Recent shenanigans

December 28, 2007 5:14 AM

Two issues with "recent activities" the Secret Quonsar post no longer shows up in my recent activities page. It used to and I think the behavior changed when the thread was changed to a meet-up style thread. Also the favorite interface shows up by each comment in recent activity, but not the flag interface. Is this by design?
posted by shothotbot to Bugs at 5:14 AM (11 comments total)

shothotbot posted "Also the favorite interface shows up by each comment in recent activity, but not the flag interface. Is this by design? "

If it isn't it should be. You shouldn't be able to flag something without context.
posted by Mitheral at 5:23 AM on December 28, 2007

If it isn't it should be. You shouldn't be able to flag something without context.

Good point. I don't really flag much, but it seemed odd.
posted by shothotbot at 5:45 AM on December 28, 2007

Hmm, the hope was to make that post show up for longer by changing it to a meetup style post. I'll have pb take a look at it when he gets up.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:56 AM on December 28, 2007

Do you really think it can wait?
posted by shothotbot at 6:03 AM on December 28, 2007

I also do not see that post in my RA.
posted by mosessis at 6:10 AM on December 28, 2007

Also, while I've got y'all here, what's the "Popular" link on the top of the front page between "tags" and "search" supposed to do? I'd never clicked on it before, but just now I got an Error: File Not Found.
posted by mosessis at 6:24 AM on December 28, 2007

We only recently upped the time that a meetup-related metatalk post is open, and haven't carried over that change to the recent activity page (for just metatalk posts in one category).

So it fell off that page because it's over 30 days old now and the script isn't looking back any further to save processing resources. We'll look into tweaking it to allow meetup threads to keep showing up on recent activity soon.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:34 AM on December 28, 2007

How about the flags? Was that a design decision or an accident?
posted by shothotbot at 8:11 AM on December 28, 2007

How about the flags? Was that a design decision or an accident?

I feel pretty much like it doesn't make sense to have flaggability as an option on a favorites page. Go click through, read the post/comments, see if you still feel the same way, then flag.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:14 AM on December 28, 2007

So this is why my MetaTalk alarm clock was going off this morning. Recent Activity should now be picking up threads in the MetaFilter gatherings category for the full time they're open.
posted by pb (staff) at 8:42 AM on December 28, 2007

Thanks pb! You're terrific!
posted by shothotbot at 9:29 AM on December 28, 2007