current update

Herb, I just want to take a moment and recap our current issues:

Pending Issues/Features:
- Browse by Euro Zone (EU)
- Make Auction Pending Status
- Make Forums private
- Image ordering on Classifieds/Auctions
- Make some distinction for visited Classifieds


Completed Issues/Features:
- Classified Notifications
- Multiple Account login issues
- Display settings for users that have wrong classified count
- Ability to add the Replacement AD
- Photo uploading issues
- Fixed rating now showing on some part of the website
- Fixed Canadian zip codes
- Fixed forum profile links
- Fixed auction history pagination
- Fixed sorting on classifieds when set on display preferences
- Link in forum posts are active now
- Listings and news are showing in user local timezone now
- Added font size option on create/edit classified
- Fixed IPad/Small laptop UI screen
- Added order reports section
- Fixed Include Sold on Classifieds
- Categories section sort fixed
- Deleted users ad are not showing on classified listings anymore
- Search AD by ID
- Make new user waiting approval to lead directly to approve page
- Fixed verbiage on classified confirm screen
- Classified display settings updated to 90, 120, 180 days
-  Implemented HTTPS force on all pages
- Site speed improvements
- Fixed forum signature
- Make Featured ADS on top of the list on first page
- Make full image in slider by default in classifieds
- Fix Sponsor List
- Fix Link in admin to user in order section
- Pagination on My Classifieds
- FIx classified feature ad spending when user have enough ads
 
Let us know if there is any other outstanding that not reported here

There needs to be a option at the top of each forum to mark all messages as read, perhaps even a one that allows you to mark all forums read at once. As it is now one must go read the last post in each forum and even each topic in order to start fresh from what I can tell.

Which I have done several times now....but with all the fixes and updates being done the last reads have been reset several times.

HI, and thanks for this list of fixes and updates that are being addressed:


There are two fixes left on my list:

1. The time/date/yesterday/today stamp on the classifieds is still switching at random times between "today" and "yesterday". For example there was a classified today at about 4:02 PM listed as "today" and one that came in right before it at about 3:58 PM, listed as "yesterday". At first I thought it was a midnight shift, but then saw examples like this in the middle of the day. Then, I thought it might be a GMT thing, and reset my account to GMT....same thing....switches whole days within a few minutes of each other at what I think is random times during the day. 
I don't know programming at your level, but maybe just remove "today", "yesterday" and put the actual time notation?

2. Auction pagination is back (thanks!), but the database seems corrupted. Auctions that I lost, but are listed in wins. Auctions that I won, but are listed in lost. My own auctions listed several different times, with different photos from the actual items, etc.   I have no ideas on that one. 


Thanks again and it is getting better and better each day.

Mike, Fairbanks, Alaska

i am getting buried in empty astromart ad notices and then the occasional multi-ad summary -- still with no summary headlines at the beginning.  i suppose you are still working on these issues but i have to turn emails off completely.  the new paradigm is a big step back from what we had before (and i suspect will actually hurt the ability to get a for sale notice - noticed)

lee

Originally Posted by Lee Buck

i am getting buried in empty astromart ad notices and then the occasional multi-ad summary -- still with no summary headlines at the beginning.  i suppose you are still working on these issues but i have to turn emails off completely.  the new paradigm is a big step back from what we had before (and i suspect will actually hurt the ability to get a for sale notice - noticed)

lee

When did you shut them off? Its been two days since I last saw a blank notice, from what I can tell its been working just fine for a couple days in all respects.

it gets even stranger... i unchecked all classified categories in the hopes of stopping emails completely.  i am still getting them this evening -- but no longer blank as of the evening of 18th (but still no one-line summaries at the beginning)

Originally Posted by Vladimir Krsmanovic

Hi Mike, auctions should be solid now. However on 1) we are not exactly clear. When the classifieds are sorted by date, they are showing correctly in our tests. Featured ads will always show before regular ads so their timestamps can be different then the ads that are listed below.

  
Vlad,

Thanks, and the auctions are getting closer.....the duplicates have been removed in my own auctions that I sold (thanks!), but there remain items that I won, but are listed in "did not win" and the reverse.  It is so close now, that it might  not be worth the effort on your part to try to sort out the database.

The time stamps from what I can see (on at least 3 different computers) on a regular classified report are still changing between "today and yesterday" at random times. These are not the ads that have paid the extra amount to be at the top of the list...these are the "regular ads"

I have attached an image from the screen that I captured just a few minutes ago that shows the switch between about 4:02 PM and 3:58 PM between "today" and "yesterday".\   These were just from this afternoon. I can see this behavior on my home computer, at work, and on my Android mobile.   You do not see this in your systems? 


Thanks,
Mike

Attached Image:

Breakthrough on the unusual time stamp behavior in Classifieds.

I am still getting shifting between "yesterday" and "today" at unusual times when I am looking at classified listings. So I did a test:

1. Looked at classifieds WITHOUT signing in.
vs
2. Same listing when signed in.  

I realize that the time is automatically adjusted to my time zone...no problem...it has been that way in all versions and works fine.

The results give a hint to the issue:

WITHOUT signing in, see the first image for two listings made a few minutes apart from one another. One was done just a few minutes before midnight and is listed as "Yesterday"....just like it should
The second listing a few minutes after midnight shows "Today"...just like it should.

However, when I sign in and the time shifts over to -8GMT (Alaska), then the problem shows up as shown in the second image.
It correctly adjusts by 8 hrs, but keeps the "Yesterday" label for the first one, and keeps the "Today" label for the latter.

I think this means that the coding for the "label/badge" of Yesterday and Today DO NOT CORRECT FOR TIME ZONES. A listing is assigned its label/badge in the native format of whatever time zone your servers are set to, and then the badge does not change when we sign in and the system adjusts the time.

Solution?  Just use the actual time and remove the badges, or adjust the coding so that the badges change along with time zone?

Thanks and I hope this helps figure out this issue.

I can only seem to load one image per message, so the first one is WITHOUT signing in, and shows the time around midnight.   I will load another message with the time zone corrected image for about 4PM

Mike

Attached Image:

Originally Posted by Michael Castellini

Breakthrough on the unusual time stamp behavior in Classifieds.

Image 2.

Time zone corrected when signed in, but the badge/label has not changed to match the new time zone. 

Attached Image:

Vlad,

YES!!!   That is it, and the fix worked....the time stamp/badge/label shows up correctly now.....thank you for working on this and finding the coding solution.

Mike


UPDATE:  SEE NEXT MESSAGE.....We are not there, yet.