Questions About The Site

I've noticed lately that when I click on an article through the forums, the display of links is all messed up within them. From the lead paragraph of Nick's article today: If I visit the article directly from the homepage, it's fine, but not from the forums. Seems to be an issue across the desktop and mobile versions, in all of the browsers I've used lately (Safari, Chrome, Android stock browser). Doesn't seem to affect links in non-article forum posts, although those are likely embedded/processed differently.

So I searched all over the help forums, and I am not sure why, but I don't find any of the icons to embed video that are mentioned in those forums. Am I missing something?

I wish I could like my own posts. I'd even like this post. Any chance that feature arrives to Twins Daily? I can like my own facebook posts, favorite my own tweets. Why can't I like my own posts? I mean, everyone probably likes their own posts, but I really really like some of my posts.

Ya, is it just too new of an URL to be "categorized"? It is currently blocked at my work. And, one of my best friends is working on it, so I was interested.....

Has there been any dicussion to creat a fantasy baseball specific forum?

Though it won't apply to existing users, you can now create MinnCentric account using Facebook authentication. For current users, you can link your MinnCentric account to Facebook, which will carry over your user profile (optinal) and update your MinnCentric status (optional). You can also share posts on Facebook and will see the option below each item you write (unselected by default so as not to spam your FB account). If that kind of thing floats your boat, you can set it up here: http://twinsdaily.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=facebook

I'm fielding suggestions on how to improve the blogs. I've made a few changes to the blogs in recent days: - On mobile, the default view now prioritizes the blog entry, not the blog... It didn't make sense to give highest priority to the blog when the user probably wants to read the entry. - On desktop, if you visit a user blog, you can now Follow that blog. You will receive notifications whenever the blog updates. Please comment here or in the blog below if you have suggestions about the blog section of the site. http://twinsdaily.com/blog/255/entry-6335-bloggers-what-would-you-like-to-see-in-the-blog-section/

If you're the Reddit-type, we've added a Reddit share button below every article on the site. We'd appreciate sharing any article you find insightful not only to Reddit but to either Facebook or Twitter as well. Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up about the new feature! Thanks! Also, how does everybody like the new front page countdown timer? BEISBOL IS COMING.

I completely spaced on this - that'll teach me to not update my bug list regularly enough - and just remembered it this morning. I updated some code on all sites so copy/paste/quote functionality should be working on later versions of Internet Exploder again. Let me know if you continue to have issues with this.

How did I not see / use this before? Brock you gotta advertise that icon!

Is there any way to put articles into a completely different section? I can already see that I'm going to be very frustrated by the GM series in the More Baseball area as it's already enough to sort through the Twins posts in that forum to review actual non-Twins baseball talk, and I personally don't have an interest in reading the posts. I understand it's a cross-promotion and all, but I can put an ad-block on my computer to deal with unwanted ads on the sides of the site yet can't get away from this promotional stuff, which will likely kick all other actual content off of the first page of that board in the very near future. I'm not trying to be negative Nelly, but t…

Hello! A thread about the CF situation has prompted a question about when Torii Hunter will make his first start in CF in 2015. If I wanted to start an unofficial contest to guess the date in a new thread, would that be kosher? Any disclaimers needed to have a contest on Twins Daily?

What happened? It has disappeared!!

I've been curious how the site numbers compare this winter with the in-season numbers, It seems like the discussion topics have been pretty active (although you don't get the long game threads). Just a little curious, Also, should the Twins get back to winning, will that be good or bad for TD? Seems like complaining usually draws more posters but it has been so long since Twins fans have had something good to talk about, it is hard to remember -- maybe the number of posts in the minor league forum is a good sign of things to come. Thanks again for all you do to keep the site interesting and up and running.

I'm not sure it's strictly an iPad issue specifically, or a tablet issue in general, but when reading on the site, whether I'm in an article, in a forum, or in a thread, sometimes in the middle of typing a reply, it 'breaks' and I get the message "A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded." When it reloads, it reloads to the top of the page of wherever I was and not exactly where I was; and of course if I had anything typed out, that goes away. Any chance of fixing this? Not sure why it does this, but it does; sometimes several times a session. I also have very limited use of typing responses ... can't use the link function at all, have no use of italic…

Just saw a rash of SPAM posts on the Twins Talk forum, and a few popped up on the MLB forum as well. the Mods/Admins have always been great at managing the SPAM, just wanted to bring this recent crop to everyone's attention in case it was a symptom of a larger issue.

