Interface bugs

Even though I am logged in, I get this screen after I classify. Using a Mac.

Posted September 11, 2012 10:48 AM

by arfon in response to klmasters's comment.

None of my SkyServer SDSS images seem to work? Am I missing something really obvious?

Posted September 11, 2012 11:22 AM

by klmasters scientist, admin

I think that's a bug in the new (DR8) version of sky server. I find if I hit "Find Image" it will load, but it doesn't do it automatically which is annoying (I'll send an email somewhere...)

Posted September 11, 2012 11:24 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist

I'm having trouble getting SkyServer to display images as well -- maybe there's a technical problem on the SDSS end (or we're overloading it)?

Posted September 11, 2012 11:25 AM

by Auroness

Safari 5.1.7 on Mac OS 10.6.8

I login at zooniverse, then have to log in again at galaxyzoo.org. The logins used to carry over.
Whenever I select one or more "odd", and click on the "done" mark, it goes immediately to the next image, without the option to discuss. If there is nothing "odd", the buttons all work like they should.

Posted September 11, 2012 3:46 PM

klmasters
Actually the bug for me is worse (Chrome on Mountain Lion) - I have to completely reload to get a new galaxy (no buttons work after it asks me if I want to discuss this object).

Hi Karen

This bug should now be fixed. You may need to clear your browser's cache to see the fix.

Cheers
Arfon

Posted September 11, 2012 5:27 PM

by arfon in response to echo-lily-mai's comment.

echo-lily-mai
None of my SkyServer SDSS images seem to work? Am I missing something really obvious?

Also now fixed.

Posted September 11, 2012 5:28 PM

by Dean_Fielding in response to mschwamb's comment.

mschwamb
The new Galaxy Zoo interface is beautiful and sleek. The help content gets cut off in chrome - . Examples are the the help boxes for "Is the galaxy simply smooth and rounded, with no sign of a disk?" and " What are the odd features?". For the latter, when you scroll to the bottom the last set of images are half there.
~Meg

im having the same problem. ive tried using my mobile phone, laptop with windows 7 and pc with windows xp. if i click on the help button when im not sure then i cant scroll down to view all of the help images and some dont display at all.

Posted September 11, 2012 8:56 PM

by Dean_Fielding in response to mschwamb's comment.

mschwamb

mschwamb
Booo to missing help content! 😦 Glad you like the site though!

The interface is really something: fast and sleek (I'm jealous!). Congratulations to all the developers and science team on the relaunch. I just wanted to mention something really minor - on http://www.galaxyzoo.org/#/story - You've got a "(ADD BLOG LINKS TO EACH OF THESE)" hanging around.

im having the same problem, ive tried using my mobile phone, laptop with windows 7 and pc with windows xp. if i click on the help button when im not sure then i cant scroll down to view all of the help images and some dont display at all.

Posted September 11, 2012 8:57 PM

by williamaskew

Can someone tell me where the 5000 odd galaxies i have classified have gone?

Posted September 12, 2012 4:28 PM

by heathen

bug with new htc evo phone when looking a quiz you can not scroll the quiz or resize it

Posted September 12, 2012 11:18 PM

by sanadros

If u click on the arow of recent collection or recent objects then u get that (FF 15.0.1 Win 7)

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Posted September 12, 2012 11:29 PM

by NicholasDM

I've just returned to classifying galaxies after about a year hiatus and I'm having a heck of a time with the new interface being very, very inconsistent. For galaxies that I need to classify as "clumpy", the option never comes up under any menu. But I've gotten spirals before, clicked on "spiral or features" and immediately received the "clumpy" classification. But then for another galaxy I need to classify as round and smooth, I'll click the "smooth" classification and I get the "clumpy" option.

It's very hit or miss, and there is another section of classifications that randomly pops up having to do with merging and tidal debris. Very random and causing the correct classification to come up is not reproducible in my experience, and boy did I try through several galaxies by systematically clicking through all of the menus.

Still waiting for the Android app to be fixed. 😦 Doesn't work on my Galaxy Nexus or my Nexus 7 tablet.

Windows 7 Pro. Google Chrome. Mozilla Firefox.

Posted September 13, 2012 12:17 AM

by karthikeyan.d

Some observations and questions about the Profile page

if I refresh it, I am asked to log in again. Why? Shouldn't the page just ... refresh?
I can see only one page of the Favourites and Recent lists. How to see the remaining pages?
Even though I have taken two quizzes, the count is still shown as 0.

Thanks

Posted September 13, 2012 2:48 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to NicholasDM's comment.

nicholasdm
I've just returned to classifying galaxies after about a year hiatus and I'm having a heck of a time with the new interface being very, very inconsistent. For galaxies that I need to classify as "clumpy", the option never comes up under any menu. But I've gotten spirals before, clicked on "spiral or features" and immediately received the "clumpy" classification. But then for another galaxy I need to classify as round and smooth, I'll click the "smooth" classification and I get the "clumpy" option.
It's very hit or miss, and there is another section of classifications that randomly pops up having to do with merging and tidal debris. Very random and causing the correct classification to come up is not reproducible in my experience, and boy did I try through several galaxies by systematically clicking through all of the menus.
Still waiting for the Android app to be fixed. 😦 Doesn't work on my Galaxy Nexus or my Nexus 7 tablet.
Windows 7 Pro. Google Chrome. Mozilla Firefox.

There are actually two question trees, one for Hubble data and one for SDSS. When you're viewing a Hubble image you'll be asked about mergers directly (and possibly about clumps), but that question doesn't exist in SDSS, where you can still note a merger in the "Odd" question (which doesn't exist for Hubble). Either way you can still discuss the object here and give it a hashtag with whatever features you thought were interesting that the question tree didn't ask about!

You can see which survey you're classifying data from by checking the icon next to the "Invert" button, above the questions.

Posted September 13, 2012 11:44 AM

by JeanTate in response to Auroness's comment.

Auroness
Safari 5.1.7 on Mac OS 10.6.8

I login at zooniverse, then have to log in again at galaxyzoo.org. The logins used to carry over.

Whenever I select one or more "odd", and click on the "done" mark, it goes immediately to the next image, without the option to discuss. If there is nothing "odd", the buttons all work like they should.

I have the same issue for 1. Is there a plan to fix it? A single login to all Zooinverse projects, and attached fora/Talks would seem to be A GOOD IDEA

Posted September 13, 2012 9:28 PM

by NicholasDM in response to vrooje's comment.

When I go to my profile page it shows my first 10 comments, then there is a darker line, and under that it shows my first two comments again. That's it, it doesn't show any more.
Obviously to track what I've posted I can go to home page, recent discussions, Including posts by me.
I know from moderating a different Talk it is sometimes necessary to review comments, is this happening to other people or just me?

Posted September 14, 2012 8:23 PM

vrooje

vrooje
I've just returned to classifying galaxies after about a year hiatus and I'm having a heck of a time with the new interface being very, very inconsistent. For galaxies that I need to classify as "clumpy", the option never comes up under any menu. But I've gotten spirals before, clicked on "spiral or features" and immediately received the "clumpy" classification. But then for another galaxy I need to classify as round and smooth, I'll click the "smooth" classification and I get the "clumpy" option.
It's very hit or miss, and there is another section of classifications that randomly pops up having to do with merging and tidal debris. Very random and causing the correct classification to come up is not reproducible in my experience, and boy did I try through several galaxies by systematically clicking through all of the menus.
Still waiting for the Android app to be fixed. 😦 Doesn't work on my Galaxy Nexus or my Nexus 7 tablet.
Windows 7 Pro. Google Chrome. Mozilla Firefox.

There are actually two question trees, one for Hubble data and one for SDSS. When you're viewing a Hubble image you'll be asked about mergers directly (and possibly about clumps), but that question doesn't exist in SDSS, where you can still note a merger in the "Odd" question (which doesn't exist for Hubble). Either way you can still discuss the object here and give it a hashtag with whatever features you thought were interesting that the question tree didn't ask about!
You can see which survey you're classifying data from by checking the icon next to the "Invert" button, above the questions.

Thank you for the information! I will read and inspect the elements more carefully from now on.

Posted September 14, 2012 8:56 PM

Me again!!! When I go to classify it won't let me login. I have to classify at least 3 galaxies before it will prompt me to do so. Then I can login from there. The most annoying thing about this is that if one of those three is a particularly nice galaxy that you would like to add to favourites, you can't 😦 Also I have to login again to post onto Talk.

Posted September 15, 2012 3:16 PM

by garrett_cw in response to echo-lily-mai's comment.

Not all of the classified images are displayed.:
Forum post on September 13, 2012, 08:42:19 AM and a following post today.:
http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=277818.msg615617 #msg615617

Posted September 16, 2012 12:08 PM

echo-lily-mai
Me again!!! When I go to classify it won't let me login. I have to classify at least 3 galaxies before it will prompt me to do so. Then I can login from there. The most annoying thing about this is that if one of those three is a particularly nice galaxy that you would like to add to favourites, you can't 😦 Also I have to login again to post onto Talk.

The login button does nothing. you can click profile and it will give you a login form.
When I go to talk (This forum), why do I have to login again?

Posted September 16, 2012 6:20 PM

garrett_cw in response to echo-lily-mai

The login button does nothing. you can click profile and it will give you a login form.

Nice tip! No longer do I have to worry that one of the first three galaxies I classify will be one that I want to favourite 😉

Posted September 16, 2012 8:45 PM

by james_involute

After selecting 'remove' on a stale/irrelevant discussion, I can no longer see my profile page - I get an error page. I'm keen to get access to my collections again! Any help much appreciated.

