With something of this scale, I guess there are bound to be bugs in the new system. It would help if you ChinesePod learners could post any bugs you find here. That’d be a systematic way to deal with them.
We’re not going away. The staff are here over the weekend, too. Let’s get this thing done. Your assitance would be really, really welcome.
Ken Carroll
中文 Chinese
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
OK, spotted another one:
Some of the shows obviously got assigned to the wrong discussions. For example Advanced 46 - 混血儿, the discussion seems to come from a Elementry show…
The Advanced and UI shows do not have Expansion and Dialogue yet, but I think that is not a bug but part of the switching process.
Old Advanced shows gone forever, e.g. the one on teas or on the food systems?
David Hallgren Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Great work with the new site! I have a few comments/bugs?:
Lessons:
- Dialog:
— Will the old lessons not have dialogue online, only in PDF? (I have only checked a number of old Newbie lessons but this seems to be missing from all of them).
- Vocabulary:
— Same thing here, will old lessons have this back?
- Expansion:
— Same thing here, will old lessons have this back?
- Exercises:
— Could incorrect answers somehow be marked on Show score
— Reset shown score on Next/Reset.
— With a 10/10 result the “10/10″-string isn’t 100% visible
chinesepod Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Thx for or this. On the case. Please keep it coming.
Ken
马赛儿 Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I just mailed this issue to your e-mail address as well but my account shows up as premium on the my account page ONLY. This tells me that my Paypal payment has come through fine.
But on ANY OTHER PAGE BUT the my account page, my account shows up as free, and I can thus not access any of the basic or premium review materials and I can’t access my schedule, or the grammar and pronunciation sections for that matter.
Since my subscription ran out a few days ago and today was big introduction day (and since the weekend is coming up, which is when I do the bulk of my studying) I decided today would be a fine day to extend my subscription. Please, please, PLEASE tell me I can start exploring v3 by the end of the day
Regards,
chinesepod Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Henning,
We’re running into a few glitches displaying the data. They’re working on the comments right now. Expansion and Dialogue will be there soon for all lessons if it’s not there already.
The old Advanced shows are offline, but we are looking at ways of re-incorporating the content back into the site. For now, I guess they are your collector’s items…
David Hallgren,
All lessons will have Dialogue, Vocabulary, Expansion, Exercises. Sorry if they’re missing momentarily.
We will fix all those issues you bring up about the Exercises after we fix the higher priority bugs.
Thanks a lot for pointing these out, guys!
-John
Mike in Jubei Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Hi CPod
Is the sound supposed to work now in the vocabulary, dialogue… sections now? For me no sound when I click on them.
I am using Mozilla as my browser.
Paul Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Where did the ‘random’ button go on the flashcards page?
Lantian Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
TRACKING - Can’t we assign some numbers to all these bugs. Although it will be a bit random, I’d suggest anyone commenting to just assign themselves a number, looking at previous comments. There will be some overlap if people post at the exact time, but I’m sure it would still help things. Cpod could then reply when such and such is fixed.
Or Cpod could do a daily summary and issue bug numbers and status. This will help us commenting also to see what’s already ‘on the books’. Just posting answers for each post will be a losing, pizza-delivery generating exercise.
0000 Request to assign bug tracking numbers. “Bugs”, otherwise known as
unidentified features.
Anne M. Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Okay, here are my first issues:
0001. Connect: How do I add a conversation (the V3 conversation for example) to my watchlist?
0002. Connect-Pubic User Profile: Bazza’s (or whoever’s) Latest Conversations: No posts
0003. Study - Lesson List: Where is the archive? When I mark a lesson as learned, it goes to Nirvana.
I’m glad to hear that you don’t go away. Have fun, though. Going live is always a big adventure you’ll never forget
Alaric Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I am enjoying exploring your new version. Very exciting!
Not sure if these would be called bugs or not:
-In my profile there does not yet seem to be an option to set my level as advanced.
-I just went to iTunes and my advanced feed is now downloading podcasts from the other levels. I figured out how to create a new feed and resubscribed in iTunes with that feed, however it hasn’t downloaded anything yet, maybe because there haven’t been new podcasts since the feed was created.
-Will there be a way to subscribe to “dialogue-only” audio files in iTunes? If it isn’t planned, I would recommend that as a feature to add. As an “advanced” subscriber, some of the lower level dialogues would still be useful to me if they were free of the other content.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
0004. Media lessons only come with empty audio files
Anne M. Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
0005. Community: Blog discussions only lists Ken’s posts.
Bazza 白锐 Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Anne, the watchlist is for users rather than conversations.
