Don't Panic! Nothing is Deleted.

John, I assume you are referring to the praxis blog http://blog.praxislanguage.com/ - in all fairness I can find no link to this on CPod (although it may be there somewhere) and I dont usually read this.

John,

just like goulnik and others I am also curious:

What mysterious change has been done to the vocab-backend and how will they materialize in future developments?

AuntySue,

As we reported on the blog before the changes, we knew that some users would temporarily be without vocabulary. The import takes an extraordinarily long time (it's a lot of users with a lot of vocab data), so we decided to relaunch while the import was still going. The result of that is some users thought their vocab was missing because they didn't see the blog post.

Phil,

I'm sorry, I misunderstood you the first time. You're right; that error is still there. It has been reported to the Tech Team and will be fixed ASAP.

Your other issue was reported as well.

We really apologize for this, and we are all working hard to get it all fixed ASAP.

So let's lay the cards on the table. Is the idea to not tell us what is still missing and hope that we don't notice everything? Because saving face is more important than saving faith? Or is there some way we're all supposed to be keeping up to date with the progress and we're not doing it? That's not meant to sound narky, I just don't understand how we students keep on failing to identify what we should have or not have at a particular point in time. What have we done wrong?

Another minor point. "The Fix mp3..." is now arriving via iTunes as "Lesson review mp3...." whilst at the lesson page it is still referred to as "The Fix". So that I can fix up my iTunes playlists, which is it to be?

Still the same for me at the moment

Phil,

Yeah, that was a bug we had. Seems to be fixed now.

Pharmine,

Not only Dear Amber, but all the Extra content for the first half of November has gone missing. Don't worry, it will be back up soon.

If I'm not mistaken, I think some of the "Dear Amber" podcasts (latest ones in November) are gone.

Not a big issue but I noticed that if I select My Conversations from the drop down list I see a correct list, but for all items: Last By is always me and the number of comments (#) is for nearly all (but not all) set to 1, both of which are incorrect...unless # is for the number of comments that I have personally made?

Most of the issues raised above have already been taken care of. Still working on old comments. Yes, upgrades are not exactly ChinesePod's strongsuit. We're sorry for all the trouble! We're working like crazy to get everything working again.

I'm sure there's been very long night at ChinesePod and user pressure isn't helping, but I have to say this has to be more than just an 'upgrade', and both communications and functional impact seem to have been vastly understimated.

I am sorry to be negative, but Chinesepod's record on upgrades is not good. I have been working in IT for many years, and it would appear that Chinesepod has never heard of regression testing, nor does Chinesepod have any one method of communicating issues and status to its subscribers.

Recent QingWen and Ask Amber podcast have disappeared, as have all the "Extra" conversations

jwosmum, it does say on the blog that The migration of all the Conversations in ChinesePod’s Conversation section will not be complete when ChinesePod goes back online, but don’t panic! They’re all coming back.

The comments older than approximately 6 months have been deleted everywhere that I have looked. As one who is working through the lessons from the beginning, I can testify that the deleted comments are a valuable part of ChinesePod. Much of what I am learning is only contained there, rather than in the lessons proper.

My 'Bio' has reverted back to how it was a day before yesterday and my nice little happy green wormy thing has gone missing (avatar)

And is it just me, or did the font size for the comments get bumped up a notch in relation to the initial post?

checking lessons again, issue seems to be timestamp missing on user comments (and other non-lesson comments). See above, there's a date but no time, unlike lessons comments that have both. Something was cleared during the overnight 'scheduled maintenance'

seems particularly painful here...

Oh, the joys of web development. :-)

My podcast feed shows all of the episodes as having the date 01/01/1970 so iTunes is now wanting to download duplicates of everything in my feed because of the date being different from the ones I have already downloaded.

looks like the lesson conversations are properly listed, or is it something to do with system time (CPod) vs browser time (user)?

I hope that's only temporary.

I found my Grammar Point collection on the bottom of page 7 in "my Conversations".

Goulniky is correct.

The comments are by creation instead of modification date.

They should still be there now. Click on "more" at the bottom of the Conversations main page.

looks like the conversations isn't listed by last comment timestamp anymore (or maybe system time wasn't properly reset)