AnswerBank Update Coming... Tomorrow

[AB Editor]

Afternoon everyone.

We're planning a little downtime "this evening"/tomorrow morning at 1am. Hopefully this won't effect the majority of you :)

The changes we're making:

1. Fixing the way the menu works.
Related post: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/AB-Editors-Blog/Question1194783.html

2. We're adding some new badges:

Whino: 20+ posts in drinks
Peeping Tit: 20+ posts in bird-watching
Family Tree Surgeon: 10+ best answers in Genealogy
Marathon Starter: Started a question with 1000+ answers
Planting a Family Tree: 20+ questions in Genealogy
Stork: 5+ best answers pregnancy
Super-Nanny: 10+ best answers in parenting
Fiddler/Tinkerer: 10+ questions in "how it works"
Gossip: 30+ posts in Celeb gossip/soaps
Word wrangler: 30+ answers in Phrases and sayings
1/2/3 Year's Service: Given out on their AB birthday!
100 Club: 100+ Best answers, any Topic
250 Club: 250+ Best answer, any topic
500 Club: 500+ Best answer, any topic
1000 Club: 1000+ Best answer, any topic
Green Fingered: 20+ answers in gardening
Handyman: 20+ answers in DIY
Interior Artiste: 20+ answers in Interiors
Salesman: 30+ answers in Adverts
Curious Kitten: Asked 20+ questions in Animals & Nature
Entrepreneur: 20+ answers in Business & finance
Head Badger: 50+ posts in Editor's blog
Enquirer: 20+ questions in science
Slade's Beard: 2+ posts in Christmas outside of December
Black Cat: Posted a question on Friday 13th
Long Service: 5+ years membership
Lifetime Service Award: 10+ years membership

You should see these calculate over the next few days.

3. We're splitting up your first name and last name in the database. Currently we've got a single field called "name". While this is fine, it means that often we can't be all that formal in Newsletters and the like. So, we're programmatically splitting the field into two. Tomorrow it would be worth checking to see how well we've done by visiting here:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/user/edit_profile.php

And correcting your first name and last name. Don't forget to click "submit" at the bottom of the page before leaving!

4. We've tweaked the password recovery system and made some minor technical changes to the way our results appear in Google. You won't be able to see these changes immediately however, and there will be a further announcement when you can.

As always, let me know if you have any questions.

[shoota]

Has it shut down yet....?

[Mamyalynne]

Yes

[shoota]

:-)

[Arksided]

I'm scared...

[Mamyalynne]

Be alright. ((HUG))

[baza]

is everyone having an early night then?

[Arksided]

Love Mamya... here we go (((((((hug... oops was'nt me ))))))

[baza]

It was them bony elbows!!

[albaqwerty]

Morning Ed. So far the problems with the update are ends of words splitting, not being able to have < ducks > displayed properly and everything runs into one line, so when you hit the enter button to start a new line it just all runs together. It's going to make the News and various other threads interesting and difficult reading.

[albaqwerty]

See ^^^^ ignore the that's the least of it. Thanks.

[murraymints]

italics thingy with [i] at either side does not appear to be working either !!!

[albaqwerty]

That should have been ignore the < ducks >

[factor-fiction]

Here's an example to support what albaqwerty says: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1195082.html I typed a crossword explaation, carefully setting each step out on a new line to make it easy to follow. But when I submitted it, it all ran over into one line making it much more difficult to follow.

[ummmm]

Ooo clicking a link doesn't open a separate tab anymore.

[woofgang]

I am back to trailling on best answers....got 100 answers, only 96 showing.

[naomi24]

As someone else said, all the lines are running into one. New paragraphs don't work. New paragraph - let's see if it works. I agree with Chuck and B00. Not a good idea to be able to edit posts after they're posted. People will hide a multitude of sins that way, and alterations after the event would result in gobbledegook - even more than usual I mean. ;o) Another new paragraph. I also agree with Ummmm. The return of the post preview would be good. At the moment I type long posts in a Word document - and then copy and paste.

[naomi24]

^^ See. New paragraphs don't work. Not good for long and complex posts.

[plautus]

Text justification seems to have gone as well. See my answer on this thread: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Travel/Question1195092.html

[AB Editor]

Just having a look at these comments. Will be on the case shortly.

[naomi24]

plautus, your posts on that thread look fine to me.