Posted September 16, 2012 11:06 PM

by Chinabob

Please could somebody guide me on how to get the help page to scroll down. I am using chrome.
Have an uncomplicated day

Posted September 16, 2012 11:22 PM

There isn't a link to blogs!!!! The only one I can find is half way through a page of text in "The story so far".

Posted September 17, 2012 10:50 AM

Please read my comment 4 posts down http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00013vp/discussions/DGZ100674a comments and discussions really should be accessible when clicking on the object ID. Otherwise information cannot be gathered or questions answered.

Posted September 21, 2012 10:15 AM

Please read my comment 4 posts down http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00013vp/discussions/DGZ100674a comments and discussions really should be accessible when clicking on the object ID. Otherwise information cannot be gathered or questions answered.

Ok I am calming down a little now... I see there is a link when you click on object ID "Mentions" (this really was hard to find, if you don't know that its there) however my next complaint is that it takes you to the begging of a discussion not to the post itself. so you won't be able to find where the comment is. Especially the more people that post to that discussion.

Posted September 21, 2012 10:26 AM

Me again!!!!! Actually there is a problem, If you click on my comment http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00013uv it says there are no discussions (which is wrong) but there is a mention. If you then click on discussion http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00013vp/discussions/DGZ100674a it has mentions, but with no link to my comment! If you click on the mention 'bug' it will bring you to the beginning of the thread. Feel free to play around with these links to check.

Posted September 21, 2012 10:33 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist

I posted this on those object pages, but just to cross-post: I think the discussions are separated because AGZ00013uv and AGZ00013vp are two separate objects in the database, one for each side of the object/pair in question.

Note that if you mention one object in the discussion (or on the object page) of another it will link those pages together. As far as I can tell this will only link them in one direction unless you then go to the other page and link the first object back, and then they will be cross-linked.

I haven't played around with the search features enough to know how useful this will be for, say, galaxies where the central object and several star-forming clumps each have their own object in the database.

Posted September 21, 2012 10:59 AM

Of course! My mistake uv and vp are different!! Big sorry.

Posted September 21, 2012 11:36 AM

Not sure if this has come up yet or not (this thread is already five pages long!).

While classifying, you can click on Help, at any time, and a window pops up with helpful help! Yay!!

However, the Help with "Bar or No" says "Sometimes galaxies have a prominent straight "bar" running through their centre, and that's what we're looking for here. Click to see larger images." .. but there are no images! 😦

ETA (more): the "how tightly wound?" help pop-up is too long; the third choice/example ("loose") is below the bottom of my screen!

Then "How many spiral arms?" There's only one case, and only one example, and it's of "can't tell" (not a good one, I might add)

Also, "how prominent is the bulge?" is like the "bar" help - no images. Ditto "Is there anything odd?" (Obviously, this is all about the SDSS tree; I'll check the Hubble one later).

Lastly, the help - about "would you like to discuss?" - says you'll be returned to classifying when (if?) you close the new "discuss" window. However, it doesn't say that - at this point - you're done with that object! Not a biggie, but you don't get to restart your classification! This is important!! Why? Because, as Karen says (in a comment in the blog) "For the SDSS images, if you follow the Galaxy Zoo Examine link you can zoom in on the Skyserver image." (in reference to not being sure what the object at the center of the image is - the one you're supposed to classify). Which is true. But by then you've no chance to go back and restart, having discovered you've classified the wrong object! (that bug is the topic of at least one of my posts/comments, with #question, or #questions in it).

Posted September 21, 2012 1:47 PM

by james_involute

Unfortunately I still can't access my profile page. This is the only way I can easily manage my collections and, now I have established a profile, I'd rather not have to discard it. It has occurred to me the problem my be that I am still 'watching' a discussion that has been removed.

Posted September 21, 2012 7:45 PM

Discussion: DR8 says STAR
http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00014oi/discussions/DGZ100675i

Posted September 21, 2012 8:26 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

For the moment you can only access the first page of your favourites and recents. How can we get to the other pages ?

Posted September 22, 2012 9:06 AM

by ElisabethB moderator

Don't know if this counts as a bug, but it looks like everyone gets the same images in the same order.
It has happened a couple of times that people post the same image only minutes apart.
Or for instance this morning there were a lot of bad images with stars and apparently a lot of people got these.
Shouldn't this be more random ?
Or is it just a feeling and the images are served at random ? 😉

Posted September 22, 2012 11:34 AM

by zutopian in response to echo-lily-mai's comment.

Hello, quick question. Why are some of the # tags not working? I've noticed some comments with tags are not blue and do not link?

Posted September 22, 2012 8:39 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

Yup, noticed that too.

Posted September 22, 2012 8:42 PM

echo-lily-mai
Hello, quick question. Why are some of the # tags not working? I've noticed some comments with tags are not blue and do not link?

If you use a tag after you wrote some other text, it is blue.
If you press "blank" and then use a tag it is also blue.
Otherwise it is not blue in a post, but nonetheless it is also displayed in the blue box at the top of a page or as a keyword.
#tag1 As you can see, tag1 is also displayed in the blue box at the top of this page.
#tag2 I put a "blank" before the tag
this is #tag3

Posted September 23, 2012 1:42 PM

There are GZ images, which are incomplete, though in SDSS the whole image is available, e.g. this one:
http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00023pd/discussions/DGZ100678d

Posted September 24, 2012 7:58 AM

The Help pages for "Bar" and "Bulge" don't contain images, but there is given "Click to see larger images.":
"Sometimes galaxies have a prominent straight "bar" running through their centre, and that's what we're looking for here. Click to see larger images."
"It's not always easy to tell, but look at the centre of the galaxy for a round bulge of stars which may obscure any bar and the spiral arms in this central region. Click to see larger images."

Posted September 27, 2012 10:38 AM

The annotate feature doesn't work. It does when you preview reply, but not when you post.

Posted September 30, 2012 12:06 PM

by elizabeth_s

Do not know if this is the place to post this question...............but I can see no other....... Why do the classification numbers not change . I have been classifying most of the day and my numbers do not change.(Zoo4) I assume since 95% of the pictures up to be classify are star or artifact they do not count? Any and input would be great.

Posted October 5, 2012 7:03 PM

by keyaberry

any way to add a profile picture?

Posted October 5, 2012 8:01 PM

by arfon in response to ElisabethB's comment.

Lots of interface bugs reported, no comment back from anyone in the development team (etc), on any (except > 20 days' ago).

Why?

Posted October 7, 2012 1:54 AM

by elizabeth_s

Good question Jean.

Posted October 7, 2012 8:00 PM

by GStark

I gotta say, I am dismayed by this whole process. I have lost all my classified history, there is no invert on the Examine display for a Favorite, Z values seem to have gone away from the Examine view - both Classify and Favorite... Perhaps they ran off with the missing NED link, and this talk interface feels inferior to the old forums one.

It is a fact that I am having much less fun and grumbling more.

Posted October 7, 2012 9:12 PM

That's a subtle 'bug' that can appear when a few people are on the site simultaneously classifying and also commenting heavily. It's actually because we're building up the classifications for each object uniformly so we can be more efficient.

It's not quite a bug but I think we might want to change this to behave slightly differently.

Cheers
Arfon

ElisabethB
Don't know if this counts as a bug, but it looks like everyone gets the same images in the same order.
It has happened a couple of times that people post the same image only minutes apart.
Or for instance this morning there were a lot of bad images with stars and apparently a lot of people got these.
Shouldn't this be more random ?
Or is it just a feeling and the images are served at random ? 😉

Posted October 8, 2012 12:26 PM

by arfon in response to ElisabethB's comment.

ElisabethB
For the moment you can only access the first page of your favourites and recents. How can we get to the other pages ?

Going to try and get that implemented this week. Sorry it's taken a while to get to this.

Cheers
Arfon

Posted October 8, 2012 12:27 PM

by arfon in response to kuyanik's comment.

Going to take a look at this today. Thanks for pointing this out (Jean also).

Cheers
Arfon

kuyanik
The Help pages for "Bar" and "Bulge" don't contain images, but there is given "Click to see larger images.":
"Sometimes galaxies have a prominent straight "bar" running through their centre, and that's what we're looking for here. Click to see larger images."
"It's not always easy to tell, but look at the centre of the galaxy for a round bulge of stars which may obscure any bar and the spiral arms in this central region. Click to see larger images."

Posted October 8, 2012 12:30 PM

by arfon in response to elizabeth's comment.

Is this on your Zooniverse profile page? We didn't manage to hook the new site up to the Zooniverse profiles before launch - they definitely all count though!

elizabeth
Do not know if this is the place to post this question...............but I can see no other....... Why do the classification numbers not change . I have been classifying most of the day and my numbers do not change.(Zoo4) I assume since 95% of the pictures up to be classify are star or artifact they do not count? Any and input would be great.

Posted October 8, 2012 12:31 PM

by arfon in response to kuyanik's comment.

kuyanik
There are GZ images, which are incomplete, though in SDSS the whole image is available, e.g. this one:
http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00023pd/discussions/DGZ100678d

We may be able to fix this but I'm pretty sure this is an issue with the way the SDSS cutouts are created for the site and not something under our control sorry.

Posted October 8, 2012 12:33 PM

by arfon in response to GStark's comment.

Hi gstark. Are you missing your classification history from the old project?

gstark
I gotta say, I am dismayed by this whole process. I have lost all my classified history, there is no invert on the Examine display for a Favorite, Z values seem to have gone away from the Examine view - both Classify and Favorite... Perhaps they ran off with the missing NED link, and this talk interface feels inferior to the old forums one.
It is a fact that I am having much less fun and grumbling more.

