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Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run (together.jolla.com)[https://together.jolla.com/questions/]) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "Minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• (Daily digest feature does not work)[https://together.jolla.com/question/158706/together-email-notification-for-new-posts-only/]
• (Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically)[https://together.jolla.com/question/73006/askbot-nickname-problem-attributes-wrong-link-automatically/]

As Askbot is Free Software, this presumably is a plainly administrative task in order to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as (Askbot's documentation)[https://askbot.org/doc/index.html] is quite extensive, and (installing / upgrading it)[https://askbot.org/doc/install.html] can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the (Askbot version available at pypi.python.org)[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/askbot/], which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence somewhat likely to cause trouble.

While (Askbot's changelog)[https://askbot.org/doc/changelog.html] lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently (version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github)[https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/releases], which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run (together.jolla.com)[https://together.jolla.com/questions/]) together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "Minor "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• (Daily Daily digest feature does not work)[https://together.jolla.com/question/158706/together-email-notification-for-new-posts-only/]work
• (Askbot: Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically)[https://together.jolla.com/question/73006/askbot-nickname-problem-attributes-wrong-link-automatically/]automatically

As Askbot is Free Software, this presumably is a plainly administrative task in order to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as (Askbot's documentation)[https://askbot.org/doc/index.html] Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and (installing installing / upgrading it)[https://askbot.org/doc/install.html] it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the (Askbot Askbot version available at pypi.python.org)[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/askbot/], pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence somewhat likely to cause trouble.

While (Askbot's changelog)[https://askbot.org/doc/changelog.html] Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently (version version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github)[https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/releases], github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor "minor edit (don't send alerts)" alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Daily digest feature does not work
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically

As Askbot is Free Software, this presumably is a plainly administrative task in order to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence somewhat likely to cause trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Daily digest feature does not work.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.

As Askbot is Free Software, this presumably is a plainly administrative task in order to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence somewhat likely to cause potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Daily digest feature does not work.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.

As Askbot is Free Software, hence this presumably is a plainly is part of the administrative task in order tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. date (with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Daily digest feature does not work.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.

As Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (with (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question, makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to retag a question first, and then hit retaf, again: Only then a free text line appears, in which mew tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question, question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to retag "retag" a question first, and then hit retaf, "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which mew new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
• The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on; see Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
• The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on; see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work. and Together digest email notification not working
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
• The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on; see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not workingworking.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
• The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on; see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
• The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on; see on (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

• Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work, when editing questions, answers or comments.
• Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
• For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
• Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
• Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
• The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is just IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date (i.e. with no license costs involved). date. And on first sight that seems to be quite simple, not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt your Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string, [BUG] Search results are different from 'Ask Question' suggestions and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depicts this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string, [BUG] Search results are different from 'Ask Question' suggestions and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depicts depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
10. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
10. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.
11. Only questions and answers can be marked as "flag offensive", but not comments! Consequently comment spam stays on TJC forever.

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions (i.e., in its JavaScript-based drop-down list) are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
10. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.
11. Only questions and answers can be marked as "flag offensive", but not comments! Consequently comment spam stays on TJC forever.

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions (i.e., in its JavaScript-based drop-down list) are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
10. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.
11. Only questions and answers can be marked as "flag offensive", but not comments! Consequently comment spam stays on TJC forever.forever.
12. No more email notifications at all after April, 18th 2020

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions (i.e., in its JavaScript-based drop-down list) are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
10. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.
11. Only questions and answers can be marked as "flag offensive", but not comments! Consequently comment spam stays on TJC forever.
12. No more email notifications at all after April, 18th 2020
13. Inbox gets flooded with links to the same edited comment/answer

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions (i.e., in its JavaScript-based drop-down list) are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to always send alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
10. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.
11. Only questions and answers can be marked as "flag offensive", but not comments! Consequently comment spam stays on TJC forever.
12. working plus ("new") No more email notifications at all after April, 18th 2020
13. Inbox gets flooded with links to the same edited comment/answer .
14. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
15. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
16. Askbot view count unreliable.
17. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
18. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.
19. Only questions and answers can be marked as "flag offensive", but not comments! Consequently comment spam stays on TJC forever.

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.

Dear sailors,

please update Askbot (the software utilised to run together.jolla.com) to a newer release, as its outdated version 0.7.49 (released 2013-09-13) used here has a couple of annoying bugs, for example:

1. The search function returns many seemingly unrelated results, although the search suggestions (i.e., in its JavaScript-based drop-down list) are quite spot on. See e.g [Bug Askbot]: Search function cannot find string and askbot and full question text search, which nicely depict this issue (see also Suggestion: Update the forum software so it is easier to find/read relevant issues?).
2. Activating the check-box "minor edit (don't send alerts)" apparently does not work (it does seem to make a difference (Askbot always send sends alerts), when editing questions, answers or comments.
3. Adding tags to a question via "retag", makes you appear to have edited it in the question header.
4. For suggesting new tags, one has to try to "retag" a question first, and then hit "retag", again: Only then a free text line appears, in which new tags can be submitted for moderator approval. This behaviour of Askbot 0.7.49 is neither intuitive, properly guided or documented!
5. Daily digest feature does not work and Together digest email notification not working plus ("new") No more email notifications at all after April, 18th 2020.
6. Askbot: @nickname problem attributes wrong link automatically.
7. The strange behaviour described in askbot: question lost/deleted? has been nicely tracked down and answered by @Keto for this specific case, but still seems to be technically unresolved.
8. Askbot view count unreliable.
9. [askbot?] deleted questions appear in search
10. The entries in Askbot's JavaScript-based drop-down list of search suggestions seem to be sorted from old to new.
11. Only questions and answers can be marked as "flag offensive", but not comments! Consequently comment spam stays on TJC forever.

And I wholeheartedly agree with this old feature request (and manual workaround) Askbot: Expose comment anchors for direct linking.

Askbot is Free Software, hence this is IMHO part of the administrative tasks to keep TJC's server software up to date. And on first sight that seems to be not too hard, as Askbot's documentation is quite extensive, and installing / upgrading it can be accomplished in three different, almost equally easy ways (well, ignoring the efforts to adapt Jolla's customisations).

But when looking closely, the recommended easy_install (and pip install) will download and install the Askbot version available at pypi.python.org, which is a new major release (0.10) and currently a beta version (0.10.2), hence potentially causing trouble.

While Askbot's changelog lists version 0.7.57 as its recent stable release, the latest publicly available stable release of Askbot is apparently version 0.7.53.1 from its development site at github, which must be manually downloaded, unpacked and installed per python setup.py install (technically equivalent to running easy_install).

So please update Askbot from version 0.7.49 to 0.7.53.1 (or 0.7.57, if that version is accessible for you).

Thanks and happy sailing.