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#1177022 - Wed Oct 04 2017 05:23 PM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Mandy2 Offline
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Unless I'm missing something it seems like there's no way to get a new quiz listing other than going to each topic. Also I can't find mixed quizzes.

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#1177023 - Wed Oct 04 2017 05:52 PM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Originally Posted By: Mandy2
Unless I'm missing something it seems like there's no way to get a new quiz listing other than going to each topic. Also I can't find mixed quizzes.


Homepage menus are the way to do that right now. They will be organized nicely in the quiz section shortly.

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#1177024 - Wed Oct 04 2017 06:03 PM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
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They just reappeared! I have them on my Favorites bar.

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#1177028 - Wed Oct 04 2017 07:09 PM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Sandpiper18 Offline
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Registered: Sat Jul 01 2017
Posts: 27
Loc: New Jersey USA
Hi,
I'm not a mobile user, but I think what you're doing to better accommodate them is great!

Anyway, while the profile looked different, I noticed that "My Friends" had disappeared from the pull-down menu. I hope that will be preserved or perhaps even enhanced. I really like that feature since it makes it easy for me, for example, to see which Knockout tournament my friends are in. I'm not a member of a team yet, but even once I join, I expect I'll have friends who aren't on my team that I'd like to keep track of.

Thanks again! smile

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#1177033 - Wed Oct 04 2017 10:19 PM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
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Posts: 1750
Loc: New York USA
I do have something positive to say about the site change. Before, the match quizzes didn't fit properly on my laptop screen, no matter what I did. But now, they fit nicely. So thumbs up for that! laugh

Also, I wasn't suggesting we shouldn't accommodate mobile users. As a matter of fact, I think it is really important to do so!!! And it also benefits users of older technology who are frequently marginalized from the Web, and I am very much in favor of closing the digital divide! My main complaint was simply that I like the "classic" menus rather than the pull-down menus, and so I would like to retain these as an option.

Cheers,
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#1177034 - Wed Oct 04 2017 10:21 PM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Barbarini Offline
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Terry, if it's not too much trouble - since you're working on reformatting much of the site - would it be possible to include a "return to where you came from" button on the Mixed Quizzes page? Presently, the only option is to return to the Home Page.
Thanks so much.

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#1177047 - Thu Oct 05 2017 02:43 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
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Something else I have noticed, there is no Mail link at the top of the page in the new site design. So if the new design were implemented on all the pages, we wouldn't be able to read our mail!


Edited by gracious1 (Thu Oct 05 2017 02:46 AM)
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#1177048 - Thu Oct 05 2017 03:08 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
wwe84 Offline
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Originally Posted By: gracious1
Something else I have noticed, there is no Mail link at the top of the page in the new site design. So if the new design were implemented on all the pages, we wouldn't be able to read our mail!


The Mail link is there top left hand corner of the page

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#1177052 - Thu Oct 05 2017 06:30 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
KayceeKool Offline
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Registered: Sat Feb 28 2009
Posts: 78
Loc: Hermanus <br> South Africa
I've been using the mobile site via my phone to play quizzes for a while now, but since the new upgrade when I load a quiz I can't see anything that tells me if I have already played a quiz unless I go to the category page, find the quiz and see if it has a green tick next to it. Previously I used to get the red message underneath the quiz description when I loaded the quiz. I can still find the red message on the full site mode to the left of the 'available formats' section, but that message doesn't appear anywhere on my screen when using mobile mode on my phone. Am I being my usual technologically challenged self and missing something? Any help would be very much appreciated.

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#1177060 - Thu Oct 05 2017 09:14 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Originally Posted By: KayceeKool
I've been using the mobile site via my phone to play quizzes for a while now, but since the new upgrade when I load a quiz I can't see anything that tells me if I have already played a quiz unless I go to the category page, find the quiz and see if it has a green tick next to it. Previously I used to get the red message underneath the quiz description when I loaded the quiz. I can still find the red message on the full site mode to the left of the 'available formats' section, but that message doesn't appear anywhere on my screen when using mobile mode on my phone. Am I being my usual technologically challenged self and missing something? Any help would be very much appreciated.


Fixed.

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#1177061 - Thu Oct 05 2017 09:18 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Originally Posted By: gracious1
Something else I have noticed, there is no Mail link at the top of the page in the new site design. So if the new design were implemented on all the pages, we wouldn't be able to read our mail!


The mailbox is on the top bar far left if your browser window is large enough. It gets hidden if your window is smaller than a certain size.

I have added a second Mailbox link under your "Your Stuff" menu for small-screens / mobile.


