Grumble, grumble. Things are not going well. The tech team have introduced a couple of fixes: they have removed dates of birth, home town and, finally, sex, from our profiles. Cast and crew added using the import wizard now take. The tech team are modern-day Heroes of Haarlem, with their fingers in the dyke But when they plug one hole, another springs a leak. And now cast deletions and character name edits won't take. If you try to make a submission featuring only these, you won't get past the submission form. If you submit something else (a cast addition, say, or a role type edit) the submission goes through, but the deletion or character name edit doesn't take.
Meanwhile, I need to know... I was glad to see the back of most of the contribution badges: if you have one saying you made at least 1000 contributions, why would you need the older one saying you had made at least 500? Now to get rid of the redundant Top 1000/Top 500 bages for those who have a higher achievement. Meanwhile, I need to know... Some of us have a grey box (or two!) where an emblem might go. I'm guessing these are supposed to be for show guide and people guide editor badges, but they might be the old genre badges. I've looked at the page source and it affords no clues. Anyone know for sure what they should be?
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I thought the gray boxes were placeholders for the editor and trusted emblems, although now that I think about it, there were separate emblems for show editors and person editors. I don't care if those are removed either.
They probably won't remove the live chat emblems but I've seen some regulars who simply log on for a half and hour and lurk, just to get the emblem. That's not such a bad thing but one problematic editor does this almost every time so I wouldn't mind seeing his emblems disappear.
I'm already getting adjusted to the new site design. I just wish there weren't so many ongoing bugs. I was able to fix some episode crew listings yesterday for an hour before that functionality disappeared. The PM system still isn't working properly unless I have somehow become like that character in Life on Mars and mysteriously traveled back in time to be able to post messages on Dec. 31, 1969. Actually that would be kind of cool, for a day or two. But then I'd like to get back to 2008, only a 2008 where the major bugs had been fixed.
I have a empty grey box, but if it's for having a person or show editorship/tu's then surely I should have three :/.
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And what about the contribution icon, is it a temporarily bug?
The duplicate name look when a person is brave enough to try and make a cast/crew change can be interesting as well...
Mac-Ale
I was actually hoping all the emblems would go away, but have noticed a number of users who believe that even the lamest of these small squares of pixels are the result of "hard work".