Bug Reports

Post your bugs here:

• freshest at the top
• we'll move these into the appropriate categories as we see and fix these
• thanks!

Fresh Bugs

• An event titled "Dividing the Pie: What's In It for You?" appears in several places with the apostrophe in "What's" changed to numeric code - "&_#_x_2_0_1_9_;". Cannot correct via event edit screen. --tswallow 05:39, 26 Jan 2006 (EST)
• Email invites addressed to users at Road Runner (cinci.rr.com) bounce as invalid when this is not the case. --tswallow 05:39, 26 Jan 2006 (EST)

• The element for the "shortcut icon" is not well-formed. For example, in the page http://upcoming.org/news/archives/2006/01/18/recent_a/index.php, the empty element is not closed.--Yamahige 10:38, 25 Jan 2006 (PST)
• If you create a new venue, and you don't enter an address, the error message doesn't reference the field, and is above the header and really easy to miss. In addition, I really don't care about entering an address for my friend's apartment. I understand the point for public venues but it shouldn't be required for private ones.

• Multi-day events disappear from my events list on the first day of the date, changing to a "past event." They should only change state on the last date. --Munkey 10:11, 13 Jan 2006 (PST)

We've discussed this many times before and decided that it's not the right way to do things for all views. For one, it's too easy for someone to spam a metro by just putting end dates far into the future. It also pushes down events that are truly upcoming. However, we might think about making this happen only for your personal watchlist, but don't hold your breath. There are still a lot of relevancy issues with making this happen, and a more full redesign of the events listings might happen before this ever does.
--Getluky 14:15, 19 Jan 2006 (PST)

Got it, thanks. In that case, I would suggest possibly adding a "Current Events" box that displays in addition to the "Upcoming Events" box, and initiating user based event moderation (which I assume is already used somewhat for standard incorrect/inappropriate events). --Munkey 20:40, 19 Jan 2006 (PST)

• There are 4 listing for a single venue [The Warfield] in San Francisco. Is there a way to report it, fix it, etc.

We will be making a concerted effort in the very near future at eliminating duplication and junk data. You can use the flag action underneath the venue event listing in the meantime to report them to us.
--Getluky 14:15, 19 Jan 2006 (PST)

• I'm not receiving notification text messages from upcoming.org to my AT&T wireless phone... however, I do receive them when they're sent directly or via other web services. Since the address was hidden, I couldn't check - are you still using the old address before they were bought by cingular, or have you updated it to the new phonenumber@mmode.com address? - kimberley d. w/username 'groovinkim'

Ahh, we're still using mobile.att.net. I'll check with Leonard whether we need to update to @mmode.com. Sorry for the delay.

• For UK events there's not much point offering a Yahoo! Maps link as they only support the US and Canada. Also Google Maps get confused with the complete address, and yet is a complete champ if you give it just the postcode (zip code). --Wrighty 02:21, 14 Sep 2005 (PDT)

• Wish you would change the "attend the event" button at Upcoming.org to a two-step process (click the button and then a second "go" or "enter" button), instead of it currently being an automated process. It's literally the one and only thing preventing me from using Upcoming.org with my mobile device (a Palm Treo), which of course can't render dynamic elements. If you simply had a manual button for adding an event to one's account, all us mobile-device owners could be using Upcoming.org as well.--jasonpettus 14:20, 7 Jun 2005 (CDT)

Might have a much better response to this one in the short-to-long term. I just started using a blackberry myself, so i'm more conscious of mobile users as well, now. :)
--Getluky 14:15, 19 Jan 2006 (PST)

iCal Bugs

• IMPORTANT(!) -jensjakob: iCal files don't seem to have the time in them. At least it doesn't work for me- all my events show up in iCal as all day events. --Ryansking 10:47, 7 May 2005 (PDT)
  • Can't fix this until we fix the timezones. It's on our plate, though! --Getluky 19:01, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)
    • Boy is it desired. Importing events into my calendar doesn't do me much good without the time. Is there a reason that the description of the event isn't passed to iCal either? --quasistoic 14:31, 9 Sep 2005 (PDT)

