Examples
“The title bugs me, too-too soft for an old engineer like me.”
“8. The title bugs the crap out of people who are bothered by incorrect grammar.”
“Oh, and I'm sorry, that thing on Teal'c's chin bugs me.”
“When we were kids, my sister and i would save the big rubber bands that come on broccoli for two reasons: to shoot at bugs from a distance and to open jars when daddy wasn't around.”
“By the very construction of the main narrative, we identify with the fresh-faced teenagers who go through training and eventually into battle against the enemy bugs from the planet Klendathu.”
“Anything with four legs (not eight!) that eats indoor bugs is my friend.”
“It looks like those brain bugs from Starship Troopers.”
“We seined bugs from the stream, learned how trout are made of trees, and talked about caves and springs; all the while we listened to the phoebes calling loudly from the banks of the North Fork.”
“They were secretly video recording this is not different from putting in bugs, it is actually worse, because it is audio and video.”
“* Male assassin bugs are another insect that eat their young when it senses that water or food supplies are low.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bugs’.
-
• Wordie for dummies!
Our collection of FAQs, help and tips.
I can helping!!!faq, features, bugs, word, diacritics, some html, tags, images, video, promotion, tricks, comments for spec... and 11 more...
-
Wordnik admin entries
These are comment pages where Wordie users traditionally have left remarks about the meta-workings of Wordie, and now Wordnik.
comments, bugs, features, help, wordnikie suggest..., wordnik, suggestions, feeds, wordie, profile, pronunciation, faq and 8 more...
-
some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
-
Meta
Because in this crazy place, technical feedback on site bugs goes on the page for the word 'bugs'. See also Meta Squared, plethora's list of meta lists.
bugs, features, mobile, wordie, wordnet, madeupical, tagging, merch, weirdnet, tag, meta, search and 83 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bugs.
dharma66 Although I can access it on my iPhone, I still cannot locate my original grocery list on wordnik online. Aug 9, 2011
chained_bear Hi y'all. I'm typing in a comment in nested quotation marks (as is my wont), and it comes up without the opening and closing marks (whether they are single or double), and moreover will not let me copy/paste the citation from another entry (as is also my wont). See the poorly-formatted and uncited comment on carouse for visible evidence of my woes. Jun 18, 2010
marky I'm trying to get the full JSON or XML of words in word lists. The RSS only lists the last 100 it seems. How can I access past pages or the full list in one database file? I'm analyzing the pages but I don't want to have to scrape HTML for the data, that's a pain in the butt!!!! Can I use the API? Please answer! Jan 20, 2010
grant_barrett Thanks, Myth. We have a script that is slowly cleaning out bad data like that. It's a big database, though, which is also growing at the same time, so it's going to take a while to complete. Jan 20, 2010
myth bug, bad db entry? http://www.wordnik.com/words/hubble-expansion Jan 20, 2010
Prolagus I think this kind of feedback now belongs to Feedback. Nov 20, 2009
rolig Here's a peculiar bug. I clicked on the Blog, which mentioned an interesting list I thought I'd check out, so I clicked on the list, and when I went to comment on it I discovered I was no longer signed in! Seems like the Blog is the EXIT door. Nov 20, 2009
lampbane Can't edit a comment I just made (less than five minutes ago) on this list.
(But I can edit this one just fine.) Nov 20, 2009
lampbane I added \m/ to a list but I can't actually click through to the page (for reasons that are obvious, but still...). Nov 20, 2009
Prolagus It's been reported 5 days ago on comments. Sigh! Nov 19, 2009
vanishedone And strangely enough, if you try twice to get to its comments page you end up here. Nov 19, 2009
uselessness I just noticed that there's no way to get to any of the subpages for this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game, and the remote control, and the lamp, and that's all I need. (apparently because it ends with a period). Nov 19, 2009
Prolagus Also, I should probably be clearer about my bug report of two days ago.
Our "regular" Wordie lists were moved here, but due to some issues with Unicode, my open lists (which start with •) are not correctly redirected. Same thing happens to some other lists with unusual characters. Nov 19, 2009
vanishedone The change from /people/profile/membername to /people/membername has broken some links from Wordie: see my comment from about nine months ago about ordinary.madness, which was linked to href="/people/profile/ordinary.madness" and therefore pointed to wordie.org/people/profile/ordinary.madness, the profile URL, but now points to wordnik.com/people/profile/ordinary.madness, which Wordnik thinks should be the profile of someone named profile. Nov 19, 2009
whichbe John, you probably knew this but Regarding My Last Comment: I just noticed that all the undeletable words are all the multi-word ones. That's the common thread; the one-worders delete fine. Nov 18, 2009
vanishedone I can't hear these wonderful pronunciations everyone else seems to be talking about, in either Firefox or IE (WinVista). As far as I know my Flash installation is up to date; I'm behind a network proxy, if that's any help.