Cornelia Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
0006 wordbank: vocab is added redundantly if I go via scroll-over in the dialog and afterwards via vocab register tab and click there.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
007. Jazz lesson lost.
Cornelia Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
0007 wordbank: once I delete one word I am redirected to page 1, with no immediate possibility to go back to the list where I was. I would request the feature to go to next word entry in the list. Plus ease navigation: button for “first”/”last”/”Page x” page. clarification on logic needed how list is filled (my current assumption: strict chronological order).
Joachim Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
0006 Signed In Page: Nice to know I am user269, but I’d prefer my name or alias
0007 Concentration Game: There is a big chance (1: 19) that I pick the right two cards at the first try. I don’t need any WRONG flashing! And it gets in the way of vocab showing up in the middle.
0008 Concentration Game: Some old vocab still don’t show up properly
0009 Your Conversations etc. open up as raw RSS in Explorer
Anne M. Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Joachim,
0006: just edit your profile (via the “Your profile” link at the bottom of the page)
0009: but only if you click the rss link, or not? And that’s a feature.
Anne M. Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
more about 0002 (Connect-Pubic User Profile Latest Conversations): Now some, but not all, posts appear, for Bazza, Henning and Ken for example. My posts aren’t shown at all. That’s strange.
Vincent Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
For me, the sound button when using Flashcards doesn’t seem to be working…
Phil in Tianjin Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Just started my first post V3 podcast update with iTunes. There doesn’t appear to be any track number related to the level anymore, neither in the podcast title nor the track no. For example the latest podcast is Newbie - Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, track no 484. Previous podcast is Upper intermediate - Chinese Geography, track no 483. The new podcast information contains level in English but no number anymore. How are the tracks in each level to be sorted in iTunes? Alphabetically? Or am I missing something obvious?
The old podcast title was fine (at least for iTunes/iPod)
AuntySue Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Hahahaha, our own bug numbers? And I thought the place where I work was a bureacracy!
Look, I’m a numbers nut - I won’t remember your name or face tomorrow, but I’ll know your old phone number and house number and postcode when we meet again after twenty years. But I’d much rather hear “Traditional PDFs ready, come and get it!” than “bug 63759 resolved, closed”. Oh please save me from all night dreams of bug numbers!
Anyway, they’re their bugs, let’m cook’m up how they please.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
0010: Lili and Zhangliang broke up - game over.
Phil in Tianjin Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Further to above, the new download sound quality has reduced from:
128bps,stereo, 44khz
to
64kbps, mono, 22khz
Any reason for this?
chris(mandarin_student) Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Old RSS feeds don’t work. Maybe they are not expected to, but that would be a bit of shame if the case (even if you don’t like the old urls some kind of rewrite rule could be implemented to keep backwards compatibility.
Perhaps I could trade in some advice on Web regression testing (automated with free tools) at sometime. It takes a little bit of setting up, but you shouldn’t really be expecting bugs at all (or rather the testing should pick them up). The days of using a browser and a pair of eyeballs to find your bugs should largely be gone.
Anne M. Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
0011. Connect: If a user without a public profile writes a new post, it is visible under “All conversations” but can’t be opened. Example post: Where are the V2-lesson lists? by BaiHei
Paul Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Just a minor thing…looks like you can’t have any spaces in your profile name. (but the instructions don’t say this).
Plus, when you update your profile, it takes you to a sign-in screen and you have to re-enter your email and password. Time consuming and a bit annoying.
But otherwise, I really like V3 so far !
Phil in Tianjin Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Seems like something odd is happening with the calendar feed. There are four lessons shown for Monday 16th:
ele The clogged toilet
Doug Wright (He will visit the office)
Yves ( 41 79……..)
Dennis Chen (tel USA ……..)
Maybe a part of a personal calendar is mixed in?
Ken Carroll Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
This is all really helpful. The full team are all on duty tomorrow (poor things). We’ll try to get this dtuff done.
Ken Carroll
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
0012. More of an invoncinience than a real “bug”:
Switching between Pinyin/Simplified/Traditional the “Complete the Sentences” Exercises resets all your answers, so you have to start all over. I often run into situations like “Was that odd little character really preonounced xi3 or was it xi2?”. In the old exercises that was not really a problem, as you had to position both Pinyin and characterö.
John Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Phil,
Improved downnload/streaming speed. Premium users an opt for 128, 64, or 32 kbps.
Helen Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Sorry to post this here. But I’m unable to log into SpanishSense for over 3 days. I think it’s due to the merging of user accts from CPOD. I have reported to bugs@spanishsense.com 3 days ago. But it’s still not fixed.