RSS Bugs

• The times of events in the RSS feed for Bermuda's listings are incorrect (in the feed they are five hours ahead of the time listed on upcoming.org). This seems to be because the timezone is set to GMT-8 in the feed, whereas Bermuda is actually GMT-4 (or GMT-3 now due to daylight savings).
  • Waiting for timezone support. --Getluky 16:24, 28 Nov 2005 (PST)

ZIP Codes

The Pin Codes in defining the new Venues does not take more than 5 digits, which is required for many countries, line for India --Netahoy 05:01, 1 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Map Links

• Combined metros like Orlando/Daytona (http://upcoming.org/metro/us/fl/central/) seem to break Google Maps lookups. Google defaults to the second of the two cities. -- colinj 23:36, 13 May 2005 (EDT)

Validation Issues

I had originally tried to register with the username SuperScott. I never received my confirmation e-mail to register. It's quite possible my host was down at the time. Is there a way to change my username, or get the confirmation resent to me?

~~
Scott

Looks like you had a typo in your registration email address. I'll try to figure out what to do to get you the registration note again.
--Getluky 14:15, 19 Jan 2006 (PST)

ANOTHER ENTRY:

I've had the same exact problem as Scott. I emailed your support line asking for the confirmation to be resent and have gotten no replies. I want the username I attempted to sign up with and can't quite understand why it's taken so long to get to this.

Here's a suggestion: When I try to log in now, it tells me"

'''Your account hasn't been activated yet. Please click the link in the confirmation e-mail.
'''

That page should offer the option to "Resend Confirmation Email"

Please do this. I've been waiting several weeks to try the service!

- Baratunde

... however, your email address doesn't appear to have any obvious typos. You may want to double check your spam filter to make sure it wasn't caught. by it.

ANOTHER ENTRY:

I need to second that "Resend Confirmation Email" link. I registered weeks ago and there's no email that I can find and I want to stay with the username that I registered with. Its strange that I can get into community...
-earthcub

Miscellaneous Bugs

Today's events appear in Past Events list

Maybe this is intentional, but switching between 'Upcoming Events' and 'Past Events' view for a user
shows today's events in both. I believe an event should appear in only one of those two views to avoid confusion.

--Hybernaut 07:36, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Right column positioned over text

With the browser window at its widest (1024x768 resolution) the rightmost column (news) is positioned over the main text. Mike-burns 09:56, 5 Oct 2005 (PDT)

The Two Starbucks Bug

You can't have two places with the same name in one metro. For instance, in London, there are two Borders listed. One is in Charing Cross Road, one is in Oxford Street. When two places exist, they should be listed as, say, "Borders (Charing Cross Road)" and "Borders (Oxford Street)". The current system is unsustainable, since there are lots and lots of Starbucks in the world. --Tommorris 05:57, 7 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Spanish metro problem

I live in a country (Spain) where lots of people have different ideas about concepts as country, state and province. As a result of that the metro Barcelona exists 3 times in different "countries". So I, as a user, have to check 3 places to find the events in my town. Hence: it is impossible to use upcoming.org, which is a shame. Check this: http://upcoming.org/metro/es/cat/bcn/ http://upcoming.org/metro/es/cata/bcn/ http://upcoming.org/metro/es/bcn/ What is necessary is an editor that knows the country, that merges duplicate metro's and removes pseudo countries from the list and does some basic spell checking.
user: batigolix Oct 26, 2005

HTML bugs

• URLs are auto-linked when they appear in a blockquote[@cite]. See http://upcoming.org/event/50719/ for an example. FWIW, the markup on the preview page appeared to be correct. --Ryansking

• I note that URLs are autolinked (as expected) in the description of a group, but not in the description of an event. I just created one of each. The group and the event are at http://upcoming.org/group/1221/. --vlb
  • It looks like URLs in descriptions are autolinked, but not when they're missing the "http://", as yours did. I added the "http://" and it worked fine. --Waxpancake 11:35, 25 Jan 2006 (PST)

Acknowledged Bugs

iCal

• all events for my metro are not showing up in iCal.--actionhero 14:35, 31 May 2005 (PDT)

Can you describe this one in more detail? Which are missing? -Gordon
"I think he's missing the private events -jensjakob"

• Ah, okay. Until we can implement the user hash for your iCal feeds, this won't show up. Scheduled for the future.

