Chihuahua gets a tune-up

[Alan W]

A few days ago I made some changes to the way the site works, to try to reduce the problems people have occasionally been having of inability to load a puzzle, or words that were played not showing up in a later session.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone notices any improvement in reliability on the site - or, for that matter, the converse. The day after I changed the site, I got an email from a player who could no longer play at all. I assume this hasn't happened to any forumites, or I would have heard about it before now. But if you experience any new problems, please let me know.

[greenone]

Haven't noticed any difference Alan.  Whatever you did hasn't affected me.  Keep up the good work - if what you've done has helped others who've had problems.

[technomc]

Viral, you work tirelessly on our behalf....thank you.

No differences here as yet...

[pat]

Actually, Alan, whatever you did seems to have solved my fingerprint sign-on problem!

[pat]

I spoke too soon there, Alan, the problem is still there. I've noticed something about it that makes me wonder if it's a javascript issue. There are two conditions under which I ALWAYS get the sign-on pop-up: one is if I click the left arrow to retrieve the previous word (the word is displayed, followed by the sign-on request) and the other is if I click on a player's name (the box containing their details displays and then as soon as I close it I get the sign-on request). It's all very strange, especially as I don't have the problem on any other site.

[Alan W]

Pat, there is a keyboard method of bringing back the last word - pressing the comma key. I'd be interested to know if that also triggers your sign-on pop-up. I suspect it won't, because it's possibly something to do with the left arrow "button" you click actually being a link element on the page. Maybe your fingerprint software detects a link being activated, and therefore expects a new page to be loaded, so it looks for user name and password fields (which are still there, although hidden).

[pat]

I tried the comma, Alan, and yes it does also trigger the sign-on pop-up. Curiouser and curiouser.

[pat]

Have you changed something, Alan? The two conditions that triggered the sign-on pop-up no longer do so. Or at least they're not doing so at the moment!

[Alan W]

Nothing's been changed since 6 March, Pat. It's possible your browser's been using a cached version of the site until now. Or then again, maybe your fingerprint sign-in system is able to learn from your responses in some way??