Couple bugs and opionions ;)

Hey guys,

I’m sure some of these have been reported to you already, but I just noted a couple things down I thought you’d may want to look at.

In no specific order:

- when you load the registration screen, you may want to default the cursor the “First Name” text input box
- You don’t ask to confirm the e-mail address (double entry). On purpose?
- I could see users wanting to be both a teacher and a student. Right now you have to choose. What if i’d like to tutor Dutch, but want to learn Spanish?
- I registered as a tutor, but cannot change to a student. What if i decide to give up tutoring or just rather be a student instead ;)
- after registering, I automatically redirect to my profile page. I hit the forum link from my profile page, and it appears then my session was lost. I had to re-log in in order to post/respond (and it said “Login” on the top, instead of “Hi Michael”). This is a bug
- Under the forum listing, the “Reply to topic” and “New topic” links are cut off (only showing partial characters). This is in MS Internet Explorer 7.
- When posting/responding in the forum: the “Formatting Help” could use some better formatting (no pun intended ;))

Hope this helps. I’ll play around a bit more and let you know if I find something worth your attention.

Mike.

PS. may be a good idea to show “Tutor” or “Student” with user names in the left column of the Forum.

Also – i’m responding to my own topic, and when I first posted, I clicked “Follow this topic”. Now i’m responding to the same topic, and next to this response box, the “follow this topic” checkbox is not checked. It would be good to save and show the setting, so if I want to “un-follow” I can do that here, or just be assured that I’m still following the topic, even if I respond now and not check the box again.

One more :) In the menu header on top of the site, it would be good to show the number of unread messages, behind “Messages”, e.g. “Message ²”

Me again: I’m following my own topic and responded to my own topic. I got an e-mail notifying me of my own reply to my own topic. Perhaps you should set it to only notify if other people respond to a followed topic.

One more – also the eduFire small logo seems to be cut off a bit, compared to the full logo on the home page. The E, D, U and final E look a bit more rounded at the bottom on the large logo, than they do on the small logo in the header and footer of the forum

http://edufire.com/testimonial/request_testimonial

On the request testimonial page, i think there’s no need to have a line break between “Return to your " and "testimonials”.

New one. Steps to reproduce:

1. log in
2. hit EduFire Home link (the image in the top left corner)
3. this takes you to the home page, asks existing users to log in, so hit the log in link
4. on the log in page, it looks like your session never got deleted, because in the top right it still says “Hi Michael”, and you can skip the log in by simply clicking on “Michael” which would take you to your profile page, without ever entering e-mail/password.

May not be a huge issue, only from a perspective that users may think they have logged out, leave the public PC they were on, and someone now has access to their account.

PS. a “Preview Post” function would be great in the forum ;)

Fantastic feedback here! A few of the bugs have already been reported but there are definitely a few new ones here. We’ll get right to work fixing these and please let us know if you spot anything else. Thanks!

Got a new one for you. I clicked on the link in the e-mail notifying me that a response has been posted, and that went right to the correct page. When I now go back to the “Forum” main page, the icon still lights up green indicating a new, unread post, even though I’ve already read it.

Similar thing happens after I post a new response myself, and then go to the Forum main page. It indicates new posts, even though the only new post is my own.

Thanks again for the feedback! I just noticed this recently too as we’ve added that to our bug tracker as well. Keep ’em coming!

Hey Shane. Thanks for mentioning this. I’ve filed a bug with our developers to check this out. Occasionally we have timezone bugs so we’ll definitely check into it!

Jon

Hey my EduFire Friends,

I’ve come across a bug or maybe my own blunder. I put in suggestions for time slots with a student that had requested a session with me and she accepted one of the times, but it wasn’t one that I had suggested. It turned out to be 2am my time – and I would be sleeping through the session if that’s the case! Just wondering if there have been other problems like this…

Thanks,
-Shane

hey guys, just noticed the resources button on the bottom of the page goes to “http://blog.edufire.com/” and this page does not exist.

I keep trying to accept a friend request and I get a “Security Transgression” error screen.

This usually means you aren’t logged in or, if you are logged in, maybe you’re logged in with an account that is different from the one that the message was sent to (this happens on occasion when people have both a student and teacher account.

As for blog.edufire.com, we’re re-doing it right now and will have it up soon.

Here’s a bug: I am trying to accept friend requests and cant. When I click accept it takes me to a login page saying that I did something to make Edufire mad and that I need to sign in before doing that. (even though I was already signed in). Not sure what to do…I wanna make friends!!! :)

I think I found one:
In my profile page it says “You haven’t posted in our forums yet.” (don’t worry only you see this)
our forums is a link, but it’s wrong: http://http//forums.edufire.com/ instead of http://forums.edufire.com/

Now that I’am posting here, I guess I’ll lost the bug.

Hi Diego,

Good catch. I’ve fixed the link so that it only has a single protocol prefix. And yes, by posting in the forum, you’ve effectively hidden the bug from yourself.

Regards,

Jared