new interface

bilby Don't you mean new new interface? This page was dedicated to the old new interface. Nov 29, 2011

erinmckean Just enjoying that I can comment that there's a new new interface on the new interface page.

Thanks so much to all who are giving us feedback, especially via the new feedback tab!
(<-- over there) Nov 29, 2011

rolig Perhaps it's ultimate iteration, in which case Wizard Alex, aka He Who Started Monday, would, perhaps, specialize in repeating things to the point where no further repetition is necessary. Nov 17, 2011

ruzuzu Also, I agree with Rolig about the UI thing.
edit: Unless UI stands for unicorn ichor.
edit, edit: Actually, no--I think I'd be against that, too.
edit, edit, edit: Unless it's, you know, free-range unicorn. Nov 16, 2011

ruzuzu *done* Nov 16, 2011

erinmckean Hi folks! We should (fingers crossed) have a preview version of the updated site ready in a day or so. If you would like to be on the list to see the preview version, would you email me at erin at wordnik? Nov 16, 2011

rolig I sure hope "UI" doesn't mean "under the influence" here.

*crossing fingers* Nov 10, 2011

erinmckean rolig -- we hired another UI wizard, Alex Le, who started Monday. I don't want to jinx it (or him) but (contrary to how the 'mythical man-month' would have it) lots of progress is being made!
Nov 10, 2011

marky i guess its already one of the known issues but i just realized that we cannot 'move' words from one list to another. Nov 10, 2011

rolig Erin, any progress on list and profile comments? Nov 10, 2011

blafferty Where did all the pronunciations on you're something of a hotdog, aren't you go? Nov 2, 2011

bilby I can't hear pronunciations. Not that I am particularly interested in doing so on this site. Nov 2, 2011

blafferty Is anyone else having trouble hearing pronunciations? Chelster pronounced my request line word, but I can't hear it! A little gray bar runs along the top for a second, which makes me think it's playing, but no audio. Nov 2, 2011

chained_bear To quote George Thomason (Thomas Georgeson) of A Fish Called Wanda, "Un-be-fucking-liev-a-ble!!!" Oct 27, 2011

sionnach Wanna see comments earlier than September 17th? Move along, buddy. Nothing to see here. Oct 25, 2011

reesetee *sigh* Oct 25, 2011

oroboros Nice, sionnach. *like* Gutlevel chives? Mmmm, that's some tall chives. Oct 22, 2011

sionnach So many two-word poems in the left margin right now:
condominium funk
numismatic mirage
expansionist derrick (Adolf's younger brother)
mechanistic allure
ergodic clown-car
Liechtensteiner tomfoolery
fraxinifolius ballet-girls
gutlevel chives
smear-dab bossiroam Oct 21, 2011

sionnach Credit where credit is due. Thank you, powers that be, for eliminating the vile spam from the ongoing "Community" update thread. Oct 21, 2011

ruzuzu Angels and ministers of grace defend us. I thought you were referring to my performance as Lady Mackers. Oct 21, 2011

sionnach I wuz thinking more of Punches Pilot. Oct 21, 2011

ruzuzu Is that a reference to The Scottish Play? Oct 21, 2011

sionnach That might not have been hand-wringing. It could have been hand-washing. Oct 20, 2011

bilby Seems we don't even get an excuse/hand-wringing-in-a-minor-key more than once every three weeks now. Oct 20, 2011

Prolagus Please bring back our content. Oct 20, 2011

sionnach WHY, for the love of PETE, whoever he IS, does this site still take FOREVER to LOAD?!
Bonne question. it's not as if the huge amount of content is slowing it down, as all the good stuff is down there in the disused nuclear fallout shelter, or has been sold to the Estonians to defray expenses. But I never gave permission for my content to be made summarily unavailable for months on end with no warning, or for it to be sold to the Estonians, the greedy bastards. Note that "Estonians" in this post is being used as a generic, intended-to-be- humorous reference to a mysterious people I know nothing about, except that their entire country is internet-wired out the wazoo, and that you can't take a leak in Tallinn without first punching in your PIN, so that sewerage treatment charges can be debited to your account. Oops! I think that last sentence might have made things worse, not better. Oct 20, 2011

chained_bear p.s. I want my content back. Oct 20, 2011

chained_bear Sionnach, are you trying to tell me that Facebook is less private than your comments on Wordnik? ;)

WHY, for the love of PETE, whoever he IS, does this site still take FOREVER to LOAD?! Oct 20, 2011

reesetee I've whittled my FB car down to a nice little bicycle. Oct 20, 2011

sionnach The problem with parking one's car over in the FB garage is that you are never sure who can rummage through the glove compartment and discover your innermost secrets. "Friends" of people who bullied you in high school, assorted riff-raff, people who scatter grocer's apostrophe's (sic) throughout their barely literate updates with gay abandon. It's enough to make one give up driving altogether. Oct 17, 2011

ruzuzu Bilby, I haven't.

