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[the_rck]

I’m finding both the Habitica website and the Habitica app very frustrating and buggy. The app is better than the website in terms of functioning at all, but there are things I can do from the website, if I can get it to load, that I can’t do from the app. I’ve tried the website in both Firefox and Chrome. I keep getting unresponsive scripts (Firefox) and notices that the entire page is unresponsive (Chrome) and things that ought to display and then disappear (streak achievement notices mostly. I can’t even get in far enough to disable those) that instead stay and cover the screen so that I can’t do anything at all or see anything at all.

I’ve been trying to get the website to behave for over an hour. I should probably give up, but… Part of me thinks that, if I can just manage to turn off the stupid streak achievement notices, I might actually be able to use the site.

The problems with the app are two fold— It keeps giving me 'communication errors' that lead to double posting of things I add to my to do list or tasks being marked as complete without me, as far as I can tell, getting any xp at all for them. This is all while I’m at home and using our wifi.

We ended up dropping by the downtown library last night. Cordelia wanted us each to pick out a movie for the family to watch later in the week. She got Disney’s Snow White, I got Groundhog Day, and Scott got the Green Lantern movie (he says he feels he shouldn’t be mocking a movie he hasn’t actually seen).

We went for gelato after visiting the library. I had sassafras, Cordelia had tiramisu, and Scott had… um… I can’t actually remember. Cordelia really, really wants to get out of the house every evening. We’re having trouble coming up with places to go at 7:30 at night that don’t cost money. She refuses parks because of the cold (and Scott and I don’t really want to go to parks in the dark in January anyway, but… It would be cheaper).

On Sunday, we drove out to Skyline just to take a look from the outside. It’s a pretty big building on a large lot with two sports fields (that we saw) and tennis courts. Cordelia was more boggled by the amount of parking than by the size of the building. Pointing out that some high school students drive to school helped explain the size of the lot to her. She had been thinking that the school just had that many employees.

I have just barely passed my minimum word count on the Small Fandom Big Bang story. I’m not sure where/how to end it. I think that I need to wrap it up close to where it is now because, if I go on much farther, I’ll probably be committed to another 20000 words before I find another stopping point.

Today’s to do list:

Bake bread.
Make two phone calls.
Shower.
Change sheets.
Do my daily chores (dishes, sandwiches).
Write something.
Work on backlog of library books/CDs/DVDs.

Comments

[kyrielle]

I'm sorry Habitica isn't working well for you. :(

That's bizarre. All that stuff just works for me.

And no, streak achievement notices should not display and vanish! They have a ticky-box as to whether to display again, and a button to press to acknowledge - the site wants to make sure you saw them. On the site, only the colored narrow boxes at the right should display and disappear, the rest are pop-ups to be acknowledged.

I sometimes have issues with the app, but a) usually only when I'm on spotty wifi or cruddy cell connection, and b) I've never seen it mark complete but not give the XP. I've seen it mark complete and then - if it's a daily or a habit, and thus something I can still see when it's complete - uncheck it again and re-enable it, but in that case it is re-enabled. That does take away the XP, but I can get it back by re-checking.

And as long as my connection is good, it doesn't do that. The actual usual issue is that it's really _slow_ on a weak connection and I accidentally tap again, thinking I hadn't done it the first time. Then it processes both.

[the_rck]

I'm not talking about the big boxes with the clicky button. I'm talking about the tiny rectangles notices that have nothing at all to click on. I have 69 of them right now, and I can't get them to go away. They cover the entire window. I can't click on anything that's underneath them.

And I'm on our home wifi which is pretty solid and fast. I haven't had problems with any other site or app in that direction.

I've been trying to get Habitica to work on my laptop for almost three hours now and have finally gotten in.

I also regularly get a glitch on the website where all of the pull down menus activate at the same time and won't let me close them. Reloading will fix that some of the time, but it comes with the risk of more windows that don't want to close.

[kyrielle]

That is so weird. :( I have no idea. I will say that when I get a lot of the tiny rectangle notices and they annoy me, I click on them (just anywhere inside the colored area) and they vanish right away. Maybe that part will work for you? But I don't have much faith since lots of other things that "just work" for me aren't for you. :(

[the_rck]

Drat. Every time I add a to do or click something as complete, all of the streak achievement rectangles come back. They go away in about a minute, but there's a pop up notice about the Rebirth option being available that also comes up every single time. I can dismiss that eventually, but... ::bangs head::

[lunabee34]

I think the green lantern movie is good. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[the_rck]

Good to know! Maybe we will, too.

[zhelana]

For me, habitica is putting my tasks in random orders and moving them all over the place. Not sure what that's about, but I guess the website is just acting up today?

[the_rck]

I get the random reshuffling on the app all the time. I just shrug and deal because I haven't figured out a way to address it.

I've had problems with the website pretty chronically. I don't dare keep it open because it causes problems constantly, but opening it up is fairly difficult, too.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Our winter evening outings always seem to end up in seeing music or friends and a beer or two which is even more costy than gelato.

What kind of bread are you planning to make?

[the_rck]

I haven't decided on the type of bread. I just washed the pan and am resting a little before putting that together. I use a bread machine, so all the work is at the beginning. A simple white bread is easiest and something we definitely have all of the ingredients for, but I might try some form of whole wheat.

My go-to used to be Anadama bread, but that needs cornmeal, and Scott can't have that without trouble these days.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Those bread machines are wonderful.