Cornelia Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I often have trouble when trying to post a lesson comment (both on Spanishsense as well CPod):
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: mixed named and positional parameters’….
I am not sure what I am doing wrong or if this hits randomly.
Within a lesson comment I should be able to copy-paste any portion from anywhere of your website, especially cite sentences from the expansion section.
I should be able to enter empty lines for visual spacing.
I would like to use basic layout features such as bold, italics.
Richard Sharpe Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Hmmm, no blogs link on the front page?
Richard Sharpe Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 1:28 am
I am unhappy that lesson numbers are no longer included in the titles on the lesson archive (or whatever) page.
I deal with them by number and not so much by name … Can we have that back?
Richard Sharpe Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 1:50 am
I like the fact that all of the characters in the dialogs now have mouse-overs that work (at least for the few I have tried).
However, there does appear to be font problems, in that some of the characters are nice and bold, while some of them have a washed-out appearance in comparison. I am not sure if that is because of the fonts I have installed or because the code generating the HTML etc is selecting the wrong fonts.
goulnik (郭力毅) Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 3:03 am
re: lesson numbers I posted elsewhere a link to an O-O calcsheet I’m putting together matches old lesson numbers with the new ones.
I’ve noticed a few link errors in the process which I’m reporting to bugs@ many of them under Media (which I hardly ever look at but just for completion). Aside from the bugs a certain level of discomfort is to be expected, and some fine tuning is in order, but I don’t think it’s realistic to expect or event want to switch back to v2. Lots of good stuff there in V3.
However I don’t find it funny to have my cellphone number listed under the CPod calendar (it might have to do with my embarking on the 8-week program today but still :-()
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 3:43 am
CP should recommend good 楷书-Fonts for Win, Mac and Linux users, and change their stylesheets to those fonts.
Those Arial Unicode MS, MingLiu, SimSun fonts are nice for printing purposes, but as a learner I prefer regular script (楷书) fonts, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_script
On the Mac I use STKaiti or BiauKai or Kai,
on Win/Mac: AR PL KaitiM Big5 and AR PL KaitiM GB
Bazza 白锐 Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 6:02 am
There seems to be a slight problem with the study schedule.
If you have a long list of bookmarked lessons and you scroll down to the bottom of the list to get a lesson, with the calendar disappearing off the top of the screen. Then try to drag the lesson back up to the calendar, the screen doesn’t scroll back up whilst a lesson is “picked up”.
However it is possible to use the PgUp key whilst dragging to get back to the calendar.
This may just be a Firefox issue.
Paul Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I can’t seem to edit anything on my Profile. (I was able to do so earlier on my computer at work). Has this feature been turned off while bugs are being fixed ?
I’ve adjusted my internet settings to allow Chinesepod, but still no luck. Any ideas ?
RobAnt Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 7:33 am
In the profile setup page, at the bottom.
You have 3 AGE categories:
The third one says “after40″
It should, of course, read “over 40″, if that is the demographic you mean.
zaijian
Paul Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I can’t download any of the lessons. If I right click on the MP3 download and then ’save as’…it wants to save it under a HTML format. Help ? Is there a new method for downloading in V3 ?
Paul Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I’ve figured out how to edit/update the profile. You have to click on the “update” button. Duh ! Maybe include the word “edit your data”, on the button. I was under the impression that you only press “update” after you finished entering new information.
mike in Jubei Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Is there any easy way to find the Saturday Show or do I have to have a second Bookmark? Also can’t leave a comment for the Saturday Show.
Not a Bug– Bye Colleen now you are one of us. Stay in touch.
In the new web, we’re all volunteers | またあの煩い外人 Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
[...] think it’s interesting that these days companies can offload the last stages of beta testing to paying customers, and that they’ll do it for free (and be happy about [...]
John Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
mike in Jubei,
There’s a link in the footer to “ChinesePod Extra” (new home of the Saturday Show).
John Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Paul,
I agree with you. We need to change the text to “Update.” It also shouldn’t only be all the way at the bottom.
Bob S. Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
I’m having the same problem as Paul - I can’t download any episodes or dialogue, as it saves in HTML format instead of MP3. Can someone post some new instructions?
ldfs Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Strange and unpredictable things are happening when I use the “back” button on my browser (Firefox). E.g., I made a couple of comments on a lesson under the “discussion” tab. Then I tried clicking on the “expand” tab just to check it out. I got a message saying I’d have to upgrade my subscription. There was no link back to the lesson I’d been looking at, so I used the back button, and this caused my comment to be uploaded a second time.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 1:19 am
0013. Media lessons do not carry source URL.
0014. PDFs in Media level come without refered text.
0015. No “read-out-version” of the source in Media.
0016. All advanced shows come without Chinese definitions now. I always demanded to have the English - as a fallback.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 2:43 am
Just checked what happened if I place the old Advanced show “The Monkey King” in the schedule (was still lingering in my lesson list). And found it became Upper Intermediate.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 3:05 am
0017. After bookmarking new advanced show appears at seemingly (?) random position in list of lessons (next to the calendar).