Oh, and if anyone asks, I haven't seen Duffel van der Pinkenhosen either. Oct 17, 2011

bilby Sounds like the sort of chicanery Professor Von Schmarzenpanz would get up to. Have you crossed tiger paths with him by any chance, ruzuzu? Oct 16, 2011

ruzuzu Thank you, oroboros--I developed that part of my craft when I was studying the Method during improv work inspired by Lee Strasberg. You see, you have to begin by asking yourself what the fuflun's motivations are... what its childhood was like... how it really felt about sprinkles.... Oct 16, 2011

oroboros I didn't think there was any way to quietly jam fufluns into tail pipes! What's your secret 'zu? Ninja training? :o)

Oct 16, 2011

marky *upset and pouty lipped, throwing broken fuflun pieces everywhere* Oct 16, 2011

ruzuzu *neglects to notice trail of sprinkles leading back to hiding place* Oct 14, 2011

ruzuzu *quietly jams fufluns into a few nearby tail pipes* Oct 14, 2011

reesetee Hi, everyone. Checking in with some freshly baked umbrage and jam-filled fufluns. Been having a tough time here. I'm on FB and Google+, too, so for now, hope to see you there.

*parks old clunker in the garage and takes newer, less-loved car* Oct 14, 2011

marky :'( Oct 14, 2011

Prolagus The car has been broken for long enough that we realized we can use other means of transportation. Oct 13, 2011

marky the car is in the shop being repaired. may we talk to the mechanic? how is she doing? Oct 13, 2011

hernesheir Suppose I was overly dystopic in my comment. We have our lists and our words, and all these extra tools and meta data at our disposal. Wordie/Wordnik has made it possible on a platform that, for all its quirks and disappointments real or imagined, is quite a thing. That we users feel like it is "ours" says a lot. I don't exactly like the way the door locks work on my automobile, but I love the ride and wouldn't think of trading the car for another. Count me as one who loves Wordnik. Oct 12, 2011

marky blafferty, exactly. :'( herney, say it isn't so. i can't take it. Oct 12, 2011

hernesheir All of our lists, all of our listed words and comments, all of us; meta-tools from the beginning meant to be suborned and subsumed and monetized for someone else. Assimilate. Oct 12, 2011

blafferty Has anyone mentioned how sad it is that the word pages no longer show the first lister? Oct 12, 2011

marky eeeeoewwwww :'( Oct 11, 2011

hernesheir Technology is wonderful innit? Oct 11, 2011

bilby "I find 5-7 clicks of the checkbox usually is sufficient to make the check appear."
- Chuck Chaxworth, cheerful Checker-in-Chief. Oct 11, 2011

Prolagus Kernel has always been my favorite Interface Street character. Oct 11, 2011

hernesheir "Stow that!" he broke in ungallantly. --a Wordnik example sentence. Oct 11, 2011

ruzuzu Oh! The first bad review of my acting!
*crumples into a heap and weeps, dramatically* Oct 11, 2011

hernesheir If the new interface seems to you to act a bit strange, cherchez la femme. Oct 11, 2011

hernesheir Is this what they mean by "cookin' with gas"? Oct 11, 2011

ruzuzu Are you trying to add something with commas or other punctuation? I have that trouble sometimes with the checkmark thingee. For example, I just tried to add If there are no list comments, either comment on word pages or add coments to lists as though they were very long words. (The comments, that is, not the lists. You know what I mean.) to my visuals list by clicking on the checkmark, but then I remembered that I actually have to go to the list and add it in the text box. Otherwise it gets broken up--which, of course, would be handy if I want to add a whole bunch of stuff at one time (separated by commas or whatever). Oct 11, 2011

hernesheir To add a word to a list, click the checkbox, once, then refresh your screen to see if your list appears in the list of lists said word appears in. If your list does not appear as one of those in which the word is listed, click the "add word" checkbox next to the desired list over and over. I find 5-7 clicks of the checkbox usually is sufficient to make the check appear. Oct 11, 2011

oroboros Well, it appears that I can't add words to my "potpourri" list; not at the list page or the word page (with checkmark). Jesus Cristo y Madre de Dios!

Edit: Doh! I was trying to add a word that was already on that list (toothsome). Still, what produced the confusion in the first place is that the word page for toothsome shows no checkmark in my potpourri list box. And that's still the case: no checkmark, but I've verified it's on the list at the list page. Go figure! :o/ Oct 11, 2011

ruzuzu “Have you . . . embraced . . . new interface . . . ?”
- Netvouz, arts critic, new bookmarks
Oct 11, 2011

sionnach This new interface production by ruzuzu and bilby is a veritable craudestopper of a show!

Noel Renard, The Vulpine Village Voice. Oct 11, 2011

bilby "...new interface was even more powerful than he'd imagined.”
- Krusty Lickspittle, arts critic, Village Voice. Oct 11, 2011

ruzuzu Yes, every season bilby and I attempt to recreate the greatest scenes from stage and screen. You should have seen our production of "Jul 20 20: 37: 32 home1 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp." It was fantastic--the costuming was a bit tricky, of course, but the sets were designed by a talented local artist, and everyone said it came together brilliantly. Oct 11, 2011

marky eeoohohhhh.. Oct 11, 2011

bilby “And it keeps the Ribbon, too." Oct 11, 2011

marky huh? Oct 11, 2011

ruzuzu "The new interface for the tester is great, gives you to control your work more easily." Oct 11, 2011

