To reproduce

Submit a filled-out form (which POSTs to http://helpmeabstract.com/submitAbstract)

Expected

A message is displayed to the user that their abstract was received and processed successfully

Actual

The index page displays, along with a message saying "uh oh, something went wrong"

The color contrast of several elements is particularly hard to see. Grey text on grey background may be trendy, but it's hard to read, particularly for people with low vision. But also for anyone trying to read the site on their mobile when they are outside.

Contrast ratio between foreground and background colors should be a minimum of 4.5:1. Best way to measure it is by using http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

While I love the simple idea of hosting the abstracts in a Github Gist, it would be nice to have the subject upfront in the e-mail notification.

As a volunteer I can probably say more useful things on subjects that I am familiar with and right now I have to open each and every abstract to tell.

Are there any more people that think this makes sense?

I went to volunteer to review abstracts today, but encountered a Slim application error after submitting the volunteer form:

Slim Application Error
The application could not run because of the following error:

Details
Type: Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException
Message: An exception occurred while executing 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `volunteers` `volunteers` WHERE ()' with params ["MYEMAIL@MYDOMAIN"]: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 1
File: /var/app/current/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/DBALException.php
Line: 91
Trace
#0 /var/app/current/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Connection.php(701): Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException::driverExceptionDuringQuery(Object(PDOException), 'SELECT COUNT(*)...', Array)
#1 /var/app/current/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Query/QueryBuilder.php(204): Doctrine\DBAL\Connection->executeQuery('SELECT COUNT(*)...', Array, Array)
#2 /var/app/current/vendor/vlucas/spot2/lib/Query.php(589): Doctrine\DBAL\Query\QueryBuilder->execute()
#3 /var/app/current/src/Entity/Mapper/Volunteer.php(58): Spot\Query->count()
#4 /var/app/current/public/index.php(62): HelpMeAbstract\Entity\Mapper\Volunteer->findByEmail('steve@stevegrun...')
#5 [internal function]: {closure}()
#6 /var/app/current/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Route.php(468): call_user_func_array(Object(Closure), Array)
#7 /var/app/current/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Slim.php(1355): Slim\Route->dispatch()
#8 /var/app/current/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Middleware/Flash.php(85): Slim\Slim->call()
#9 /var/app/current/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Middleware/MethodOverride.php(92): Slim\Middleware\Flash->call()
#10 /var/app/current/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Middleware/PrettyExceptions.php(67): Slim\Middleware\MethodOverride->call()
#11 /var/app/current/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Slim.php(1300): Slim\Middleware\PrettyExceptions->call()
#12 /var/app/current/public/index.php(143): Slim\Slim->run()
#13 {main}

When I cloned the repo, I was able to reproduce it locally: it appears that HelpMeAbstract\Entity\Mapper\Volunteer::findByEmail() ends up generating a SQL query with an empty WHERE clause:

SELECT * FROM `volunteers` `volunteers` WHERE ()

Upgrading vlucas/spot to ^2.2 (and removing the explicit doctrine/dbal requirement, since it's already required by vlucas/spot) changes the query to use a prepared statement:

SELECT * FROM `volunteers` WHERE `volunteers`.`email` = ?

However, submitting the form with the latest version of vlucas/spot results in a Help Me Abstract-branded "Uh oh, something went wrong" error screen (and my data is not saved to the database):

It's likely that it's some combination of dependencies not playing nicely together, but I don't have the time at the moment to troubleshoot further. I wanted to document my findings here, though, in case any other would-be volunteers run into the issue.

Suggested Enhancement

Add submitter name to the subject in the "Abstract Submitted For Review" email.

Goal

I end up with an inbox of emails with the same subject. Having the name in the subject would

1. Help me differentiate between different mails
2. Likely motivate me to open emails sooner, because I either think, "Oh, I know them and I want to help!" or "I don't know this person, maybe they're a new speaker! I want to help!"

Long names cause the social icons to bump down to a new line which interferes with the left floats:

Adding a CSS rule like .image h3 { height: 4em; } seems to fix this:

However, styling isn't my thing, so I don't know if this is the best solution. (If this is acceptable, it seems like an easy PR for somebody 😉)

It's more work on Symposium's side, but I thought it would be a good idea to ask you if you'd mind... :)

Compile a list of great abstracts to show how it's done.

Error on submission

After filling up all the fields and submitting it is coming back with uh oh, something went wrong. Can this be looked into, please?

Suggested Enhancement

Add a link to this repo on the http://helpmeabstract.com homepage.

Goal

Make it easier for me to tell you about bugs/send you patches/star you so you get warm fuzzies.

It would be useful to receive additional details about any constraints on the abstract. Many of the abstracts have been quite short, and I know I have been asked to fit within a character count when submitting a talk. As the gist does not allow for "enforced" fields, it would be useful to include this information in the email which gets sent to reviewers.

What can the Submitter expect as far as feedback? For example, I found comments on my gist after a day, but I'm not sure if follow-up feedback must be requested. Should I expect continuous feedback on the initial gist and revisions? Or do I re-submit it? I thought I would hear from more than one person.

suggest making sure to either use Markdown type or ensure that their lines are less than 80 chars long? (manual wordwrapped text files)

If I click on the volunteer button, I get to the http://helpmeabstract.com/volunteer page, with yields a 404:

Not Found
The requested URL /volunteer was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.9 (Ubuntu) Server at helpmeabstract.com Port 80

I do not have a .env template to work from to configure the project, and the phinx.yml assumes the mysql development password is secret. I'd like to submit revisions to the readme and a dist version of the .env file to help future contributors. Would that be OK?

Once on the list, it is impossible to unsubscribe and stop receiving messages from helpmeabstract.com.

There is no focus style defined along with hover styles. This means that a sighted keyboard user tabbing through the active elements on the page (links, forms, etc) may lose track of where the focus is at.

Should ensure that every style declaration of :hover also gets applied to :focus.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Fire up your Android phone
2. Visit http://helpmeabstract.com/
3. Scroll down to the speakers

Expected Results

It will be beautiful and lovely.

Actual Results

It is lovely to see people helping people, but their names run into each other and are very difficult to read.

Screenshot:

Get a list of external resources.

stagefright.github.io
speaking.io

First of all thanks so much for this project - I've used it a couple of times and always really appreciate how easy it makes getting honest feedback.

Is the website backend down at the moment, though? I've tried to submit in the last few days and just got "something went wrong"

Hello, I've been trying to access the website for the last few hours but I couldn't.
Here are the errors that I get running curl:

➜  ~ curl http://helpmeabstract.com -vvv
* Rebuilt URL to: http://helpmeabstract.com/
*   Trying 35.153.25.233...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to helpmeabstract.com (35.153.25.233) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: helpmeabstract.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 504 GATEWAY_TIMEOUT
< Content-Length: 0
< Connection: keep-alive
<
* Connection #0 to host helpmeabstract.com left intact

Same with https.
Thanks!

I've been trying the form at "Submit Abstract" under the recommendation of DrupalCon: http://helpmeabstract.com/submitAbstract

Get nothing but "uh oh, something went wrong"

Thanks!

What it says on the tin.

I just shared this website on Twitter

It would be great to see an improved rendering (the twitter card) when sharing on Twitter by adding Twitter Meta Tags with an Image.

e.g.

Relevant Links

Twitter Cards