0018. List of shows available for drag&drop into calendar way too long - because it contains shows from all former subfolders (including those of abandoned “projects” e.g. to visit/revisit the Expansion for all old Intermediate shows).
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 3:08 am
0019. Do not know which of the discussions shown on the Connect page actually contain *new* messages. I do not keep track of the number of posts in my head for each possible discussion. In the Forum threads with new messages are put in bold type face.
Ron In DC Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Lantian said-
“TRACKING - Can’t we assign some numbers to all these bugs. Although it will be a bit random, I’d suggest anyone commenting to just assign themselves a number…..”
Bugs are inevitable, but I feel like the user base is being used as testers, Microsoft style. I’m not particularly interested in being one. That said, the site is very promising.
Ron In DC Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 4:10 am
I have no idea if this has been reported, but I don’t care. Because of all the bug talk or what not, I had a question for “Head, Neck…etc” not answered. When I tried to re-enter it, the system wouldn’t take it.
So here’s the question: “Would someone actually say your mouth or nose is ‘piaoliang’? Would that apply to other body parts as well, like limbs or what have you?
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 4:12 am
0020. Got that one when trying to open a discussion on Connect:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Db_Adapter_Exception’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[HY000] [2003] Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘64.78.165.99′ (110)’ in /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php:102 Stack trace: #0 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(143): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->_connect() #1 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(151): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query(’SET NAMES ‘utf8…’, Array) #2 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/www/index.php(34): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query(’SET NAMES ‘utf8…’) #3 {main} thrown in /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php on line 102
Joachim Müller Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 6:32 am
0021 It’s not really a bug, but it bugs me a bit. The flash thingy to share Chinesepod by adding a lesson audio to a blog is just HUGE.
Especially for those Chinesepod blogs like http://blogs.chinesepod.com/de/ it’s just over the top.
I’d prefer some more understatement… Btw: All the audio added to our previous blogs seem to have vanished.
Autumn Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 7:08 am
The mp3 clip for Upper Intermediate - Recognizing an Employee has been clipped. There is only about 3 minutes audio.
Joachim Müller Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 7:36 am
0022 No more comments allowed for the Saturday Show? At least I got an error message.
Btw: 老外 (lǎowài) isn’t half as bad as 鬼佬 (gwailo or guǐlǎo) in use in Hongkong which translates into something like foreign devil or at least ghost person (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo for more).
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 10:15 am
0023 Exception error posting comment in Media tab
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: mixed named and positional parameters’ in /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php:117 Stack trace: #0 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(117): PDO->prepare(’insert into com…’) #1 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(151): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->prepare(’insert into com…’) #2 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(151): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query(’insert into com…’, Array) #3 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/app/models/commit.php(107): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query(’insert into com…’) #4 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/app/controllers/learnchinese/DiscussionController.php(188): commit->dataSave(Array) #5 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Controller/Action.php(392): discussionController->viewAction() #6 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php(211): Zen in /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php on line 117
LostInAsia Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 11:33 am
I download the PDF, and I want to get the simple text file (for copying into iFlash & TextEdit). I click on “Text version” at the bottom and get this:
NoSuchKeyThe specified key does not exist.0486/pdf/chinesepod_C0486.html6B3E671E55028FA9K1xP9MJezsquCCm5PTyYROaCEcZJiHmSODyX9veDL7gkJLNCp58Cj2XUkg owh8b
I’m using a Mac and the Safari browser. Would that be the problem, or is this in the “Not ready yet” category?
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
0024 Unable to add personal RSS feed
From MyYahoo:
We couldn’t find the RSS file you asked for http://chinesepod.com/connect/Lantian/watchlistRss
Suggestions:
* - If you got here by clicking on an “Add to My” button, please notify the referring site’s webmaster.
* - If you entered the URL yourself, please check that the URL is correct and points to a valid RSS file.
Maybe there’s some time delay, or the Olympics.
Note. Although V3 seems very much RSS centric, I have to say up until now I’ve never gotten into the RSS readers.
I used to like browsing thru each podcast comment thread and seeing people’s questions develop, I learned a lot from seeing the questions and answers. The RSS feed breaks up threads…unless I’m not using it right?