marky sionnach is pissed! I cannot blame him, for I have experienced similar frustration. I'm certain the site will one day become more useful for my needs and hopefully sionnach as well, but my patience is wearing thin. *darth vader breathing sound*

some entertainment in the meantime to lighten the mood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFA-rOls8YA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3w2MTXBebg Oct 11, 2011

bilby “So apart from a new interface and some other minor enhancements, they are offering nothing new at all. reply” Oct 11, 2011

ruzuzu Well, we seem to have missed "His new interface was even more powerful than he'd imagined." Oct 10, 2011

bilby “They have switched to a new interface that doen not work at all.” Oct 10, 2011

ruzuzu Bilby: See the comments from August 17. Oct 9, 2011

bilby “Furthermore, the bubbles that are formed have little tendency to break up again, as bile salt crowds into every new interface formed.” Oct 9, 2011

ruzuzu I'm resisting the urge to make a holy roller pun.

Sionnach, I added that link last year, shortly after Saint Crispen's day. I was always having a hard time remembering that the lost-for-word service was a list--and where that list was--so I made a link to gangerh's list so it could always be a sort of beacon, and I added lost for word to one of my lists so I could always find it (I do that with some of my own lists, too--it's why cattle is on my cattle list and Cicero is on my Cicero list). But I don't see why we couldn't ask questions on the word page for lost for word on an emergency basis until we get comments back on the Lost for Word list page. I know we all want our cool features back, but so long as we can still come together and make snarky, quirky, silly, iroquoisy, umbrage-filled comments, our community can fight against those forces of inarticulate distraction which keep us from remembering the words on the tips of our tongues. I know we're outnumbered, but we few, we happy few, will still emerge triumphant--and all of those other "people interested in words" will wish they'd been here during our greatest battles! Oct 8, 2011

sionnach Jesus Christ on a ciabatta roll! This site is less than worthless. Everything that used to work no longer works. And the silence from the powers that be is deafeningly eloquent. Are there any plans to restore lost functionality? Comments are disabled on almost everything, sitewide, which is certainly one way of reducing user input.
What prompts this outburst is the discovery that one can no longer submit a request to the former "lost for word" page. Because that's a list, see, and of course, commenting on lists is verboten. Maybe I could send someone a note on their profile. Woopsy! That's been impossible for how many months now? Yes, that's right - MONTHS - not days. Sinverguenza!
Ruzuzu has sweetly created a "lost for word" word listing, on which she provides a link to the former "lost for word" list. For the life of me I cannot understand why, because there is no useful content accessible at the link.
I actually had a question, which might have been of interest when this was an actual site used by people interested in words, and not just another stinking internet charnel heap. But F### Wordnik and its indifferent administrators; I'll ask it over on Facebook.
Or not at all.
FOR SHAME. FOR SHAME. FOR SHAME Oct 8, 2011

sionnach Omigod! A vile spammer is infesting the site. Oct 8, 2011

sionnach What a relief that cat is still trending! But where are my jelly shoes? Oct 8, 2011

blafferty I most certainly did not have a teatowel for lunch, thank god. A suffusion of yellow would have been nice, however. Wouldn't have made me very replete though. Oct 8, 2011

ruzuzu "What is the one thing I will never have, though I desire it?"
The oracle says "repleat." Oct 7, 2011

ruzuzu It was, of course, the answer to what you want for Christmas.
Edit: I just asked what you'll be having for lunch today and got teatowel. (The day I ask something and get a suffusion of yellow, I will fall out of my chair.) Oct 7, 2011

blafferty What was the question? That answer seems surprisingly meta (or the discussion there does). Sounds like a nice prediction for any question, though - unless your question was "What is the one thing I will never have, though I desire it?" Oct 7, 2011

ruzuzu Blafferty: It seems to be working okay for me--I just got eudaimonia (with its iroquoisy mention of the Delphic oracle). Oct 6, 2011

blafferty Hmm, good point. Oct 6, 2011

bilby I see missed opportunity here. You could have had a tub of ice-cream for lunch and passed it off as foretold glacière. Oct 5, 2011

blafferty If those were intellectualists, they were mighty tasty and the FDA may want to investigate. And no, I would rather not patrilocate for Christmas, even temporarily. I suppose what my husband was doing could have been steelyard. He said he was going to the store for cough drops, but you never know.
Bilby, I see from your song that Wordnik was merely being merry, albeit slightly eccentric. Thanks for the insight. Oct 5, 2011

ruzuzu Blafferty: What browser are you using? I just conducted a few random tests and found that what you want for Christmas is patrilocal and what your husband is doing right now is steelyard. Is that close? Also, if you don't mind, please let us all know a bit later whether you had intellectualists for lunch. Oct 5, 2011

bilby We wish you are meretricious
We wish you are meretricious
We wish you are meretricious
And blafferty-er. Oct 5, 2011

leaden I’m sure there are several wordniks who speak code; is there anything we can do to help? Oct 5, 2011

blafferty Also, the random word generator is no longer capable of accurately predicting my future or answering my questions. I asked what I would have for lunch tomorrow, and it responded "glacière" and I asked what I wanted for Christmas and it gave me "meretriciously." I then asked what my husband is doing right now, which prompted "responsiveness" -- which is an outright lie. Oct 5, 2011

marky i love the smell of new-code in the morning. Oct 4, 2011

erinmckean Oh man. Yep, things still broken. Fixes coming sooner now than ever. The only bright spot in this long and difficult trough of missing-comments despair is the word harshmallow, which was new to me.

