Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?

'The Message'


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.


§ ita § - Dec 03, 2005 3:26:04 pm PST #776 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I didn't do it on this site, D. A bunch of PHP and HTML had to be changed too, so it's in a test environment.

Though -- getting rid of the graphics was easy enough: img {display:none}


Eddie - Dec 03, 2005 4:19:31 pm PST #777 of 4673
Your tag here.

I've noticed fairly frequent double postings. One fix to this problem is to lookup the text of the last post in a thread, take the SHA hash of it and compare it to the SHA hash of the pending post. If they are the same, then don't post the pending message.

SELECT posttext FROM threadtable ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1

if (sha1($posttext) === sha1($newposttext)) die();

Also, the SQL could be tightened up even more by limiting the query to only the user's posts.


Tom Scola - Dec 03, 2005 4:35:16 pm PST #778 of 4673
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Detecting duplicate posts is a race condition. Your method might reduce dupes, but not eliminate them, and it would slow down the board.


P.M. Marc - Dec 05, 2005 5:01:47 pm PST #779 of 4673
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Is anyone else seeing italics overflow starting here?

Ailleann "The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time..." Dec 5, 2005 12:52:19 pm PST

I can't for the life of me see anything in the post that would be causing it.

firefox 1.5 for the Mac.


§ ita § - Dec 05, 2005 5:06:08 pm PST #780 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It was her tagline. Cool.

I mean, I'd totally not remembered we'd need tag closing code there.


Ailleann - Dec 06, 2005 5:55:01 am PST #781 of 4673
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

I come in to find out where the Message Center went, and find discussion of my post! There was a close tag in there, I promise!


§ ita § - Dec 06, 2005 6:17:32 am PST #782 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Not in your tagline. But dammit! Fixing stuff in the admin console breaks subs. I'm sorry! Will fix today.


Ailleann - Dec 06, 2005 6:53:33 am PST #783 of 4673
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

That's ok! My bad for improper tag closing. Thanks for fixing it!


§ ita § - Dec 06, 2005 1:35:54 pm PST #784 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My pleasure.

And the sub-destroying bug should be gone now.


Ailleann - Dec 06, 2005 3:02:00 pm PST #785 of 4673
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Um... sadly, no. Still no message center.