Messages posted by: crandmck

Everything seems to be working as it should now. Nice work!

I even found a book I'm interested in, and have messaged the seller. I'll let you know if I run into any other issues.

Thanks again!
Rand

Thanks, I appreciate you guys paying attention to my (users'/customers') suggestions and needs.

Keep me posted on updates to the site, and I'm glad to provide ongoing feedback, even if you don't have GitHub issues

Rand

We snuck in a stealth fix tonight for the "advance page" bug you reported, that's fixed.

Cool! Yes, I see that, and it 's now working as expected.

we don't do GitHub because we don't want anyone looking at our pricing algorithms - we spent a lot of time working on making those as clever as possible.

I understand, but having bug tracking on GH doesn't mean your code has to be public! There are various ways to do it, but one super easy way is just to create an empty repo that you only use for bug tracking and community feedback. Forums are really not the best way to do that, and GH is basically built for it. And, it's free for the most part. Anyway, food for thought.

...the idea is "series started this year or later", and so the search also returns Adv of X-Men, etc.

Then that's what the UI text should say, "Title start year (or later)" and "Title end year (or earlier)" I guess. If that's actually what they mean, then you need to communicate that, otherwise it's a usability issue because it's definitely not obvious.

Re other bugs... When I was able to find an issue that was interested in buying, I clicked on it, and was presented with three buttons: Offer to Buy, Ask Question, and Cancel.

Offer to Buy leads to this error:

A login is required to access this part of the site. If you were signed in, your session may have expired due to inactivity. In this case, we apologize, but in the interest of security you will need to sign in again.

But, again, I am still signed in, and the "sign out" link in the top bar shows that.

Ask Question leads to this error msg:

Oops... an error occurred

If you think what you were doing should not have caused an error, please use the Contact Us form to tell us the exact steps that caused it, and we will try and fix it. Thanks!

So, again, I'm totally foiled when I want to buy something.

Thanks for the fixes, guys. Keep up the good work...

Thanks for the reply. Let me know (on this thread, I guess...?) when the fixes are in place, and I'll be happy to help with QA.

Rand

When I do a search from https://www.nostomania.com/servlets/com.nostomania.BrowseServlet?cat=comics and get a result set, the "Next" button always displays an error message:

A login is required to access this part of the site. If you were signed in, your session may have expired due to inactivity. In this case, we apologize, but in the interest of security you will need to sign in again.

However, I am signed in, and the page even displays "Sign Out" at the top, so something appears to be broken.

Also, some of the search fields are not being honored; for example, searching for title "X-men" even when I add "1963" as the value of the "Title Start Year" fields, the results still start with "Adventures of The X-Men, The (1996-1997)".

There are a number of other serious bugs in the Browse for Sale feature. BTW, do you have a mechanism for users to report technical/functional bugs on the site, e.g. GitHub issues? Not sure how many folks would use it, but it might be more efficient than forums

At this point, since I'm unable to page through the results, it's basically impossible for me to find comics for sale on the site. With due respect, you need to do some serious QA on this part of the site. I think many of the other site features are great, esp. the pricing data, but it seems there's still some work to do on the marketplace part.

BTW, I've been working in the web tech field for over 20 years, so I have some related background. I see you guys are still using Java EE servlets, which are fine, but have largely been made superseded by more modern backend frameworks like Node/Express and Spring. Anyway, I may be able to help with QA or whatever.

Thanks,
Rand