Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.

Spike ,'Touched'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Steph L. - Apr 06, 2016 9:27:19 am PDT #3795 of 4671
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm geting that, too.


Tom Scola - Apr 06, 2016 9:36:33 am PDT #3796 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Yep, that's what I was testing above.

It looks like after the cutover, data is being written to the database with a different encoding than before. So new posts will be OK, but old posts will look funny.

For the thread titles and sluglines, a mod could go and edit them, and then they should be OK.

The pedant in me wants to go through every record in the database, check the encoding, and recode it if necessary. But that would be a lot of work, and risk, for something with only a small amount of benefit.


Laura - Apr 06, 2016 12:47:27 pm PDT #3797 of 4671
Our wings are not tired.

I fixed the Bitches é issue.


dcp - Apr 07, 2016 1:34:07 pm PDT #3798 of 4671
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

On buffistas.org/index.php I'm seeing the black diamond with question mark in the description text for Buffista Music 4, after "Mekons"


Laura - Apr 07, 2016 3:15:18 pm PDT #3799 of 4671
Our wings are not tired.

What should it be?


Tom Scola - Apr 07, 2016 3:43:55 pm PDT #3800 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

An em dash: —


Jon B. - Apr 07, 2016 4:58:35 pm PDT #3801 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Fixed.


Jon B. - Apr 07, 2016 5:52:06 pm PDT #3802 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I noticed something odd about the posts that need fixing, i.e. the ones that now have a ⬧. When I go into edit one, nothing appears in the edit text box. I don't mean the ⬧, I mean the entire post is gone. I don't have time to look into it right now. My first guess is that the ⬧ is causing the contents to not escape properly?


dcp - Apr 08, 2016 6:45:30 pm PDT #3803 of 4671
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

The next find in the diamond hunt is in the quote display:

I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me⬧
William, 'Fool for Love


DXMachina - Apr 10, 2016 3:12:08 am PDT #3804 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I just tried to fix it using the quote editor, but the system keeps giving me a fatal error when I try to save the repaired version.