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
0024 Unable to Connect: 15:01 4/15/2007 In China
The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
Ifung Lu Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Hi. Overall, great job on the transition. Of course, there will be issues, and I’m sure you are working hard to address them as quickly as humanly possible.
Here’s one I don’t think has been mentioned yet. Previously in V2, I had bookmarked lessons for my lesson list, and then as I finished them, I would change them to archived. In V3, all my lessons (both bookmarked and archived) are listed as bookmarked. It is quite a pain to go through all the lessons again to figure out which I’ve done and which I haven’t. Is there an easy fix? Thanks!
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
0025 Avatar images do not appear in Watchlist.
Clicking on my Watchlist and seeing a list of the people I selected I only see the default Cpod logo for each person’s name.
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
0026 Unable to create draft post and save
In Connect I wrote a short draft post and tried to save. My message contained English and Chinese text.
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’s this? Draft posts?” at line 1′ in /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php:117 Stack trace: #0 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(117): PDO->prepare(’select * from c…’) #1 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(151): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->prepare(’select * from c…’) #2 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(151): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query(’select * from c…’, Array) #3 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(302): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query(’select * from c…’, Array) #4 /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/app/models/connections.php(1130): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->fetchAll(’select * from c…’) #5 /home/cpod/www.chine in /home/cpod/www.chinesepod.com/lib/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php on line 117
Barry Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
To Paul and Bob S.
The latest lesson(The Breakup)is working fine but the previous lesson are not. As F1B1 kindly explained to me on the forum, when it tries to save as HTML Document, if you click on the scroll ‘v’ symbol it allows you to save as ‘All Types’. You then need to specify what program you need to open the download with. I chose Windows Media Player which works fine but I can’t get it to play in my iPod. I think this will be just a temporary problem as, as I say, the latest lesson downloads okay.
Ming Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
0027 Bit-Torrent Downloads are missing
0028 Theme pictures for each lesson are not displayed: on this point I have to say the theme pictures that were there on the previous website looked really good, and not having them is quite annoying, are there plans to return them?
I’m just a new user and just got used to the v.2 Finding the whole navigation of the v.3 a big problem getting used to and not happy
Also for review purposes I find the the PDFs very useful: is there any way of downloading a group (eg intermediate) of PDFs without going to each lesson individually?
And, how can i view say, all lessons published in the last month, in date order as per the previous website?
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
BUG Swatting - If I might suggest a little more bureaucracy or efficiency depending on how you look at it. Depending on what works best on your end, either an Excel spreadsheet, an Access database, or a bug-management system, but something needs to act as a communication tool and clearinghouse.
A point person (various people can roll thru the role) works with the collection of bugs as they come in and as they get resolved. For example, every day the team gathers and goes thru the list, the point-person makes the updates to the database/tool. New bugs are suggested, and people can note whether they think it’s a net-new bug or an existing bug. The point-person can also cull thru the various comment threads, blog comments, and emails to identify net-new bugs. Each net-new bug is given a priority level based on urgency and level of effort. The programmers work thru them.
I realize that programmers will just want to work on the bugs and not come to this type of meeting, but this is mostly about communication, and it is very important to have this tool to set priorities and communicate out to the BigBrain.
Then a report out is given on fixed bugs and when the fixes will roll out. This latter part is something you can publish in the V3 issues, or blog or where ever you think is the best communication point. The bug list itself could also be published of course.
If you have any highly-paid consultants, they would color code everything. 开玩笑
I would also set up the same tool/routing/method to collect all the questions about various V3 features. Although it’s great that we’ve been getting some specific and personal responses from Ken, Steve, John, I think many are being left unaddressed. Routing the responses into a V3 FAQ-type page will help everyone get to V3 luv’n it, badabapa. IMHO
LostInAsia Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
A minor problem, not sure if it qualifies as a bug: in the text versions of the dialogs, all the pinyin is lower case, unlike on the PDF where the first word of a sentence is capitalized. One of those things that just looks ugly.
Incidentally, what’s with all the different kinds of commas? Has this been explained somewhere?
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Time to go into the details?
0029. pop up translation for 专场 in 接触爵士 is 专场
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
0030. when clickimg on http://chinesepod.com/myname/l...../list/t/63
ChinesePod asks me to become a premium user although I am premium (test) user…
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Hm,
maybe those are lesson specific?
0030. 爵士鼓 is translated as “to rose”
0031. 大排场 as “dapai market”
At least in the given context those do not seem to fit.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
OK there are numerous others. 萨克斯风 as wind, 嘛 as aahhh, 哟 as 哟, etc. etc. - won’t list them all here
Besides:
Sentences No. 4,5, and 7 stay in “load” mode (animated cogwheel) - no audio.