• When I subscribe to the webcal:// link on my events page in iCal, every event is listed as an 'all-day event' because no times are shown. -rsoderberg 17:33, 10 Dec 2005 (PST)

Notifications

Is it possible to adjust the user's time zone, or the time zone of an event? I wonder if the fact I'm in the Eastern time zone is responsible for the notifications I set for two hours before an event coming an hour after it started. . . . (should've come at 6p EDT, came at 9p---6p PDT.)
Libcat 18:38, 18 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Fixed Bugs

Bugfix Report for dates prior to 12/23, mostly cleanup of old bugs still above.

• Some entries have a null date, this is invalid RSS, can you enforce an event to have a date so this won't happen?
  • Please provide an example... this may have been fixed along with the formatting change to hCal dtstarts. --Getluky 16:24, 28 Nov 2005 (PST)

• RSS feeds for groups are generating the following error: "Call to undefined function: encode() in /var/www/upcoming.org/htdocs/syndicate/v2/index.php on line 91"
  • Fixed, thanks! --Waxpancake 10:31, 20 Dec 2005 (PST)

SMS notifications - I've had various problems with SMS notification, some of it under more "controlled" circumstances than others.
Possible errors:
Requested notification sent a week late, unrequested notifications sent while other notifications were scheduled.
100% bug:
Notificiations sent when ALL activity was stopped. My mobile info was still stored in my profile, but no "global notifications" were scheduled, and the event in question had even been removed from my event listing.
-- ilovesharpies ~15:00, 19 May 2005 (EDT)

Notifications are definitely problematic. The daemon kept dying on the old box, but that should be fixed now (that accounts for the backlog - it's now changed to not send notifications for past events if that happens - but we also have some monitoring tools which should make sure that the daemons we need are running -- we're also using gateways that are at the mercy to some degree of the carriers, so that's an issue too. Also, well, timezones are being worked on... The last issue: that's just weird. Let us know if it happens again --Lhl 19:21, 26 May 2005 (PDT)

Bugfix report --Getluky 15:31, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)

• Start date calendar button is broken on the Add Event page (MSIE 6.0, Win XP).
  • Fixed, thanks. --Getluky 15:36, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)

Bugfix report --Getluky 14:01, 28 Nov 2005 (PST)

• iCal URI's are sent with mime-type of text/xml instad of text/calendar. I'm not 100% sure yet, but I think this might be why Mozilla Sunbird 0.3a1 chokes on Upcoming calendars. Can someone try to subscribe to an Upcoming calendar with Mozilla Sunbird 0.3a1 and confirm this? --Raster 12:45, 14 Nov 2005 (PST)
• Ok, note on the above regarding the possible bug (not related to mime-type, though it should still me set to text/calendar IMO...) I was able to get the Upcoming calendars to work with Mozilla Sunbird 0.3a1 by just doing a find/replace of 'TZID=US-Pacific' with 'VALUE=DATE' - not sure why, but it works. I do not know if this is an Upcoming bug, or a Sunbird bug... --Pete Prodoehl 09:50, 21 Nov 2005 (PST)
• Ok, got an answer. It's a problem with Upcoming.org's calendars. See: Bug 317307 - Errors when subscribing to calendar --Pete Prodoehl 11:27, 22 Nov 2005 (PST)
  • Updated this to send back US-Pacific as the timezone (til we have better timezone support soon!) via text/calendar.

