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

Erm... error?

I'm trying to remove my name from a certain article (A728381), but when I click the link, it tells me that my name cannot be removed beacuse 'It is not on the researcher list' - which it is.

Your name isn't on the list... (or it isn't now).

Perhaps you clicked it twice?

Firstly, it isn't - perhaps you clicked twice, and by the time the second request came through after the first had completed. Your name is definitely no longer on that article.

Second, could you post bug reports to <./>Feedback-Bugs</.> in future, otherwise we might miss them. Thanks.

As an international site, shouldn't have been ? Stateside users might expect something a tad more "eliptical"... Or will you put a different graphic on the US servers?

I hadn't even realised the upgrade had happened!
What's the news on new smilies then? I presume we are going to get some, and what about animated smilies?

We're a British site. We write in British English, so why shouldn't we use the British terms for things like football? After all, we invented the game.

Great show Jim

You also invented the hooligan, I presume

But of course!

Another great British tradition, go to a fight and a football match breaks out!!
<Courtesy of a TV program)

One thing that has always bugged me about it being British English is that when you look for "film" in the search bar, you don't find anything about films, until you look for "movies".

Not that I'm bothered, it's just that that word doesn't occur to me, and is certainly just as American as having to say "soccer" for football.

Haven't noticed any differences yet - are you sure the update applies to the rest of the world, too?

Ducks

Good point TC.

As for the new DNA engine, have a look at the <./>Versions</.> page.

Re: post 63

I don't think I clicked twice; I'll go shout at my sys-admin for screwing up page refreshes as well. Stupid school people, don't know a thing about computers (from my experience) until I hack them.

*takes note of the Bugs link*

Ooooh, Jim, that sounds like a different manifestation of the current "doubleposting" problem, where the "remove" request doubleposted... A clue, perhaps?

If I remember, next time I get a dump of the server logs I'll see if there are two requests in the logs. Puzzling if there aren't.

It's entirely possible for a browser or ISP to send a duplicate request, just as it's possible to double click accidentally through a mouse glitch.

Just one of those things. Impossible to avoid without smothering the pages in didgy javascript.

Like, I take it, you did on the 'Add Guide Entry' page?

One day I'll make a formal request to get that removed...