I have seen the code for the return of the comments, and it sparkles. It also has new-code smell, which is part toasted marshmallow, part fresh-cut grass, and part petrichor. (I'm also not allowed to touch the new code without washing my hands first. Well, actually, I'm not allowed to touch it at all.) Oct 4, 2011

Prolagus Shit. *Leaves the sinking boat* Oct 4, 2011

blafferty NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Lost for word is brooooooooooken!
*sob* Oct 4, 2011

ruzuzu Pro--I miss the "allowed html" popup, too. I've been meaning to make that a list for a while now.

*wanders off, flinging discourse indiscriminately* Oct 3, 2011

Prolagus I see we have lost the "allowed html" popup too. Oct 3, 2011

reesetee *marginalizes own discourse, then flings toasted harshmallows at "new interface" page*

Pro, sionnach: I'm with you. *raises beharshmallowed fist in solidarity* Sep 28, 2011

yarb *marginalizes bilby's discourse* Sep 28, 2011

bilby *toasts chained_bear's harshmellow* Sep 28, 2011

chained_bear Still hoping to keep in touch with beloved Wordizens whom I communicate with only on this site. Missing comments, etc. on profiles (etc.) is seriously harshing my mellow.

Also still hoping to continue using this as a research/note-storing site as well as a social one. Not having access to comments is seriously marginalizing my discourse. Sep 28, 2011

blafferty Hm, this might be temporary, but I've found a bug: it used to be, when on a word page that you had traveled to from the community page, hitting the back button took you directly to where you were on the community page. That way you didn't have to scroll back down to find your place. Now, at least temporarily (*crosses fingers*), it hops up to the top of the word page and then back down to the comments, sending you on a merry little lap to end up where you were before you clicked back. Sep 28, 2011

sionnach Seems like it was down for 14 hours at least. Sep 27, 2011

marky so the site is broken for real this time? every word page errors..

i tried: http://www.wordnik.com/words/zibbidyzobbedyblaffertyzooks Sep 27, 2011

marky error on this page

http://www.wordnik.com/words/vampirism Sep 27, 2011

sionnach Congratulations, new interface!!! After mature consideration, I found that I had no option other than to have you usurp the former champion cremains as my least favorite "word". And although I have never felt until now that the "most favorite" category deserved to be populated, I have finally decided that there is a worthy contender. And that worthy winner is Wordie. I should concede that Pro's profile choices may have played a role in my deliberations. Prolagus, fratello mio! Sep 25, 2011

Prolagus U is for umbrage,
And umbrage is for me. Sep 24, 2011

sionnach Hands milos a soothing flaky French fuflun and murmurs "there, there. There usedto be a wittle scrollie bar at one time -- you didn't imagine it.
But refuses to hand over any umbrage. Because umbrage is for taking, not giving! Sep 24, 2011

bilby What the zibbidyzobbedyblaffertyzooks are you on about? Sep 24, 2011

blafferty bilby, dear, this phrase nearly has my name in it. Should I take umbrage?
burblafizzin' magma of slurrytext
milosrdenstvi, tell us, tell us! What book? Sep 24, 2011

Prolagus Re: bilby's re
The first one is not an option on tablets and phones. Sep 23, 2011

bilby Re comments box, there's a make-bigger down in the bottom right hand corner. If you tug it you can enlarge the comment box a little as you are typing. The other thing you can do is use UP and DOWN arrows to move through you comment once it starts getting long. Also, the Edit comment box seems to be a bit easier to work with. So you can save your comment rudiments, then click to edit it and work in a little more comfort. Sep 20, 2011

Wordplayer I'd just like to say for the second time...why can't we add comments to our profiles or lists? (Well, my profile is private now, but what about the lists?) Sep 20, 2011

milosrdenstvi I was going to come here to report A VERY PERSISTENT BUG THAT HAD BEEN ANNOYING ME OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS. Namely that when I went to a word's page and saw my list of lists there, I would want to right-click on the name of a list and open it, and see my list! როგორც we kinda used to be able to a long long time ago in prehistory. PAGE NOT FOUND, the hell what is this PAGE NOT FOUND. But now I just realised that oops, what actually that LINK is for is it is a LINK to add said word to a LIST (and I accidentally added sherbet to a list just now, to prove it, on a list it doesn't belong in, but I'm leaving it anyway). So no wonder PAGE NOT FOUND when I try to open in new window. The hell. So it's not an ANNOYING BUG, just my stupidity. In this case, instead of reporting this ANNOYING BUG can I very *humbly* ask that maybe I can have some way to link to my lists from a word page? როგორც kinda how we used to. Not exactly, 'cause it wasn't ALL our lists, but some, anyway, well, anyway, it was on the same spot on the screen and I'm a fogey and an old one at that and it doesn't work the way როგორც it kinda used to, kinda. And while I'm at it I want a wittle scrollie bar for long comments like this 'un. 'Cause the beginning of my comment is afraid of the dark and I want to be able to see it when I want, without futzing about with arrow keys, the hell. როგორც kinda we used to, maybe, 'cause I can't remember that far back anymore. Maybe there wasn't a wittle scrollie bar and the wittle comment box just enlargenified. Yeah, prob'ly that was it. Guess which book I'm reading? No, don't. Sep 20, 2011

erinmckean Hi bilby -- yeah, it looks like Niger (and niger) have been wiped off the map. We'll take a look at it! Sep 20, 2011

bilby I'm having trouble accessing some word pages. For example, Niger. Also niger for what it's worth. I did however make it to plant, as I did to new interface. I don't feel like noodling around all day trying to find out what is accessible and what is not. Sep 20, 2011

