Hi:

Your new site is working ... not so well. Last night the 'Access your old Account' link was not 'live' in TPMCafe and I was not able to log in or convert my old account to the new system. Today, while working slowly, I can see that the conversion link is 'live', when I follow it slowly, inputting my username, email address, or both, I am ppresented with the following:

close Publish error in template 'Profile Reset Password Email Template': Error in tag: Can't find included template module 'Site Header'
Go BackClose

I'm guessing this problem is not unique to me. What's the scoop, and what's the fix?

ACF

FYI, got this message when I clicked the "Click Here to Access It" link and entered my old username

"Publish error in template 'Profile Reset Password Email Template': Error in tag: Can't find included template module 'Site Header'"

The member formerly known as ges.

P.S.
I'll keep checking back.

Sorry, Charlie, er, Andrew. SMDH (Same Message Different Hour regarding old member/new password). Hang in there. The wizards eventually show up to drive off the gremlins ;-)

ges

Yes.

Hmmmmm

You look naked.

I like it.

:D

Why is there a list of ancient comments from 2005 on the home page associated with my user name?

Is there going to be any way to track one's own comments? Or any tracking of the whole site
like at the link many of us used to get involved in conversations:
http://www.tpmcafe.com/tracker ?

Or anything like a way to look at "recent comments"?

If not, I think you might be surprised by the drop in traffic. I certainly will not use a site that doesn't have those features anywhere near as much as I had been using this one. I think a lot of people come here for the extended conversations over days and click a lot all over the place in doing so. If you don't provide a way to access where all the hot conversations are going on over more than a day, you are going to lose one of the main draws of the Cafe site. I don't think the model of "Catch today's conversation today or it's gone" is what made this site popular.

Andrew posts made over the past few days in some blog articles have disappeared. One I made to Nathan Newman's latest blog article disappeared overnight. Would you please see what happened to it?

I did recieve my email (note if you have hotmail, at least for me, it showed up in my junk mail box. I had mark it "not junk" in order to follow the link)

It did bring up the page with a new password (COPY THIS PW SOMEWHERE). I went to edit my profile and make the change to my easily remebered PW. It would not take my updated PW. Luckily I was able to use my back button get back to page with the temp PW and was able to copy it.

This is the only way to log in that I have found so far. Maybe they are still working on the end user profile edit.

I imagine that if you are only going to give a history of only 10 comments, you are going to hear a lot of squawking from people who are active members and contribute a lot of content. One great value of the site has been to be able to follow a thread over like a week at least, to come back and look at your comments, see who replied to them, and pick up the conversation. Or even to see that a thread has had a lot of activity on it on the global tracker, and read it all after it's been going on several days, and then reply to some of the comments on it.

A history of only 10 is taking away the ability to have a long conversation and interaction with a group of others, and is basically just the standard old blog format of blogger speaks, commenters say something about what he said, no one interacts much, it's over the next day.

Perhaps this is what you want to do.

But I for one will only be interested then if the original blogger is saying something exceptionally interesting and well-developed, or if I happen to have time that day to interact with commenters that day. With longer discussions over time, you get commenters sometimes developing more interesting trains than the original post, that's the beauty of forum software, over simple blogging with comments.

From some of the other things you have said, instead of following comments and discussions over time, you seem to want to push people doing their own blogs and then get them voted to the top of the list. This is just imitating DKos, but they have Diary Rescue, time intensive and run by lots of volunteers, and you are using voting to judge. Theirs has more editorial control, and still it is far less interesting to me as the system you had, which was conducive to round table discussion, not just a bunch of commenters reacting to one post.

I suspect you will end up with a lot less traffic, fewer people checking in all the time to see if the conversation is still going on. Again, maybe that's what you want, but so far it really seems like a totally different model.

I got in with no problems.

The old Cafe was fun while it lasted.

~OGD~

seashell, I think I'm replying to you but not sure. I never received a new password by email. In the meantime, Andrew and I have formed a close personal relationship, as in I email him asking WTF, and he tells me :-) He sent me a new password, but I've been unable to change it. I imagine the wizards are on their way to chase out the gremlins ;-)

I wonder if the blogs that went up in the old Cafe yesterday also went down the memory hole....

Thanks. Good luck!

Forgive me, Devon. Is that a photo of your tooth?

Well, I kinda like the old site. I'm looking for my pals; also for ratings -- they were fun even if they started wars!

I'm going to sit tight for a few days. I also liked the way it was 2 years ago and it took me a while to adjust to the latest format.

I hope this turns out to be an improvement; there MUST be a reason for changing, right? Thanks

CVille Dem

Hello...

Will there still be a way to contact people back channel? I don't see anything, at the moment, unless I've missed it...

After butting my head against this thing, to no avail, I finally gave up and created a new account. It was the only way to get in and post a comment. An email didn't get any results, although in TPM's defense, they're probably overwhelmed with complaints.

I want my old account back. I've tried following the 'Access your Old Account' link, and was shown the "Your password reset code was sent. Please click the link in the email to generate a new password." message, but no email was ever sent. I've tried following the 'lost password' link, and was rewarded with the same message, but again, no email was ever sent, or none received anyway. The first day of the site changeover, I was able to check into my profile at TPMCafe, and the username and email address I was using was correct, so there should be no reason why an email wouldn't reach me.

As I said above, I want my old account back, with access to my posts.

ACF_MA, the user formerly known as ACF

Your "Recommend This" voting system is currently Chicago machine style, one can vote "early and often." Every time I come anew to a page, I find I can vote again, logged in, logged, it matters not. As is, it's not at all meaningful, as it can easily be gamed.

Replies are still not posting as replies for me. It's not that I am a newbie idiot, I know how to do it, when I use the reply link, and the box says it's a reply and to whom, it still posts as a new comment at the bottom of the thread.

If it's happening to me it will happen to others and your threading feature will be for naught. If it matters, I am using VISTA, IE 7.0.6000.16575.

Ok, small problem for me. I cannot log in through the main login prompts at the top of the screens (regardless of site). It just spits me back to the front page, and I'm still not logged in.

However, I can log in just fine through the comments login.

Second, when will old blog posts and comments appear? I understand it's a database conversion, but it's been a couple days now.

Third, can we get a link with the main sections for Reader Blogs?

Test test testing

Reporting the same problem as Eric Stepp (see above) that the log-in box at the top of the page does not work, not a single time I've tried it. The log-in box on comments on a single thread works every time. This is not a big deal for me as I know what I have to do. But it doesn't strike me as a good operating method that customers have to find the secret log-in box. They might decide to just lurk rather than bother to figure it out. Just sayin

Also I do not stay logged in, it seems to time out or something and I have seen others complaining about this on other threads.

P.S. got an error message trying to post this comment:

Connection error: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.132' (111) at lib/MT/ObjectDriver/Driver/DBD/mysql.pm line 49
at lib/MT/ObjectDriver/Driver/DBD/mysql.pm line 49

Earlier, I had reported that my problems getting site wide login appeared to have been resolved, and in fact it still seems ok. Unfortunately, that post never appeared, and that was 2 to 3 hours ago.

Now, I just attempted to post to a thread at TPM ElectionCentral about James Dobson's threat not to vote for John McCain if he's the Republican nominee. When I hit 'Send', the system went into an extended wait period of a couple of minutes, then returned the following error message:

"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."

I hope this post gets through.

addendum: When I tried to post the above note, it returned an error message that said 'registration required' I am a registered user. I was logged in when I sent the post. I had to log in again to try and send this. I hope it works, because if not, I give up and will just read for a while.