Edited by Terry (Thu Oct 05 2017 09:18 AM)

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#1177062 - Thu Oct 05 2017 09:19 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
KayceeKool Offline
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Posts: 78
Loc: Hermanus <br> South Africa
Yay!! Thank you kindly smilee

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#1177063 - Thu Oct 05 2017 09:21 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Originally Posted By: Barbarini
Terry, if it's not too much trouble - since you're working on reformatting much of the site - would it be possible to include a "return to where you came from" button on the Mixed Quizzes page? Presently, the only option is to return to the Home Page.
Thanks so much.


Can you please post a link to the exact page you are referring to.

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#1177065 - Thu Oct 05 2017 10:08 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Upstart3 Offline
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Registered: Tue Jun 04 2013
Posts: 227
Loc: Wales UK
Oh - I agree with barbarini
I tried copying a link but it didn't work.

The various author untimed mixed mixed quizzes - this lot http://www.funtrivia.com/special_lists.cfm?mixed=1

Play one of them and from the results screen you can only go back to the home page, rather than choose to return to the list of new quizzes and go on to the next one.

Does that make sense?




Edited by Upstart3 (Thu Oct 05 2017 10:28 AM)
Edit Reason: Improved - maybe

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#1177067 - Thu Oct 05 2017 10:15 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Upstart3 Offline
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I made so many edits to that post, I think my description of "Forum Adept" is clearly false.

smile

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#1177069 - Thu Oct 05 2017 10:28 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Posts: 21449
Loc: USA
Originally Posted By: Upstart3
Oh - I agree with barbarini
I tried copying a link but it didn't work.

The various author untimed mixed mixed quizzes - this lot http://www.funtrivia.com/special_lists.cfm?mixed=1

Play one of them and from the results screen you can only go back to the home page, rather than choose to return to the list of new quizzes and go on to the next one.

Does that make sense?




Done.

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#1177070 - Thu Oct 05 2017 10:29 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Upstart3 Offline
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Loc: Wales UK
Thanks Terry - you fixed it quicker than my seven edits on that post took.

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#1177071 - Thu Oct 05 2017 10:40 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Upstart3 Offline
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Can I just chuck in an oddity I just noticed please?

Play one of the hourly games. When you get the answers screen you have the option to play the quiz a question came from. So normally you either can play the quiz or else get told the question was from the question quest. Today I get a message I haven't seen before -
saying that the quiz had been deleted. Is that related in some way to the recent changes, or just a coincidence I'm noticing it today?

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#1177072 - Thu Oct 05 2017 11:02 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Can you paste the URL of the quiz that said that?

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#1177073 - Thu Oct 05 2017 11:08 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
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Terry, it's hourlies and dailies including GC. It's the issue I mentioned before - the link is trying to call quizdetails.cfm with a parameter quiz=123456, but the page wants id=123456.

I suppose you might want to accept both parameter syntax variants for compatibility (i.e. check for "id" first and if that's zero or blank, check "quiz" instead.


Edited by WesleyCrusher (Thu Oct 05 2017 11:09 AM)
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#1177074 - Thu Oct 05 2017 11:10 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Hmm I fixed that last night though Wesley to accept both.

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#1177075 - Thu Oct 05 2017 11:16 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
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I just tested it from a GC result before posting and it didn't work. It does now, however.
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#1177076 - Thu Oct 05 2017 11:38 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Upstart3 Offline
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Loc: Wales UK
This is from Obscurity

15. Which of the following words would you find in common between an American search engine, a television friend, and the last emperor of the Song dynasty in China?
Your answer: Bing

Bing is Microsoft's run at a search engine in competition with Google and replaced its former search function Live Search. In the television show "Friends", Chandler, who is considered the comedian of the group, has the last name Bing. The last emperor of the Song dynasty was Zhao Bing, or Emperor Bing of Song, who was seven years old when his reign ended at the hands of the Mongols. Rather than get captured, a military commander took the young emperor to the sea and held him in his arms as he committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.

61.5753% of FunTrivia players have answered this question correctly in the past.
Question by player trident. (play this quiz!) I see an error - submit correction...

I get the message "That quiz has been deleted." when I click on "play this quiz"

http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=0

I'm guessing this question didn't come from a quiz?


Edited by Upstart3 (Thu Oct 05 2017 11:39 AM)
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#1177077 - Thu Oct 05 2017 11:40 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Terry Offline
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Ahhh, that would be because that is a single question. It has no related quiz.

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#1177078 - Thu Oct 05 2017 11:42 AM Re: Design Upgrade Experimentation
Upstart3 Offline
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Loc: Wales UK
The message used to say that, but now it seems ominous!

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