• Syntax error on SQL operation - clicked on first tab on this page

http://upcoming.org/search/?type=Users&scope=mymetros&metro_id=&q=hunderton
And go this error
Syntax Error: SELECT DISTINCT id, name, username, zip, url, photourl FROM user INNER JOIN usermetro ON (user.id = usermetro.user_id) WHERE MATCH (user.name, user.username, user.email) AGAINST (' +hunderton' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AND usermetro.metro_id IN ()
-- bdurham, 11am 1 Oct 2005 ET.

• The date formats for dtstart and dtend is incorrect. Currently, they look like this: "20051127T200-0700". The example should instead read "2005-11-27T02:00-07:00". See http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime and the hCalendar specification, http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
  • This was fixed, along with a bug that may have broken hCal dtstart fields if the start time was empty.

• Private events are showing up in the XML feed when you so a search under events. For example, go to Events, and search for "ThisTest". I get the result "1 search results for thistest in All Metros" but nothing listed. However, if you then click on the XML button next to the results, you can see most of the private event details.
  • Good catch, fixed this right away. --Getluky 14:01, 28 Nov 2005 (PST)

Bugfix report --Getluky 17:01, 8 Nov 2005 (PST)

• Clicking on 'view complete group directory' gets me an incomplete page

Bugfix report --Getluky 17:01, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

API event.add bug

• I'm unable to post an end_date. When I hit this URL:

http://upcoming.yahooapis.com/services/rest/?api_key=XXXX&method=event.add&name=asdf&description=asdf&metro_id=630&venue_id=5101&category_id=2&start_date=2005-10-06&end_date=2005-10-06&start_time=19%3A00%3A00&end_time=23%3A00%3A00&personal=0&selfpromotion=0&username=XXXX&password=XXXX

I get this response (notice the discrepencies in the end_date):



end_date="0000-00-00" start_time="19:00:00" end_time="23:00:00" personal="0" selfpromotion="0" metro_id="630" venue_id="5101" user_id="13313" category_id="2" date_posted="2005-10-06"
/>


Any ideas?

• Good catch, fixed. --Getluky 17:34, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

Character entities in group descriptions

When I previewed the details for group 102, it said
'For å unngå å padle aleine'. But when saved, it reads
'For å unngå å padle aleine'.
(As the site is encoded in iso-8859-1, there should be no need to use these character entities at all?) Janegil 07:01, 2 Sep 2005 (PDT)

Uncategorized

• I was just editing a listing, and got to the preview stage. When I clicked the "edit" button on the preview screen, I got the message "Nice try. You don't have permissions to edit this event." However, I *was* able to click the button to commit the change. This happened to me several times.--Retrovirus 08:49, 14 Jun 2005 (EST)
• I edited an event I created. From the preview page, I noticed a typo and clicked the "edit" button, but it told me "you don't have permission to edit this event". If I just save, it works fine. -- Kscaldef 00:01, 23 Sep 2005 (PDT)
  • Fixed --Getluky 16:49, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

• I added an event and updated the time to be noon (12:00 PM), but the time didn't take in the entry. --Edward Vielmetti, 3pm 20 Sep 2005 ET.
  • Fixed --Getluky 16:49, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

• I keep loosing end dates on my multi-day events.
  • I edit an event to change the text, and it becomes a one-day event. If I attempt to go back and add the closing date back in, it tells me "Nice try. You don't have permission to edit this event." Changes to the Description work fine, but I can't get the closing dates back. Example: http://upcoming.org/edit/event/34376/ --sarudy
  • Fixed. --Getluky 16:36, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

• Removing one's profile does not work. Go to http://upcoming.org/delete/profile/ and click on the "Remove My Profile" button. This leads to this error message on an otherwise empty page (I masked my ID number with the text XXXXX): "Syntax Error: INSERT INTO `delete_user` SELECT *, NOW() FROM `user` WHERE `user`.id=XXXXX LIMIT 1, Error: Duplicate entry 'XXXXX' for key 1".
  • This should be working, and all accounts that attempted a deletion are now deleted. --Getluky 16:36, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

