flashcardTU / Bug-Report & Wish List


Bugs

If you face any kind of unexpected behaviour of these webpages, please contact me so I can fix the issue.

Of course these pages are only a hobby so please be patient.
All known bugs are listed here with there status.

known since place details status
Mar 18th, 2010 add/edit card Slashes get removed when loading a card from database for editing. fixed, Mar 18th, 2010
Aug 11th, 2009 add card If you do not put in all required information, the page will force you to complete all entries.
Backslashes (and maybe other special charaters) are escaped in wrong manner when the page gets back to you.
fixed, Mar 6th, 2010
Jan 30th, 2010 Disclaimer Statistic seems to show wrong accumulation of users and downloads fixed, Feb 1st, 2010
Jan 20th, 2010 add/edit card if subject of card changes only the downloadable pdf of the subject the card was moved to is rebuild fixed, Jan 26th, 2010
Jan 26th, 2010 downloads downloadable pdf is DIN-A4, but cards are not centered fixed, Jan 26th, 2010
Jan 20th, 2010 downloads downloadable pdf has US-Letter-Format, not DIN-A4 (should be A4) fixed, Jan 25th, 2010
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Feature Requests

# wish dependencies status
25 suggest optimal image size and complete LaTeX code to be used after successful upload
24 patrons for card-sets #23 closed
23 centralized settings for card-sets (provide defaults (language, card-size/-number per page, etc.), that may be changed later on)
22 simplify language selection/settings for card-sets
21 when creating a new dataset, automatically lowercase any uppercase letters in ISO-country-code
20 preview card when hovering mouse over corresponding row in Cardmanager 13
19 shout-box-like sidebar showing newest corresponding discussion when editing a card -
18 enhanced diff-management and -viewing for changelog - avail., July 23rd, 2010
17 create environment for productive and testing usage - under construction
16 downloader: reformat file-size to appropriate unit - avail., July 24th, 2010
15 downloader: if one or more cards are responsible for TeX-errors, let the user decide to fix or ignore (and download pdf without these cards) them 13, 14 reviewing
14 reduce server load by only generating the downloadable pdf when needed
(add flag in category-table, if re-generation is needed, set flag to 'yes' when a card is successfully edited)
- reviewing
13 try to TeX cards (stand-alone) as soon as a change is stored in database, if something goes wrong tell user about it
this way errors may be noticed before they cause issues with the downloadable pdf (which again contains all cards of a category)
- reviewing
12 show language-indicator for subjects in Cardmanager) 11 avail., Jan 8th, 2010
11 add language-indicators for subjects, use ISO 3166 to encode regions/languages - avail., Jan 9th, 2010
10 show flags (language-indicator) in download-section to indicate language used 11, 12 avail., Jan 9th, 2010
9 prevent downloads by bots, mark copyright protected materials - avail., Nov 15th, 2009
8 prevent (bot-)spamming - avail., Sept 26th, 2009
7 page-stats (card-count, visitors/users) - avail., Oct 11th, 2009
6 rearrange the menu for a better accessibility - avail., Aug 29th, 2009
5 show error-status in cardmanager right next to edit-button wish #2,#3,#13 reviewing
4 try to find out which card produced the error to help user fix it wish #2,#3 deferred,
see wish #13
3 tail error-log and link tail at download-page and cardmanager wish #2 avail., Aug 23rd, 2009
2 download-page with overview to all available subjects, lower the server-load by just generating the pdf when something changes - avail., Aug 23rd, 2009
1 ability to discuss cards - avail., Aug 15th, 2009
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