h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Firstly I'd like to apologise for all the problems you have all been having since the upgrade on Tuesday.
We're in the process of porting existing pages from the old C++ to the new C# and I've a missed a few nuances of the complex h2g2 functionality.
It's not a case of trying to improve things for the sake of it, it's more under-the-bonnet maintenance and move to a single code base where we might be able to add new functionality and features.

Please bear with me and thank you for your invaluable support in reporting any issues you've found.

Thanks for letting us know

The one that affects me the most is the problem editing large Entries. If you think this (or indeed any of the other bugs) is going to take a long time to fix, then let us know so we can try to work around it.

Icy

I can now see what you mean and I'm investigating but it's odd as we haven't touched anything on the user edit page, but I shall let you all know.

>>but it's odd as we haven't touched anything on the user edit page<<

Oh, don't worry about that, we all know it was lil who has pressed buttons again.

So useful having someone to blame!

Thanks for the update - we shall keep the faith that it gets sorted.

Yes, thank you. And the skin problem was temporary, somebody managed to change it: when I looked this afternoon, I immediately got nauseous.

Having a few issues with locating the cause of the large entry editing problem hopefully have more of an update on Monday for you.

Hi Damnyoureyes - any progress?

Clive's reported another example here: F48000?thread=6436317

Icy

The Thingite Campaign, also, would qualify as "large" - (adj: (1) of relatively great size, extent or capacity (2) of greater size than the ordinary.



Good to know it's being looked into.

It is being looked in to. I spoke to Damnyoureyes about this yesterday and he's trying to figure it out.

Sorry for the no reply yesterday but I was heavied into helping out with apprentice messageboard stuff and we're a bit thin on the ground this week.

Coupled with the fact that this is a real strange one, the characters seem to be added into the actual querystring, so it's still on going at the mo sorry.

Could someone post a link to the thingite article please.

I'm guessing it's A516647

That's it.

I can't bring my PS back to its original state.

Another archive I can't update: A862823

Bea

Does it help if you know which entries can't be update?
There's the General Features Archive A756687 and the Platypus Dancing Archive A2182141 and when those didn't work this morning, I didn't even attempt to add to the Cartoon Corner archive. I created a new archive and removed something from the Cartoon archive - that worked.

Hi folks

Thanks for the replies, it looks like we've managed to track the issue down. It wasn't me this time, but it was us so-to-speak, hopefully we should have a fix for this up to live shortly.... after we check it hasn't broken anything else.

A malign fridge-magnet which had hitherto lain under-discovered after being placed on the server by Jimster.

Thanks for the update and with fixing it (without breaking anything else instead. )