Posted October 8, 2012 12:46 PM

by zutopian in response to arfon's comment.

arfon

arfon
There are GZ images, which are incomplete, though in SDSS the whole image is available, e.g. this one:
http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00023pd/discussions/DGZ100678d

We may be able to fix this but I'm pretty sure this is an issue with the way the SDSS cutouts are created for the site and not something under our control sorry.

I had asked that question also in another discussion and klmasters replied and I replied to her reply.:
http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ00023pd/discussions/DGZ100678d
I use #blankpart for such kind of images. I think, that classifying an image, which is too incomplete, doesn't make sense. Besides it is difficult to recognize the central object in some cases.

Posted October 8, 2012 12:54 PM

by zutopian in response to arfon's comment.

arfon
Going to take a look at this today. Thanks for pointing this out (Jean also).
Cheers
Arfon

arfon
The Help pages for "Bar" and "Bulge" don't contain images, but there is given "Click to see larger images.":
"Sometimes galaxies have a prominent straight "bar" running through their centre, and that's what we're looking for here. Click to see larger images."
"It's not always easy to tell, but look at the centre of the galaxy for a round bulge of stars which may obscure any bar and the spiral arms in this central region. Click to see larger images."

The Help pages for the Hubble images contain bar and bulge images, but the Help pages for the SDSS images don't.

Posted October 8, 2012 6:33 PM

I started a topic in Technical Support on the forum.:

I use IE9 and it worked fine for the new GZ, but now the look of site is in a mess.: The classification buttons and the questions are misplaced. As far as I know, IE9 is the latest version. If so, why is the new GZ now in a mess? Following message is displayed.: This site probably won't work until you update your browser...
http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=280437.0
Here is a part of the print screen:

Posted October 9, 2012 9:46 AM

by williamaskew

Is there a chance we could get the page marker dots on our collections a little clearer? Even larger?

Posted October 11, 2012 3:28 AM

by zutopian in response to JeanTate's comment.

"Backward compatibility" seems to have been lost. Zooite Rybo1 posted a beautiful Hubble spiral in the forum, on April 20, 2011. The image still displays (image URL: http://zoo-hst.s3.amazonaws.com/20184131.jpg), and he gave a URL (link) for the object:
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc

Yet clicking on that takes you to a page with this message (over two lines): "We can't find the page you're looking for Please try retyping the address, or return home"

Is every Hubble Zoo object now lost (to zooites), except for their posted images?

Posted October 11, 2012 8:26 AM

JeanTate
"Backward compatibility" seems to have been lost. Zooite Rybo1 posted a beautiful Hubble spiral in the forum, on April 20, 2011. The image still displays (image URL: http://zoo-hst.s3.amazonaws.com/20184131.jpg), and he gave a URL (link) for the object:
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc
Yet clicking on that takes you to a page with this message (over two lines): "We can't find the page you're looking for Please try retyping the address, or return home"
Is every Hubble Zoo object now lost (to zooites), except for their posted images?

That question was asked here before.
arfon replied.:

with the new version of Galaxy Zoo it's all new galaxies so the old objects aren't in the new site. You can see your old favourites at: http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/
So the new link for that image from the previous GZ is as follows.:
http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc

Posted October 11, 2012 9:11 AM

by zutopian in response to wtaskew's comment.

wtaskew
Is there a chance we could get the page marker dots on our collections a little clearer? Even larger?

I suggest to add page numbers!

Posted October 11, 2012 9:20 AM

by JeanTate in response to kuyanik's comment.

Referring to my post from 2 days ago.:
NOW THERE IS JUST THE BACKGROUND DISPLAYED! The message "browser update" no longer appears! I use IE9!

Posted October 11, 2012 9:28 AM

zutopian

zutopian
"Backward compatibility" seems to have been lost. Zooite Rybo1 posted a beautiful Hubble spiral in the forum, on April 20, 2011. The image still displays (image URL: http://zoo-hst.s3.amazonaws.com/20184131.jpg), and he gave a URL (link) for the object:
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc
Yet clicking on that takes you to a page with this message (over two lines): "We can't find the page you're looking for Please try retyping the address, or return home"
Is every Hubble Zoo object now lost (to zooites), except for their posted images?

That question was asked here before.
arfon replied.:

with the new version of Galaxy Zoo it's all new galaxies so the old objects aren't in the new site. You can see your old favourites at: http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/
So the new link for that image from the previous GZ is as follows.:
http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc

Thanks zutopian.

Recommendation for the development team then: change the text on the "We can't find..." default page, to include words which mean "if you're looking for a Hubble Zoo image, the URL will look like {sample URL}. For more on older versions of the Galaxy Zoo, click on this link, a forum post by zookeeperChris: http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=280399.0"

Posted October 11, 2012 12:16 PM

by arfon in response to kuyanik's comment.

That's correct. Sorry we didn't make this more obvious.

zutopian

zutopian
"Backward compatibility" seems to have been lost. Zooite Rybo1 posted a beautiful Hubble spiral in the forum, on April 20, 2011. The image still displays (image URL: http://zoo-hst.s3.amazonaws.com/20184131.jpg), and he gave a URL (link) for the object:
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc
Yet clicking on that takes you to a page with this message (over two lines): "We can't find the page you're looking for Please try retyping the address, or return home"
Is every Hubble Zoo object now lost (to zooites), except for their posted images?

That question was asked here before.
arfon replied.:

with the new version of Galaxy Zoo it's all new galaxies so the old objects aren't in the new site. You can see your old favourites at: http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/
So the new link for that image from the previous GZ is as follows.:
http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc

Posted October 17, 2012 4:42 PM

by zutopian in response to arfon's comment.

arfon
That's correct. Sorry we didn't make this more obvious.

arfon

arfon
"Backward compatibility" seems to have been lost. Zooite Rybo1 posted a beautiful Hubble spiral in the forum, on April 20, 2011. The image still displays (image URL: http://zoo-hst.s3.amazonaws.com/20184131.jpg), and he gave a URL (link) for the object:
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc
Yet clicking on that takes you to a page with this message (over two lines): "We can't find the page you're looking for Please try retyping the address, or return home"
Is every Hubble Zoo object now lost (to zooites), except for their posted images?

That question was asked here before.
arfon replied.:

with the new version of Galaxy Zoo it's all new galaxies so the old objects aren't in the new site. You can see your old favourites at: http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/
So the new link for that image from the previous GZ is as follows.:
http://zoo3.galaxyzoo.org/examine/AHZ2001iwc

Today I noticed, that there is following information and a link in Favourites/Recents (new GZ) given.:

If you're looking for your old galaxies from Galaxy Zoo Hubble, ...

Posted October 20, 2012 11:40 AM

Please make Talk more userfriendly! There is something, about what I am annoyed, because it is time cosuming.:
I get #annoyed, when looking at the Recent posts in Talk.:
When clicking on a post e.g. on page 4 and then go back, Page1 is displayed instead of Page4. (On the GZ forum it is fine!)
I wonder, why it is the case. Haven't someone complained about it in the Talk sites of the other projects? Or do others don't have that problem? I use IE9.

Posted October 22, 2012 7:14 PM

The raw data button hasn't worked on the iPad. I really need to try it on the computer. That's so interesting.
That's a post by anned75, in the GZ forum.

I've copied it here because I doubt anyone will see it over there!

Posted April 18, 2013 2:44 PM

I don't think this has been mentioned before: the Talk interpreter is really, really dumb. It needs to get smarter.

Example: if it finds a hash character, followed by a letter (and maybe a numeral), it treats it as a tag. Even if that string is part of a URL! (OK, maybe it's at least two letters).

Posted April 22, 2013 2:20 PM

by josmann

I'm getting a weird bug. None of the galaxy images are displaying for me anymore. I classified 20+ galaxies just fine a week ago and now every single image acts like it's broken. If I blindly classify the given galaxy, the next one shows up like this too. I've used Chrome, IE, and Firefox on two different PCs running Windows 8 and Windows 7 and I get the same issue with both. Here's a screenshot

Edit: So I figured out that the images show up when I'm on my university's internet connection, but not when I'm on my home connection. Any Ideas why?

Posted April 23, 2013 5:34 AM

by villordsutch in response to arfon's comment.

"View raw data in different wavelengths" tool is not working (at least for Hubble images)

Posted May 2, 2013 7:55 AM

arfon
Found any bugs we should know about? Post them here...

I can't seem to log in on my Nexus 7. On the log in screen I get an error message and I am told to try again in 2 minutes (this first started was 7 hours ago).

Posted May 4, 2013 4:10 PM

by Mgorman in response to JeanTate's comment.

JeanTate
"View raw data in different wavelengths" tool is not working (at least for Hubble images)

Agree. This tool has been inconsistent with Hubble images for many days, sometimes working and others not. It seems very slow all the time, even when working.

Posted May 4, 2013 4:37 PM

by v3nom

Recently I noticed that sometimes picture does not refresh after successful classification. I answer yes/no for question "Do you want to discuss object" and nothing happens - page seems to be frozen. Obviously I cannot submit classification again, as buttons seem to be deactivated. However I found that all such classifications appear in the system in my "recent classifications".

I suspected my network connection, but it is no that bad and "pings" are usually around 100-300ms, sometimes 500-900ms. Do you also experience similar issues recently?

EDIT: I kept classifying while running ping in terminal window, so I could see performance of my network connection. I noticed that page failed to "reload" (technically picture did not change), but there was no problem with my network in the same time.