• Start / end times are not displayed correctly if the minute value is not selected.
  • Create an event and supply values for the start and/or end hour and pm/am selection. On the preview page, the time will be displayed with the hours intact (e.g. Start Time: 05: pm - End Time: 09: pm) but when the event page is created, both times are listed as 12:00 AM. It would be nice if upcoming assumed the minute value was 00 if none is supplied. --smason
    • This should be fixed now. --Getluky 16:36, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

Badge Bugs

• Badge does not display contents unless the user clicks reload. Bug occurs in all browsers that I tested. Content Management System is Drupal. See the bug for yourself here: http://theslackers.net 25 OCT 2005. --User: lantzilla (Seems to be fixed now-- 31 OCT 2005)
  • I think that this was a caching bug - it may have occurred the first time, before the badge output was cached. It should no longer occur. Please move this back to Fresh Bugs if you notice it again.

Previous Fixes

iCal Bugs

• iCal seems to be ignoring whatever the latest event on my list is. if I add another later event to be watched or attended, iCal ignores it, and adds whatever the previous missing event was. --munkey 2:46, 3 Jun 2005 (PDT)
  • I was finally able to track this one down to an errant extra newline that was being output by our iCal generator. Thanks for reporting it - it should be gone now! - --Getluky 01:36, 5 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Validation and Encoding Bugs

• reference to & rarr; breaking rss feed

The description in this event http://upcoming.org/event/36139/ is using invalid &rarr tage. It breaks your RSS feed for new york metro.
Error: "Reference to undefined entity 'rarr'. Error processing resource"

• • This should be fixed now.

• The metro syndication is having some encoding issues. While writing a syndication script to show upcoming.org events on Typo blogs, it will not work with metros. It will however work with individual user events, so I'm positive its not an error on my behalf. I haven't checked the other syndications, but it's possible others are like this as well. You can check for yourself here: Feedvalidator--Caged 12:28, May 09
  • Caged, you may be able to work around this by declaring the input encoding explicitly to your feed parser. See RSS_Syndication_Tips for more info.
  • Fixed just now. So you should no longer have to declare input encoding explicitly. --Getluky 20:23, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Feed Validator reports that "This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users".

The present HTTP header states:

• content-type: text/xml

Better content-types in the HTTP header might be:

• content-type: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1
• content-type: application/rss+xml
  • Fixed, now using content-type: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1, because application/rss+xml was breaking IE direct clicking sometimes. --Getluky 20:23, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Metro page not valid XHTML
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fupcoming.org%2Fmetro%2Ffo%2Ftn%2Ftn%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1#line-147 validator

• This is linked to the metro page, not the venue page... --Getluky 18:53, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)
  • Fixed this just now, as well as the venue, event, and group index pages. Please let us know if you notice more spots. --Getluky 20:23, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

All of the following ISO-8859-1 / CP1252 issues below were just fixed by converting

to ISO-8859-1 numeric encoding representations on the fly. If I missed anywhere,

please let me know. --[[User:Getluky|Getluky]] 20:23, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

ISO-8859-1 control character in feed

This test feed is not valid, because it contains the byte 0x0085, which is the control character NEXT LINE in ISO-8859-1. This happened because I pasted unicode 0x2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (…) into the page.

Almost OK in browsers

While technically invalid, this works fine in most browsers, because they treat the ISO-8859-1 declaration as WINDOWS-1252. In WINDOWS-1252, 0x0085 is indeed the HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS.

Not OK in XML

But when a strict XML tool tries to transform the feed (or rip the xhtml), this error is a stopper.

The Fix

Pasting Unicode above 0x00FF, e.g. Шо�?такович, gives the expected character entities. So, all that seems to be needed, is to treat the range from 0x0080 to 0x009F in the same way as characters above 0x00FF.