Dan337 Running in circles, arms flailing Gaaah! My Wordnik is broken!

Oh, it’s back. I’m OK. Just gotta lie down for a second. Sep 19, 2011

sionnach You callin' me a flake? Takes umbrage pastry and scurries off, gnawing contentedly in foxy glee. Sep 18, 2011

reesetee *hands sionnach a flaky umbrage pastry* Sep 18, 2011

sionnach Funny, civil, and intelligent. The magic trifecta, with or without the Oxford comma. Or is it the Harvard comma? I can never remember.
Tosses reesetee a delicious, flaky, froggy fuflun. Woulding take umbrage, but there's a hole in my becket, feckit, and it keeps leaking out. Sep 17, 2011

reesetee Hi all. Rolig, my sentiments match yours. I'm willing to wait out the Big Tangle if it means that I'll be able to stay in contact with my good old Wordnikian friends, especially since many are not on FB or other such sites. But I've lost my enthusiasm for Wordnik. I'm hoping it's temporary, because I still don’t believe there’s another site where you can blather on happily with like-minded word lovers who are so funny, civil, and intelligent. Wouldn’t it be great if we could have that back again? And I miss my lists, and everyone else’s lists, and flinging fufluns. I’m still around, but I’m waiting. In the meantime, I hope to see all of you elsewhere. *sigh* Sep 17, 2011

marky forgive my memory, but didn't each addition (words in lists) and even lists themselves once have time/date stamps with them? are these accessible? either way please make this data available as a toggle. this site needs to become useful for real world application. than k you. Sep 17, 2011

marky erin, i need to access the notation i did in the comments to specific lists. didn't expect it so soon, but please help me. I made comments on many lists for future access by commenting "cool list!". could you email me these? thank you. Sep 17, 2011

marky sites broken. it's nothing less than completely tragic. don't get it twisted. Sep 16, 2011

rolig Pro! I'm so sorry! Of course you're there on my list! Look again!

***offers Prolagus some extra umbrage to take, as well as a couple of fufluns to throw at me***
***gives thanks for the edit button***
***worries about who else might feel slighted***
***makes note not to write comments on Wordnik before drinking morning coffee*** Sep 14, 2011

Prolagus Rolig: :-/ Sep 14, 2011

rolig Fox, I'm glad/relieved you're sticking around. And yes, I come here not just for the words (there are lots of dictionaries around, in both material and immaterial forms), but also for Bilby, you, Prolagus, Reesetee, Yarb, Chained_Bear, Dontcry, Ruzuzu, Qroqqa, Madmouth, and a dozen or so other Wordizens, some of whom I haven't seen around for a while (including John!). Which is my point about fixing the comments on list and profile pages. During my hiatus from Wordnik, I would occasionally peek in and see messages on my profile page like "We miss you". That meant a lot. Not having the ability to comment directly to other Wordniki is like not knowing how to get in touch with a good friend. I might be forced to join Fascebook, which seems a bit too Orwellian for my tastes. Sep 14, 2011

bilby Besides, I only mock typos that cascade down the page in a burblafizzin' magma of slurrytext "brokien beyond recognition and reapir". Sep 14, 2011

bilby Oh no. I'm praying kumquat is not a typo, sionno! Sep 14, 2011

sionnach And, if anyone is wondering why I have broken this into several comments, it's because I can only see 3 or 4 lines at a time to edit, and experience shows that typos are likely to be roundly mocked by some kind of antipodean loquacious kumquat .... Sep 14, 2011

sionnach In my more charitable moments, I empathize with the folks doing the code fixing, and imagine they probably feel like Andrew Wiles may have felt when someone pointed out the "gap" that needed fixing in his proof of Fermat's last Theorem. "Mind the gap", as it were :-) Sep 14, 2011

sionnach Besides which it's our only know link to bilby baggins and the loquacious kumquats, or whatever he calls his band of antipodean irregulars these days. he keeps trying to burrow deeper into obscurity, but instinct still drives him to post here from time to time.... Sep 14, 2011

sionnach Thanks, Erin. Of course everyone probably knows by now I have the Wordnik bug too bad ever to give up completely, despite my occasional harrumphings. So I will take the temporary site difficulties as a sign that I am really supposed to be working on my French vocabulary at the moment, and keep checking back in from time to time. Sep 14, 2011

marky thanks erin for the offer, if I need it I will let you know. as for now I'm content with the possibility it will return in the somewhat near future (hopefully this fall sometime). Sep 12, 2011

bilby Also a bit of spam around. Sep 12, 2011

erinmckean Hi guys, I hear you. And I wish I could get things working the way we all want them to work again (comments on profiles, comments on lists, comments pagination, faster loading) ... and you're perfectly within your rights to complain, here, or to the feedback address, or to my personal address (I'm just erin@wordnik).