Posted May 21, 2013 9:53 PM

by v3nom

There is also bug in the mail notification subsystem. I get constantly every week or two weeks below message. First I thought that this is caused by moderator, who moderated message left by spam bot, but message keeps appearing in my inbox. It seems that ElisabethB broke something 😉

Dear v3nom
The discussion 'New to Galaxy Zoo? Want Help? Read this!' has been commented on by ElisabethB
Click here to view the discussion.
The comment was:
x
Thanks!
The Zooniverse Email Robot

Posted May 22, 2013 10:11 AM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to v3nom's comment.

v3nom
There is also bug in the mail notification subsystem. I get constantly every week or two weeks below message. First I thought that this is caused by moderator, who moderated message left by spam bot, but message keeps appearing in my inbox. It seems that ElisabethB broke something 😉

Dear v3nom
The discussion 'New to Galaxy Zoo? Want Help? Read this!' has been commented on by ElisabethB
Click here to view the discussion.
The comment was:
x
Thanks!
The Zooniverse Email Robot

LOL
We can't sticky posts here in this version of Talk and that is the only way to get that thread on top of the page.
You are following this thread and that is why you get notified every time there's an 'update'.
Sorry !

Posted May 22, 2013 10:35 AM

by v3nom

That is fine! Thank you ElisabethB for explaining mysterious 'x' 😉 I would like to watch few topics here, but I can live with that, no problem.

Posted May 22, 2013 11:27 AM

by jaroslavp in response to v3nom's comment.

v3nom
Recently I noticed that sometimes picture does not refresh after successful classification. I answer yes/no for question "Do you want to discuss object" and nothing happens - page seems to be frozen. Obviously I cannot submit classification again, as buttons seem to be deactivated. However I found that all such classifications appear in the system in my "recent classifications".
I suspected my network connection, but it is no that bad and "pings" are usually around 100-300ms, sometimes 500-900ms. Do you also experience similar issues recently?
EDIT: I kept classifying while running ping in terminal window, so I could see performance of my network connection. I noticed that page failed to "reload" (technically picture did not change), but there was no problem with my network in the same time.

I have the same problem.

Posted May 23, 2013 6:40 AM

by parrish admin in response to jaroslavp's comment.

jaroslavp

jaroslavp
Recently I noticed that sometimes picture does not refresh after successful classification. I answer yes/no for question "Do you want to discuss object" and nothing happens - page seems to be frozen. Obviously I cannot submit classification again, as buttons seem to be deactivated. However I found that all such classifications appear in the system in my "recent classifications".
I suspected my network connection, but it is no that bad and "pings" are usually around 100-300ms, sometimes 500-900ms. Do you also experience similar issues recently?
EDIT: I kept classifying while running ping in terminal window, so I could see performance of my network connection. I noticed that page failed to "reload" (technically picture did not change), but there was no problem with my network in the same time.

I have the same problem.

It was a bug due to the CANDELS images being completed. It is now fixed.
Sorry about the troubles.

Posted May 23, 2013 5:31 PM

by v3nom

Cool, thanks. Interface is very responsive today!

Posted May 23, 2013 7:40 PM

by v3nom

I found another bug. Tutorial is missing examples in the spiral galaxy section (number of arms step).

In order to reproduce:

Select spiral galaxy
Go to the step where you count arms
Click help

This is how page looks like at the moment:
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6374/spiralarmserror.png

Posted May 26, 2013 3:48 PM

by v3nom

Sorry, just another bug, quite annoying, but simple to fix. CSS is causing image to stretch in the collection view.

Steps to reproduce:

Go to talk.galaxyzoo.org and click any trending keyword at the bottom of the page
Click "Collections" and click any collection

Result:
Top image is stretched, but should be square IMHO.

Problem is in below CSS:

.asset-large {
float: left;
width: 580px;
height: 290px;
}

Width should be replaced with:
width: 290px;

EDIT: Why talks create such a huge gas between lines? It is difficult to read...

Posted May 26, 2013 10:59 PM

Messages have the wrong timestamps. It looks as if all the old messages, sent/received before the Upgrade, have had their timestamps defaulted to the time of the Upgrade.

Posted May 29, 2013 1:58 AM

Talk interpreter treats the hash character within a URL as a hashtag! And so messes up a posted link. Making it quite difficult to go to that URL (you certainly can't click on it!).

This is particularly annoying as the URLs for GZ forum posts contain hashtags (as do plenty of other, perfectly legitimate, URLs).

Posted May 29, 2013 2:16 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist

I noticed that about messages too.

Does the hashtag still break the link if you use the hyperlink button?

Posted May 29, 2013 9:50 AM

by ElisabethB moderator

There is no hyperlink button in the 140 char.messages

Posted May 29, 2013 10:16 AM

Does the hashtag still break the link if you use the hyperlink button?

Let's see ... elizabeth's recent GZ forum post, in A thread to talk about Talk.

It would seem the answer to your question is "Yes, it does" 😦

Posted May 29, 2013 10:38 AM

by JeanTate in response to parrish's comment.

"Recent" isn't.

Certainly not Recent Discussions. For example, one of my Help discussions - What happened to the "RA" and "DEC" values? - is listed, with the link given to my post (the OP), and the time as "29 minutes ago". First, that's the OP, not the latest post in that discussion; second, the latest post was >40 minutes ago.

Nor in Recent Objects. For example Image AGZ0005qat: the link (and text and zooite) refers to the OP, not the most recent post, and the timestamp is completely wrong. It says "10 minutes ago", but the OP was over 9 hours ago, and the most recent post ~8 hours ago.

Oh and look! Talk broke the URL into pieces, because there's a hash character in it! So the interpreter is an equal opportunity destroyer, it smashes even the Upgraded Talk's own URLs. ;D

And where's a list of smilies? ???

Posted May 29, 2013 10:50 AM

by v3nom

Page layout does not scale to 1024x768 and page is too wide. Normally I use bigger screen, but my laptop

Suggested fix, change CSS to:

body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
min-width: 1000px;
}

Posted May 29, 2013 12:16 PM

by v3nom

I found minor bug on the classify page. "SDSS", "favourite" and "Invert" icons overlap "Classify" label.

Posted May 29, 2013 12:18 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist

v3nom, I'm not seeing that last one on my browser. Could you list your browser and version so the developers can chase that down more easily?

Posted May 29, 2013 5:06 PM

by parrish admin in response to JeanTate's comment.

I'm not sure what problems you're having with the recent view, everything looks normal there. Timestamps are for when the comment was created if that's the confusion. Also, the recent view updates after a page reload; otherwise, browsing would be very difficult. There are a couple things we could do there do improve that though.

Parsing hashes in links into tags is a regression bug and will be fixed.

Posted May 29, 2013 6:38 PM

by parrish admin in response to v3nom's comment.

The page will scale down to 1000px wide. If you're having CSS issues, please let us know what browser and version you're using and we'll take a look.

Posted May 29, 2013 6:41 PM

Thanks.

I suspect that there may be (or may have been) a lag - much smaller now - as the database worked overtime to get settled after a major change.

Anyway, as you've still got some major things still to do, I'll leave this one for now, and check it again a couple of days after the other major upgrades (etc) have been completed.

Posted May 29, 2013 7:35 PM

by v3nom in response to vrooje's comment.

Hi Vrooje,

You might not be able to reproduce problem, if you work on machine with bigger screen/resolution than my laptop.

Hi Parrish,

To be honest, do not do that just for me. W3 says that 10% of users have 1024x768 displays. On the other hand gs.statcounter.com claims 20%, so it is safe to assume that it is still in use.

Removing or changing min-width should not affect page layout anyway. Definitely it will not affect majority of users with bigger screens. Usually I use 24" Acer screen, but now I do not have access to it, that is why I have a chance to test page 😉

My browser is latest Firefox.

Posted May 30, 2013 12:23 PM

by v3nom in response to vrooje's comment.

I might have spotted another bug. I am following this discussion (and few others) and so far I got no single mail with updates. Is it expected? How this tool works? Is is something similar to "Watch this topic" in old talks?

Posted May 30, 2013 12:25 PM

by arfon in response to v3nom's comment.

We're likely a week or so away from having these notifications back (via email). Instead there's now a dedicated view for the conversations that you're following:

http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/following

Cheers
Arfon

Posted May 30, 2013 9:07 PM

Edit - the link in cyan at the top right of a post of your own (next to Remove) - doesn't work.

Posted May 31, 2013 5:17 AM

GZ4 ObjIds, e.g. AGZ000289a, shows as cyan (and is a live link/URL) in Preview, but not in the post (after you hit Submit).

Posted May 31, 2013 5:19 AM

Examine/SkyServer/Explore/NED/etc. links seem to be available only for newly posted objects

Posted May 31, 2013 5:21 AM

No way to create a link/URL to a specific post in a ~~thread~~ discussion, or even a page in any such. So it's difficult (impossible?) to reference a specific post, except by Responding to it (and that only works within the discussion it's in).

Posted May 31, 2013 5:24 AM

by JeanTate in response to vrooje's comment.

Scratch that, it seems to work just fine now ... but you have to click on the image, to get the relevant "subjects" page; there's no data/link to GZ Examine if the image of the subject is in a discussion (a.k.a. thread), i.e. if it is the subject of a discussion, not the subject of a subject, if you know what I mean 😉

Posted May 31, 2013 5:40 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to JeanTate's comment.

Hmm. I got to this page by clicking this link: http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000003/discussions/DGZ10019s8?page=12&comment_id=51a829d4e5031d55da000084 -- which seems to reference a specific post. Not quite sure how to discover what that is for individual posts, however.

Posted May 31, 2013 10:55 AM

Yes, you can always get to the latest post in a ~~thread~~ discussion, by clicking on the relevant link in the summary page (one level up).

