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[Frencil]

Many of the tutorial links are broken.

Still having any issues here? I think we got most of them.

FYI guys - there are appx. 40 tutorials identified to have the same broken image problem. I've enlisted Tech Support to iterate over them and get them all fixed.

[Selenaut]

Sometimes going back a page or going somewhere else on the site will log me out. Is this supposed to happen?

[Erik]

I'll hit a few of these.

A few items:

• On https://www.sparkfun.com/account the word "receive" is misspelled in two places.

Thanks - it's fixed

[*]The "Add to Wishlist" button appears even if the quantity entered isn't a number. The add then fails with no feedback.

Nicer fails are being added all over the place. This will go away soon.

[*]There's no direct link to https://www.sparkfun.com/account/login available.

Why do you want a direct link to this, out of curiosity?

[*]Shopping cart accepts negative numbers for quantities but calculations treat them as positives. (Actually, the title on the shopping cart and the side bar treats it as a negative number--so I've got "-19 products" in my cart on the title and "-19 item" on the side bar.)

Could you please let me know how you did this? It's being checked in multiple ways. You shouldn't be able to get this all the way through checkout. If you feel like sending me a PM describing your process bypassing the different methods we've used, please do so.

[*]If you try to add to wish list after you've logged out in another tab there's no feedback for the attempted add failing.

This should be there eventually - another graceful error message thing.

[*]Shopping cart doesn't list unit prices.

Hmm... I see this:
$4.75 ($0.95 each)
You don't?

[*]Attempting to add 100000000000000 of an item only adds 2147483647 items. [/list]

The reason we don't check for overload is - if people want to order that many of any one item, LET THEM!

Thanks!

[stilldavid]

When I add an item to my wish list, I get bumped back up to the top of the page, which sucks because I generally show 100 products per page, and even with showing the basic 50, trying to find my previous location when browsing through the products gets annoying.

But, I'm very very wishlists where added!

Just committed a fix for this; it will go out shortly!

[Brennen@SparkFun]

It wasn't immediately obvious that the public wishlist URL is just the URL of the page. It might be good to include it as a copiable item near the share via email area. (It would also be good to have a "semi-public" sharing option that isn't brute-forcable.)

Yeah, both of these things are in the works.

Attempting to visit https://sparkfun.com/ redirects to http://www.sparkfun.com/index/index (note: no ssl and double "index").
There's no direct link to https://www.sparkfun.com/account/login available.

This is desired behavior, although we need to work out a slightly more elegant method of redirecting to implicit controller names. Primary login mechanism's in the sidebar now.

This URL generates an error: http://www.sparkfun.com/index/index/index/index but http://www.sparkfun.com/index/index/index doesn't. (lol @ "GET TO THA CHOPPAH" on the error page.)

Hrm.

[purplegecko]

Hi

Unfortunately, my workplace still forces be to use IE6, and in there the middle column in the new site drops below the others - it didn't do this before.

If it's too much work to fix, I can deal!

pG

Hey, I'm so sorry your workplace forces IE6 on you... there are better browsers!

You should get a splash page when you load the site that informs you that with this release we are no longer supporting IE6. Google, Facebook and many others have dropped support for it and it just takes too many resources to hack into submission. We support IE7+, and most other modern browsers as well as Google Chrome Frame which is a good option if you are forced to use IE6.

Good luck!

Oh I know - I use Firefox and Chrome at home!

I'm not getting a splash at work, but that may be because I was already logged in. I will delete my cookies and test tomorrow.

Don't worry too much - my day job is a web developer, so I understand the pain of IE6!

pG

[SFE-Mike]

On the Customer Service page: http://www.sparkfun.com/static/customer_service, the "Technical Assistance" link at the top is broken.

[Frencil]

[*]Attempting to add 100000000000000 of an item only adds 2147483647 items. [/list]

The reason we don't check for overload is - if people want to order that many of any one item, LET THEM!

I suppose we could up the column to a bigint and allow for up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 of a single item on an order. Even if that was one of our cheapest little LEDs we could all retire to solid gold moon fortresses following that order.

[Erik]

[*]Attempting to add 100000000000000 of an item only adds 2147483647 items. [/list]

The reason we don't check for overload is - if people want to order that many of any one item, LET THEM!

I suppose we could up the column to a bigint and allow for up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 of a single item on an order. Even if that was one of our cheapest little LEDs we could all retire to solid gold moon fortresses following that order.

I'm more of a platinum guy, but I like the way you think.


As a side note, IT would love to have their own kegerator and a soft serve ice cream machine, so if somebody feels like donating the lowly sum of a couple of thousand dollars straight to us rather than ordering billions of LED's, this is acceptable as well.

[protocol]

Tutorial: Controlling an Arduino with an iPhone

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/152

not found

[tia]

Upload User Image:
I can't upload a jpeg image. Not sure if this is a new problem or not. The image has a .jpg extension, not .jpeg if that makes a difference.

Logging Out:
Sometimes I'm redirected to http://www.sparkfun.com/index/index

Not too sure if you care, but here are a list of
In page broken links:
Customer Service Page:
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links

About Page
Press & Media Relations Links.

Contact Page
techincal assistances takes you to: http://www.sparkfun.com/static/technical_assistance.php

Tutorials
http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/90
Too lazy to find the rest of the broken ones out of almost 200 tuts.
Bored, so here are some more broken tuts:
How to Read a Datasheet: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/223
Tweeting Kegerator: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/144
Ethernet to Color LED Matrix: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/44
AT91SAM7 Serial Communications: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/90
Your Atmel Board May Not Be Dead: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/63
Nokia 6100: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/64
ARM tutorial: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/66

[Brennen@SparkFun]

Re: 404ing tutorials, we've got the bug tracked down, should have a fix up shortly.

Edit: Fixed. Deploying in a minute or two.

[ben___]

On the About page (http://www.sparkfun.com/static/about) the Team list points to http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/team.php

fixed!

[razor_sparks]

RSS Feed via Google Reader has sent me the last 5 items 3 times now today, with the most recent being in the last hour. Not simply unread items, whole new copies of those items as being unread as if they were brand new items.

[billbaitsg]

When looking at an order in the order history page, items that have >1 quantity do not have correct subtotal.



The subtotal should say something like: $10 ($2 each)