Edit: ditto in Opera under my Ubuntu installation. Nov 17, 2009
Prolagus John, the "some HTML" link on profile pages is not a valid URL. Nov 17, 2009
john whichbe, thanks, i'll look into that--i've been in fix-two-bugs, cause-one mode with moving and deleting from lists, hopefully that'll stabilize on the next pass.
vo, unfortunately you'll find machine generated crud like that semi-regularly right now. we ingest huge volumes of data, and we're still fine-tuning how it's all processed. that's not a part of the puzzle i'm directly involved in, but we talk all the time about how to improve the process, so you'll see less and less of that over time. Nov 17, 2009
whichbe I do a lot of moving on my Trunkjunk list so it's full of examples: Currently, when I "move" a word, it actually just copies the word and leaves behind an undeletable copy where it was meant to be (re)moved from. Eek! Examples are: body count and bleeding edge. Nov 17, 2009
vanishedone irstin is the product of some kind of spidering bug: it's from a drop-down list of names on the source page, but initial letters have been chopped off. This one should be Kirstin. Nov 17, 2009
vanishedone I see the tag handling is classic Wordie: the current Word of the Day, belter, has a definishing tag containing the " character, resulting in a truncated link. I tried to reconstruct the full URL by casting a hex, but the page I end up on still tells me nothing has been tagged with that string, irrespective of whether I decapitalise it. Nov 17, 2009
Prolagus Not a priority for me. I don't need to have those lists so soon, so as long as they're somewhere, I can wait for the next update.
I'm more concerned about the trouble with my lists whose redirect from Wordie doesn't work (and they are many), since I linked to them in many places over the web. Nov 16, 2009
john Thanks very much for the sleuthing, though sorry it's necessary. Grant also compiled a list of lists to look into. I don't have access to the necessary db to dig into it right now, otherwise I would, but figuring out what happened and what to do about it is a high priority tomorrow. Nov 16, 2009
erinmckean whichbe, rest assured all the lists are extant, we just have to run around re-attaching the hoses to the right intake valves. Or something like that ... we'll have another update in the next few days, I hope by Wednesday. Nov 16, 2009
Prolagus Thanks, whichbe! Here are my missing lists, with the same problem:
"Commedia dell'arte" (example arlecchino)
"The condom-free preserve" (example preservative)
"Italian politics :-(" (example: pianista)
"Scientific papers with delightful titles" (example tan et al 2009 plos one) Nov 16, 2009
whichbe For what it's worth, I used Google's Cached feature to scan old Wordie.org pages (search phrase "whichbe wordie.org lists"), so I could identify any or all of the missing word lists that have been disconnected from me through the database transfer.
The number is 6. Curious buggers--for when I look at the Word's comments, it *DOES* list the connection to my list, however going to the linked list results in "NOT FOUND". Likewise, these Unfounded lists don't appear on http://www.wordnik.com/people/whichbe/lists
For reference, the 6 lists trapped in Limbo are:
- Wordie Challenge - example poth - http://www.wordnik.com/lists/wordie-challenge
- Scambiguous - ex. know and no - http://www.wordnik.com/lists/scambiguous
- Wakese - ex. monomyth - http://www.wordnik.com/lists/wakese--2
- Punlandia - ex. polish - http://www.wordnik.com/lists/punlandia
- Pharmacontents - ex. moxifloxacin - http://www.wordnik.com/lists/pharmacontents
- Terms of Phonetics - ex. phoneme - http://www.wordnik.com/lists/terms-of-phonetics
Wakese is the most valuable to me since I couldn't recover all its contents via Google. Nov 16, 2009
whichbe When non-standard characters (like æ) are displayed on the "recent tags" section of our profiles, it's borked. In the case of æ, they seemed to have been messed up from the transfer of databases, so I manually re-tagged them (it was only about 25 words)... now they display correctly except via the profile page. Nov 16, 2009
whichbe When non-standard characters (like æ) are displayed on the "recent tags" section of our profiles, it's borked. In the case of æ, they seemed to have been messed up from the transfer of databases, so I manually re-tagged them (it was only about 25 words)... now they display correctly except via the profile page. Nov 16, 2009
whichbe Just noticed that occassionally a word will have an unparsed dump of a word list in the EXAMPLES section. A good example would be on the word casson: http://www.wordnik.com/words/casson/examples Nov 15, 2009
john Broken comment pages should display now, though some aren't correctly showing the lists the word is in. Working on that. Nov 13, 2009
sarra Comments on my profile used to have their encoding skewed, but that's been fixed now - hope that means the rest of the text will be fixed incrementally. Nov 12, 2009
Prolagus Foreign letters in list names got screwed up - see http://www.wordnik.com/lists/a12i1-i-iiiii3ii1 (by the way, the "some HTML" link is borked). Nov 11, 2009
Prolagus I can't find the second tag spammer, though. Nov 2, 2009
Prolagus Here's the spammer: demataml Nov 2, 2009
bilby From the recent Tags feed it's obvious that there is some spam-tagging going on. Nov 2, 2009
reesetee *waiting patiently for new & improved Wordie* Oct 30, 2009
john Hi folks, so sorry about the plugged up front page. I'll try to roto-route it tonight or tomorrow. I'm in a mad dash to build nuevo Wordie right now, which will be launched in a few weeks, so it's kind of hard to spend time on ancien Wordie. But a semi-refreshing front page is totally annoying to me too.