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
0032 Previous comments from zh.chinesepod not imported
There’ll all GONE!! In the day, that would be called missing data, severity 1 problem, full stop, roll-back. But maybe people thought what we said wasn’t that important?!
http://chinesepod.com/learnchinese/中国的股票市场/discussion
Where’s that SEO friendly URL, certainly not right above…
Lantian Says:
April 15th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
correction: I’m wrong about that url snide remark, looks like it appears different on my browser because of the Chinese hanzi. Rollback my comment….zzzzppp.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Actually depends on your perspective whether you call this a bug or not, so I won’t put a number on it.
But obviously you can listen to future podcasts with V3. Just saw a comment on the next episode of Peter’s adventures - which is to be published on Wednesday.
LostInAsia Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 10:30 am
0033: I seem unable to post in any of the lesson discussions (uh… vocab question… how should I distinguish this blog from the other… non-blog blogging?). I click the button and just get “Waiting” for an eternity, until I eventually close the window. This has happened repeatedly for the past couple of days, although I was able to post for the first day or so after V3 came out.
I’m using a Mac and Safari.
Mike B Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
iTunes now thinks I have 4 podcasts called “ChinesePod - Learn Chinese”. First my podcast for the advanced feed renamed itself to the same as the regular feed, then one more appeared yesterday, and another today.
Paul Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 11:44 am
In the Dialogue section of ‘The breakup’ and today’s lesson, I am unable to left click on words to add to my vocabulary. In the vocabulary there is no problem though. Thanks!
敦禮 Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 11:55 am
I searched the word Translation, when the searched completed, the tab on my Firefox bar came up -Learn Spanish-SpanishSence. In addition, at the top of the page it says- SpanishSense Logo.
Anne M. Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
0034. Connect: it’s not possible to remove someone from your watchlist (page not found)
0035: Vocab: tags are not shared. I only see my tags, although I know that the same tags were also set by somebody else.
0036: Explore: I haven’t found a way to search for lessons just by their topic or function tag.
0037: Pinyin Guide Section 9: there’s a link to part 9 in part 9. I guess it should link to part 10? (By the way, the Pinyin guide is still not downloadable yet.)
0038: Speed. I find the site way too slow.
still 0002: one of my posts is displayed now. The next one wasn’t.
I really miss the the possibility to create different lesson lists, by the way.
goulnik (郭力毅) Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
re: 海宁 / Henning, some may be able to comment on lessons not yet published, but I can’t seem to find a list of upcoming podcasts?!
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Yv: With the comment you have the lesson. I still wait for tonquach’s explanation on how he found
http://chinesepod.com/learnchi.....-supplier/
Richard Sharpe Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Everytime I bring up the dialogs or expansions in Firefix under Linux, every piece of audio starts playing at once. I get no control over it!
goulnik (郭力毅) Says:
April 16th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
嗯,奇怪 before, you could use the lesson number as url param (?p=nnn) and I’d be surprised no to have something similar with V3 but I haven’t been able to work it out.
Yv
goulnik (郭力毅) Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 3:13 am
ok, just came across the html link at the bottom of the pdf transcripts. Here’s what they’re like : http://chinesepod.com/lesson-redirect?lesson=nnnn. That’s probably how tonquach worked it out, the number bears no obvious relationship to the new lesson numbering scheme but just go up by one…
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 3:35 am
Just found out that there are HTML-only-versions of the dialogues available now (not yet for all lessons, though). That is what I need - I gave up using the PDFs with the mobile device, because the mobile Acrobat was increadibly unstable, slow, and user-unfriendly. Besides I regard HTML much more comfortable to work with on an ordinary notebook also.
I only found that feature by chance, though - link is hidden in the footer of the PDF. Ideally the HTML-version-link would be right under the PDF one (which has been moved to where it belongs now, thank you, CPod team!).
Anne M. Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 3:36 am
0039. Advanced search. Selecting a topic or function always returns no Results. For example search for “internet”, leave topic and function on “All”: 2 pages results, some of them tagged with topic hobbies. Search for internet with topic set to hobbies: no Results.
0040: Topics and Functions should be ordered alphabetically in the comboboxes.
Richard Sharpe Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 3:48 am
The login timeout period has gone back to something relatively short, and when you click back and go back beyong the login screen, you are not taken back to the page before you were asked for a login, but back to the main page (I think).
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 4:32 am
0040
Bug or feature?
My profile is set to Level: Elementary.
Clicking on “EXPLORE” brings me to the “Newbie” lessons.
