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By Al Shaw - January 5, 2009, 10:48AM

If you're seeing anything funky with the myTPM software, I'm collecting reports here.

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This is very minor, but new over the last few days. On the MyBlog page, the count shown for members who are following me sometimes is +1 from what is shown when I click through to see who they are. This doesn't happen all the time, and seems to be related to freshly logging-on, as it usually self-corrects upon reloading (sometimes more than once) the Myblog page, instead of just clicking back, and viewing the cached version. The first few times it happened, I thought if was my imagination, but have determined it is not. It just happened again during after this present session log-on

Posted by PseudoCyAnts
January 5, 2009 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink

A bit of correction here. It may be that this is only showing up when the "comments" tab is pressed on MyBlog. I just rechecked and and the "followeres" count is +1 in that tab, but the right number in the other two. I'll watch closer, and let you know it this changes.

Posted by PseudoCyAnts in reply to a comment from PseudoCyAnts
January 5, 2009 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink

What is the deal with writer photos here? Why can we not have access to add or change them in our personal profiles? Thanks.

Posted by Pavane
January 5, 2009 1:20 PM | Reply | Permalink

The system doesn't seem particularly buggy right now, but there is one long-standing annoyance that keeps surfacing (I've written in about it before):
Reader posts that override the site's default font. There are two current examples that display in bizarre typefaces, point sizes or leading: Quinn's "I've come unstuck" and another titled "Double standard for Madoff."
My guess is that this happens when a post is written in a different program, then cut-and-pasted into a blog-post box.
When that occurs, it is surely possible to strip the text of any pre-existing styles. If for some reason TPM can't do it automatically, perhaps the Your Blog page could carry explicit instructions telling posters how to do it themselves.
The Reader Blogs would look a lot better.
A far more minor quibble: on Dashboards, the Recommended list seems to lag the other listings by a lot. The titles of recommended posts would also benefit from a date stamp, much like those in the Comments list.

Posted by acanuck
January 5, 2009 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink

yeah....can you have it play the theme to superman every time someone clicks on my post? :o)

This site is GREAT.

Posted by GC Observer
January 5, 2009 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink

Al, I just now realized the "here" in your post doesn't really mean here.
You have to click on the word to go "there."
A bit confusing.

Posted by acanuck
January 5, 2009 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink

Not about the software, but about something I haven't seen before (maybe because I haven't looked before). There are two new blogs which are blatant advertisements. "Get expert Computer Services..." and "This Company Specializes in Loans. . . ."

IF one sees this kind of abuse, what is the best way to report it?

Mike

Posted by amike
March 3, 2009 8:52 AM | Reply | Permalink

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