Speaking of Wordie++, it's coming along handsomely I think, and will feel very, very much like this one—but faster, and with less bugs :-) Oct 30, 2009
mollusque Thanks, bilby---I didn't know about F5. Oct 29, 2009
dontcry Me too also. On the F5 vs Home. Oct 29, 2009
bilby Front page F5 refreshes for me but not if I just click on 'Home' as I usually do. Oct 29, 2009
mollusque I can't refresh the homepage. Even though I'm signed in, I get the sign-in screen and the comments from a couple of days ago. Oct 29, 2009
Prolagus Is "Errata" gone for good? Oct 28, 2009
hernesheir I can get to a current comment page by clicking through the "blog" heading at the top of a page. Oct 28, 2009
chained_bear The latest comments, etc. are not showing up on the front page for me. I can see them if I click "past comments" but not if I refresh the front page. Oct 28, 2009
vanishedone Image search is working again for me. Oct 18, 2009
bilby I listed titivate right after cumquat (both hours ago, here), yet the front page feed shows:
Recent words (feed)
to cut the umbilical cord (1)
cumquat (8)
... with titivate nowhere in sight. Oct 8, 2009
milosrdenstvi Sometimes trying to access website receive:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 1373340549
Varnish Oct 8, 2009
vanishedone Broken for me:
Firefox, IE.
(Rhymed poetry!) Oct 5, 2009
Prolagus Working for me on both Firefox and Safari. Sep 27, 2009
bilby Working for me in Firefox. Didn't try IE. Sep 26, 2009
chained_bear Anyone else having an issue with image search? I can't seem to use it in IE or Firefox. Sep 26, 2009
vanishedone Browse is still glitchy, I'm afraid. If I click on these...
# monotone thru mooncurser
# mooncurser thru more fun with used syringes!
...the first actually gives 'moon tune thru mordant', the second 'monosemantemic thru moon-noon'. Sep 8, 2009
asativum Thanks! I can. Many appreciations. Sep 8, 2009
john Hi Asativum, you should be able to see your comments now. Sep 6, 2009
asativum I can't get to the page listing my comments; maybe the same reason skip's skipped town? Sep 6, 2009
rubah Sorry for double-commenting:) Just had some more info to add.
I can add words to that list in the mobile site, but on the regular display, the addition words don't show up, despite being listed in my profile. Sep 3, 2009
rubah aside from having to load the entire bug list to post a comment..
I can't seem to add words to precisely one of my lists. It asks if I want to register or log in. The other ones are very happy to offer the opportunity to add words Sep 3, 2009
chained_bear Well, in that case we'd just have to add words to other open lists (of which we have a few now...) to bump it. Sep 2, 2009
Prolagus By the way, please don't add words to that list because that would put it back in the homepage. Sep 2, 2009
chained_bear Yeah, I figured. Well... I'll create a couple as soon as I can think of some.
Edit: Ahhhh. I feel like I just had a splinter removed. *sigh* Sep 2, 2009
vanishedone We'll need to create some new open lists in order to push /lists/randomnesssssssisisisisiisisiaosaso off the 'Recent' list. Sep 2, 2009
chained_bear Sure would be nice if we could un-bork the front page. Yesterday I thought it would just go away soon enough on its own, but like a bad case of H1N1, it's sticking around. *sigh* Sep 2, 2009
vanishedone It may be the . that's the problem in toniatriggy@gmail.com; see Prolagus's comment 11 months ago concerning amun.x. Aug 18, 2009
yarb Strangely the recent comments on this list aren't showing up on the "last 100 comments" page.
Edit: just seen prolagus's recent report. Aug 18, 2009
bilby There's a new user, toniatriggy@gmail.com. Profile page is a 404. Is that because of the @ in the username? Aug 18, 2009
Prolagus Comments on lists (or at least some of them) don't appear on "last 100 comments". Aug 13, 2009
Prolagus The missing subject lines bug is still there. Aug 13, 2009
vanishedone Another problem with Browse is that it doesn't seem to be entirely accurate in its categorisation: clicking 'aurek-besh thru autofellatio' is actually producing a page that reads:
# aureation is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurebesh is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurei is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurek-besh is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# aurelian is listed 2 times and has 0 comments
...
# autoethnography is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# autoethnology is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# autoevolution is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
# autoevolutionist is listed 1 time and has 0 comments
Note that the category preceding that one is appearing as 'Atticus thru aurelian' (in reality, Attica to Aurebesh). You have to go into the next category, in which autoevolution is the first word, to find autofellatio. Aug 8, 2009
plethora Pro's profile is still giving a 500 error :/ Aug 2, 2009
vanishedone Cheers. I see the random word feature is also back to normal. Aug 1, 2009
john Thanks much for the reports--I've been fiddling about again, if you hadn't guessed :-) It's for the best in the long run, but sorry for the recent collateral damage.
Profiles should be fixed (sorry for disappearing you skipvia), the duplicate derelict has been evicted, and the comment page profiles are properly possessive.
