We need you.
We have your reader blog archives sitting in a database, but we don't want to start to push them live (which would be a day-long, server heavy process) until we know for sure that it's all in order.
So, we need your help. We asked last week, but still need more folks to email tpmbugs at gmail dot come to beta test the archives out. We need as many folks as possible, so please do jump in.
We want to get these back for you, but need your help to make it happen.
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Comments (9)
Andrew, you should know that it has given me great pleasure to go back in time and re-read some of my old threads that turn out to have valuable "staying power," at least for me.
I did send you guys the requested e-mail and got a prompt reply. But I had a great deal of trouble actually getting to my archives, because there were no instructions. So I did it by lots of trial and error. And I am not really computer illiterate. You might think about helping us to help you with a few hints about how to actually find what we left behind.
I so appreciate this opportunity and look forward to the transfer of my old posts to my current site here. Is that what will happen? Or will they get lost in the firmament again?
Thanks again for persevering.
May 2, 2008 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
How will the archives display?
I found all my blog posts and copied them (going through about 1,200 pages of ten posts each to find them), leaving behind the comments, since I lack the old interface to display them properly. If I had them I would print to PDF for archiving.
Would be nice to see the Discussion Table stuff, since that had to pass muster and get votes to post.
May 2, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll try to get in again. Like Carol (hi carol!) I have been having problems, and (like Carol, )I had my queries answered pretty quickly, but I'm still having trouble. As it's the weekend, I'll give it another shot. I have an older Mac, so I'm a weirdo, thus I didn't want your team to spend much time on me. I figger they charge by the hour... ya know?
Thanks for doing this. I'll make sure all the troll threads are in order, if possible.
:D
May 2, 2008 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can you put a link to tpmbugs@gmail.com in here?
May 2, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I emailed twice yesterday, from the same email as my account registration, asked to participate, included my user name and a link to this thread,
Fri 5/02/08 3:59 PM
subject line: "want to test TPM archives"
Fri 5/02/08 5:40 PM
subject line: "second request to participate"
NO RESPONSE AS OF NOW.
I did check the junk mail.
I realize they may be on bankers' hours, but that in itself wouldn't be a good sign about being eager to get volunteers and that may have something to do with the response. For example, if they decide to respond Monday or Tuesday, I doubt I would be able to get to it for several days.
May 3, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
They aren't working this weekend (it's one of their first off in some time, so they deserve it). Sorry to hear you can't have a look on Monday, but that's when they'll email you back to give you a shot.
May 4, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
They answered Monday, I had a little time to check my own user name today.
Very poor results.
Here is what I just emailed them:
View Talk postsAll I get is the 3 written in Feb. to March 2008, nothing after that, not even the ten!
You claim you have loaded them, but how do I find the many many other Reader Blogs I wrote before that time?
It's not clear that you are set up to offer more than 10 posts per user. If you are, my user name does not have access.
On my "Latest Comments" all I get is 10 comments from April 18 to April 28, 2008.
Is it that all that a user name is going to get is 10 comments? Pretty pitiful when all the old systems used to have the entire history of a user's comments.
initial email said the following:
What the heck does that mean? What are "individual archives" if not "author archives"? And what testing is it possible to do if they can only offer 10 Reader Blogs and 10 comments per user? It doesn't make any sense, testing what? Testing their choice of 10 Blogs and 10 comments to show me? How can I possibly know if they have everything if there is no way to access it? Nothing is clear, they claim to have put something up but I don't know what it is nor where to find it, only that which is under my user name, an apparent random selection of 10 each.
They really need to be clearer what they have done in order for anyone to test it. If the archives are not going to be accessed by author, admit it and then tell us what we should test, how, where, what section. What exactly is the test?! If it's all archives by user name, it failed and is not even ready to test, there are still only 10. They gave instructions for logging in, that is all.
May 6, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Correction of my above comment, I screwed up the html formatting and that caused some text to be lost (snark: makes me wonder how they would like to do programming on a "no preview, no edit allowed" basis?) Here is the comment redone, I hope it turns out. I will take out the second blockquote and use italics instead, maybe that will help.
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They answered Monday, I had a little time to check my own user name today.
Very poor results.
Here is what I just emailed them:
Their initial email said the following:
Not all of the weekly archives & author archives are rebuilt. All of the individual archives, however, *have* been rebuilt.
What the heck does that mean? What are "individual archives" if not "author archives"? And what testing is it possible to do if they can only offer 10 Reader Blogs and 10 comments per user? It doesn't make any sense, testing what? Testing their choice of 10 Blogs and 10 comments to show me? How can I possibly know if they have everything if there is no way to access it? Nothing is clear, they claim to have put something up but I don't know what it is nor where to find it, only that which is under my user name, an apparent random selection of 10 each.
They really need to be clearer what they have done in order for anyone to test it. If the archives are not going to be accessed by author, admit it and then tell us what we should test, how, where, what section. What exactly is the test?! If it's all archives by user name, it failed and is not even ready to test, there are still only 10. They gave instructions for logging in, that is all.
May 6, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
A bug unrelated to the archives:
on Safari browser on imac, since Thursday I've been unable to move off the main TPM page. Error message:
Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that this server cannot understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
May 5, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink