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Hmm, seems to be pointing to our old server. We’ll take a look. Thanks!

Looks good now

My recent activity doesn’t appear to have one either, but I rarely use that.

We thought we had it fixed but it’s still cropping up occasionally. It’s back on the list.

Thx Jason. It hasn’t worked for me since the update, if that helps any.

It has worked occasionally for me, but, today when I logged on I was to have more than 90 notices waiting for me, but, I did not have a see more button to see the rest of the notices.

Yes, I was noticing that as well.

Weird. Think you could send a screen shot?

I think I noticed that too – I wonder if it’s because additional tasting notes have been posted, and if “see more” loads “page two”, it now contains repeats (i.e. the last two notes prior to pressing ‘see more’ appear a second time because they’ve been bumped to the top of the second page… does that make sense?)

Just on a single user’s tasting notes if they’ve logged it multiple times? Or across all tasting notes for a tea? Can you post the link for the tea you saw this on?

Hi Jason! I noticed it first in 52teas pncake breakfast. http://steepster.com/teas/52teas/19081-pancake-breakfast-black-tea

I have logged it multiple times and it is ordered according to the likes and comments on the first log, not on the log that had the most likes and comments.

It looks like tasting notes for all users are order by popularity, so that seems to be working. So I think you’re asking just about the ordering of your tasting note, right? We’ll look into that and see what’s happening with the ordering.

Actually, I mean that the tasting notes of a tea (posted by all users) are referencing the likes and comments on a persons first note, and not taking into account the other notes on the same tea by the same person.

In other words, if someone has 2 likes on a first note, and then 100 on a second note on the same tea, and another person has 10 notes, the second persons note will appear first even though the first persons second note on that tea has 100 likes.

Hope that made sense… : )

It made sense to me (good explanation); I noticed that as well.

Since this came up here, I want to mention that I would prefer that the tasting notes for a particular tea be ordered by ‘date posted’ (or at least have that option when I view a tea). That may also be simpler than adding all of the ‘likes’ for each person and comparing them to the total ‘likes’ of others to determine. Both ways have value, yet ordering by date may be simpler. Anyway, simply, my own personal preference.

@Ninavampi I think I get what you’re saying. That should be happening because of the grouping of multiple tasting notes from a single user. Basically, we group a single user’s tasting notes so someone who drinks a single tea a lot wouldn’t just be spamming that specific tea page. So the ordering within a single user’s tasting notes is calculated first, then their top tasting note is used to determine the ordering against the top tasting notes from other users on that page. Make sense?

I’m not sure we’ll break that apart because of the multiple tasting notes spamming issue, but we can probably take a look to make sure that a single user’s tasting notes are being grouped and ordered properly.

Hi again! I don{t mean for them to be cumulative, I just mean for the note with the most amount of likes be taken into account for each particular tea even if it isn’t the first note the person wrote about it.

I like *SimpliciTEA*’s suggestion about the option to view in order of most recent! :)

Thanks for the +1 vote on the ordering of tea reviews by date option. I e-mailed Jason, and he basically stated that it’s on the list.

Based on Jason’s post above “So the ordering within a single user’s tasting notes is calculated first, then their top tasting note is used to determine the ordering against the top tasting notes from other users on that page,” I think it’s designed to sort them as you mention above, at least now it is. I believe it used to be that the total number of ‘likes’ from each tasting note of a particular user was what decided which tasting note was listed first (so if someone’s first tasting note had 10 likes, and then posted three other tasting notes for that tea, each with 8 more likes, that would come out to 10 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 34; and so a single tasting note of 30 from another blogger would be listed below that group of four tasting notes).

Thanks SimpliciTEA! As far as I can tell, it still is taking the first review in account for ordering. Look at the post for Pancake Breakfast (Which is the one I noticed it in). :)

We think we have an idea why this might be happening. Hoping to have that figured out soon.

I’m wondering if this is because it appears as though ‘old’ tasting notes that are later edited, and/or ones that have the numerical rating changed, are given a ‘fresh’ time-stamp and are thus moved to the ‘top of the heap’. I don’t think this happened before the updates (at least not because of a simple edit without any numerical rating change).