I appreciate both the kind words and the complaints -- they both act as a spur. But there's a big tangledy wad of code to sort out and through, and only so many people who can work on it. (Most Wordniks don't work on the functionality of the site itself, but on the back-end data analysis and processing and infrastructure.)

My best guess on the return to full functionality is still several weeks out. :-(

In the meantime, marky, if you need to find certain lists, I can search all your comments with our admin tool. Email me and I'll send you links.

Sionnach -- thank you especially for your kind words, but I don't want to give up just yet. I understand that the continued delay will definitely anger some folks (who may understandably never come back), but we don't want to just shrug and say that just because something's hard to do and taking MUCH longer than we thought, we shouldn't keep trying ... Sep 12, 2011

blafferty Wow. I left for a couple weeks in hopes that things would be resolved, but the pages now load slower even than they did right after The Change. :( Sep 11, 2011

marky seriously, I made some comments on several lists so i can access them with a google search. now that process was a complete waste of time. thanks.

someone has ruined the site? Sep 10, 2011

sionnach Erin:
Nice try, and I love you as a human being, or what I know of you. But even you must be finding this an embarrassing sell at this point. Why not admit defeat?
Really -- wordnik took what was a ni8ce loittle corner of the intenet and for reasons unknown and unintelligible to the former users beat it inot the ground and mmade it worthless. Sep 10, 2011

sionnach Thanks, rolig. I just came to the site to leave a comment on my profile page to the effect that I was back in Paris. But even doing such a simple thing is now impossible. Which leads me to the regretful decision not to bother to check back in here. if you can access my profile page (not always easy, you will find links to my goodreads and facebook pages). This site wasw enormous funj for a while. until it got brokien beyond recognition and reapir. Sep 10, 2011

rolig While I understand that there are still a lot of problems with the new interface (it's not really new anymore, is it?), for me the most aggravating loss is the inability to comment on list or profile pages. This makes it impossible to communicate directly with my fellow list-compilers. For example, I just realized that Sionnach doesn't have aquilon on his windy list, and I know he would want it there, but how do I get the message to him? In the good old days, I would put a comment on the list itself, or perhaps on his profile page, and even if he wasn't checking Wordie every hour, he would get an email message telling him there was a comment on one of his lists. A nice idea, huh? So why can't we bring that back, like, tomorrow? After all, that's how it worked for years. Sep 7, 2011

erinmckean Hi Prolagus, that's been a persistent and very tricky bug. It seems to affect only pages with encoding issues ... thanks for the feedback, we haven't been able to reproduce it ourselves!

dontcry -- the pronunciations are having a timeout issue (not that they've been bad, exactly, just that there's a problem with how long the link to play them persists -- does that make sense? I hope so, as that was how it was explained to me).

bilby -- in "mediocre news", I found this excellent word today: noöpolitik. Sep 6, 2011

Prolagus Some links seem to be broken only if you are not logged in.
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/%E2%9C%BF (or http://www.wordnik.com/lists/✿)
gives me a 404 when not logged in, another 404 the first time after I log in, and the actual page when I refresh. Sep 6, 2011

reesetee I haven't been here in a while either--can't get the pages to load before a millennium passes. (Also in the Beating a Dead Horse Dept.) Sep 4, 2011

marky yes, it's almost always the case with developing. fully understood. Sep 1, 2011

dontcry From the "beating a dead horse" department: I clicked on quinoa in the 'recently pronounced' section and actually heard it pronounced! Yay! I then clicked on the next word and -- nothing. I then re-clicked on quinoa and -- nothing.
I have not been here for quite a while. I find it so tedious to wait for pages to load that I lose interest. FYI from dontcry. Aug 31, 2011

bilby What about the mediocre news? I've been waiting all week for that. Aug 31, 2011

erinmckean Hi marky! We're still plugging away. There have been some unexpected dependencies ... the good news is, the new stuff is verrry nice. The bad news is we have to make more new stuff than we thought we would. Aug 31, 2011

marky oh there's hernesheir. what's the status on the site erin?
thank you. Aug 30, 2011

erinmckean hey marky, that's my list so I'll fix it -- thanks!
Aug 29, 2011

ruzuzu He might have just gone fishin'. Aug 29, 2011

marky i cannot comment on his profile, so i'm leaving this here.. where is hernesheir? does anyone know? i have not seen him in a while. Aug 29, 2011

bilby I couldn't give a %2F for foreign characters. Aug 27, 2011

marky what's up with the %2F's on this page? looks terrible. http://www.wordnik.com/lists/let-me-call-you-sweetheart Aug 27, 2011

erinmckean Hi folks!

