I copied betsy's quote into the test environment (clicking on "edit" for her post and copying what was in the text box) and got some VERY weird results - it looks like the post is getting truncated to 255 characters(!). I'm assuming that this is something that's only in test right now?
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
'Dirty Girls'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Jon B. - Nov 08, 2002 12:39:38 pm PST #1284 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 12:41:07 pm PST #1285 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You're right, that was weird. I have no idea how the column type got set to tinytext. It's text now.
Jon B. - Nov 08, 2002 1:20:49 pm PST #1286 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks, ita. Now, I'm getting the same result as Betsy, and I have no bloody idea why it's happening. But 2 hard returns are definitely adding the t p markers.
Didn't this used to work correctly?
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 1:44:38 pm PST #1287 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think it ever worked differently. Any tag you open is theoretically effectively closed by the t /p from two hard returns. But why are the remaining verses in a new font size?
John H - Nov 08, 2002 2:01:56 pm PST #1288 of 10000
OK I hereby volunteer myself as a collector and as a coder for the buffydb, and I think all the cool kids will want to do one or the other or both, right?
Re: collecting? Ple's already baggsed Wesley, right? Or do we say dibbsed? In that case I want to adopt Faith! Also Willie. I have a soft spot for that guy.
Nobody really needs to claim Buffy, because she's in every ep, but even Buffy, Willow and Xander have had their doubles and their twins and their doppelgängers, so maybe "Twins, etc of main characters" is a category for someone to adopt?
Re: coding? If we think we've already mapped out the structure of the database, we need to start thinking about functions.
We need "edit person", as discussed, so that we can tick Joss as writer, director, composer, etc on an ep-by-ep basis.
What else do we need? "Edit Episode" of course, to put in synopses and snarkage. Does any registered member get to add their own snark to an episode?
What about the voting thing we talked about before?
Just throwing the ideas out there...
John H - Nov 08, 2002 2:04:59 pm PST #1289 of 10000
Can someone link to the discussion of structure from before? Was it in the Bad Old Days on WX or what?
billytea - Nov 08, 2002 2:05:15 pm PST #1290 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Re: collecting? Ple's already baggsed Wesley, right? Or do we say dibbsed?
Depends if she's claiming collection rights, or already has him trussed up in is basement struggling against his constraints (which, if she's had him there for a while, is by now probably just for show).
P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2002 2:07:59 pm PST #1291 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
That would make my basement so much more interesting...
t /natter
I can collect the Danny Strong data, too.
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 2:08:10 pm PST #1292 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was on WX, which is down.
P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2002 2:22:58 pm PST #1293 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I may have saved some of it to my local machine. I'll check when I get home.