Adding a comment to an answer doesn't seem to register it as the last action in a thread.

 

It seems if I have already looked at a mapleprimes question, and I reload it again when it has been updated, mapleprimes does not load the latest information but instead loads what I have previously looked at. In order to view the updated page, I have to load the page and then refresh it. I don't think it's too much to ask to fix this. If I check the recent tab it will only show when I checked it last (ie. if it was last night and I load it now, I'll see last nights...

It's now possible to get a list of all posts with a given tag. Simply click on that tag from the tags page.

And we can use the Search box at that page.

But how can we do "advanced" searches, for combinations of tags built up with not/and/or, etc?

Sorry, if it's obvious.

When trying to access beyond the first page of results for a given tag I get a 404 page-not-found error.

 I would like to pay attention of the Maple Primes Users to a Sergey Moiseev application. This is a Maple package on orthogonal expansions, which can be implemented in Maple as a usual package with a usual help. It  has Community Rating 4 stars. This package can be downloaded from http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=33406

"No one has posted an comment to this post yet.." has a spelling mistake.

An important part of the new MaplePrimes is the reputation system. Reputation gives users access to different features of the site, and is also a quick way for people to get a better idea of how knowledgeable a users might be about Maple.

Since MaplePrimes has been around since 2004, it is important to preserve all of the reputation that our long-time users have built up. There wasn't any method for voting posts before, so we can't use the same algorithm as we'll use going forward. So we came up with a new method using comments to signify an up-vote.

The algorithm is very simple. For every post, question, or answer that you posted on the old Primes, for every comment that is added to your item, you receive 4 reputation points. Also, using the same limit we'll use in the future, you are limited to gaining 200 reputation points in a single day.

We find that this algorithm has done a great job of exposing the top MaplePrimes users as you can see on the top users list. Over time as people start up-voting posts, questions and answers, the reputation scores will continue to grow, and this method for calculating the back-reputation will become less meaningful as the reputation gained from up-votes will overpower the initial reputation that legacy users received from the back-reputation.

Why are old posts with no recent replies showing up in the all recent category??

It seems to me that the page on Unanswered Questions contains questions which are actually already answered.

An example is Sorting a list of xy pairs, on which one I spend some time yesterday preparing an answer, until I discovered that it had already been answered (one of the answers being completely analogous to the one I had prepared).

If I click on most any of the tags listed at http://www.mapleprimes.com/tags/, I see a list of relevant posts. That is great. But it gets me a 404 missing error, if I click on the name of a tag that starts with a numeral.

There appears to me to be more emphasis in the new Mapleprimes on personal reputation, as opposed to ranking of posts & replies.

I'd prefer to see more emphasis by the admins on ways to disseminate the best tips and answers than on automated reputation marking.

It looks like hubris. To paraphrase Carly Simon's great song, "you're so vain, you probably think this post is about you..."

I'd like to propose a new tab (somewhere) which would allow viewing all posts sorted by thumbs-up. Basically, a way for everyone to see the best posts and replies.

It might have a url something like, http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/ranked or http://www.mapleprimes.com/recent/ranked

The thumbs-up may turn out to be an ok mechanism by which this community can recognize good quality posts and responses. But most posts are only likely to get rated thusly by a handful of members willing to do the few extra clicks. I wonder whether there might be other good ways to get approval ratings, either automatically or semi-automatically.

One possibility that occurs to me is citation. The buttons/icons on the Editor menubar already have a Link item (the chain link, for inserting URLs). How about a similar button for adding a citation? The idea being that such a Citation would always be positive, and bring about an additional automatic thumbs-up (maybe allowing more than one-per-member for that particular recipient post). A negative or neutral cite could still be made with the existing Link button.

I'm going to guess that, if all the previous links to Joe Riel's Sorting with Attributes post were such citations, that it would already have more than the number of approvals for the great post class.

I sometimes like to use Maple help online as it allows for enlargement of font size very easily.  However, there is no text wrapping and makes reading difficult.

A lot of people want to do very large computations which require a lot of RAM.  But above a certain threshold, the cost of memory explodes.  We had this idea but no excuse to try it.  Buy a good SSD and use it for a swap partition.  I suggest the Intel X25-M.  Make sure you have at least 1/10th of its size in RAM, i.e. 8GB of RAM for an 80GB drive, but of course more is better.  The RAM should act as a massive cache for the SSD, giving you another...