Our most proficient bug hunter Tom pointed out that the ability for guests to leave comments was completely, well...., let's just say it wasn't working. And this must have been for quite some time. (Well, to clarify, if there were already comments in a thread you could add another, no problem, but if an anonymous commenter tried to add the first comment they would be thwarted.)

This is a big problem. I fixed it fairly easily, that's not the hard part, rather it's finding these things that is so difficult. I swear I tested that, but evidently I did not. It's hard to know when you've tried every single possibility in even a moderately complex system. Probably I tried to comment in threads that had already been started, and then just figured that it worked in every commenting case.

My apologies if anyone ever tried to leave a message here and was unable. I really would like it despite the previous broken nature of the tools. Looks like the new system (which I am currently testing on another site) might already be more stable than this one. Or maybe not. I really need to learn more about rigourous testing procedures. Or I need like 10 more of Tom.
- jim 3-06-2002 2:52 pm

I'm not sure the problem is that longstanding. I got a visible [1 comment] in response to this post on 1/1/02, which I responded to on 1/2/02. The comment was awfully minimal, but that's more likely the result of the personal style of the guest than having a tiny posting box. /Bughunter out./
- tom moody 3-06-2002 5:20 pm



- frank 3-06-2002 5:34 pm





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