In the old Talk, you could specify the number of posts per page, so with a bit of fiddling (and setting that number to 1), you could create a URL that pointed to exactly the post you wanted. And in the Updated Talk, you can easily enough create a link to the (top of) any page, by truncating the link in your post after "page=12" for example:
http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000003/discussions/DGZ10019s8?page=12

Posted May 31, 2013 11:28 AM

by v3nom

I got access to my big 24" screen and I still can see horizontal scrollbar here in talks. Browser occupies roughly 66% of the screen, as I do not need bigger window. It is big enough, but I still can see horizontal scrollbar 😉

Guys, is it really that difficult to fix? As I remember I already provided fix for it. Do you have your UI code stored in GIT? I could fork it, fix and make a pull request if necessary you lazy bastards 😉

v3

Posted June 2, 2013 10:41 PM

Strange bug: The discussion boards version of the top level menu, under Help has Help and then Help (somewhat odd, but the meaning is fairly clear).
Then there's this:

"Last post 3 hours ago by Edd SCIENTIST"

If you mouse-over the time, you get "June 3 2013 6:50 AM" (a BIG thank you parrish!)

But clicking on Help brings you a page with no corresponding indication of such a post by Edd.

And clicking on Edd (in the higher-level menu), it seems Edd has not posted here for ~5 months!

So, did Edd post something, only to later delete it (and Talk didn't do all the updating correctly)?

Or did a spamster manage to hack into Talk, and create a fake (phantom) post by Edd, that shows up nowhere except on that high level menu?

Or ...

Posted June 3, 2013 3:26 PM

Search is not working? Or takes some time to index new things?

I created a new discussion - This is a tset - at June 3 2013 11:03 AM. It cannot - yet - be found with Search. How long does it normally take?

Update: Search found this post, less than a minute ago, but not the discussion mentioned in it!

Posted June 3, 2013 4:21 PM

Initial hashtag makes comments large in Talk is the title of a recent discussion by NotThatGuy. It's pretty self-explanatory, but it's not here, in the Interface bugs thread, so I wrote this post so that it would be.

Update: I've subsequently found this behavior twice, both in comment discussions on Objects, here, and here. So it may be that somehow, somewhere in Object Comments, the <b> tag was set, and it's affecting all new comments?

Weird, the 'bold' HTML tag is between those special 'code' quote marks, but it doesn't display!

Posted June 4, 2013 12:21 AM

~8 hours' later, still the same result. Strangely a word - "slithy" - I used in the title of a thread I almost immediately deleted (Removed) shows up, with a link to a different thread/discussion in which I mentioned (and linked to) that (now removed) thread. Yet I wrote that post merely a few minutes' ago ("June 3 2013 7:05 PM").

Weird.

Posted June 4, 2013 12:25 AM

In a recent comment on a very cool galaxy, I had this problem myself. By entering </b> - that's the HTML tag /b - in a following comment, it seemed to go away. But a subsequent comment, beginning with a hashtag, reproduced (or brought back) the bug.

Posted June 5, 2013 2:25 PM

I deliberately began a recent 'discuss this?' comment with a hashtag (here). No weird bolding. Maybe the problem has been fixed? If so, Development Team, please let us know!

Posted June 6, 2013 3:01 AM

This still seems to be the status: Search finds things in Help, and things from before the Upgrade, but not anything else.

Posted June 13, 2013 4:14 PM

by fatha731 in response to mrmule's comment.

Not sure if this has been noted before or not, but if it has, it's certainly still a bug!

The standard symbols for "less than" and "greater than" cannot be written normally (the GZ Talk interpreter tries to make them into HTML tags). Fair enough.

However, they cannot even be written inside "code"! 😮 Here's what you get when you try:

"less than": <

"greater than": >

See, everything between the first (ASCII 60) and second (ASCII 62) characters has disappeared, even though these are within 'code'. Why? Because, even though they're inside 'code', the GZ Talk interpreter still thinks they're the markers for an HTML tag.

Posted July 9, 2013 10:23 PM

by mrmule

I would like to change my password, I do not see on your site where I can do this, thank you.

Posted July 12, 2013 9:15 AM

Go to your profile here on GZ Talk and then click on your image (top left). You will be asked for username and password (you current ones) and after that I think it's pretty easy to find the rest. Hope this helps.

Posted July 12, 2013 12:25 PM

by alwarren56

@JeanTate: if you want to use the less than symbol, try using the html entity name instead like this: <

(that's <)

See this page for a list - http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

Posted July 12, 2013 6:57 PM

by JeanTate in response to alwarren56's comment.

Thanks.

Let's see now ...

< gives: <

> gives: >

And linking this to ASCII:

< gives: <

> gives: >

Terrific! 😄

Posted July 12, 2013 8:17 PM

by fatha731

I have a problem with some posts but it's in the forum... Where do I post my question?

Posted July 15, 2013 5:59 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

I'd make a new thread. And if nobody answers, just send a pm to arfon (our tech lead)

Posted July 15, 2013 8:56 PM

by MikeOborn in response to arfon's comment.

i want to report that when you are looking at an object and it has 3 collections it belongs to - (not sure if this is a bug or not) - the page buttons appear like
<prev | 1 | next>
even though there are only 3, not the 4 needed to have 2 pages

examples:

AGZ0004s8b

AGZ0003nok

AGZ0003qlj

Posted August 4, 2013 6:42 PM

I am probably doing something wrong but every time I make comments on a new image and then click on the Return... link, I end up with a new tab open in Internet Explorer. Hence I give up after half a dozen new tabs to clear my interface.

Posted October 1, 2013 7:23 AM

by ElisabethB moderator

Hi MikeOborn

The Zooniverse and IE are not the best of friends. It is better to use Chrome or Firefox.

Hope this helps

Posted October 1, 2013 12:24 PM

by disentombed

When I add object to my Favorites it's duplicated. If I delete one of them, both of them disappear. Someone know how to fix it?

Posted October 3, 2013 4:59 PM

I have that problem, too. I reported it in bugs on the forums a while ago, but it was overlooked. Could someone help us?

Posted October 15, 2013 6:59 PM

by KWillett scientist, admin, translator

You're right, @disentombed and @planetaryscience. I'll forward this to the developers. Can you tell me what browser and operating system you're each using for Galaxy Zoo?

Posted October 15, 2013 7:10 PM

by bedardp in response to arfon's comment.

I'm using Firefox- and my operating system is Windows Vista.

Posted October 17, 2013 4:18 PM

by Carusalem

I can't take any of those quiz things on my profile, on either Firefox or Chrome. The button just does absolutely nothing.

Posted January 14, 2014 3:08 PM

How do I change my password ?

Lately I realized my password schemes to various sites were deeply flawed, with so many sites leaking passwords and personal info by the millions every week.
So I've undertaken to change all my passwords everywhere.
Now it seems the function doesn't even exist here; am I right ?

Pierre

Posted January 15, 2014 5:56 AM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to bedardp's comment.

Hi Pierre,

Go to the zooniverse homepage and log in. Top right you now see 'Signed in as 'username'. Click on this and go to 'my account'. There you can change your password.

Happy hunting !

Els

Posted January 15, 2014 9:13 AM

by bedardp in response to ElisabethB's comment.

Thanks Elisabeth,

It worked, password now changed...

But I had some problems trying to log out from Zooniverse:
When I hover the pointer on the "Signed in as 'username'"
the menu items Projects/accounts/logout are displayed,
but as soon as I move the pointer down, the menu choices disappear ???

Only when I drag the "Signed in as xxxxx" area down onto the menu items
am I able to click on "Logout Confirm"

I'm on the latest version (26) of Firefox, under the latest version of Linux/Ubuntu (13.10)

Any clues ?

Pierre

Posted January 16, 2014 8:15 AM

by planetaryscience in response to bedardp's comment.

I suggest you eat a carrot, and if the problem doesn't go away, consult your doctor.

Posted January 16, 2014 3:42 PM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to bedardp's comment.

Yes, that happens to me too. I guess we'll have to live with that ! 😄

Posted January 17, 2014 10:11 AM

by bedardp in response to ElisabethB's comment.

I'm not sure if everyone get it usually, but the "view raw data in different wavelengths" doesn't work when I click on it.

It will select just as regular, but nothing will happen, leaving the 'pressed button' animation but no interface.

Is there any way to fix that?

Posted January 17, 2014 4:00 PM

Thanks for your reply confirming the problem is not specific to my own setup.

Isn't there a webmaster here ?
Some kind of tech support that could pick-up on clues about potential problem with the website ?

If so, I would also suggest they switch to HTTPS protocol.
With HTTP, all passwords go out in the clear over the internet...
So anybody using the same password to access to any other site should be a at least a little worried. 😦

Posted January 18, 2014 8:14 AM

by tatiweb

sometimes i get 2 galaxies presented and dont know about wich one i have to add data

Posted January 24, 2014 7:02 PM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to tatiweb's comment.

Hi tatiweb and welcome to the Zoo ! 😄

Always classify the object in the center of the image !

happy hunting !

Posted January 24, 2014 7:44 PM

by tenmoku

I do not manage to answer the last question of the classification, everything jams, no action is possible on the page.

Posted February 9, 2014 8:38 AM

by Pseudology

The link under profile to take a quiz is not working, at least for me. Its clickable but doesn't do anything.

