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by ansugisalas

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Can y'all check your contacts?
I looked at Boxfiddlers contacts, and I don't show there, despite two-way following... so it may be in worse shape than we thought.
If there's a discrepancy, it would probably help the code jockeys to know about the shape of it.
I'll edit in my contacts and mailto options: I do hope this is not a privacy offense, all this is public record, right? Anyway, there's no way to track discrepancies in this without some disclosure...
aeiyor@... Doesn't follow me
becabill Doesn't follow me
bergenfx@... Doesn't follow me
boxfiddler Follows me
DelbertPGH Doesn't follow me
GSG Doesn't follow me
herlizness@... Follows me
Jason Hiner Doesn't follow me
JCitizen Doesn't follow me
jck Follows me
Joe_R Doesn't follow me
maxwell edison Doesn't follow me
Michael Kassner Doesn't follow me
Neon Samurai Follows me
NickNielsen Follows me
OH Smeg Follows me
oldbaritone Doesn't follow me
Palmetto Follows me
pgit Doesn't follow me
PurpleSkys Follows me
rmerchberger@... Doesn't follow me
santeewelding Doesn't follow me
seanferd Follows me
SinisterSlay Doesn't follow me
Sonja Thompson Follows me
Sterling "Chip" Camden Follows me
The 'G-Man.' Follows me
Tigger_Two Follows me
TobiF Follows me

Mailto options: Tigs, Boxie, Tobif, Sonja, Nick, Chip, jck, Neon, Liz, Oh Smeg

So, mutual follows but no mailto : G-man, seanferd, Palmetto, Purpz : Does this coincide with the peermail box being unchecked?

Also, it would be good to know how the contacts lists look from the outside.

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by tigger_two

That the whole "Contacts Following" thing is broken as are PMs. Someone who knows me well wasn't able to send me a PM- the system said I was refusing PMs- not the case.

I'm not sure what the status on this is. I know that Jason acknowledged that they were re-visiting the contacts piece.

One thing to be careful of is multiple identities. You can be following one but not the other. I don't honestly know if that makes a difference, but it could. People who had been in my contacts for years fell off when my name changed.

Starting next week, there will be a weekly update blog from Brandon. This would be a good thing to bring up there.

by nicknielsen

I have 55 contacts. 37 also follow me, and thirty of those show up in the PM drop-down. I know at least one of those is not working properly, and three of those that follow me, but aren't in the PM drop-down and I have had PM correspondence in the past.

Oh, and some that should be in my contacts list, aren't there.

by ansugisalas

that Palmie can PM me, but I can't PM him. So, weirdness...
Just checking; I have ten names in my PM dropdown, does anyone have more than 10?

by boxfiddler Hot topic

RSVP. Feel free to keep the email addy and use it. If you so choose. I should note, many of my Contacts went missing with the 'enhancement'.

by ansugisalas

The selection of contacts available for PM appears to be an arbitrary selection of the mutual follows... as in completely without rhyme or reason.

by santeewelding

Suggest you approach it as though a field of arbitrary asteroids, none with a mind of its own. It's how I approach Southern California freeway traffic; TR, lately, too.

by seanferd

I seemed to have arbitrarily lost contacts on the changeover. This is anecdotal, as I have already re-added several members and don't recall which, so unless I detect another, I have no way to check.

Thought: Try un-following, then follow again. (Works for Windows settings sometimes, maybe here as well?) Or perhaps something might change since users have PM'd you?

(This whole PM-as-a-verb thing is vaguely disturbing. :p )

by nicknielsen

I have 30. but I don't know how many of those actually work.

Edit: The system let me send you a message, so at least one of them works. ;)

by ansugisalas

So, at least it's not a cutoff like the eight in the profile.
Interesting... sounds to me like some kind of profile formatting problem, or something. After the update most of my personal info on my profile was corrupt... maybe an overflow?

Palmetto; have you by any chance checked your profile data post-update? That could rule out that at least.

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