API

• There's an error when trying to query (full text search) the DB: http://upcoming.yahooapis.com/services/rest/?api_key=&method=venue.search&search_text=%22Cain's%20Ballroom%22 .This could be solved by escaping ' as \' : http://upcoming.yahooapis.com/services/rest/?api_key=&method=venue.search&search_text=%22Cain\'s%20Ballroom%22 . Obviously, this should be done in the PHP code, not in the query :-) --ocelma 12:27, 10 Aug 2005 (EST)
  • Ah, thanks. This is fixed, as well as some other bugs with single quotes in the API. Thanks! --Getluky 19:08, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Homepage

• on the home page, all of the friends links under "My Friends' Events" link to my own profile. -- JayF, August 29, 2005, 10:30a (PDT)
  • Just fixed this one. --Getluky 18:18, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Map URLs on Venue Pages

• ampersands in map URLs should be escaped
  • Just fixed this one, as well as a weird issue with the Mapquest links not working with full state names anymore. --Getluky 18:36, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

RSS Feeds for tags

• RSS feeds for "tags" list events in the past as well as upcoming events. This might be a feature for RSS readers. --Bringo 21:54, August 22, 2005
  • Just fixed this, thanks. --Getluky 19:01, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

iCal & UTF8

• iCal also doesn't seem to be able to carry UTF-8 chars, or that's what I can't see in Evolution. --Skyblue 08:36, 8 May 2005 (PDT)
  • I believe I fixed this. Let me know if you run into it again. --Getluky 19:01, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Metro page XHTML

• method should be "get", not "GET"
  • Fixed. --Getluky 19:01, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Wontfix

• Viewing the site on 800x600 monitors pushes the event data in the middle of the page way down, forcing you to scroll down to view it.

• Was unable to login to the main Upcoming site and to this community site using Firefox until I explicitly added both sites to my cookie 'Allow' list. The community login gave me the error message that I had cookies disabled. I tried every setting related to cookies without success and I have not experienced this problem with any other of the countless sites I subscribe to. --rossburnett 08:18, 17 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Moving this to wontfix, as I haven't heard this one dittoed by anyone else. Still, sorry about the inconvenience.

event running for more than a day stops been displayed either in RSS OR main cities event list website from the day one. for example if the event is a week long event from 1-6 of a month it would not be displayed in the current/active event fom 1st of that month. ideally it should show the event as active till the 6th. live example here http://upcoming.org/event/19753/ --Netahoy 05:01, 1 Jun 2005 (PDT)

• As an update to this one, I spoke with Andy about it, and it's actually a thorny issue. Deferring for now. --Getluky 18:20, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

• There does not appear to be a way to delete metros that one has subscribed to. One can delete friends, but if you move, or if you want to "un-Tokyo", there's no way to do so. I added some metros long ago, but, since there's no traffic on them, they're just cluttering things up. This is low prioriy of course, but just wanted to let y'all know. Go upcoming! --User: zpousman 17 OCT 2005.
  • If you go to "My Settings," you'll see a listing of your metros with the option to unsubscribe next to each one. --User: itselea 6 Nov, 2005

• Valid domains (e.g. somename@randomhouse.co.uk) returning as 'host not found' when trying to send invites to friends.
  • We are checking for a valid A name for each hostname passed. If we can't find one, we don't send the mail. Randomhouse.co.uk isn't working, but other .co.uk domains seem to be fine. --Getluky 15:36, 29 Nov 2005 (PST)

Is noon 12 AM or 12 PM?

When setting the time for an event, there are three drop down boxes. The first holds the hour from 1 to 12, and the third holds AM or PM. It's not clear if noon should be entered as 12 AM or 12 PM, since AM means "before noon" and PM means "after noon". Similar confusion arises at midnight.

I suggest eliminating this ambiguity by switching to the 24 hour clock. It would also require less clicks to set a time.

--Mavit 13:26, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Noon is 12:00 pm. It's not ambiguous. Switching to a 24 hour system may or may not be a good idea, regardless.

--Sspivack

Unfortunately it's not as simple as just declaring 12:00 PM to be noon. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Usage

--Mavit 10:28, 1 Sep 2005 (PDT)

We are considering 12:00 PM to be noon for the purposes of Upcoming.org. In the future, we may provide for different clock preferences.