Posted February 12, 2014 12:05 AM

by ElisabethB moderator

I think the quizzes got taken offline a long time a go (sorry)

Posted February 12, 2014 12:06 AM

by Hahcooshuhushdunah

Hi, I haven't been here since late last year and never had a problem. Now today I have tried for an hour or two to do some Galaxy classifications, but the interface is acting very strange, The only way to get the page to advance to the next question is you have to click the next icon almost immediately or the interface ignores me. The only way to get past a page that won't respond is to refresh the page which closes out the galaxy I was trying to classify. Restart wouldn't work, Examples didn't work. SDSS didn't work either. If you are able to answer and click in time to advance to the next question, by the time you are able to absorb what you are now seeing, the interface locks up again. I tried to find a help page but there is none. I searched the site for about ten or fifteen minutes for a contact page or link but there are none. It was just by luck that I looked here as a last resort. I just tried the preview button and it doesn't work for me either.

Posted February 15, 2014 1:59 AM

by Hahcooshuhushdunah

To get these comments to enter I had to copy the original, as the page would not submit the comment, and quickly paste it in and hit the Submit_Button or the inteface ignores me. I use the latest Firefox and WinXP.

Posted February 15, 2014 2:04 AM

by Hahcooshuhushdunah

I am done.... Nothing is working for me here!

Posted February 15, 2014 2:07 AM

by jonathanstcroix

when I try to classify I'm in the middle of a galaxy and then the buttons no longer work and I need to refresh for it to work.

Posted February 17, 2014 7:26 AM

by REX666

Hmm first the final do you want to discuss this button stopped working and now I just get a black empty screen under classify. I haven't changed browser or done anything to settings at all since I started using the site.

Posted February 17, 2014 9:30 AM

by dlpartner

Broken again. Both Firefox and Chrome not responding. Began yesterday for me, you can log out and try again but you're presented with the same three images and for me it stops responding when you reach the "do you want to discuss this" question on image number three, then none of the buttons respond.

Posted February 17, 2014 11:07 AM

by ElisabethB moderator

Hi everybody,

I've alerted the powers that be. Hope it gets sorted soon.

Posted February 17, 2014 11:55 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist

Hi all,

Is this still a problem? Rob and I have both tried classifying and can't replicate this. Will also contact the other developers, but if it's still broken please let us know!

Thanks,
-Brooke

Posted February 17, 2014 4:04 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist

Ah! I've just heard from the developers and apparently this has to do with the fact that the classifications for UKIDSS are nearly finished, so as it's finishing the server is sometimes reaching for data that's just been retired, so it comes up empty-handed. A fix is in progress, but even if you just keep clicking (and possibly refreshing) this will resolve itself very soon.

It doesn't seem like it was that long ago that we started with the UKIDSS data -- that classification speed is really impressive! 😃

-Brooke

Posted February 17, 2014 4:34 PM

by parrish admin in response to ElisabethB's comment.

That's my fault. There was a bug that caused the UKIDSS data to not activate correctly.

It should be fixed now if you refresh your browser. Sorry for the trouble!

Posted February 17, 2014 4:43 PM

by parrish admin in response to vrooje's comment.

Yeah, I accidentally missed that there was still data waiting to be activated. It's around halfway done at the moment.

Posted February 17, 2014 4:46 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to parrish's comment.

Ah, okay -- that makes sense, and on the plus side it also means there are more awesome UKIDSS galaxies to look at! 😃

Posted February 17, 2014 4:56 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

Yeay ! Thanks !

Posted February 17, 2014 11:40 PM

The system does not recognize my user id as a valid one on another computer. Neither recognizes my email. My user is Regina Bittencourt and the mail rbittencourt @grupocode.com. I received mails there inviting me to other zoo project, but when I try to enter it says the user does not exists. At the same time, I keep classifying galaxys as usual. Best regards, r

Posted February 19, 2014 7:26 PM

PS. My Volunteer number is 919.820. Regina

Posted February 19, 2014 7:26 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

Hi Regina, Did you try to clear your cache and cookies ? Also, what browser are you using .?

Posted February 19, 2014 7:27 PM

I use Mozilla or Internet Explorer. Either of them. Should I use one in particular?

Posted February 19, 2014 8:12 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

IE and the zooniverse are not the best of friends, so I'd suggest using Firefox. Are you still having problems ?

Posted February 19, 2014 8:24 PM

Well Thanks a lot Elisabeth !!! on Mozilla worked ok. I have been following part of your job and thaks a lot!!! it´s great when we have answers with our questions !!!! Best regards, Regina

Posted February 19, 2014 11:24 PM

by ptwilson

Hi, a bug ... whenever I agree to complete a quiz, nothing happens. I've tried this from a quiz prompt that appears now and then, and also from the button on the profile page. I've tried this on three up-to-date browsers - Firefox, Chrome and IE.

Posted February 23, 2014 6:13 AM

by ElisabethB moderator

I think the quizzes have disappeared from the Zoo ! 😄

Posted February 23, 2014 10:03 AM

by planetaryscience in response to molignol's comment.

The "Message" icon, an envelope, used to change from dull grey to white when there was an unopened PM, in any v2 Talk.

It seems to have stopped working; I have received several PMs but the icon remained dull grey. Not limited to GZ Talk, the same behavior in all the v2 Talks where I hang out.

Posted February 27, 2014 2:29 PM

by elliemyhero

I am having some trouble with the quizzes. I have tried clicking the "take quiz now" button but nothing ever happens. Just now I got a pop-up that said something along the lines on "You agreed to take short quizzes, can you take one now?" and I clicked "Yes" and nothing happened. Not sure if it's something in my preference settings or a glitch in the online program.

Posted February 28, 2014 4:52 AM

by lauradragomir

Hi there,

I have been asked several times to participate in a sort of survey or quiz, but once I press Yes, nothing happens..it has happened 3 or 4 times...normal situation?

Posted March 10, 2014 10:56 AM

by ElisabethB moderator

It looks like the quizzes have stopped working ! 😄

Posted March 10, 2014 3:30 PM

by DNiergarth

I'm afraid that the "quiz" prompt has popped up a few times in my screen and when I click on it it only dissapears. Just now I went into my profile where it asks if I wanted to again take a quiz, this time it did nothing at all. So just be advised, I am perfectly willing but an unable to take this quiz.

Posted March 18, 2014 3:01 AM

by Capella05 moderator in response to DNiergarth's comment.

We are aware of the problem - there is a separate thread dedicated to it, and it is being looked into 😃

Thank-you for taking the time to let us know!

Posted March 18, 2014 8:07 AM

by molignol

In my profile the quiz button doesn't work. Also only favourites is shown I can't find my other collection uless I click on a picture in profile that is in the collection and then it brings it up

Posted April 30, 2014 8:21 AM

Quizzes were a temporary study that has already been completed- also go to your talk profile and scroll down to the bottom to see your collections. If you don't see anything at the bottom of your talk profile, tell us.

Posted May 1, 2014 3:12 PM

by molignol

Thank you

Posted May 3, 2014 11:06 AM

by sisifolibre

I can not see the examples in the section about the central bulge

Posted June 19, 2014 6:42 AM

by Capella05 moderator in response to sisifolibre's comment.

They seem to be there for me - do you get a pop up?

Posted June 19, 2014 8:00 AM

by sisifolibre in response to Capella05's comment.

sorry for my english

Not unusual pop ups appear, only the normal window of help like in other sections, the only diference i see the help text in Spanish (my selected lenguage), and classifications of types of bulge, but I can't see examples
In each other exaples i can see all the images, only this one seems buged
Anyway is not serious and less if it only happens to me 😃, i will let an image capture in the forum if the problem persist

Posted June 19, 2014 8:15 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to sisifolibre's comment.

If you can get a image capture that will really help us 😃

Posted June 19, 2014 8:49 PM

For a while I'd had a glitch where if I post a comment in talk, and without refreshing try to edit it that the 'save comment' button doesn't work when I click it, but it appears to be fixed now.

Posted June 30, 2014 7:17 PM

by shinobisam

The image does not show when i try to classify a galaxy, and when I try to open the image in a new tab it says the site is not found.
Please Help!

Posted July 2, 2014 4:00 PM

I'm getting an unusual bug that the images of certain galaxies will not load. I've looked though them to see a pattern but can't really find any. They just appear to randomly be disappearing.

Posted July 9, 2014 4:36 AM

by Tiger_Nova

I seem to be having the same problem that some images are missing in both classifying and discussion pages.

Posted July 9, 2014 4:31 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to Tiger Nova's comment.

Yes, I am getting this problem as well 😦

Posted July 9, 2014 5:41 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist

Yes, we seem to be having a bit of a slow time performance-wise... the developers do know about it but I'm not quite sure how long it will take to fix. Apologies in the meantime and hopefully it doesn't get too slow to be useful.

Posted July 9, 2014 5:46 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to vrooje's comment.

Thanks Brooke!

Posted July 9, 2014 5:52 PM

by Tiger_Nova

All images are being shown again 😃 Nice work.

Posted July 9, 2014 6:48 PM

by JeanTate in response to Capella05's comment.

Messages notification icon is not working ... I have unread (unopened) Messages, but my icon is grey, indicating that I have none.

For the record, this is not the first time this has happened; but I haven't detected a pattern (it seems to happen randomly).

Posted July 11, 2014 10:32 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to JeanTate's comment.

A known bug, it got introduced when the fix for the 'Empty Title' got released.

Posted July 11, 2014 10:41 PM

Thanks. I always helps to know.

What's the status and estimated date for a fix, may I ask?

Posted July 12, 2014 1:56 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to JeanTate's comment.

Jean, does it show how many messages you have but stay grey? Or does it not show the number of messages?

Mine stays grey but does show a number, though it sometimes takes a few moments for it to show up after a message arrives, and to disappear after I've read/responded.

I'm not sure what the estimated date for a fix is.