Treeseed, private notes were broken when you reported that, but they should be fixed now. If that's not the case for you would you mind emailing me, and letting me know what browser you're using?
VanishedOne, your comments page is back.
Sionnach, I still have no idea what's causing your duplicates (I can't duplicate the bug). I may email you, if you don't mind, and ask for specifics to help me debug. I'm really sorry about that--I very much don't want a bug to drive away a favorite Wordie, but I can see how it would be maddening. Aug 1, 2009
ç�lä±é¯s �?ss�?ɔ ʇs�? ɹn�?ʇ�?ıpɹo uoɯ �?nb �?su�?d �?ɾ Aug 1, 2009
bilby I've had trouble accessing a few profiles. For example http://wordie.org/people/profile/%C7%9Dl%C4%B1%C9%AFs (ie, �?lıɯs). I thought that one might have been because of the characters, but funnily enough http://wordie.org/people/profile/skipvia is also 500AE. Aug 1, 2009
vanishedone A very minor bug: derelict is showing up twice on the recent tags page. Jul 31, 2009
vanishedone The string 'about n hours ago, on x's profile, p said' has started displaying as 'about n hours ago, on x profile, p said' on the recent comments page, but the bug seems not to be showing up on the front page. Jul 27, 2009
treeseed Hi John
Prior to today I been able to click on private notes and add to them. Today I am unable to click on them and get the edit box...I can not make any new additions to old private notes.
Thanks. Jul 25, 2009
vanishedone Judging by a tag on ishy, multiple full stops in tags have the same effect as multiple apostrophes. I can get to the tag page via tags/replaces 'sort of%2e%2e%2e; and 'i guess%2e%2e%2e' in conversation%2e, but Wordie still thinks nobody has used it. Jul 20, 2009
chained_bear Not sure if it's just me, or IE 8 (which sucks, by the way), but image search button is not working for me on many pages... About to go check Firefox... Where it works just fine.
Thought I'd post here in case anyone else has issues. Bring me the head of Bill Gates. Jul 16, 2009
vanishedone /people/comments/emilywalkin says 'emilywalkin has made 4 comments and citations', but only one is displayed. Meanwhile, people/comments/VanishedOne is giving me a 500 Application Error.
Edit: progress? Today it's giving me a 404. Jul 16, 2009
vanishedone Apostrophes in tags don't produce 404 pages like full stops, but they do seem to produce 'nobody has used' pages even if the tag is in use somewhere.
Edit: hang on, I think it's double apostrophes that do this. Contrast /tags/dinosaurs 'r us (fully functional) with /tags/ghouls 'n' ghosts (not, although it appears on firebrand).
Later edit: oddly enough though, /tags/ghouls 'n' ghosts?u=VanishedOne works normally. Jul 4, 2009
Prolagus Me four! Jun 24, 2009
bilby We still love you, sion-sion.
We still love you, sion-sion. Jun 24, 2009
sionnach I'm still having my duplicate problem, at least about 90% of the time.
If I try to create a new list, it appears twice on my list of lists.
If I add a word on a list, it appears twice;
comments appear twice.
I can make the second instance of a comment go away by editing and deleting it, but I am unable to fix the duplicate appearance of words or lists.
Since this is really messing up my ability to make sensible lists, it is seriously diminishing the site's appeal, unfortunately. Jun 24, 2009
sionnach I'm still having my duplicate problem, at least about 90% of the time.
If I try to create a new list, it appears twice on my list of lists.
If I add a word on a list, it appears twice;
comments appear twice.
I can make the second instance of a comment go away by editing and deleting it, but I am unable to fix the duplicate appearance of words or lists.
Since this is really messing up my ability to make sensible lists, it is seriously diminishing the site's appeal, unfortunately. Jun 24, 2009
Prolagus ...me neither... Jun 22, 2009
vanishedone I'm using Firefox 3.0.10, and haven't encountered that problem myself. Jun 21, 2009
sionnach I'm having that duplicate thing happen again. Could it be a browser thing (I'm using Firefox)? Jun 21, 2009
sionnach I'm having that duplicate thing happen again. Could it be a browser thing (I'm using Firefox)? Jun 21, 2009
qroqqa Sometimes when I enter a comment, the comment box and button disappear from the screen. They return and the new comment is there if I refresh or navigate to the word.
edit: No they don't. It must have been the refresh that entered the word, because I just noticed I lost a comment entirely. Jun 19, 2009
vanishedone I keep seeing old posts with no body text: on syllogism, for example. I wonder whether they were entered with no content, whether they're failing to load properly, or whether maybe the content was in the title field and this is a manifestation of the vanishing comment title bug. Jun 16, 2009
bilby Hmmmm, double comment here. Was that method acting, or ... ? Jun 15, 2009
sionnach John:
Everything I've added within the past hour has shown up in duplicate - both when adding words to lists, or comments on a word page. Jun 15, 2009
sionnach John:
Everything I've added within the past hour has shown up in duplicate - both when adding words to lists, or comments on a word page. Jun 15, 2009
yarb Ah, shit. Pro's probly right. Sorry for the exasperated tone. Jun 11, 2009
Prolagus It may actually be a real bug: your username contains dots, which has caused some trouble to other users if I remember well. I can't visit your list of lists either. Jun 11, 2009
yarb Assuming you're not joking:
Words are contained within lists. "Your words" shows all your lists. Simply click on one of them to see the words within that list.
