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Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by mynameishere »

abstractbill wrote: post #16
mynameishere wrote: post #15

Black-on-blue lettering very painful. The puzzle itself looks nice, but I think there is a slight contrast problem with the black-to-white fading of the white squares against the black background. It just feels slightly off, no big deal. However: You've clearly got some bad bugs in this. I went to answer "Country whose capital is Tehran" and it took a good minute before I could enter the answer. I clicked on it, the…

Thanks for the feedback! It's possible the site is overloaded to the extent that ajax messages are getting lost (I have no resend mechanism right now). Out of interest though, what browser/os are you using?

ff 1.5.0.12

I tested a little more, and the worst problem seem to be that in a situation like this:

EDIT: I can't get the formatting to work, but picture a horizontal "HELLO" with "LEMON" coming off the HELLO's second "L".

... and you click on the "l" in lemon, it highlights "hello". You really should NEVER have ambiguity like that. Maybe a second click should alternate between them.

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by abstractbill »

mynameishere wrote: post #21
abstractbill wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! It's possible the site is overloaded to the extent that ajax messages are getting lost (I have no resend mechanism right now). Out of interest though, what browser/os are you using?

ff 1.5.0.12 I tested a little more, and the worst problem seem to be that in a situation like this: EDIT: I can't get the formatting to work, but picture a horizontal "HELLO" with "LEMON" coming off the HELLO's second "L". ... and you click on the "l" in lemon, it highlights "hello". You really should NEVER have ambiguity like that. Maybe a second click should alternate between them.

"Maybe a second click should alternate between them."

That's exactly what it does, for me. Thanks, I'll test with ff1.5 and see if I can reproduce this.

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by mynameishere »

abstractbill wrote: post #22
mynameishere wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ff 1.5.0.12 I tested a little more, and the worst problem seem to be that in a situation like this: EDIT: I can't get the formatting to work, but picture a horizontal "HELLO" with "LEMON" coming off the HELLO's second "L". ... and you click on the "l" in lemon, it highlights "hello". You really should NEVER have ambiguity like that. Maybe a second click should alternate between them.

"Maybe a second click should alternate between them." That's exactly what it does, for me. Thanks, I'll test with ff1.5 and see if I can reproduce this.

Nevermind, I'm stupid, it does work [the double-clicking].

But lesson learned: Other people are going to be stupid, too.

And apparently my earlier problems were due to latency. If you go too fast, the updates come up a little oddly, and the letters switch 1) When you type, 2) A moment later to something historical, and 3) Back to what you typed.

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by abstractbill »

mynameishere wrote: post #23
abstractbill wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Maybe a second click should alternate between them." That's exactly what it does, for me. Thanks, I'll test with ff1.5 and see if I can reproduce this.

Nevermind, I'm stupid, it does work [the double-clicking]. But lesson learned: Other people are going to be stupid, too. And apparently my earlier problems were due to latency. If you go too fast, the updates come up a little oddly, and the letters switch 1) When you type, 2) A moment later to something historical, and 3) Back to what you typed.

Heh, no problem - thanks again for the feedback.

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by bluemoo »

I claim that one of the best features you could add is a feedback mechanism in the site. At the minimum, stick "Report a bug, Request a feature" as a link on all of the pages. Then give the user a simple text field to type their comment into. If you want to go fancier, I think iminlikewithyou.com has a nice feedback mechanism. (The implication being that you could look at their site and steal the mechanism :) )

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by brlewis »

abstractbill wrote: post #19
brlewis wrote: post #18

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Overall looks great. Sometimes single-clicking on a square made that square get the next letter typed, sometimes it didn't. Other than that it seemed smooth. I don't think there's a reliable route past spam filters for any kind of web-site invite. You might give users some text to cut/paste into their own email to friends.

Thanks. I really should have noted that you can just cut and paste the url of you game and send that to your friends if the emails don't get through. "Sometimes single-clicking on a square made that square get the next letter typed, sometimes it didn't" I've never seen this myself - what browser/os? Thanks again.

I observed the bug on Firefox/XP. The only reliable way I could reproduce it was to move the mouse slightly so that the letter was briefly selected when I clicked. It might be a case of just moving quickly/selecting. I think it might sometimes happen apart from that, but it's possible that it's the same thing but with deselection happening quickly.

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by abstractbill »

brlewis wrote: post #27
abstractbill wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I really should have noted that you can just cut and paste the url of you game and send that to your friends if the emails don't get through. "Sometimes single-clicking on a square made that square get the next letter typed, sometimes it didn't" I've never seen this myself - what browser/os? Thanks again.

I observed the bug on Firefox/XP. The only reliable way I could reproduce it was to move the mouse slightly so that the letter was briefly selected when I clicked. It might be a case of just moving quickly/selecting. I think it might sometimes happen apart from that, but it's possible that it's the same thing but with deselection happening quickly.

Thanks, that's great info.

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by Psyonic »

I don't know if it is a conflict with one of my firefox extensions, but when I type a letter, it gets in the box, but also starts the firefox quick search. Every letter after that only goes into the quick search. So to write a word I have to click on every single box. Definitely annoying. But again, could just be a conflict on my machine. That's firefox 2.0.0.4 on gentoo linux

Re: Site I've been working on every evening for six weeks - ycnews feedback would be awesome

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Post by ralph »

walesmd wrote: post #26

First thing I noticed - I can't delete letters, or if I can, it's not intuitive at all. I clicked the letters and tried backspace and delete - didn't work, gave up.

Me too. I worked out I can spacebar over them.
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