Mark,

Many thanks for the Friend Connect suggestion—it looks very promising—and sorry to read that the nodes you added yesterday are not visible at the moment. Can you expand on what happened briefly in an email and I'll see if I can figure out what happened.

The application has been very stable in this respect across the last 18 months; however, it's possible that the current live update—which we are mid-stream in at the moment, and which is changing the edit button functionality—may be a factor here.

It would be helpful, for example, from a diagnostic perspective to know (if you can remember) if the regular confirmation message was displayed after you transmitted the new nodes)?

David

Ok, went through using Debategraph again, and realized that last time I had not Transmited my local changes to the public map. I did note the Element Added: Operation Succeeded confirmation. Thnx, David.

Mark,

Thanks for letting me know. As part of the next update, we are about to eliminate the separate Transmit function; so that both functions are performed by the Finish button. It's one of those classic usability dilemmas in which separating the functions gives experienced mappers useful extra options but adds to the learning curve for first time users.

We're still working on, and iterating through, all of these kinds of choices where they occur in Debategraph to find the optimum balance; so suggestions for improvements to any of our other current choices will be very welcome.

In this instance, simplifying the process seems to be the sensible option—and, serendipitously, in deciding this, we have also found a better use for the code underlying the Transmit function (which we'll look implement soon).

David