Posted July 12, 2014 7:02 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

I've got six supposedly unread messages. After checking them it appears for all of them there is no subject/title. Somehow that prevents the message from being opened and it stays 'unread'

Posted July 12, 2014 7:15 PM

by JeanTate in response to vrooje's comment.

It's grey, with no hint of any unread Messages.

I have at least three unread Messages, at least one of which is a 'no Title' one.

it sometimes takes a few moments for it to show up after a message arrives, and to disappear after I've read/responded

That happens to me too; my Messages icon has been grey from at least the time I wrote the bug report (July 11 2014 5:32 PM). The day before - or perhaps longer; I'm not keeping good track of time in the flurry of things I have to do to handle the death of the GZ forum - it showed I had unread Messages (2, I think, but it may have been more).

@Els: I have had 'no Title' Messages which I could read, and ones I couldn't. Once opened/read, they decremented the 'unread' count. However, there's been at least one that's always there (I have never been able to read, or open, it) ... yet the Messages icon sometimes turns grey, for no apparent reason (even when I have genuinely unread Messages, of the 'with Title' kind).

Posted July 12, 2014 7:42 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to JeanTate's comment.

Interesting. As far as I know I don't have any no-title messages, and my notification seems to work. I wonder if it's the fact of the remnant no-title messages that are causing the issue... assuming @ElisabethB is having the same issue?

Posted July 12, 2014 8:18 PM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to vrooje's comment.

The notification works for me. Everytime I have a new message it says 7 for instance. It is the six messages without a title that remain 'unread'.

Posted July 12, 2014 8:25 PM

by Capella05 moderator

And, I don't think the 'Empty Tltle' bug has been fixed 😦 I got one today,

Posted July 12, 2014 8:34 PM

by Budgieye moderator

I have sent 198 messages to myself , most from SpaceWarps lists of lenses, and now I can't delete them! So when I look in my "new messages" I have to look for a number greater than 198.

Posted July 13, 2014 9:30 AM

by elizabeth_s in response to Budgieye's comment.

Is there a why to delete them after you have read them? I wonder it tends to be a bit distracting. Thanks Liz

Posted July 13, 2014 9:35 AM

by elizabeth_s in response to elizabeth's comment.

Oh dear just found my answer on: How do I: Get The Most out of Talk? (aka a Talk Tutorial) Step 5: Sending / Reading PM's
and we can't delete them either. I wonder why not?

Posted July 13, 2014 9:52 AM

by elizabeth_s

Hmmm! I see the sdss DR8 is not working at the moment. any one else have this problem? DR7 working just fine.

Posted July 13, 2014 9:55 AM

by klmasters scientist, admin

You mean Skyserver. Dr8 working OK for me. Better now?

Posted July 13, 2014 10:59 AM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to elizabeth's comment.

Deleting pm's is on the to do list for the next update !

Wow Christine : 198 ! 😄

Posted July 13, 2014 11:59 AM

by elizabeth_s in response to ElisabethB's comment.

Oh cool! It would be nice to have the option.

Posted July 13, 2014 12:26 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist

I found out recently that the functionality to delete PMs already exists, but somehow the actual button to do so was forgotten when the site was designed!

I discovered this while the developers were visiting Oxford; they've just gotten back to Chicago now so I'll remind them this coming week that this would be a worthwhile and hopefully easy fix. 😃

Posted July 13, 2014 3:04 PM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to vrooje's comment.

This actually made me laugh ! 😄

Posted July 13, 2014 3:09 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to vrooje's comment.

Wow - excellent news Brooke!

My message folder is under serious strain with all the messages! 😃

Posted July 13, 2014 3:18 PM

by Budgieye moderator in response to elizabeth's comment.

Ooops, I didn't mean delete, though that might be useful. I meant that even though I read them, they are still listed as 198 unread messages.

Posted July 13, 2014 7:26 PM

I've been meaning to report this, um, odd behavior for a while ... it happens apparently randomly, but also fairly often. Here's my description:

Start with Talk opened in Boards. Down the right-hand side you see, against each of the (currently) seven Boards "Last post {time} ago by {zooite}".

Click on any Board, and you'll see something similar, except that a) any stickied threads (not Boards, or sub-Boards*) appear at the top, and b) the (non-stickied) threads are in chronological order (most recent at the top).

Mostly, the "Last post {time} ago by {zooite}" at the Boards (top) level accurately reflects the same thing at the individual Board (lower) level; the most recent post is the same.

Sometimes, however, it's not.

Of course, if it's "a few seconds ago", then that's understandable; however, I've often noticed an out-of-sync condition where the difference in time-stamps is hours (e.g. "Last post" displayed at one level is "2 hours ago" say, and at the other it's "13 hours ago"). There are at least two different kinds:

Boards (top) level does not recognize a more recent post which shows at the Board level
Boards (top) level indicates a post which does not exist (timestamp/zooite) at the Board level.

There's one of the latter kind right now^: "Last post 18 minutes ago by Budgieye moderator" in Help (Boards level), but "Last post 4 hours ago by Capella05 moderator" is the most recent in Help Board/Help. In this case, there is, in fact, a "Last post 18 minutes ago by Budgieye moderator" (it's in the Interface Bugs thread).

*we don't have any (yet), and I don't know if they are even possible

^timestamp immediately after I clicked on Submit: July 13 2014 2:48 PM

Posted July 13, 2014 7:48 PM

by JeanTate in response to planetaryscience's comment.

And I've noticed errors with the hashtag interface. Often when I look for a particular hashtag, the given results are often far less than the amount of hashtagged objects.

Posted July 18, 2014 3:55 AM

I have noticed this too, but as I didn't investigate it carefully (at the time), I put it down to misperception, or perhaps to not fully understanding what I was getting.

Can you give some specific examples (even just one)?

Posted July 18, 2014 12:45 PM

by JeanTate in response to planetaryscience's comment.

I've been hashtagging the 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th, 500th, etc galaxies to enter my collections, and I have 10 collections that have exceeded 100 objects, but when I look up #100th I only find 6 results.

Posted July 18, 2014 4:26 PM

OK, here's an experiment: I just clicked the link (hashtag), and also got six. Are they the same six? What's an example of one that's hashtagged (hashtaged?) but not one of the six (or up to 12, if they're not the same)?

Posted July 18, 2014 4:40 PM

by JeanTate in response to planetaryscience's comment.

the following 100th object for each collection:

Ellipticals: AGZ0003ske July 24, 2013 (not included)
Barred spirals: AGZ0003joi August 16, 2013 (not included)
Spirals: AGZ00046fo September 23, 2013
Rings: AGZ000268g April 29, 2014
Artifacts & stars: AGZ0004dql August 14, 2013
FHBs: AGZ0000m3h November 1, 2013
edge-on: AGZ0001raa August 24, 2013 (not included)
disturbed: AGZ0004xlj October 18, 2013
mergers: AGZ0007rll October 29, 2013

I knew doing this would come in handy (eventually).

Posted July 18, 2014 5:56 PM

Thanks.

To rule out one far-out - but still feasible - source, I checked each of the nine on your list, and can confirm that each does, in fact, contain that hashtag.

Further, clicking on the hashtag - at least in the three that you marked "(not included)" - brings up the same list of six.

If there are, indeed ~100 objects with this hashtag, it suggests that there is a serious database problem, one that could make doing research using hashtags very difficult indeed (if that research includes, even indirectly, either reliability or completeness (or both)).

With your permission, I'll add that hashtag to a post in a discussion (not a comment! you can't edit comments), to see if it gets picked up. Once we're done, I'll delete it (by editing the post), so as to not mess up your collection.

Posted July 18, 2014 7:17 PM

Just to note, I don't have ~100 objects with the hashtag. There are only those given 9 that I've added, and probably the only 9 that there are. Also, as far as I know you can edit comments- at the bottom right of a comment you posted, if you mouse over it, is the option 'Edit' and 'Remove'. You can guess what those both do.

Also, if you notice I've already put the same hashtag a few comments up in this discussion, and it still hasn't registered.

Posted July 18, 2014 9:04 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to vrooje's comment.

Update: You should now be able to delete PMs. I've tested it and it seems to work fine!

Many thanks to @parrish for taking the time to do this. 😃

Posted July 18, 2014 11:08 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to vrooje's comment.

A word of warning..

If you try to delete a single pm, within a 'Thread of PM's' it will delete them all.

Just FYI, if you are interested 😃

Posted July 18, 2014 11:31 PM

by Capella05 moderator

My PM box is now heaving a massive sight of relief! 😃

Posted July 18, 2014 11:37 PM

Personally I've never seen a need to delete PMs, but I thank you nevertheless for the added functionality. 😄

Posted July 18, 2014 11:44 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to planetaryscience's comment.

Well, I guess you don't have 5000+ pm's in your inbox, so you may never notice the time delay 😃

Edited to add: This is not a challenge. I am just stating the facts.

Posted July 19, 2014 12:29 AM

Even if I did take that as a challenge, I couldn't imagine how I could possibly get that many PMs. 😛

Posted July 19, 2014 12:49 AM

by Capella05 moderator in response to planetaryscience's comment.

I have very chatty friends!

Posted July 19, 2014 8:52 AM

😃 I just realized that I have 2 years worth most of them on thisTalk. A question here these messages do not go to my e-mail account do they? At least I don't remember seeing any there. Was that or was that not an option here? Thanks Liz Oh and the message count Up top right says I have 10?

Posted July 19, 2014 9:18 AM

by Capella05 moderator in response to elizabeth's comment.

No, we don't get email notifications for new messages (or any messages!) here- but that will hopefully change in the next version of Talk!