Brock: This came up in the Twins forum, but a couple of posters are having difficulties with the 'Quote' function not working properly. (It won't quote.) Is this a bug that has come up before? I know I've had difficulties with some of the reply functionality while using my iPad, this included ... sometimes it quotes, sometimes it doesn't, among other things ... but never on my desktop.

I got a warning for a post that implied Mauer wasn't smart (which, according to people who have met him, is true) which was actually relevant to the concerns in the thread that Mauer needed to make some changes and would face difficulty doing so. Meanwhile we have other threads that are killing the integrity of Ryan, St. Peter and the Pohlads - which I'm totally ok with by the way. TD has a freaking under-current of posters that posted Gardy disliked people based on their ability to read books and worse. Heck, some mods have questioned Ozzie Guillen's intelligence pretty roughly. Ricky Nolasco "stinks as a player and does nothing for the community." There is no way…

I've added embed tweet functionality but it works slightly different than you might expect. You CANNOT use the "Embed Tweet" code from Twitter, as this site does not allow the injection of mark-up into posts, blogs, or articles. Click into the tweet you wish to embed using your browser. Grab the URL of the tweet, which will look something like this: https://twitter.com/AMZNGameStudios/status/535494066079682561Wrap that in a media tag in your post (using either the drop-down menu or just typing it. That will look like this (twitter.com has been edited here so it will generate a visual representation): [media]https://twitter.com/AMZNGameStudios/status/535494066079682561…

Doing some work on the site(s) that day so usage may be spotty for a few hours.

What happened to the 'Ignore' button? Some of this rage is getting ridiculous...

Had an account for quite a while, but forgot my password. I couldn't get the site to send an email to start the recovery process (it says an email was sent, but I didn't recieve one). Attempted several times on multiple days, and checked my spam folder. I gave up and created a new account with a different email address. It's possible that I'm just a technologically inept geezer, but it might be worth checking in on the password recovery process.

A quick question. I wrote a blog post the other day, and when I logged on today, under latest news, that blog post was listed with an "Unpublished" tag next to it. When I opened the article, it had a future date and time listed for the posting time, and had some minor editing done to it. When I visit the site while not logged in, the article isn't visible on the front page. I've had blog posts put on the front page before, but never has anything like this happened. Is this an indication that the post has been selected to be published as an article at a later date?

Is there any way to move Viking and Wild talk down under the Sports Bar now that they're being routed off of the site? It's an aesthetics thing as much as anything, and I understand trying to pimp the new sites, but with both of those redirects, the Sports Bar is no longer viewable on the opening page of the forums unless you zoom out on the page in Google Chrome without scanning down. I just like to be able to refresh and see whether there are new posts in the areas I frequent, but I have to scroll down now in order for that to work now that there are both redirects above the Sports Bar forum.

There seems to be a new trend here of posting moderator/owner "warnings" at the beginning of a thread to try to keep things positive or so that it doesn't go off track. We've seen it two days in a row now on article threads. This really bothers me. I felt stifled before I even wrote anything and I wasn't going to say anything negative on either of them. I understood John's reason for doing so yesterday but really wish he had left out the 2nd paragraph and made his points (which were good ones) and then added just a brief reminder at the end for people to keep it civil. Then this morning there is a warning from Glunn on the "Hump Day" thread. Totally unnecessary…

What are the purpose of warning points? What happens at certain levels? Are my warning points visible to other posters or just my own?

I'm trying to finish up the final wave of bugs over the weekend. If you see something that isn't working right, please report it here. I think most things should be working as expected at this point.

Over in another thread, CRArko provided a link to a book on arguing intelligently: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/ I haven't read the book, only the summary provided there, but it seems in line with the published TD Comment Policy so I thought I would highlight it. In that summary, there is: "let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent." This is a sports website, not the Harvard Journal of Baseball, so it's expecting a bit much for everyone to adopt quite such a bloodless outlook when discussing our favorite team. Still, it represents what I think to be a winning attitude for the long hau…

Okay, I'm tired of this happening. All the ad networks are pointing fingers at one another and nobody is taking responsibility for this ad issue. To boot, I can't get the damned things to display for me so I can't do this myself. Here's the challenge: See an auto-play ad WITH SOUND? Screen shot your entire browser window (so I can see the ad space in relation to the site) and circle the offending ad in red. Bonus points for telling me what the ad is trying to sell you (eg. Lysol, TMZ, penis englargement pills). This helps the networks track down who is delivering these ads to them without permission. Post your screenies in this thread and I'll get after the offend…

We're doing some testing, just wanted everyone to get a heads-up. The site may be a bit slow for the next 2-12 hours.