April 07, 2005

Bug Squashing Update

Thanks to everyone who contributed bug reports and feedback. We pushed a batch of bug fixes live last night - here's the breakdown of what has changed:

• Date and time handling is now much improved.
  • Strong date checking now ensures that dates are valid.
  • End date is now completely optional.
  • End date cannot preceed start date.
  • Date selection mini-calendars much improved.
  • Up and down arrow keys (or +/-) can be used to change date/time elements.
  • End time now automatically tracks start time. In other words, if you change the start time, the end time automatically tracks the change, keeping the same duration.
  • Multi-Day events now work correctly.
• Events can now be withdrawn. See the FAQ for why withdrawing an event is even better than deleting it.
• You can now create calendars with apostrophes in the titles.
• Adding an event to a calendar from search results no longer dumps you to a page saying "No search keywords".
• Clicking a username link no longer causes a 404. Instead it sends you to a rudimentary user detail page that is so lame it's not much better. But it will be awesome.
• Upon completion of registration, you are now automatically logged in, instead of being dumped into the login page with no notice.
• Added the rel="nofollow" parameter to user-contributed links to help limit comment spam.
• When adding an event, multi word tags ("San Diego") now work correctly.
• Numerous small changes, and formatting fixes that don't rise to the level of mention.

April 02, 2005

Some known bugs

Thanks to everyone who's submitted bug reports so far. Here's a summary of bugs we're aware of already:

• Apostrophe in link causes error (Fixed)
• Apostrophe in comment causes error (Fixed)
• Username link 404s ("Fixed ")
• Username & Password appear in registration URL (Fixed)
• Apostrophe in Calendar name causes error ( Fixed )
• No way to delete or withdraw an event (Fixed)
• Can't edit events!
• No way to specify recurring events
• Problems with formatting created events (Fixed)
• Need a more visible way to give EVDB feedback/report bugs (Fixed)
• "Ends" checkbox in Add Event "borked" (Fixed)
• Javascript console errors on tag clickers (Fixed)
• Some events not searchable ("Foo", for example). (Fixed)
• When adding an event, multi-word tags are not working (Fixed)
• Venue search with apostrophes dumps with an error. (Fixed)
• Need clearer messaging about how to handle "Free" and comments.
• Multi-day events show up as single day long (Fixed)
• Blog problems - "Rebuild Failed" (Fixed)
• No way to upload pictures
• Venues don't show events that have passed
• Not clear when adding events that you can add links later
• Need to interpret user inputs similar to Wiki (two carriage returns = <p>)
• No easy way to find your events after adding (need user page)
• Need to allow no end time (Fixed)
• Add rel="nofollow" to user links. (Fixed)