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User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup)

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 07 2020, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly

martyb writes:

I rolled out an improvement to the site's message processing template. =)

tl;dr:

(1) Based on a user preference, the site can send a message to inform you someone had replied to a comment you had posted. The message *now* contains links that take you directly to the *comment* instead of to the *story*. The message appears at https://soylentnews.org/my/inbox

(2) I made a mistake rolling out the change which will show up as extra text (__seclev__ 500 __version__ $Id$) below the text of the message. That was live for about an hour and is now fixed. I apologize for my error.

(3) Enjoy the added convenience!

[TMB note]:
(4) Also just added &noupdate=1 to the links to your comment and the reply so clicking on one reply won't mark every comment on the story as read anymore.
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Read on for more details, if you are curious.

Previously, when you got a message that a user had replied to a comment you posted, you'd get links in the message that took you to the *story*. Then, you'd have to scroll down to see the actual comment. *Now*, clicking on either link takes you directly to the *message*, itself. It might help to see an example:

Before:

After:

Though they *appear* the same, as *text*, the *links* under "Re:resolution choice" and "resolution choice" are different.

Unfortunately, I made a mistake in updating the *in-memory* copy of the template (default;comments;reply_msg). I accidentally included text that is needed in the template *file* (/rehash-master/plugins/Messages/templates/reply_msg;comments;default)

The Mighty Buzzard noticed the error and was instrumental in tracking it down. (Thanks Buzz!)

Any messages that were *generated* during this time (today between 1400-1500 UTC give-or-take) will show:

__seclev__ 500 __version__ $Id$

at the bottom of the message text.

Newly *generated* new messages (I.e. after 1500 UTC) should be back to normal; I apologize for any inconvenience my mistake caused.

(That said, I'd prefer you think it was part of my Sooper Sekret plan to get TMB to help test my changes! =)

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 07 2020, @10:12PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday July 07 2020, @10:12PM (#1017903) Homepage Journal

    Think it was supposed to be 86'd after someone got butthurt over it not being valid in the HTML5 spec. Really don't remember though.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Wednesday July 08 2020, @12:07AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @12:07AM (#1017932) Journal

    I thought it was something to do with it not closing properly sometimes (nested tags maybe?) and striking the rest of the page.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Wednesday July 08 2020, @12:11AM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 08 2020, @12:11AM (#1017935) Journal

    Think it was supposed to be 86'd after someone got butthurt over it not being valid in the HTML5 spec. Really don't remember though.

    Nope. See https://soylentnews.org/meta/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=38369&page=1&cid=1017931#commentwrap [soylentnews.org], below, for more details.

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