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

I'm apparently called, 'Heavy sleeting - I love the BBC - Heavy sleeting - I love Robbie Stamp' in some places..but in others, 'Heavy Sleeting - I love Robbie Stamp' which I've programmed using the BBC system.

I've noticed this with other people as well...this doubling thing.

For crying out loud can they not sort it considering the £billions they have at their disposal?

And of course the eyes are still triggered without someone being online..so you don't have a clue about that.

I wonder what sort of clapped out thing we'll end up with...

The different terms will be a time lag, and should sort itself out in time. The doubling up is a bug, connecting with the user name and the h2g2 suffix and the use of brunel and alabaster and it's all 2legs' fault. There's even a thread about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=8244020

Thanks.

>and should sort itself out in time.<

Yeah everything reaches absolute zero at the end of time.

What I see is in convos is:

Heavy sleeting - I love the BBC


and this when I go to post, or look at your PS:

"Heavy sleeting - I love the BBC - Heavy sleeting - I love Robbie Stamp"


If you want the Robbie bit showing in convos, then go into Settings and write it in there.


I think that's how it works It took me a few different try outs to get it to work.

kea..I like what you see. I think I might keep it like that.

I'd really like to get our other characters back. I much prefer ~ to -.

Absolutely incredible. I just changed my name again..and also did it in settings..but still some stupid doubling thing shows.

How many months has it now been that the company the BBC splashed £millons of pounds on to sort out h2g2...can't sort out a thing a child could?

But I find that people that get jobs in these areas simply don't have a clue about normal human interaction..and what's important to people.

There's one person here on h2g2 that I know is familiar with geekery..but would get the human thing and that's 2legs...he's fairly unusual..

If you change your name in settings *and* preferences, it will show up twice. Preferences now is *only* for adding a suffix to your user name. If you put your user name in settings and preferences you are telling the system to show your user name twice.

In case that wasn't clear, go into settings and put "Heavy sleeting - I love the BBC". Then go into preferences and delete whatever is there (don't worry if it puts it back). Leave it for half an hour and then see what happens.

It is still buggy though, and the delay in changes showing up makes it hard to follow what the bugs are.

What's the reason for most geeks to be so emotionally illiterate?

I absolutely cannot believe that they wouldn't prioritise people being able to change their name and that registering...and if you are online the eyes show.

They simply don't have a clue how important these things can be.

....Really I'm off now though...with a heavy hit of medication...

Thanks kea. But no amount of explaining will cut it.

The idiots that are paid a million times more than me..simply don't give a damn.

I think this is more of a bureaucracy issue than a geek one. The geeks I know on hootoo would recognise what you are talking about. My reading of it is that the hootoo department of the bbc has been woefully underfunded, not to mention they wouldn't want to put too much dosh into something they were selling.

It is a mess though, and I hope Pastey is right in his confidence that they can sort it all.

Pastey has an unusually high level of geekyness probably in conjunction with a good measure of nurdyness... *looks around to make sure he's not watching me write this*
He is, also, quite capible of actually talking to those of us who can't magic up an application or website in ten minutes, and certainly knows h2g2 and the people on it, and that which is important to us

I don't think by any stretch of the imagination what he's going to be doing is goign to be easy, the amount of time it will take for one thing, plus of course he does have a day job... But we've plenty of people on site who can do coding, and other geeky things, and one thing I know we're attempting to do is get people to voluenteer up their services, and see which bits can be deligated out to those with experience at coding X y or Z...

I'm only half geeky... I understand a lot of it, but can't really 'do it'...

and...

"fairly unusual"
I may have to use that as the suffix for my username!

The whole barleycorn/barlesque or whatever it is thing, was just unbelievable at the time... I think on many levels it was an utter screw up by all involved... and then to see the company who did the design/coding clapping themselves on the back about what a fabulus job they'd done... yeh... almost made me want to spring into vilence against the fools..

At least we're not going to have to put up with that sort of mess again... ever

I relaly must get on and shower... I've ten million EMails in overnight I need to read involved with h2g2 and the interim comittee and all that* stuff... but William is coming round early afternoon and I must shower and beautify myself awww... I'm all gingly inside...

I see Aerian no longer have the redesign in their portfolio.

Excelelnt... so even they have given up on their over egged 'wow we're wonderful look at this', in relation to their useless re-design of the skin on here .... belgium.. to the lot of them

They do have this on their website though

http://www.aerian.com/portfolio/bbc.co.uk/h2g2_development_relaunch

>>It’s hard to talk at length about how much difficulty we had integrating with the API’s provided because so much of the problem was hidden in the details. It’s also hard to explain to an outsider how hard Sam and Chris (and Ben Poole from our end) worked in making sure the project was delivered with the quality it deserved – I hope that you see for yourself and it’s apparent to all.
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Date is 1/4/11

Oh they are just the stupidest thing ever.

Nick Reynolds didn't want me to contact them..I didn't.

But he was probably right...one can't *contact* them.

I'm no longer Magwitch - Magwitch

Effers, go to settings, it will ask for your password, bung that in. Change your name and suffix. Come back here and go to preferences. Remove everything. As kea, said it'll stick it all back, but...when you get back to your PS the annoying little duplication will be gone. (it's like using Cilit Bang )

Is my name displaying weirdly too? I don't dare delve back tinto the horror of barlseque to find out

There are only two occasions when I notice it:

1) When I'm my own PS. It was Magwitch - Walking on Air - Magwitch - Walking on Air - before I changed the tag and knew how to circumvent* the duplication natch

2) When I'm reading other people's Journals at the mo Effers 'name' reads as 'Heavy sleeting - I love hootoo - Heavy sleeting - I love hootoo'

Yours is fine Legster.

*get me using a big word on Saturday afternoon