though.

Just to keep you guys informed, we've had no news about the state of Wowio/DD/etc. other than just carrying on as it was. They were able to help us fend off a determined spam attack but I think that was largely done in their free time, and bringing someone back in who had left the company.

Dude, if I only know php, I would have volunteered. Leaving the site like this is very unprofessional.
I miss the old site.
The one before wowio came along *sigh*
~JOe

Posted at 11:09AM, Sep. 15, 2011

I'm not even sure if the new site uses php or not. :] All I know is that it's built on python, or something.

I think just about everybody is disappointed that the site is where it is. I'm pretty sure that if they hadn't tried to update it though, we'd be in an even worse spot. That site was falling down around our ears. At least the new one works more or less reliably, even if we're missing some stuff. And it's yellow.

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 15, 2011

ozoneocean wrote:
What's going on with the trophies? No idea :(
All I know is that some were deleted apparently from some profiles. Lucky mine were still there though because it helped me work out how to restore them to people…one by one :(
Yup, you're right about the 2500 posts too! Well spotted!

Thanks for putting mine back, oz!

Posted at 10:09PM, Sep. 15, 2011

Whoa… is it just me or are all the advertisements missing? Should we be worried? I'm worried! I'm very worried! I know the ads were annoying and sometimes intrusive, but that was kinda the only income (that I was aware of at least) supporting the site so I'm wondering what's going on… I'm just saying Wowio seemed awfully concerned about not offending the big advertisers with our paltry PW ads and laid aside the prime space on our comics to please them, so seeing these blank boxes really makes me worry that something bad is going on.

Posted at 10:09PM, Sep. 15, 2011

@Hippie- No worries! There's not much I can currently do to fix things so I'm very happy when I CAN fix stuff like that :)

Amelius wrote:
Whoa… is it just me or are all the advertisements missing? Should we be worried? I'm worried! I'm very worried! I know the ads were annoying and sometimes intrusive, but that was kinda the only income (that I was aware of at least) supporting the site so I'm wondering what's going on… I'm just saying Wowio seemed awfully concerned about not offending the big advertisers with our paltry PW ads and laid aside the prime space on our comics to please them, so seeing these blank boxes really makes me worry that something bad is going on.

I wouldn't worry just yet… We had some trouble with malware being detected by users and Lawrence suspected some rogue ads… This might just be him trying to sort out some countermeasures.

That's just a theory though, I'll e-mail him about it when I get home!

Thanks for posting about this- I very rarely see the ads because of all my ad block stuff so I wouldn't have know otherwise :)

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 16, 2011

Ditto on the ad block. I see big blank squares all the time. They aren't pleasing to the eye but they are much better than ads.

Posted at 11:09AM, Sep. 16, 2011

Ah, they are back now (intermittently though) and a Dodge ad starting talking at me and made me jump! Okay, thanks for the heads up on that, I was wondering if it had something to do with that. Norton pinged me about a malicious toolkit last week, but I didn't know if it was DD or DA but I was giving the duck the benefit of doubt since I thought we got a better ad service than that… (then again DA probably has a "reputable" service too, and I'm always getting redirects and virus warnings there). I hope no one takes my comment about the ads too hard though, it's just difficult not to feel a little second fiddle to the ads at times, but if we're going to play second fiddle I want those ads to actually be bringing in some money for the site! I wish there was something we could actually do for the site though, y'know, like some sort of bake sale they do in those hokey kid's movies to save that one thing that needs savin'. Somehow I feel motivation is low around here for something like an art drive… would they even accept donations from the community, I wonder?