--Getluky 17:05, 2 Nov 2005 (PST)

iCal limitations

• RSS (and iCal) description field should contain the description. It currently returns at . It'd make more sense to have the fields venue (event is already there in the title IIRC) and description as the description the event creator entered. Is this possible? It should be fairly easy to do.--Weirdo 08:39, 2 Jun 2005 (PDT)
  • Might be able to do something for you in RSS. I'll look into it. --Getluky 01:39, 5 Oct 2005 (PDT)
  • iCalenar only has a SUMMARY field available. DESCRIPTION is actually only for VALARM's, from what I can tell. I would love to add more info into the iCalendar format, but even the ORGANIZER we're supplying isn't even used by iCal on OSX. If you know otherwise, please let me know, as i'm still reading up on these formats, but iCal is really limiting. --Getluky 01:39, 5 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Browser bugs

This is a browser bug. Firefox (and IE?) seems to POST 0x0085, even when the user pasted unicode. (While Opera seems to POST valid ISO-8859-1, even when 0x0085 was pasted. Editing the event with Opera will fix the problem.) Still, the system should protect itself against ISO-8859-1 control characters. But if the browsers get their acts together, replacing with '?' should be enough.

• I believe that since I fixed the output, this should hopefully work. We may go through and explicitly declare form input encodings ala http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1761.html at some point in the future. --Getluky 20:23, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Venue map issues

• This is more of a Metro issue, but it's most evident in maps: The Washington, DC metro, appends "District of Columbia" to the end of each venue, so it shows up as, for instance "1 First Street NW, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia 20001" (note redundancy). This borks Google Maps, et. al. Also, the DC metro area has a number of venues outside of the District proper, so items show up like "Vienna, VA, District of Columbia 22182" -- Heydanno 08:37, 6 Jun 2005 (PDT)
  • I traced this one all the way down the rabbit hole, and it turns out to be the actual City field that is populated with "Washington, D.C.". This probably happens because new Venues are by default set to have the city field populated with the Metro name. In this case, the metro should be renamed to "Washington" to avoid the double statements, since our city/state field for Y!Maps is reached by combining city and state fields from our venues. In these examples, these are data problems. --Getluky 18:53, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Edit preview of date

http://upcoming.org/event/21034 is at 'June 7'.
But when I preview an edit, the displayed date is 'July 7'. When I submit changes, the date is still correct, 'June 7', but this is a bit scary and confusing.

Janegil 03:21, 31 May 2005 (PDT)

I can't confirm this one. Can anyone else reproduce this behavior consistently?

Getluky 18:38, 1 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Could not reproduce, filing under WONTFIX. --Getluky 18:34, 29 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Intermittent Footer Problems

As Andy mentioned in the Flickr comments, this seems to be very intermittent. Hopefully it will be completely moot soon w/ an upcoming update.--Lhl 18:58, 14 Jun 2005 (PDT)

• The footer is broken for user pages in Firefox and appears over the list of upcoming events. See http://flickr.com/photos/pip/19410715/ for a screenshot.--pipthepixie 00:33, 15 Jun 2005 (GMT)

Multi-word tags

This event has the tag "opening night" in two words. As long as you are logged in, the tag is displayed as two words. But when you log out, the display becomes "openingnight".
See the Talk:Bug Reports#Re:_Multi-word_Tags.

RSS Bugs

* It seems that the RSS feeds list the upcoming events in reverse chronological order, that is, the event that is happening most recently is the last one listed. This seems sub-optimal as that means that I have to scroll to the end of a ver long feed to see what might be happening tonight. Wouldn't it make sense to list the events in the order that they will happen? --Netahoy
** If you look at the text of the RSS feeds, they're actually printed out in chronological order. Your RSS reader must be sorting them in reverse chronological order. --Waxpancake 07:14, 1 Jun 2005 (PDT)