What you noticed is correct. Edits to tasting notes do change the timestamp. We had to do that in order to account for the situation in which people would log a tea but not submit the tasting note until well after they logged it. Without that change, the late tasting note wouldn’t appear at the top of your dashboard, instead it would show up based on when the “logged” button was clicked.

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining why you made the change.

I noticed the same with mine. Teas I’ve “logged” this week (whether I actually wrote a note, or left it blank) still show dates from months or years ago.

Best way to see this to look at my tealog of the teas I drank this week, then I click through to that tea’s page and it says “Last logged 17 Jul 2011” or similar.

I haven’t checked yet to see how far back this goes. I think all my notes are there (i.e. my tealog is accurate), it just isn’t updating the “last logged” date when I view the each tea’s page.

@Janefan Like on this tea? Looks like your most recent log of this was about 18 hours ago. But when you go to the tea page it shows the tasting note that was logged 11 months ago. Is that what you’re talking about?

@Krystaleyn Are you talking about on the tea page? Or somewhere else?

Yes, I’m talking about on the tea page. Where I can click to “log this tea”, underneath it says “last logged”, and the date it gives is actually the first date I ever logged it, not the last. Also, I think that on a tea page, the first tasting note it shows from me is the one I wrote first, and the “see more” feature shows my additional notes. I’m pretty sure they used to sort by comments/likes (as in, the note from me that appears is not necessarily the first, just the one with the most comments and/or likes, which is more likely to be a more recent note given that I’ve acquired many more followers since my first notes of some teas!)

Ah, the date listed under the log button. Gotcha. We’ll take a look.

The ordering on the tea page should be a different issue, but we’re looking into that too. Thanks for the help!

Think you could send a screen shot or links for a tea where you’re seeing that? I haven’t exactly kept up with my tealog so the timestamps are too long ago for me to actually see the problem :/

Yes, where should I send it?

You can post it here or just email it to me (jason at steepster.com)

Sent (I have no idea how to post on here). Let me know if that’s what you wanted. I logged Quangzhou Milk Oolong last night, but it says March.

Got it, thanks!

Got that on the bug list.

Unfortunately, that’s a limitation of the system right now. The notices are all considered as one group vs each group that they are loaded in (when you hit the “see more” button). So going to the notices tab marks all notices as read even if they aren’t in the first group shown. We have it on our list of improvements but it might take a little while to get that one in.

I find that when I don’t check my notices for as little as 24 hours that, sometimes, as you mentioned Krystaleyn, the notices pile up beyond what a single page holds and I have to click on the “See More” button—or whatever it’s called—at the bottom of the page to get the remaining list of my ‘new’ notices, but NONE of those are ever bolded, even if they are ‘new’ to me (meaning, I have never seen them listed before), I imagine because, as Jason posted, they are all considered as one group (that’s already been ‘viewed’, even though they haven’t necessarily).

I don’t know if this would help, but in Firefox I noticed that—depending on the length of each notice—my browser holds about 30 notices per ‘page’; using that information I estimate how many pages there are according to how many that little red number tells there are (I really like that little red number near the Notices tab, btw) and find the last notice I recognize that I have read the last time I checked; once I have my ‘baseline’ I then hold down the < ctrl > key and click one notice at a time—from the bottom up—such that it creates a new tab which loads the page the notice directs it to (this works in Firefox, and I think this works in MS-Exploder, as well); after I have read it and/or posted something to it, I then close the that tab. In doing it this way my tab with the original list of (mostly) bolded notices is still available, and I simply work my way up until I have addressed each notice.

It used to be that I could simply hit the Back button on my browser and it would take me DIRECTLY to the old list of notices (still bolded); but after the updates, selecting the Back button skips that Notices tab completely and takes me directly to the Tasting Notes tab; then when I click on the Notices tab again, the notices that were bolded, no longer are (I’m sure that’s because the browser thinks I want to load the current notices, and not what I consider still ‘new’ that the browser considers are ‘old’.

Uh, that didn’t come out as clear and concise as I was hoping, so take it for what it’s worth.

Good catch!