To create a new list, click on "create new list", right under where it says "jeffrey.t.whitney's lists".
Most people figure this out for themselves. Relax, explore. Jun 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney When I click on "Your Words" why does it send me to a page of Lists? I want to see the words I have chosen, not a list of lists? It doesn't make any sense at all!!!!
Also, how do I make another list? I can't find any way of doing this!! Jun 11, 2009
vanishedone http://wordie.org/words/coquettish displays for me; /words/http://wordie.org/words/coquettish doesn't, of course, but if that was what was in your browser address bar you shouldn't have seen a Wordie 404 page at all, since /words isn't a recognisable protocol... Jun 11, 2009
yarb Just got this error when randoming:
Sorry, but I'm a 404 Error, and, as is my nature, I can't find what you're looking for. Try the search box in the upper right, or maybe dig around on the home page.The uri of the page I couldn't find: /words/http://wordie.org/words/coquettish Jun 11, 2009
Prolagus Argh! The missing subject lines really screw up some conversations! Jun 9, 2009
vanishedone Working normally for me, two hours later.
There used to be a bug that produced a 500 Application Error (see comment 9 months ago by oroboros), but it was fixed. (I don't know exactly when John fixed it.) Jun 2, 2009
oroboros I'm getting a 500 application error when I try the cloud feature on tags. Is that a temporary deal? It worked before, I believe.
Edit: works normally except on the tag ghosted (so far anyway).
Edit: found some others. Appears to relate to the size of the word collection tagged. The larger the collection the greater opportunity for 500 app error. Jun 2, 2009
milosrdenstvi I was never sure how you made those bold lines in the first place. Jun 1, 2009
vanishedone It isn't just the subject lines either; the delete option that appears when you edit a comment is also vanishing after a page refresh. Jun 1, 2009
bilby Ha, so it is. Jun 1, 2009
Prolagus But they have disappeared! I can't read any of those lines anymore.
Edit: I can only read them on the "last comments" page but they don't appear on the word pages. Jun 1, 2009
mollusque It only appears when you edit a comment. It used to be there when a comment was started, but John removed that feature a year ago. Jun 1, 2009
Prolagus What happened to the bold line in comments? For instance, I have often used it on insomnia. Jun 1, 2009
vanishedone There's some inconsistent escaping in tags that contain /
hindi/urdu viewed on ghungroo points to /tags/hindi\/urdu
However, the same tag appearing on the tags page points to /tags/hindi/urdu
Either way, it's 404'd and changing the / to a %2f doesn't help with this one. May 26, 2009
vanishedone Some interesting " behaviour: there's a tag on Lucy reading aesop rock song "no regrets", but even once I've reconstructed a working URL by changing " to %22, I still get a 'nobody has used this tag' message. May 23, 2009
vanishedone Where housekeeping is concerned, we're waiting for John's posse to saddle up (see features, 3 months ago). May 14, 2009
rolig I know this is a fairly common complaint (especially from Vanished One), but can something be done about the excessive tagging on word pages such as admire? This particular case seems to be the result of spamming, but other words are given ridiculously long tags (i.e. whole definitions) or a ridiculously large number of tags out of ignorance from people new to the site, who then simply vanish after making their mess. Can we develop a reasonable protocol for cleaning these pages up a bit? May 14, 2009
gangerh I'm just not getting used to the bright red rectangle that is the Google ads space on my Wordie home page. Am I the only one who gets this? May 11, 2009
vanishedone Judging by this it's probably associated with the AddThis widget at the bottom of the page. May 7, 2009
Prolagus NoScript is blocking something new on Wordie (bin.clearspring.com etc.). What is it? May 7, 2009
whichbe I don't know if this is just true from my browser (Firefox ver 2.0), but if I come at the homepage without having logged in, NO CONTENT comes up. Blank page. Once I've logged in, stuff is there. Other pages work, but not the homepage. Is this intentional?? May 4, 2009
seanahan The appropriate term should be heisenbug. May 1, 2009
mollusque A quantum bug: the comments about quant visible under bkerr's comments don't show at quant. Apr 30, 2009
Prolagus John, on Wordie in the news, NUXiY's and lauren_inretrospective's comments were accidentally swapped.
Plus, what the bear said. Apr 20, 2009
chained_bear Actually, John... first of all, there's no need to apologize! We know you have a life. :) Second... I'm afraid it's still not working for me in IE (2 different computers), but it does now in Firefox. But as I said, as long as it's working for other people, it's okay with me. I can get to my lists pretty easily, after all. :) Thanks! Apr 20, 2009
Prolagus My Wordie links are highlighted, clickable, but they don't show the usual little hand icon.