Some new stuff is coming soon; it's in testing now and waiting on the dock, ticket clutched in one sweaty hand, cardboard suitcase in the other, for the next deployment packet.
Aug 23, 2011

marky big changes or running into trouble? hopefully more of the former. Aug 23, 2011

marky pretty sure a significant part of the slow loading on the word pages is due to the flickr images. just from what i've observed. the more images, the slower it loads. when there's none, it's much faster.. but still delayed a bit too long. Aug 22, 2011

erinmckean Thanks dharma66! Time has run out for that spammer; I've deleted all those comments.

and ... testing edits. Aug 19, 2011

dharma66 don't click on these!!!! (fakewatches or replicawatches) About 30 spam comments written like ads for watches but contain malware and maybe viruses. Moderators, please delete and block! Aug 18, 2011

erinmckean thanks marky!

Quick update: a big blocking bug around the audio has been resolved; the recorder's back from its little vacation. Tanned, rested, ready are words that spring to mind. Please let us know if you find any problems with it ... Aug 18, 2011

marky thanks erin. i know how things can be.. perhaps you are understaffed, the time lapse is understandable in this instance. i hope the issues are resolved directly. Aug 17, 2011

erinmckean And ... I know I probably didn't answer everything. I'll swing back again with some more updates later today. Aug 17, 2011

erinmckean Hi folks ... back again. We're looking into the bile salt problem (we think it may be related to our recurring bouts of gout), and the comments problem is connected to the profile page problem, which is connected to the shin bone.

PossibleUnderscore, your not-able-to-add-to-your-own-lists problem is a new one on us. (I can get to your profile here: http://www.wordnik.com/people/PossibleUnderscore) Can you let me know (either here or at feedback@wordnik.com) a list that's affected?

dharma66, there's no straightforward way to search for profiles now, but a tricky way is to use the "see all results for" a username (or part thereof) and check to see if they have a "default list". (Your default list -- with your username in it -- can be seen here, with a link to your profile: http://www.wordnik.com/search/dharma)

And we're aware of the loading-speed problem, have some ideas on how to fix it, and will be tackling it shortly. Fixes are being tested for audio and the recorder right now, too ... Aug 17, 2011

yarb Until something is done about the bile salt, nothing will ever get better. Aug 17, 2011

ruzuzu (btw, I love the creature on the 404 page) Aug 17, 2011

ruzuzu I like this one from the examples:
“Furthermore, the bubbles that are formed have little tendency to break up again, as bile salt crowds into every new interface formed.”
The Human Brain Aug 17, 2011

chained_bear *sigh* This is what hurts: in response to the suggestion of a social-only version of Wordnik, which is understandably not in the works:
"Even if we could, it would make Wordnik another soulless flat definitions-only site (and the Internet is full-up on those, or was last time I checked)."
This is true. But it's kind of already become that, for me. :( Aug 17, 2011

PossibleUnderscore Again, I'm sorry if this has already been brought up- and I am assuming it has: the comment boxes aren't expanding. And when I click my profile name, I just get the 'new interface' page.
Where is Wordie when you really need it??? Aug 17, 2011

PossibleUnderscore I'm sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere but I'm really too lazy to search for it amidst all these other comments:
Why am I unable to add words to my own lists?? Aug 17, 2011

marky sionnach, yes. perhaps more distressing is that our complaints about things were seemingly ignored only to have the comments worked on and now they're broken too. everything makes no sense whats going on. i don't get it. Aug 17, 2011

dharma66 how do you search for a profile? Aug 17, 2011

bilby From Examples:
"They have switched to a new interface that doen not work at all.”
Profile: Rojo Aug 17, 2011

bilby Perhaps that's the Unknown Sodder, dc. Aug 17, 2011

sionnach Prolagus wrote: "You can look at most of my recent comments and read them."
Clearly he hasn't plumbed the depths of the site's dysfunction. If you go to his profile page and click on the "Comments" link, you will find that it is broken. Aug 16, 2011

dontcry Hey! I just heard the pronunciation of solder.
j.k. ...
Here's my Garrett Morris take on it:
SOLDER: PRONOUNCED - "SOD-ER" NOT "SOUL-DER" Aug 16, 2011

Prolagus Hi everybody,
In the end I decided not to review the new interface, as I said I would on July 22. You can read all my comments on this page and on the feedback page (if it is ever restored). Almost four weeks after the "ten-day" promise, the website shows exactly the same bugs and a few more.
For instance, now that word pages are not split into subpages (such as word/comments, word/pronunciations etc.), why is the large-print word itself a link? It doesn't link to anything but itself.
Here I could add something vaguely bitter about what happened to the community and the website and the people behind it etc etc, but I don't have anything new to say. You can look at most of my recent comments and read them. Aug 16, 2011

chained_bear Hi all, I've been away on maternity leave for many moons, and before that, insanely busy at work and home, so I just found this page. I logged in to agree with reesetee's comment, then discovered this whole page... that was three hours ago. (Still busy at work, I guess.) I'm heartened to see the continual striving for improvement here, and to see so many of my creaky old-timer buds from the days of yore. But it's also disheartening to see fifteen new things every time I visit--I hardly recognize the ol' place anymore--and wade through all the comments about things not working right--that's after I even find the comments in the first place... and with the page-load times, usually I just say "screw it" and go over to Facebook or some other place. (Which is getting frickin' boring, might I add.)