I would expect that the “Elementary” lessons would be presented.
0041
Finding lessons about “toilet”…
Why is “Newbie - Intro 5: Do you have a menu?” in the result set of this search?
0042
It takes approx. 120 seconds to load the test to check my level. Too long IMHO.
Autumn Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 5:54 am
I’ve been through all of the upper intermediate lessons and have found a few files that aren’t there yet
World Cup Football MP3
Phobias MP3
Chinese Commuters PDF
Marketing Proposal MP3
Also, I’m finally starting to get used to this new interface. I just miss the 高级版本.
Thanks for the effort you guys have put into this. You guys should really promote your site more though as I really regret that it took me this long to find out about it.
Lantian Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Hi hanyu_xuesheng,
>0042 120 sec too long to download level test
haha…thanks for re level-setting my expectations. I thought I was getting too picky when I complained it took me 18 MINUTES to download that test. And it had the gawl to classify me as (low).
FuDaWei Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
goulnik (郭力毅): ok, just came across the html link at the bottom of the pdf transcripts.
That’s fascinating. They are evidently keeping it low-key for the moment, I guess.
If they are serious about offering an “text” version (actually an .html version) they really-really-REALLY ought to talk to moderator Carl over at the CPOD Forum. A little while back, on the CPOD Forum we were having a somewhat heated discussion about how .pdf files should be presented.
One of the moderators, Carl, stepped in with his typical Solomonesque wisdom and produced a simple proof-of-concept that dazzled us all into silence. It was a very simple and elegant .html version with embedded CSS. His off-the-cuff example allowed you to display the same data SIX DIFFERENT WAYS. It was brilliant.
CHECK IT OUT
Aunty Sue even tossed in a version (no longer online, evidently) that was well-received. If I recall, she colour-coded entries.
The CPOD tech team should take note.
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
The new invervowen Pinyin-Chart/Pinyin-Guide is very well-done.
0042. I found a small mistake in the Chart though: In Section 8 of the Char, in the ni- and li-lines the wrong sounds are played (shifted to the right).
Anne M. Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
FuDaWei,
I never noticed that thread (because I joined later). It’s indeed brilliant. Easy to use and easy to implement. I agree that CPod should take note.
Anne M. Says:
April 17th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
more regarding 0042: In the Pinyin-Chart, also Section 9 is wrong. I especially wonder about the ee sounds of zi, ci and si.
By the way, it’s really well done! But having to download it so or so, couldn’t you increase the sound quality a bit? Especially the fricatives are much better to distinguish in the audios provided online.
Anne M. Says:
April 18th, 2007 at 2:24 am
0043: adding some Supplementary Vocabulary either adds all Key Vocabulary, too - or just nothing. Tried 5 times with 5 lessons. Very annoying, especially because it’s so slow
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 18th, 2007 at 3:46 am
0044 bookmarked four lessons - for each I have to wait approx. 25-30 seconds - too long for me.
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 18th, 2007 at 4:43 am
0045 http://s3.amazonaws.com/chines.....0431dg.mp3
doesn’t sound OK… (Newbie Power Outage - Dialog only)
Anne M. Says:
April 18th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
00046: Subscribing to some user’s Conversations doesn’t work, because the feed doesn’t validate. See my W3 feed validator results for example.
Anne M. Says:
April 19th, 2007 at 12:39 am
more about 0046: Your Conversations, Watchlist Conversations, All Conversations feeds also don’t work. They would indeed be very handy.
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 19th, 2007 at 4:53 am
0047:
Lesson: “Elementary - Furniture”
Dialogue MP3
http://s3.amazonaws.com/chines.....0274dg.mp3
File is corrupted.
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 19th, 2007 at 4:56 am
0048
Lesson: Elementary - The Olympic Marathon
Dialogue MP3
http://s3.amazonaws.com/chines.....0320dg.mp3
File is corrupted
Mike in Ewshot Says:
April 19th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Chinesepod:
Lantian gave you good advice on how to manage this bug situation. I have been in the IT business for 30 years and would support the spirit of his suggestions unequivocably.
I think you are losing a great amount of good will here, and you must communicate back. Publish a prioritoried known errors list. Do you have anyone there who is an IT professional?
Mike in Ewshot Says:
April 19th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Another thought: You seem to have too many places where discussions and postings are going on about bugs. I am finding it hard to find what is where. Cannot you consolidate?
(I am unable to add a comment to a conversation when I use IE V5 but I can submit a reply in a blog!)
LostInAsia Says:
April 20th, 2007 at 8:57 am
A bug? Or am I just using the RSS feeds wrong?
