There are a couple of problems with the new category listings linked on the sidebar. First, all the posts which I retroactively assigned to categories don't show any comments in the category listings, though they do in the main thread where they originally occurred.

Second, it seems that in some cases the "more inside" and "go to individual post" links in the category listings change the URL but reload the category listing from that new URL instead of expanding the post.

I've informed Pixy about this, but right now he's got more important things to work on (preparing a major demo for his business partner) so we'll just have to be patient until he can get that cleared up.

What I'm seeing is that his demo is going to be damned cool. But there's only one of him and he has to prioritize his time.

In the mean time, if you get caught by the second problem, you can directly change the URL manually after you try (and fail) to load it from the category listing. The work-around is to take out the second-to-last term. So this

http://chizumatic.mee.nu/valkyrie/valkyrie_1_the_great_meganekko_conspiracy

doesn't work. But if you edit it to remove the "valkyrie" term in the URL

http://chizumatic.mee.nu/valkyrie_1_the_great_meganekko_conspiracy

then it works fine.

I've added this to a list of problems I'm accumulating that I've reported to Pixy which I think may have fallen on the rug. Someday when he announces, "I'm bored. What is there to do around here?" I'll send it to him.

(I hope it's clear that I'm trying to be funny about this but I'm not annoyed or indignant in any way. I'm grateful for being allowed to use the system, and I think Pixy has done one hell of a fine job on it. I also understand very well how it goes in a project like this, and I've actually been extremely impressed by how reactive Pixy has been to most of the problems I've reported to him. This post is not an attempt to embarass Pixy or shame him into working on this problem. He is doing the correct thing by working on his demo.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 07:49 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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