Site Update April 2013

[AB Editor]

Afternoon all,

Some changes coming up, we'll probably be down for an hour at 9pm.

1. Search pagination, improved look including the original poster and a "last by" link.

2. Additionally we've added a relevancy score on searches and related question. We plan to make both better, but we thought the information was interesting enough to display for now (if a bit wonky)

3. Fixed the lifetime service badge being incorrectly awarded bug, the long titles effect layout bug, and the long link issues on
http://m.theanswerbank.co.uk/

4. We're updating the badges and best answers code, and Best answer and badges should tally correctly after the update.

5. We've fixed some ad positioning issues and begun to change the language from "register" to "sign up"

All the best,

Ed

[Sam1960]

same here Mamyalynne, still got my 10yr badge

[erin-x]

My best answers haven't updated either....

[DJHawkes]

can you merge my deleted accounts as the 75000 answers are still here and can i have the badges i had before like the genealogy one please?

[Barmaid]

^^^^ think my request for another glass of wine is more likely ;)

[ChillDoubt]

I guess too that the Badges debacle continues unabated.....LOL

[Hopkirk]

I can't find the 'tea and digestives' button.

Sack the techies.

[sunny-dave]

I blame the parents ...

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Apologies for still shouting at everyone.

[Nibble]

Oh well, Ed, at least you & the techies have tried..... But as they say you can't please all of the people all the time, or in Ab-land any of the users any of the time.... nice try though :)

[tiggerblue10]

Is it really slow on AB this evening or is it my pc?

[Baldric]

I've now got another badge, one that I'm entitled to, so a step in the right direction, thanks Ed/techies.

[erin-x]

I don't like the new search results either. The whole point in it (for me anyway) is totally defunct now.

[society]

Ed, I am still getting only 8 'web search' for every thing searched.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I still have my 1o year badge and my last best answer was from November 2012

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

search XXX Society

[Arksided]

'webcam' has notched up one to 14! its made it.

[Maydup]

Poor Ed has my sympathies. i've been on Customer Complaints duty at work today and conclude that you can never please all of the people all of the time and worse still, when you try to make an improvement it just seems to prompt a string of compalints about the next thing.

So at risk of brown nosing I say thanks Ed for the update, i hope it worked for you.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

webcam was at 14 when I tried it. I'm sure it's on one of my lists in this thread.

[Baldric]

Just tried using the search box for an Inspector Morse query, the first two posts that popped up were from 2001 then 2005, so that now appears to be a waste of time!