I do love the dates-on-comments thing. I haven't even poked around enough to see what else I like, though.

So... not sure there's anything actionable or even useful here, but I wanted to throw my coupla pennies in. And say Hi. So... Hi! Aug 16, 2011

sionnach Marky is entirely correct, unfortunately. It took 40 seconds for Firefox to load the supine page, and that kind of lag is basically prohibitive. It's distressing to see a site self-immolate like this one. Aug 16, 2011

dontcry While we're focused on the pronunciation situation... it might be handy if, when you clicked on a word in 'Recent pronunciations,' you were taken to the bottom of the page - where the *pronunciations* are - will be. *flops back on porch swing* Aug 15, 2011

reesetee I must confess that the long page load time is what's been keeping me away for a while. It is frustrating. Aug 15, 2011

marky yep. indeed i am. they've added too many bells and whistles to the site and its on the brink of sucking.

it was done with no forewarning or input from the users either. thats the part that gets me.

if we had the choice to upgrade or go back to legacy / classic mode without the bugs.. everything would be cool. but no one seems to even care or address that. the sites broken. it is a big deal. click this word: supine. how long did it take for the page to load? it used to be instant. Aug 15, 2011

pgayed @marky, take it easy guy. you are FREAKING OUT! Aug 15, 2011

bourbonmots Not sure if you’re still entertaining requests and also not sure if this has come up already, but I would like to have a See All option for the All Lists and All Open Lists pages. Or if there are so many lists that See All would make the scrolling function too sensitive, options of 500 or 1000 groupings would be helpful. As it stands right now, it’s pretty laborious trying to work through the lists 100 at a time. Also, the same option within a list would be nice (sweet tooth fairy has nearly 3000 listings).
It would also be nice if, in the future, the lists were dated as the comments on the word pages are. That way if you checked out a list from a word page, you could then go to an All Lists page and scroll down the see what other lists were created around the same time. It seems a fair number of lists have been inspired by other lists.
Aug 15, 2011

marky SPEED UP THE WORD PAGES. the lag is seriously on the brink of making the site unusable. i literally lose my train of thought sometimes waiting 10-20 seconds for the fucking page to load. this is not cool.

the site used to be instant. INSTANT. the way it should be. I'm on a super fast network too. all other major sites do not do this. the old wordnik pages don't do it either. just the new ones. Aug 14, 2011

marky oroboros, i have the tiny font situation in the text fields on comments, i just zoom the page up one as a workaround for now. Aug 14, 2011

marky oh good im not the only one.. its a huge deal to me as i dont like wasting time.. its frustrating. Aug 14, 2011

bilby Marky, I also notice the slowness of the page loading. It's like being in an Italian post office. Aug 13, 2011

oroboros Erin: Yes, still tiny font (with Chrome browser). @bilby,'zu,sionnach, erin et al., hanks for the rib tickling irreverence!

Oh, and I have the same experience with pronunciation that dontcry has... Aug 13, 2011

marky i hope u guys get all the new interface word pages to load faster too. the old pages like my list page and even the community page loads about 3-5 times faster on average. can't believe i'm the only one who notices this too. cmon, i remember when the whole site worked this fast. it was so nice. Aug 13, 2011

ruzuzu I think uselessness or whichbe had one. Aug 12, 2011

marky Norgay and Funland aren't even listed. Someone should make a list: Country Nicknames. bilby? Aug 12, 2011

sionnach Are they well supplied with ramgoat dashalong? Nature's caprine aphrodisiac. Or so I'm told.

I didn't know they made fonts as tiny as this one. Is it a Firefox thing? Aug 12, 2011

ruzuzu That makes sense--I've heard it can get pretty cold there. Aug 12, 2011

bilby Yes, behind the fridge doors. Aug 12, 2011

ruzuzu *begins some complex calculations*
Tenzing Norgay... sherpa... mountain climbing... carry the two.... Aha! Norgay and Funland must be the names of the goats over on The Monty Hall Problem. Can you tell which doors they are standing behind? Aug 12, 2011

bilby Sweven's a dreamy blonde girl who lives with Norgay and Funland. Aug 12, 2011

dontcry When I click on the arrow in the pronunciations section of each word's page, I hear no pronunciation -it just bumps me up to the very top of the page. And I'm only clicking on words listed in the most pronunciated section on the *community* page. I have no trouble hearing anything else on my computer... Aug 11, 2011

ruzuzu Who's Sweven? Aug 11, 2011

bilby Timpani-degreaser, indeed!
We are the woolgatherers of swevens! Aug 11, 2011

ruzuzu Brackets around triangle-sharpening and timpani-degreasing, please! Aug 11, 2011

erinmckean The comments were broken on the inside. :-( Things are moving along, I hope to have more updates soon!

Profile comments will probably return first, then lists.

(bilby, triangle-sharpening is one of my specialities; that, and timpani-degreasing.) Aug 11, 2011

marky were the comments even broken before? i don't understand whats going on there either. Aug 10, 2011

marky lists not updating in realtime as you add words..

whats the status on this bug fix? Aug 9, 2011

dharma66 I miss commenting on lists also! Aug 9, 2011

Wordplayer Why can't we comment of each other profiles or lists anymore??? Aug 9, 2011