I see some people are using the chat, but it doesn't seem to let me send messages. Is anybody… - Feed Post by pierre_m

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  beee_17

  I can't send any messages either :/

  February 9, 2015 at 6:56am
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  mog86uk

  I reported the problem to Beeant a week ago. It might be getting fixed, but I haven't heard anything. Just keep your fingers crossed like I am! :P

  February 9, 2015 at 7:28am
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  pierre_m

  Glad its not just me. Hope its fixed soon. Ah well, feel like using the social feeds as a chat until its back up? Won't work though.... oh well.

  February 9, 2015 at 4:48pm
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  mog86uk

  Did you see my post to Beeant? It is easy to find on his Feeds page.
  
  Was wondering if you knew about stuff like this problem. I'm fairly certain having those messages with no user ID are the problem, as it wouldn't have a clue who's name and picture to use. I'm fairly certain I posted the offending messages, so if the user ID was changed from "null" to "29909", I think Chat might start working again with all the old messages showing. Looks to me like a 60 second job to fix?
  
  I find it difficult to understand why it can't be fixed yet. I understand that the cause of this needs looking into as well, such as why it allowed the messages to be stored with no user ID, which would probably take more work to sort out. However, just changing these two "null" to a valid user ID should at least let us continue using Chat in the mean time. :/

  February 10, 2015 at 12:51am
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  mog86uk

  @pierre_m Btw, I kind of gave up on trying to make that Readings mod I was talking about. I started making it but realised that it was going to be an insane amount harder than I'd originally thought. I hadn't taken into account how inconsistent the Readings are between the furigana marking in the articles and the way the words are split up in the vocabulary list. Also forgot about the fact that words without kanji aren't split into separate parts in the article (unlike words with kanji which are split up in [ruby] elements...
  
  At the moment I've come up with something else that I want to make, which is a specific mod for Practice. I always turn "show kana" off when doing Practice, because I don't want the furigana aids. However, I thought of a new idea:
  
  Instead of turning off "show kana", I now want to try doing Practice with "show kanji" turned off instead! This is actually a good challenge for me, as I'm able to read most the words so well thanks to understanding their kanji. I'm not quite as good at the pronunciations of the words.
  
  The problem with this new idea is that turning "show kanji" off only affects "Vocabulary" questions and not "Reverse Vocabulary" as well. (Obviously doesn't affect "Kanji" questions...) So I need to make a mod to make the setting work for Reverse Vocabulary, where the normal question with kanji needs to be hidden, and the small font kana reading below this needs to replace the main question text...
  
  The main difficulty with making it work for "Reverse Vocabulary" is that I need to make sure it doesn't end up hiding the questions for "Vocabulary" and "Kanji" modes. I want to have all three modes enabled at the same time with this mod working...
  
  Doubt anyone tried to read all that, but helped me think about it a bit better writing it out. :P

  February 10, 2015 at 5:12am
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  mog86uk

  I figured out how to do that thing I was talking about! I've made it more complex than this, but this is all that is needed:
  
  div.question > *:nth-last-child(n+4) {
  　display: none;
  }
  div#kana {
  　font-size: 30px !important;
  }
  
  I thought this was a pretty cunning way to achieve what I was looking for. Would be cool if turning "show kanji" option off just worked this way in the first place though. ^^

  February 10, 2015 at 7:58am
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  mog86uk

  @pierre_m @beee_17 I think I've managed to fix the Chat problem myself, if you want to take a look at the Chat page and test it. :P

  February 10, 2015 at 10:33am