Edit: never mind, it's apparently my browser's fault. Apr 17, 2009
john Think I just fixed the list description links thing, c_b. Sorry for the long wait on that folks, slipped past my (rusty, WWII-era) radar earlier. Apr 16, 2009
chained_bear I use Firefox at home. I think I was having the problem there too; I'll check tonight. Apr 16, 2009
yarb I think it might be a probelm in IE - what browser you on, cb? Apr 16, 2009
chained_bear Thanks, mollusque. I did try that, and then let it go for a couple days. Just checked again--they're still highlighted but not clickable. *shrugs* Not a big deal for me, esp. if the links are working for others. Apr 16, 2009
reesetee I had that problem some time ago, but it seems to be okay now, at least with my lists. Apr 16, 2009
mollusque C_b, your link works for me. Maybe you just have to refresh after editing? Apr 15, 2009
chained_bear I wish I could help John out somehow so he doesn't have to spend his life picking up after us, but let's face it: I don't have the technical cojones. :( Apr 14, 2009
yarb Yes, cb! See my comment about a month ago. Apr 14, 2009
chained_bear Has anyone else ever had trouble making working links in list descriptions? For some reason, mine come up highlighted, but you can't click on them. (See here for an example, though I have several others. Maybe it's just ME this doesn't work for...?) Apr 14, 2009
sionnach Hmm. So much for the %20 theory. Apr 10, 2009
sionnach The new "Vince Lombardi" Twitter link works - thanks, John! Apr 9, 2009
vanishedone On a similar note, here's some inconsistent handling of whitespace characters: this tag contains %0A characters (new line, I think). Linked from the list of recent tags on the front page, its URL contains the %0A characters and the page displays correctly; linked from the tags page, however, it has the %0As stripped out so that it leads to the nonexistent /tags/cannibalismanthropos - humanbeingphagous - feedingon.
(By the way, I see trying to visit tags that don't exist no longer produces a common-or-garden 404, which is nice. Thanks, John.) Apr 9, 2009
Prolagus The reason (as far as I understand) is that Twitter links need %20 for "space". Apr 8, 2009
sionnach John:
I know that I have probably sacrificed any right to mention anything pertaining to Twitter, but I notice that two recent links, to "Vince Lombardi" and "arte rupestre", respectively ended up linking only to the first word in each case. I don't know if this is just a couple of coincidental oversights, or evidence of some kind of more systematic error.
Thanks.
Apr 8, 2009
vanishedone Comments on tags attached to 0 words aren't displayed: there are comments on say what? but you can't see them now that the tag has been retired in favour of say what. Apr 7, 2009
vanishedone For some reason, when I got asked to log in just now, I subsequently got sent to Wordie Mobile. Apr 5, 2009
vanishedone I see /lists/ has been fixed at some point: it no longer has my Cryptolects list at the top every time I visit. Apr 3, 2009
Prolagus Yes! Thank you John! Mar 30, 2009
john Login bug should be fixed now--once you log back in, you should stay in. Mar 30, 2009
Prolagus I uploaded to Flickr a screenshot of a new strange thing that happens when you add a word. Not really a bug, it's just that the page looks different. Mar 30, 2009
qroqqa Yes! Me too! I had to sign in! *waaaa* Make it stop. Mar 30, 2009
sonofgroucho Being asked to login repeatedly happening to me too today. Mar 30, 2009
john Last night I made some internal changes (upgraded to Rails 2.3.2), which I think are causing issues with login. Looking into it, thanks for the heads-up. Mar 29, 2009
Prolagus Today, every time I launch firefox I have to sign in, only on Wordie. Is it happening to anyone else? Mar 29, 2009
vanishedone That's the . character breaking tags. Mar 25, 2009
nuxiy Web 2.0 tag
Twitter Mar 24, 2009
vanishedone I know reporting a bug in WeirdNet is a little redundant and that on the whole we don't want it fixed, but this one may be keeping 'interesting' definitions from our sight: we've known for some time that a few words fail to have definitions displayed even though they can be found at http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn, and I've noticed that this seems especially to affect words ending in -oof (goof, hoof, proof, aloof, roof...). Is there an -oof bug on Wordie's side, or is it 'just' a further dimension of WeirdNettery?
