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I'm trying to sign up for an account, but when I click "create account" it just tells me "This field is required" next to each field, even though I filled in al

I'm trying to sign up for an account, but when I click "create account" it just tells me "This field is required" next to each field, even though I filled in all 3 fields. EDIT: It's worked now. I think it didn't like "jstanley" as a username, but has accepted "James Stanley". Maybe it requires a space in the username field??? That's an... unusual choice. A few more things: Once I'd submitted an idea I got a page saying "Thank you for your submission", and it gave me a URL to copy to share with others, but the URL was "http://127.0.0.1:5500/item?id=25 http://127.0.0.1:5500/item?id=25" - this probably wants fixing on the public version. Also it says my idea was submitted "2 days ago" even though it was only in the last few minutes (maybe the server's clock is wrong?) The "following" page leads to "Internal Server Error". This site is a really interesting idea, nice work. I like that the ideas are shown anonymously. I clicked to provide contact details to my own idea, but I can't find anywhere that I actually access the contact details that have been provided to the idea. Does this exist yet?

davnicwil 4y ago
> Maybe it requires a space in the username field I was curious and thought it may be more likely that the requirement is the first letter must be a capital letter. Tried out some combinations and that is the case (pun intended :-) Not sure how I spotted this as being the likely thing, just intuition I guess from doing this kind of thing for long enough. For the OP, my guess at the cause would be a bad regex on username, if it's not intended. Also for the OP, I signed up with a couple of usernames starting dw with matching emails, if you want to delete those accounts :-).
- leobg 4y ago
  Thank you for the detective work! I'll look into this. This is not intended behavior at all. In fact, my own username on the platform is leobg - so, no space, no caps. Whatever it is, I'll fix it! Also, thanks for adding a marker to your test domains. That was really thoughtful of you.
- leobg 4y ago
  Fixed the username issue.
leobg 4y ago
Thank you, James, for the nice words. I'll look into that names thing. It's not at all expected behavior, and "jstanley" should have been working fine. Something is off there. I'll fix it when I get to it tomorrow. I'll also fix the sharing link, the "2 days ago" thing, and the server error. I'm a bit embarrassed about those issues. Should have caught them before posting here. Thank you for pointing them out! Regarding the contact info thing: Exactly. I haven't actually implemented that feature yet. I had done a few Show HNs before, and they went nowhere. So I tried to stick to making the bare essentials work, and fixing the rest "in post", as they say... . What's missing is only the display. The actual sharing is already recorded in the database. So far, you can see under "ideas" a table of all of your ideas, along with the counts for upvotes, subscriptions, shared email addresses, and questionaires. What I need to add is a way for you to click on these numbers, to actually be able to open the questionaires, see the contact info, or send out the update. I'm going to add this tomorrow. In your case, it might not actually appear, because you clicked on your own idea. And I think I may filter or block upvotes etc. on one's own ideas. (Then again, I can see that one wants to see that it really works. So perhaps I'll leave it and add an option to hide or show your own test interactions.)
leobg 4y ago
Fixed the "2 days ago" thing. Seems like it used the date when the database was last initiated, rather than the date of the new entry. Now it works properly.

davnicwil 4y ago

> Maybe it requires a space in the username field I was curious and thought it may be more likely that the requirement is the first letter must be a capital letter. Tried out some combinations and that is the case (pun intended :-) Not sure how I spotted this as being the likely thing, just intuition I guess from doing this kind of thing for long enough. For the OP, my guess at the cause would be a bad regex on username, if it's not intended. Also for the OP, I signed up with a couple of usernames starting dw with matching emails, if you want to delete those accounts :-).

leobg 4y ago
Thank you for the detective work! I'll look into this. This is not intended behavior at all. In fact, my own username on the platform is leobg - so, no space, no caps. Whatever it is, I'll fix it! Also, thanks for adding a marker to your test domains. That was really thoughtful of you.
leobg 4y ago
Fixed the username issue.

leobg 4y ago

Thank you, James, for the nice words. I'll look into that names thing. It's not at all expected behavior, and "jstanley" should have been working fine. Something is off there. I'll fix it when I get to it tomorrow. I'll also fix the sharing link, the "2 days ago" thing, and the server error. I'm a bit embarrassed about those issues. Should have caught them before posting here. Thank you for pointing them out! Regarding the contact info thing: Exactly. I haven't actually implemented that feature yet. I had done a few Show HNs before, and they went nowhere. So I tried to stick to making the bare essentials work, and fixing the rest "in post", as they say... . What's missing is only the display. The actual sharing is already recorded in the database. So far, you can see under "ideas" a table of all of your ideas, along with the counts for upvotes, subscriptions, shared email addresses, and questionaires. What I need to add is a way for you to click on these numbers, to actually be able to open the questionaires, see the contact info, or send out the update. I'm going to add this tomorrow. In your case, it might not actually appear, because you clicked on your own idea. And I think I may filter or block upvotes etc. on one's own ideas. (Then again, I can see that one wants to see that it really works. So perhaps I'll leave it and add an option to hide or show your own test interactions.)

leobg 4y ago

Fixed the "2 days ago" thing. Seems like it used the date when the database was last initiated, rather than the date of the new entry. Now it works properly.