myLot Bugs

@myLotBugs (211)

Kansas City, Missouri

Joined myLot 11 years ago

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Sad news about a dear member of the myLot family

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 18 Nov 21

It's with a heavy heart that I share this news with you. A dear friend of myLot, Andrew Kendon, better known as both @owlwings and our most recent @GoAskAlice moderator, passed away earlier this month. Andrew joined myLot 15...

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August Payments...

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 15 Aug 21

They're on their way! Just running into a server issue. It's running SLOWWWW this afternoon.... Once it's done processing the amounts, they'll be sent out through Paypal. Thanks everyone!

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73 people

Early Payday This Month

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 2 Aug 19

Some of you mentioned that it would be nice to be able to donate your myLot earnings to the GoFundMe for Gil. While this is unfortunately not possible to do directly, earnings were just paid out early this month in case you...

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For Gil...

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 31 Jul 19

I know that GoFundMe links aren't typically allowed, but I'm making an exception for this one. This was setup by Gil's band-mate.... https://www.gofundme.com/f/1pl09nq5xc

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Story Time... How myLot Was Almost Named Something Else

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 24 Oct 17

I noticed the discussion about myLot's name origin recently, and felt like it would be fun to share a story that's been kept secret for over a decade and never been told before. So here goes... Back in 2006 when myLot was still...

steven spielberg

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Image Upload Bug Fixed

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 14 Feb 17

Sorry this took so long to fix! These things always seem to pop up when I am out of town and can't investigate properly. My flight didn't get back until late last night. Anyway, things should be back to normal now. Upload...

bugs on airplane

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ROUND 2! Bug Hunters - Your Help Needed With Popup Ads

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 22 Nov 16

Thanks to everyone who helped with the popup ad reports over the last 24 hours. I deleted the original discussion to avoid confusion, and we can continue here in this discussion. The first round of edits didn't fix the problem....

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New User Signup But Squashed! (kind of...)

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 9 Nov 16

Thanks to all the bug hunters who helped report the issue with new user signups taking forever, and often triggering an awful error. I'm happy to report that this issue is taken care of, for the most part. Now when a user signs...

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Why was payday so darn late this month?!?!??!!?!?!???

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 15 Jul 16

Vacation time in myLot land! I hope everybody is enjoying their summer.

barely beat the deadline

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Image Upload Bug Squashed!

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 13 Jun 16

Thanks to everyone for the heads-up about the image upload bug, and also thanks for your patience. The bug has been squashed, and everything should be back to normal! (Keeping fingers crossed....) Please let me know if you run...

image upload bug

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65 people

myLot Messages Upgrade to Help Prevent Spam...

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 23 May 16

Hey everyone! Well, as a lot of you know, a private messages spammer showed up over the last couple of days. We created safeguards awhile back to prevent this kind of thing from occurring, but this spammer was actually pretty...

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How To Access The Old Version Of myLot

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 23 Feb 16

We've flipped the switch (and crossed our fingers)! Now everybody is seeing the new myLot when they go to the main website at www .mylot .com Want to access the old website? You can now go to old.mylot.com and be taken back in...

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18 people

More Bugs Fixed On The New Website

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 17 Feb 16

Thanks again to all the bug-hunters out there! We made some pretty good progress today, and should be able to migrate everything to for everybody to see before too long. Here is a list of what we fixed today... Fixed a post...

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New myLot! Here's a bug squashing update...

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 16 Feb 16

http://new.mylot.com Hey myLotters, thanks for all the help so far! We didn't get quite as far as we would have liked today, but we did make some progress squashing bugs on the new website. Here are the items that should now...

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Mobile-friendly myLot is here! Kind of.... Who wants to help?

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 15 Feb 16

Anybody who has pulled up myLot on their phone or tablet knows that things looked pretty rough. We've been working on fixing this for awhile and are finally ready to get some help. There is now a new version of myLot that will...

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One Huge Tip For Higher Earnings

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 6 Nov 15

Hey myLotters! As a lot of you know, I'm the bug guy. I'm definitely an introvert and don't post much. I like reading what others post and chime in when there's a bug that requires my attention, but otherwise I just stick to...

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122 people

Bug fixes - Website on profile, suggestion totals, improper 404 errors, iphone scrolling and duplicate notifications

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 30 May 13

We just released a batch of bug fixes this afternoon. When you update your website on your profile page, the change now takes effect. Suggestion totals are more accurate and perhaps completely accurate. Some posts with special...

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Notification Totals Are Now More Reliable And You Will No Longer Be Notified Of Your Own Actions

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 28 May 13

Previously, the total number of notifications reported on myLot oftentimes didn't equal the actual number of notifications that were displayed. This was due to both 1) including posts, responses and comments that no longer existed...

notification bug

notification totals

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Response and Comment Deletion Bug Fixed

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 22 May 13

myLot allows users to delete any responses made underneath their posts or any comments made underneath their responses. Previously, this "appeared" to work, but then when the user refreshed the screen, the deleted response or...

response deletion bug

comment deletion bug

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Comments / Mentions Bug Fixed

myLot Bugs @myLotBugs (211) • Kansas City, Missouri 21 May 13

A bug was introduced with a recent upgrade that placed double @@ symbols when clicking on the "Comment" link underneath someone else's comment. As a result, these were not recorded as mentions as desired. This bug has been fixed...

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4 people