When I copy the feed icon into my RSS feed (using a Mac, with NetNewsWireLite), it DOES work for the blog and for individual lesson comments. However, when I’m in my “Connect” page, the different feed icons do NOT work: I drag and drop to the RSS reader, and they copy in as “Untitled source” with “(No items).”
Mind you, given what’s going on in lessons like “The Olympics” (I’d give you the number but now there isn’t one!), maybe an “All Conversations” feed would no longer be a good idea.
Oh, and as others like Marc have indicated, using an RSS reader to keep track of the lessons DOES restore some of the functionality of the “recent podcasts” list of V2. But I still think (beating an old drum, I know, but I really think this is important) that listing the past week’s podcasts on our home page (is that what it’s called?) would be good. Two weeks ago, how could you tell someone the best way to check the most recent podcasts? “Well, go to the main page.” Now? “Oh, well, first register. Then set up your feed. Oh, you’ll need an RSS reader. Uh.. what’s an RSS reader? Well, it’s… uh…” RSS is a great tool but MANY casual internet users have no idea what it is, and to be honest they shouldn’t have to care.
Anyway, please confirm if I’m using the RSS icon properly. Thanks!
Lantian Says:
April 20th, 2007 at 9:25 am
BUG SPRAY - It’s been an amazing week. Personally I insulted (by accident…’kinda) two people in Chinese this week. I have learned to say ’sorry’ profusely. 非常对不起. (Fei chang dui bu qi! I’m really sorry) Talk about in-context communicative learning. Sometimes reading books IS easier.
How’s V3 and Cpod doing? Has the bug list helped, do you still want Cpodders to contribute? Over the week, what was fixed, what’s slated for Monday? Of the 50 plus identified bugs, where’we at?
If timings bad for a report out today, or you’d just like bugs to continue to be noted here, let us know. At 107 plus comments, it’s time to update or close the thread.
Cpod 你们怎么样啊? 今天方便不方便,能不能给大家一件Bug Status 通知? 多谢!
LostInAsia Says:
April 20th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Follow-up on RSS icons and links: those icons on my “Connect” page now DO drag and drop (you guys must have been so busy this week!), but the RSS feed they create is just the standard lesson list, not a list of the relevant postings. I’m assuming the “Your Conversations” feed should create a listing of all postings in, well, my conversations. Is that correct? Or are all the RSS icons for the same thing, a list of all the lessons?
By the way, thanks very much for sorting out the log-in cookies (or whatever they’re called). It’s very nice that the “Remember my name and password” seems to be working and I don’t need to log in all the time anymore. (Until this week I always assumed that was something my browser was doing.) And also for the first time, this traditional-character student is having fun with the exercises.
TB Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I think the technical improvements are wonderful. Congratulations!
Bug 0123:
My concern is that the new site is no fun.
It doesn’t feel Chinese at all.
It doesn’t encourage me to linger and discover new things. The new look is so spare.
I used to look forward to a visit to the site as an immersion.
It doesn’t feel like Mandarin on My Terms. It feels like Generic Language Learning on the terms and conditions of Praxis Language Service, Mining, and Food Additives, Incorporated. “Please state the name of the language, mining technique, or foodstuff you wish to acquire.”
Also, could you please add a simple list to the site: V2 MP3 file names and their new V3 counterparts? Thanks.
Looking forward to smooth sailing at Chinesepod in the future.
BTW, everyone really does value the work that goes into this great service.
hanyu_xuesheng Says:
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:33 am
Bug 0049
The public rss feed
http://chinesepod.com/learnchinese/feed/
is not up-to-date today (Saturday 04/21/07)
The first 4 entries are:
Upper Intermediate - Chinese Onomatopoeia
Newbie - Calling Roll
Advanced - 自然灾害
Intermediate - A Business Dinner with a Supplier
The today’s lesson “Elementary - Shut up!” is missing … :-(((
海宁 / Henning Says:
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Stumbled across the following while trying to figure out what the word “diacritical” means, that FuDaWei used in his last comment on “Resolving Issues”:
0050: If you switch the Exercises to Pinyin sometimes the result does not fit into one line and is cut off.
Phil in Tianjin Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I am using iTunes to download podcasts and pdf’s and have noticed that several of the new “my feed” podcasts now have two associated pdf’s. The pdf title (in iTunes) does not change but the file name has changed from e.g. “quiet for the baby.pdf” to “quiet for the baby 1.pdf”. I assume that this is due to an update or correction to the pdf?
Is it possible for the iTunes title to be updated at the same time so deletion of superceded pdf’s can be done directly from iTunes?