Question

Release Notes - July 3, 2012
Flight of the Bumbleandroids

Answer 1

Greetings folk rockers! Here's a fresh batch of juicy juice for you all to sink your teeth into:

Notes:
- Fix issues with special characters in verification and unsubscribe link urls.
- Verbiage changes: Best Answer is now Best Response. Other changes were made in line with this.
- Some fixes for weird Android tablets.
- Fix errors caused by invite links shared by guests.
- Fix display issues with the blue group dropdown and long group names.
- Fix issues with links in DMs.
- Wait until the group chooser hides to show that you are now a fan of the user who invited you (if you created an account from an invite).
- Username tweaks.
- There is now a 21 character limit on usernames.
- This won't affect existing users.
- We made some display tweaks to guarantee these usernames display properly.
- Fix a bug that could cause you to get a verification lockout screen for a different account that you own.
- Fix issues that caused online users to appear in the wrong order in the right pane.
- Fix issues with chat strobing.
- Fix issues where timestamps wouldn't update when they were supposed to.
- Fix some issues with word wrapping on the invite page.
- The next steps list for new users now updates in all tabs at the same time.
- Fix some indentation in the code that @farmdawgnation screwed up. ಠ_ಠ

On a final note, @darthsid is no longer working with us. He contributed greatly to the site and there's no way we would have gotten to where we are today without his hard work coming up with designs, ensuring the top quality experience for our users, and putting the lame pun coon to shame. He's moved on to bigger and better things, and we'll miss him. With this release we moved him and Jon Birdsong into a new section on the About Us page, "Distinguished Alumni", to recognize the significant contributions they made to OpenStudy.

If we screwed anything up (never happened before), let us know!

Answer 2

Oh no. Sid is no more :'(

Answer 3

Also, Facebook invites were having some problems due to this site not having a valid SSL certificate. Those problems should be resolved so FB invites should work for certain again. Feel free to spam yr friends with another round (kidding).

Answer 4

lol, 21 char limit ;)

Answer 5

Why does Sid still have the moderator status?

Answer 6

What does this mean ---> "- Wait until the group chooser hides to show that you are now a fan of the user who invited you (if you created an account from an invite)."
lol "that farmdawgnation screwed up" xD


D: DarthSid left?! :'( But he was my pun buddy :q

Answer 7

When you invite someone and they sign up, you become fans of each other. Once they've signed up, they still have to choose a subject. We were showing the “so-and-so is now your fan” popup while the chooser was up, when it couldn't be seen. We now wait for the subject chooser to go away.

Answer 8

Can you un-fan them? I try to minimize how many people I fan haha I have 48 fans and 20 of them *sniff* excuse me 19 of them are mods.

Answer 9

You can unfan anyone you want.

Answer 10

Just if someone accepts your invite to the site, you are automatically their fan without any additional effort.

Answer 11

Lol so you assume we like people we invite? Fair enough.

Answer 12

Why so?

Answer 13

"- Fix some indentation in the code that @farmdawgnation screwed up. ಠ_ಠ "

LOL

Answer 14

I linked this site through that invitation link on Yahoo! Answers once, so that means that I'd be fanning random people.

Answer 15

These are only invitations through the links provided in the invite page. If you just link to OpenStudy none of that will happen.

Answer 16

The duck doesn't like indentation from the sound of it, he reads everything like a scroll? :-3

Answer 17

However, yes, if you want points from the invite, you will have to deal with the mutual fanning that comes from it.

Answer 18

Whoa wait, you lose points if you un-fan them??

Answer 19

What is chat strobing?

Answer 20

You get points for fanning, which you lose if you unfan. You also get points for the accepted invite, which you do not lose if you unfan.

Answer 21

ew

Answer 22

@shadowfieennnddd I went to the invite page and then gave the link.

Answer 23

Chat strobing is the effect that happens when someone in chat posts a message.

Answer 24

In the previous release there was a bug where the username of the person who chatted didn't show up. We fixed that.

Answer 25

Oh, so does it display the names now?

Answer 26

Okay

Answer 27

Another thing I want to point out.
When I press the left or right buttons for scrolling through the chats of different groups, it scrolls VERY VERY slow.

Answer 28

That's your computer.
Oh lol now I see names...way to go me.

Answer 29

You might want to include this for the next release @Mr.Feury @lightfiend @farmduckynation

Answer 30

ohhh me gee...you like, spelled all their names wrong.
How rude.
c;

Answer 31

Btw, Parth & others, what that score calculation display bug or whatever you want to call it fixed? I can't find the old topic, and no way I'm looking though the past few days of places Parth posted lol

Answer 32

@ParthKohli If you want to have us investigate that then open a new post in OpenStudy Feedback. We can see if, perhaps, there are performance issues on your end.

Answer 33

@agentx5 Positions in the online list weren't being updated when people's scores changed. We fixed that.

Answer 34

Ah k ty

Answer 35

Yeah, like...I'm getting so much higher on the list :3

Answer 36

Great work as always! I love how this website is always updating, changing, tweaking, and making things better for their users!

Answer 37

We do what we can :)

Answer 38

@mattfeury @shadowfiend and all of the open study team.
Thanks again :D

Answer 39

wow dpflan was an intern...who knew...anyway good one for doing a lot of things at once..congrats :D but i do have to ask..why "flight of the bumbleandroids?"

Answer 40

Might I know what motivated the verbiage change from "Answer" to "Response"? I assume it's that the heavier weight on usage of "Answer" detracts from all the other responses?

Answer 41

@badreferences i think it was derived from here http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4ff14c29e4b03c0c488a3189

Answer 42

No, Darthsid is gone?! Can this be true?

Sniff. Censoring swear words will never be the same.

Answer 43

In interns, why there is no name for Laura?
-Just wondering.

Answer 44

Laura's internship expired awhile back. She's on to bigger and better things these days.

Answer 45

So Daniel and Min are still in your team?

Answer 46

Indeed they are.

Answer 47

I see. Cool.

Answer 48

was dpflan sir an intern ?

Answer 49

Is, not was.

Answer 50

is he still a global intern sir ...this means he is not a mod right ?

Answer 51

No. Global Interns are different...
hehe
The admin interns work for OpenStudy for example - @Laura* , @dpfl
Global Interns are just explained about marketing and stuff so they could go ahead and use those tips.

Answer 52

oh k thanks a lot why did u only write dpfl and not completed that

Answer 53

We are not allowed to tag admins.

Answer 54

oh is that so i usually tagged them ..is that mentioned any where

Answer 55

Dan is not a global intern, he's an actual intern. An unfortunate coincidence of naming, but Dan actually works with us in the office to build OpenStudy, so yes, he is an admin on the site.

We prefer you not tag admins on OpenStudy Feedback posts especially because we read them anyway and we're busy.

Answer 56

ok sir so can we tag them in other groups if we especially need their help

Answer 57

You may, though we are busy. At least in my case, I rarely get a chance to help on tagged questions unless they're specific knowledge-related questions and I have the answer handy. I rarely help questions that translate into “can you spend some time searching for this on Google for me”.

Answer 58

thanks a lot ! :) sir