Edit: may I add -(o)ft to this? Loft and left I knew about, but I've also just found no definition on soft... (Raft and daft are normal, though. So is deft, so -eft isn't a guaranteed problem ending. Hmm.) Mar 21, 2009
chained_bear Aaaagh. *gets hives* Mar 12, 2009
vanishedone Perhaps it means, 'The "random" misappropriation of it's still aggrieves me somewhat.' Mar 12, 2009
chained_bear When you do, would you mind terribly getting that stupid apostrophe out of its? Mar 12, 2009
vanishedone Nobody is listing "random" it's misappropriation still aggrieves me somewhat. perhaps unoriginally but genuinely. djsalinger nevertheless managed to make it the 'least favourite' on his/her profile, where it links to http://wordie.org/words/ — probably an upshot of the " characters. Since we know adding word pages containing " is possible even though links to them break, this one 'should' be in the database as a word page somewhere, but it seems not to have been added. (At least, until I add it and tag it accidental profundity.) Mar 12, 2009
yarb Guess it could be a broswer thing. I'll try different ones when I get home. It's a problem I've had for ever though - see my most recent list for an example. Mar 5, 2009
vanishedone They're working for me. Mar 5, 2009
yarb Am I the only one who can't get links - internal or external - to work in the list description field? Mar 5, 2009
vanishedone A problem with Niteowl's 'steampunk steam punk' tag (I mentioned it here a month ago) has turned up again with a tag on doodacky: the tag 'thingamebob whatsit doodah whatsitname' is linking to http://wordie.org/tags/thingamebobwhatsitdoodahwhatsitname, which produces a 500 Application Error. Mar 3, 2009
vanishedone Regarding list URLs based on the wrong titles: is it my imagination, or did http://wordie.org/lists/meta use to be a working URL? You can see me using it on this page, about four months ago. It's now got to be http://wordie.org/lists/metaphysics-buzz-words-2, so it seems this bug can actually cause previously existing links to break. Mar 2, 2009
xxxciter FEATURE REQUEST:
"private" word lists Feb 19, 2009
sarra A lot of the Wordie links on the RSS feed seem to be to lists which don't exist? e.g.:
beavers build dams -> http://wordie.org/lists/198837
where do you go to my lovely -> http://wordie.org/lists/129220
unbirdly -> http://wordie.org/lists/198568
etc. Feb 18, 2009
vanishedone It would be nice to have some easy way of tracking which bugs are still open. Maybe I should extend the length of the features page with that suggestion. Feb 16, 2009
bilby That's exactly what it looks like, VO. I suspected someone else might have reported it but this page is getting so long now I didn't read through all the previous. Feb 16, 2009
vanishedone Is this what it looks like? I mentioned that bug here three months ago: it seems to affect only some lists, for some reason... Feb 16, 2009
bilby When I'm on a list page, of one of my own lists, something odd happens when I add a word through the 'add word' box. The list words all disappear. I have an 'add word' box, a 'to' box with a drop-down list, a 'go' button, then under that 'my lists' with all of my lists sorted in alphabetical order. Clicking on any list takes me to the WordieMobile version. If I refresh the page it goes back to the usual list page view, i.e. the 'add word' box with all the previously added words underneath. Feb 16, 2009
vanishedone I tried to follow the links to /people/randy-meier?wl=19357 which (thanks to sionnach's spam-related pictures) are currently adorning the comment feed, but I got a 404. However, /lists/randy-meiers-list works fine, and /lists/19357 correctly redirects to it... Feb 7, 2009
vanishedone I expect this is a form of the problem with the . character in URLs: ordinary.madness is apparently a legitimate user name, but /people/lists/ordinary.madness redirects to /lists/.
Speaking of /lists/, why does it seem never to change, if it has the last 500 lists on the site? Every time I end up there I see my Cryptolects list at the top. Jan 31, 2009
bilby Tags containing a question mark also don't work. See symmetrify. Jan 31, 2009
vanishedone Niteowl has a tag that seems to be broken in an exciting new way: it appears on /people/tags/Niteowl as 'steampunk steam punk', but the link is to /tags/steampunksteam punk, which produces a 500 Application Error. (/tags/steampunk steam punk doesn't work either.) Jan 30, 2009
bilby Nobody is listing 209068. Why don't you? Jan 25, 2009
Prolagus If you visit new Wordies' recent activity page, all the words they added to their profile page (favorite word, least favorite word, onomatopoeia that best describes him/her, etc.) look normal, but they link to numbers instead.
See here, for example. Jan 25, 2009
mollusque Plethora, even when you're logged on, displayed times don't update unless you refresh the page. Jan 23, 2009
Prolagus I pointed it out once (look for the comment with the word TOEFL)... It has always been like like this, apparently. Jan 23, 2009
plethora I haven't had a lot of time to investigate this thoroughly but...
it appears that when logged out, the times on comments are not up-to-date. For example, on my list Silent Bits and Pieces, when I'm logged out displays,
"8 hours ago sionnach said:
I dream of a world where we will be able to move words among lists in great big blocks, en masse. That's my dream."
When I logged in, the timestamp changed. In truth,
13 days ago sionnach said:
"I dream of a world ..."
It's probably not a big deal, and won't cause a big problem, particularly for those of us who stay logged in pretty much all the time.
But I just thought it was worth noting.
Jan 23, 2009
vanishedone If so, the wording is confusing: shouldn't it say bugs 'has been tagged some number greater than 1 times, has 5 total tags...' and not, as it does, 'has been tagged 1 time, has 7 total tags...'?
Edit: ah, meta does say bugs has been tagged 3 times, so you must be right. I stand by my comment about the confusing wording, though; I'd have expected the total number of tags to count types, not tokens. Jan 12, 2009
mollusque VanishedOne, I think it means that more than one person has used the same tags for the word. Jan 12, 2009
vanishedone According to its listing on /tags/bunny, bugs has seven tags (although listening device seems to have been removed at some point), but I see only five. This can't be down to an enforced limit, given how many tags are on overtagged, so I wonder whether one of the tags on this word is itself glitched... Jan 11, 2009
whichbe This one has been bothering me for a while, from http://wordie.org/tags. At the top, "The last ____ tags added to Wordie"... this dropdown box defaults at 500. If you change the number, it ERRORS OUT. However, the error simply seems to be that no number gets listed at the end of the URL, because if you Manually enter a number at the end of the URL, an actual page is generated. Seems like an easy fix. Jan 7, 2009
whichbe John: on the "Active Comments - In the past 24 hours" page ( http://wordie.org/comments/active ) -- the "See all" link at the bottom is not working. It just duplicates the linked thread at the bottom.
