posted by dough.gfc on May 23, 2013 | 2 comments
Hey, I'm pretty new to Popup Chinese and I didn't see a thread on it already. Is there a way to change the English definitions of vocabulary words in the Vocab section of the Study Center? I noticed I can change the text by double-clicking the word, but it doesn't seem to save when I review or refresh the page. I'm probably doing something wrong.

I love the website and am having fun with everything so far. Thanks for the help!
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trevelyan on May 23, 2013 | reply
@dough.gfc,

It sounds like you're doing everything right -- I've just tested with your account over here and it seems to be working/saving. Do you know what browser you're using? Firefox does not seem to have problems if you have it locally to test with.

As a thought experiment, one possible problem might be if your ISP or company is caching the first version of the page you download, and just feeding that to you every time you update the content (since the URL will be the same). If this happens, you can test to see if our server is saving the updated data by adding a meaningless variable to the page URL, which should trigger your ISP getting the latest content by tricking it into thinking you are visiting a new page, i.e.:

http://popupchinese.com/vocabulary?change_this_number_to_force_a_refresh=23423234

Best,

--david

dough.gfc on May 24, 2013 | reply
@trevelyan

I am now using an SSH tunnel and all of my updates appear to be saving. I'm happy with this work around, but in case you need to troubleshoot this for another user in the future I'll share some additional information.

I'm using Firefox. After attempting to make changes I tried Internet Explorer and had the same issue; whatever I had previously saved into the server wasn't loading. I cleared my cache and used the link you provided which didn't seem to help either. The SSH Proxy, via a program called PuTTY, connecting to a server in the U.S. is doing the trick now. I'm guessing it must have something to do with the ISP as you had suggested (I'm living in Mainland China, if that makes a difference).

Thanks again for the help and look forward to learning Chinese with you guys. I've lived in China a year now and feel I'm learning more with you guys than I ever had before.

Doug