Posted July 19, 2014 9:21 AM

Good to Know thanks. also while does it take so long for talk to post messages sent and response? For example I have sent you a PM recently and it does not show up at all? I know I sent it and know you answered it but It does not show up? Do you know why?

Posted July 19, 2014 12:50 PM

by Capella05 moderator

It is a 'cache' issue 😦

You need to refresh the page for changes to become visible. Sometimes pages need a prod! 😃

Posted July 19, 2014 1:15 PM

sorry I have refresh and refresh many times but nothing changes

Posted July 19, 2014 1:22 PM

by Capella05 moderator

It should be there - I still have the messages in my 'inbox' 😦

Posted July 19, 2014 1:31 PM

While on the topic of issues that we've noticed but hadn't taken action about, here's another bug report:

If I go to my profile, go to the recent comments section, and click 'load more' and then go to one of the comments, and then go back to my profile using the back button, it un-loads the 'load more' section, and when I click the button it loads what would have otherwise been the 2nd page down.

Posted July 19, 2014 3:04 PM

by Capella05 moderator in response to planetaryscience's comment.

While on the topic of issues that we've noticed but hadn't taken action about, here's another bug report:

Well, to be honest, I do not think that many people feel the need to review their own posts once posted (in particular an older post)- so it is unlikely to be fixed soon.

Posting is optional, after all!

Posted July 19, 2014 5:33 PM

by JeanTate in response to elizabeth's comment.

Well it is not nor any of the messages I have sent out recently uses the pm's here on talk. July 15th I have sent more and got replies but they do not show up. They always have in the past.

Posted July 20, 2014 10:05 AM

... and got replies but they do not show up. They always have in the past.

This 'I don't get notified of PMs' bug is an old one, and for me it's the default status; if I see unread PMs (the envelope icon, in white, etc), I now think this is abnormal.

Posted July 20, 2014 1:35 PM

by JeanTate in response to planetaryscience's comment.

This may be related to what I think is a feature, not a bug; hitting the 'go back' button takes you back to a much earlier state.

For example, suppose you've finally found what you want, in the 14th post of a 38 page thread, you click the post, read it, and realize it's not what you want. So, perhaps it's on the next page; you click 'go back', thinking you'll go back to page 14 ... but you end up on page 1! Worse, you weren't expecting this, and you hadn't noted that it was page 14 you were on ...

The particular bug you describe happens - in my experience - whenever you 'load more', and then 'go back' (i.e. not just from Profile). Worse, it seems, very often, clicking the 'load more' button brings up completely new things, not the page x ones you were looking at, but some others! 😮

Posted July 20, 2014 1:41 PM

by JeanTate in response to Capella05's comment.

I think it will mostly affect the people who are trying to do more with GZT than simply comment on an image they, or someone else, classified; looking into, researching, investigating, testing, those sorts of things are activities which the bug planetaryscience describes adversely affect. And those activities are just as much part of the doing of science as is commenting on the classifications of others.

Posted July 20, 2014 1:44 PM

by planetaryscience in response to JeanTate's comment.

That was what I was describing. The scenario you describe sounds like something that might be a feature, but it doesn't appear to be.

Posted July 20, 2014 3:56 PM

by JeanTate in response to planetaryscience's comment.

another couple errors- first, if you make a collection for hashtags with over 500 objects associated with them, it will only show the first 500 objects according to their galaxy zoo ID (ex. AGZ0001x3n would come before AGZ00043ta) Second, when looking at the included collections for an object, you can only have at maximum 16 collections for it. Otherwise the collection will not appear in the list and the object (not confirmed) may be deleted from the given collection.

Posted July 22, 2014 4:42 AM

I've begun an experiment on this.

First, I added the hashtag #smashed to the AGZ objects I've posted in the Shredded (smashed) galaxies: post and discuss them here! thread (those that I know, anyway). I then waited several hours (~seven). Then I used Search, on this new hashtag; I got 14 results. This includes all (I think) those I used the hashtag on, plus at least one which uses the word "smashed" but not the hashtag ( AGZ0007d5s) and the "Shredded" thread itself (Search does not return links to posts, just the thread in which a post containing the searched word can be found).

The most curious result is what happened when I clicked on the hashtag link in the top right, under Tags : just three results (I tried AGZ0003yav; I'll see what happens when I choose an object not among the three)! 😮

I'll see what happens after ~24 hours, say.

Posted July 22, 2014 3:28 PM

by planetaryscience in response to JeanTate's comment.

Interesting results. I think an important study would be to find what % of recorded hashtags are shown.

Posted July 22, 2014 3:45 PM

by Laural in response to arfon's comment.

I'll see what happens after ~24 hours, say.

A bit more than 24 hours, and the results are the same:

15 results from Search on #smashed
10 AGZ objects/images that do have this hashtag
3 threads which include the hashtag or the word (not hashtag) smashed
2 AGZ objects/images with the word (not hashtag) smashed
clicking on the link smashed, under Tags in any AGZ object/image which includes the hashtag:
same 3 AGZ objects/images ( AGZ00016lb, AGZ0001key, AGZ0003s7l), no matter from which AGZ object/image the link is clicked

[planetaryscience] I think an important study would be to find what % of recorded hashtags are shown.

Indeed.

However the interim conclusion seems clear: if you want to find all the AGZ objects/images with a particular hashtag, you'd better use Search. However, this will also give you every (?) such AGZ object/image where the word is used, not the hashtag.

I'll write a feedback note on this.

Posted July 23, 2014 1:32 PM

by AZooKeeper0001

I didn't read through all these so this might be a duplicate.

On Firefox 32 and earlier, the survey never starts no matter which button I choose. I have turned off popups and it still doesn't work. I want to do the survey because it says I could win a gift certificate.

Thanks

Posted September 25, 2014 11:33 AM

by Capella05 moderator in response to AZooKeeper0001's comment.

It is a known bug, that has been reported by a few users 😃

The survey was an old feature that was disabled some time ago, but there still seems to be some legacy code that refers to it.

Not too sure if / when it will get fixed.

Posted September 25, 2014 12:55 PM

Classification example box is partially obscured

Posted December 20, 2014 9:32 PM

by DZM admin

Hi @Laural , could you perhaps post a screenshot of what you're referring to?

You can upload it to a file-hosting site like www.imgur.com.

Thank you!

Posted December 22, 2014 3:15 PM

by Budgieye moderator

Not a bug, but a flow chart problem in the classification tree. I "Can't tell" how many clumps there are, because the galaxy is a grey smudge with no clumps, then asked "Do the clumps appear in a straight line, a chain, or a cluster?"

Posted March 29, 2015 10:36 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist

I suppose in that case it's worth classifying the overall shape... but can you post an example? I don't understand why you'd click "yes" to mostly clumpy if the galaxy is a grey smudge with no clumps?

Posted March 29, 2015 9:59 PM

http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/AGZ0007xvv

If we're posting flowchart 'problems' here, I would like to sugest that the classification for a 'just noticable' bulge should be reintroduced, because this galaxy doesn't have an obvious bulge, but it does have a bulge:

(ps, also, the image feature doesn't seem to be working anymore)

Posted March 30, 2015 8:35 AM

Also, when I classify a galaxy as clumpy, I don't get the question about the bulge anymore. Is that deliberate?

Posted March 30, 2015 8:42 AM

http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/AGZ00082pr

Another one: I think the question "Does the galaxy have a mostly clumpy appearance?" is misleading. The folowing galaxy is not 'mostly clumpy' but it does have a clump:

Posted March 30, 2015 9:06 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist

The clumpy question is a separate "branch" on the question tree, so while you're there (if you said "yes" to the mostly-clumpy question) you won't get asked about a bulge specifically. But you will get asked whether there's a brightest clump, and if so, whether it's central to the galaxy, which is a similar question physically.

There will be a lot of galaxies where it's hard to decide whether you think a galaxy is "mostly clumpy" or whether it's more like a bulge with a barely detected disk around it (which is what I might say about the example above), or similar. But that's why we ask multiple people the same questions about the same galaxy -- when the answer is intrinsically unclear there will be less agreement, so we can still learn a lot about the galaxy whether or not people all give the same answer.

I definitely see your point about the "just noticeable" bulge question, too, but actually there is very clear evidence from our past projects that when people have 4 choices for the bulge question they ignore one of the end choices (people want to have a "middle" choice, it seems). So when we had 4 choices almost nobody ever used "dominant", and there was a lot of disagreement between "just noticeable" and "obvious" as well. So we narrowed it down to 3 choices. If it helps, you can think of "obvious" as the same as "noticeable but not dominant" -- which I think your above example might fit. 😃

Posted March 30, 2015 10:48 AM

by dj_tjitso in response to vrooje's comment.

Hi vrooje, thanks for clarifying. I recognize what you're saying about the bulge question too. I almost never chose dominant 😃
In fact, after reading your explanation I might have to redefine my understanding of an obvious and dominant bulge.

Posted March 30, 2015 11:20 AM

I notice that sometimes I don't get asked if there's anything odd. Instead I get the question if it's a merger, tidal, both or neither. This is strange, because in some of these images there is something strange. Is there any reason for this?

Posted March 31, 2015 7:58 AM

by Capella05 moderator in response to dj tjitso's comment.

As far as I know that is correct for the CANDALS images - as mentioned in the blog post:

The main reason that these are being included is to help us get data measuring the effect of brightness and imaging depth for your crowdsourced classifications. While they aren’t always as visually stunning as nearby SDSS or HST images, getting accurate data is really crucial for the science we want to do on high-redshift objects, and so we hope you’ll give the new images your best efforts.

Emphansis mine - the 'something odd' classification option might not be necessary in this scenario

Posted March 31, 2015 9:28 AM