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    • Wednesday, April 17, 2013

    Granillo: “Rise of the Robot Umpires”

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    posted on April 17, 2013 at 09:31 AM by Repoz to site news  |  24 comment(s)

    It troubles me that the world is just one big rip-off of Ferro Lad.

    xc

    We’ve all thought it. Heck, many of us have even said it. Watching the exploits of Eric Gregg, Phil Cuzzi, Jim Joyce, and so many others, it’s hard not to believe it at least once. “We want robot umpires!”

    A new project by Dan Levy is working to explore just what might happen if baseball ever heeded that call. Rise of the Robot Umpires is a graphic-style novel set in the not-too-distant future where the commissioner finally ...

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    51. Jim Furtado  posted on March 30, 2012 at 05:25 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Thanks for the input on potential comment systems. In the next couple of weeks I will begin testing some simple home page and discussion page templates. If anyone is interested in being part of the process, go to the forum and volunteer for our beta test program.
    52. manchestermets posted on March 31, 2012 at 07:33 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Two suggestions:

    1. The ability to skip to the first comment in a thread since the last time I read it.

    2. A "show this comment" ajax link on ignored users' comments or possibly the ability to ignore/unignore users by thread. There are people I ignore for their contributions to the political threads, but I might want to read what they have to say on baseball issues.
    53. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance posted on April 26, 2012 at 05:03 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Jim, your latest update screwed up all the post numbering. It seems to start counting from the page number. I.e. The first post on page 1 is #2, the first page on page 2 is #3, the first post on page 9 is #10 etc.
    54. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance posted on April 26, 2012 at 05:06 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Also, the Hot Topics bar is empty within threads, although it seems to be fine on the front page...

    Also, if I try and edit a post, nothing happens when I hit 'save'.
    55. Lassus posted on April 26, 2012 at 07:58 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Concur over here, things are borked.
    56. Accent Shallow posted on April 26, 2012 at 08:13 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Same as Fancy Pants and Lassus. I also had to login again this morning on two separate devices.
    57. Infinite Joost (Voxter)  posted on April 26, 2012 at 08:21 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    No hot topics! Not even on the Newsstand.
    58. Ron J posted on April 26, 2012 at 09:41 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    #58 Ah good to see I'm not insane. I've found the hot topics on the home page. Only there. (as noted by #55)

    EDIT:Testing Edit for me (since I seem to have super-duper Edit powers). Either post #1 is gone in every thread I've looked at (not many, but ...) or there's a bug and every thread is starting at 2.

    EDIT2: Well first Edit worked.
    59. zonk posted on April 26, 2012 at 09:53 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Occasionally on threads, I'll see the edit pop up on the post before or after mine -- but no edit on my post. Sadly, it appears I can't save edits to other people's posts... that would be fun.

    EDITED BY Ron J: Yes indeed it can be!

    EDIT2 BY Ron J: I swear never to use my power for evil though. Admittedly your definition of evil and mine might not be the same.
    60. boteman posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:26 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    No hot topics! Not even on the Newsstand.

    Oh, I thought that this baseball season had been cancelled. Glad to see it's just the latest update to the site that is causing this anomaly. "Me too" on all of today's posts.
    61. UCCF posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    OK, just making sure I'm not crazy. I'm not getting post #1 either, and I've had to log back in repeatedly.
    62. Stretch posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:59 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    It seems that the page numbers are getting mixed up with the post numbers. eg
    page 1, post 2,3,4,5...
    page 2, post 3,4,5,6...
    etc

    63. The Essex Snead posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    It looks like the post numbering is off for every page. Instead of starting w/ 1 (or 101 on the 2nd page, etc.), it's incrementing the post count on each page starting w/ the page number. So the 1st post on the 1st page of a thread ends up as #2, while the 1st post on the 16th page (as on the NBA thread) is #17, and so on.
    64. Stretch posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    BTW, all the posts are shown, just mis-numbered
    65. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:08 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'm guessing the post number is supposed to be calculated: (page number - 1) * 100 + post number, where the post number is only for that page, not overall. And instead it's just page number + post number.
    66. Jim Furtado  posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:10 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I am looking into the issue.
    67. Ron J posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:21 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Jim, we seem to have hot topics back now. Post numbering is still hosed but that's not critical. Does make for some difficulties in responding but that's probably manageable through quoting.
    68. Ron J posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:12 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Also Jim, Hot Topics can count properly. It's only the on page numbering that's screwed up.
    69. Jim Furtado  posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Ron, I'm still not sure what messed up Hot Topic but I was able to get it working again by deleting and rebuilding the underlying template.

    I am a little flummoxed by the count problem. EE's code seems to be OK. I'm doing more research.
    70. Nasty Nate posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Editing is still wonky
    71. Ron J posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:42 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Editing is still wonky


    I suspect it's a permissions issue. I have super-duper editing power and can not only edit my posts, I could edit yours.
    72. smileyy posted on April 26, 2012 at 01:47 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Apparently, I'm not allowed to post comments.
    73. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance posted on April 26, 2012 at 02:34 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Apparently, I'm not allowed to post comments.

    How the hell am I reading this then?
    74. David Nieporent (now, with children) posted on April 26, 2012 at 02:45 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    How the hell am I reading this then?
    You're not.
    75. Jim Furtado  posted on April 26, 2012 at 02:56 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I am looking into the editing issue as well. I patched the last version. They rewrote the section and I guess I need to go back in and fix it again. Ugh.
    76. smileyy posted on April 26, 2012 at 03:40 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The posting permissions issue appears to be sporadic. Am I being excessively throttled?
    77. smileyy posted on April 26, 2012 at 03:40 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Is it throttling? (testing)
    78. Ron J posted on April 26, 2012 at 04:16 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    smileyy I'd bet serious money that you're being silently logged out. It happened to be earlier today and when I logged back in I checked off the "log me in automatically" box.

    I'm pretty sure that if you're doing anything clever with cookies (rejecting them, timing them out quickly, whatever) you're going to have problems posting.
    79. Greg Pope thinks the Cubs are reeking havoc posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:17 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Hey, Jim, a problem I had before seems to have returned. I am logged in on my laptop and it works fine, but when I go to my home computer and log in there, then the next time I turn on my laptop I have to re-log in on the laptop.
    80. Ron J posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:23 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Minor issue, but for multiple page threads you now only get the choice of 3 pages (plus first or last). No biggie, but something has changed.
    81. Ron J posted on April 27, 2012 at 06:26 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    OK Jim, both the post numbering problem and the page choice issue (reported above in #80) are fixed.
    82. Greg Pope thinks the Cubs are reeking havoc posted on April 27, 2012 at 08:32 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    OK, maybe it's not the same problem as before for me (post 79). I was on my laptop last night and had to log in, and this morning I'm on my laptop and I had to log in again.
    83. smileyy posted on April 27, 2012 at 02:08 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    [78] Yeah, I just came to that conclusion. None of my logins seem to persist. Is it an issue with logging in from multiple devices, as hinted at by [79]? I use at least three devices interchangeably throughout the day.
    84. David Nieporent (now, with children) posted on April 27, 2012 at 02:11 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Yes, the login problem seems to be back.
    85. Jim Furtado  posted on April 28, 2012 at 12:05 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I've changed a few things in the login process to correct things. Try logging out, clearing your cookies, and logging back in while selecting the keep me logged in option.

    Please let me know if you are still having issues.

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