ALSO, you really ought to include conversations from tags on this feature. Jan 2, 2009
Telofy Hi John.
When displaying "Versicherungsgekkokotzenbedürfnis" on the front page, wordie truncates the word in the middle of the two byte German umlaut "ü", so only the 0xC3 was shown which of course can't be shown.
Something like this might help. Dec 30, 2008
vanishedone Back again: the random word feature has suddenly started producing a 500 Application Error when I try to use it.
Edit: and three hours later it's working again. Dec 29, 2008
vanishedone r3v's onomatopoeia is set to blah ... does that count? I just got sent there by the random word feature, which lopped off the terminal question mark and told me nobody was listing blah ... does that count, why didn't I?
I got blocked from adding the version with the question mark to the Wordie Paradox list (though changing ? to %3F worked), but either the block on adding words containing ? doesn't apply to profile onomatopoeia, or it didn't when the page was added.
Edit: I forgot to mention that on /people/recent/r3v the link to blah ... does that count? goes to /words/140718. Dec 28, 2008
vanishedone The tag page for /tags/scratch'n'sniff claims that 'nobody has used this tag', but in fact it can be seen on gunpowder: a problem with the ' character, maybe? (I wondered whether a deleted account might have put it there, but it turns out to be bilby's tag.) Dec 28, 2008
whichbe Comment bug! I posted a comment to suggest pokemaniac to the list called types of collectors. But on the index page, it displays a DIFFERENT LIST NAME for where my comment is. Then, when one tries to click on the comment from the index page, it goes to a completely different list that I had nothing to do with called 9:22 am. Weird, huh. Dec 25, 2008
Prolagus On µß's recent activity, the link to casual leads to 19215. Dec 24, 2008
reesetee That was happening to me for a few days last week, but it's been fine since then. *shrugs* Dec 19, 2008
chained_bear Anyone else notice a wild change in the font, size, and layout of the pages when adding a word to a list? Also I got an "added" confirmation screen (of sorts) that had the same font issues but was linkless... just kind of freaky.
Looks kind of like this (which looked like that for a while but nobody, including myself, knew or cared why). Dec 18, 2008
rolig Yippee! Thanks, John, I never doubted you. Dec 16, 2008
chained_bear Callooh! Callay! :) Thanks, John! *scampers off to play with the Aubrey/Maturin list* Dec 16, 2008
sionnach O frabjous day! It works! It works!
Thanks, John.
Dec 16, 2008
john hi folks, sorry again about the long delay, but full-list sorting should be working. Go to your long list, click 'view all', then click any of the sort arrows. Dec 16, 2008
rolig Thanks, sionnach. I have such faith in John's near-miraculous programming powers, that I am sure he will find a fix for this before long. Dec 15, 2008
sionnach
rolig: Scroll down to about 4 days ago. yarb's comment may be helpful as well.
(I'm glad I'm not the only one asking for this fix) Dec 15, 2008
rolig This question may have already been brought up, but I was wondering if it was possible with a list of more than 100 words to view all the words in alphabetical order. Now, when you click on alpha order, you can view the first 100 in alpha order, but this ability is lost with the next page of words. Can this be fixed? Dec 15, 2008
reesetee Yarb, I do that too. Much easier than trying to sort. Dec 12, 2008
whichbe Tags hate periods; 500. Dec 11, 2008
sionnach Thanks, yarb.
*duh. feels like a particularly retarded fox* Dec 11, 2008
yarb 'nach: I just view all and then do a ctrl-F (or whatever) search in my browser for the word in question. Dec 11, 2008
sionnach Thanks, John. Dec 11, 2008
john Sionnach, sorry about the long delay, I'll look into that and post when there's a fix. Dec 11, 2008
sionnach It really would be helpful to be able to view entire lists in alphabetical order. Currently this is not possible because of some kind of weird interdependence between the 'sort alphabetically' and 'list all' commands, which has been described previously.
The inability to do this makes it hard, for instance, to check whether a given word has been added to any list with more than 200 entries. You can list the first and last 100 in the alphabet, but if you want to see the entire list, the only option is unalphabetized.
Dec 11, 2008
Prolagus garyth123's "logic" list has the following URL:
http://wordie.org/lists/logicalbiscotti-s-omniglottery-2
where
http://wordie.org/lists/logicalbiscotti-s-omniglottery
is a list by logicalbiscotti.
http://wordie.org/lists/logic is a list by soden, and supposedly garyth123's list URL should be
http://wordie.org/lists/logic-2
which doesn't work.
I just thought you might want to know. Dec 11, 2008