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gerry asked a question in Wakoopa on March 12, 2009 09:30:

Yeah but what's the 1st most popular?

The following page:
http://wakoopa.com/software/avg-antiv...

Right up the top of the page in big bold letters I'm told:
"AVG Anti-Virus
The 3rd most popular anti-virus tool on Windows"
With the words "anti-virus tool" being a link.

So I think "OK, so what's the 1st most popular?" so I click on the "anti-virus tool" link and I'm presented with a list of the "Most used" anti-virus tool with AVG being number 1. This situation happens a lot and it's really confusing. How do I find the list of most popular for a certain category? What am I missing?

gerry replied on February 23, 2009 15:39 to the problem "Beta site went down?" in Wakoopa:

Damn, password protected! =D

gerry replied on February 21, 2009 20:21 to the problem "Signup email not being sent to certain addresses" in MilkandCookies Network:

Update... I just received the "You or someone you know entered a request for an account at MilkandCookies.com a few days ago. This is a reminder email, please use this link to activate your new account:" email. Just to double check, I did a search of "from:milkandcookies.com" in both my gmail inbox and spam box, however only this email showed up. Very strange.

gerry marked one of Jaxon Brooks' replies in MilkandCookies Network as useful. Jaxon Brooks replied to the problem "Can't create account".

gerry marked one of Jaxon Brooks' replies in MilkandCookies Network as useful. Jaxon Brooks replied to the problem "Residual account error from the signup issue".

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gerry marked one of Jaxon Brooks' replies in MilkandCookies Network as useful. Jaxon Brooks replied to the problem "Create new user problem".

gerry marked one of Jaxon Brooks' replies in MilkandCookies Network as useful. Jaxon Brooks replied to the problem "Can't create account".

gerry reported a problem in MilkandCookies Network on February 18, 2009 15:43:

Signup email not being sent to certain addresses

I have signed up for an account and did not receive the validation email even though I received the following message:

"Your new account has been created, and an email has been sent with an activation code to the email address you provided. Check out the lastest headlines while you wait for your email! "

I have waited about half an hour and have checked my spam directory every time (even though Gmail is yet to ever send a registration email to my spam folder). I believe this has happened to me at least twice now, although I cant be sure about the first instance as my memory of it is a bit foggy. I suspect this may have also been why I've never had an account at your site, but I can't be certain.

I can not provide my email address on this page however it was in the form of:
my gmail username (which contains a period) followed by "+mlknckies@gmail.com" (without quotes)
ie. [usernameWhichContainsAPeroid]+mlknckies@gmail.com

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POSSIBLE CAUSE: My email both times contained addition (+) and period (.) characters which may not be understood correctly by the signup script. My wild stab in the dark would be that the addition character is being translated into a space via some sort of urldecode function.

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gerry replied on February 18, 2009 15:04 to the problem "Residual account error from the signup issue" in MilkandCookies Network:

Hmm that's strange. I searched through my google mail for a registration email from M&K (using the terms "milk cookies" and "milkandcookies" ) but could not find anything. However the registration issue was dated as fixed 12 days ago:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

If the system works as planned, the only thing I can think of is that I entered the email address incorrectly, but that it actually was a valid email and the person who received it then proceeded to confirm the registration. Otherwise it would have been automatically deleted by the time I tried to re-signup yesterday.

Edit: I think I know what the issue is. I just tried signing up again and received the message "Your new account has been created, and an email has been sent with an activation code to the email address you provided. Check out the lastest headlines while you wait for your email! ". However I have not received the email. I suspect I know what the cause, so I'll lodge another bug report in a moment.

Oh well, either way, thank you for deleting the account for me.

gerry replied on February 18, 2009 14:41 to the problem "Can't create account" in MilkandCookies Network:

No probs Jax. I love the site. I'm guessing your the sole developer on M&K, so you're doing a fantastic job keeping things running smoothly.

gerry replied on February 17, 2009 21:10 to the problem "Residual account error from the signup issue" in MilkandCookies Network:

I have noticed two other users who also wish to use usernames/emails that the signed up with during this time:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

gerry replied on February 17, 2009 21:09 to the problem "Can't create account" in MilkandCookies Network:

Thanks for fixing that Jaxon.

There is however a residual issue:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

And you may want to close the two other dupes of this issue:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

gerry replied on February 17, 2009 21:02 to the problem "500 server error when creating new account" in MilkandCookies Network:

This has been solved:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

I have created a new issue relating to your now unusable username and email:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

gerry replied on February 17, 2009 21:01 to the problem "Create new user problem" in MilkandCookies Network:

This has been solved:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

I have created a new issue relating to your now unusable username and email:
http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

gerry reported a problem in MilkandCookies Network on February 17, 2009 20:50:

Residual account error from the signup issue

Is it possible to delete the accounts that were created during the signup issue as they (along with their associated email addresses) are all now unusable for login and yet unavailable during signup.

Example:

I signed up with a username "gerrywastaken" when your signup form was broken.

Now when I try to login with it I cant as it was never validated.

When I enter it into the forgotten password form I get the message:
"We cannot find a user with that name or email. Please [ Contact Us ] and we will try to help you out."

However when I try to sign up with the same name I am told:
"Username already taken"

and the email is also already taken.

gerry replied on February 02, 2009 08:52 to the praise "OMG your videos changed my life" in MilkandCookies Network:

That's awesome John. There are a lot of inspiring vids there. I'm gonna go watch the one you mentioned now:

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/64...

gerry replied on January 06, 2009 18:31 to the problem "my faves doesn't list all my bookmarks" in Buzka:

Hi eviemilo

Firstly I am making the assumption that you are the user "eviemilo" on Buzka.

I looked into the your account and the database, all appears to be in order. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps you moved the bookmarks into another folder and are looking at a cached version of the Organise page. If you give me a specific example of a bookmark that is missing I can look further into this.

Happy new year

Gerry

gerry replied on December 30, 2008 14:39 to the problem "Create new user problem" in MilkandCookies Network:

Already reported:

http://getsatisfaction.com/milkandcoo...

gerry started following the problem "Create new user problem" in MilkandCookies Network.