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Jesse - Sep 23, 2002 11:49:12 am PDT #311 of 10000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've been getting slow loads with "Read New," but not if I click on "Buffistas Home." I have the feeling it's when there are no new messages, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm on IE 6.0.2600 for Windows.

Edit: OK, just now it was slow loading the home page as well. But this edit box popped right up no problem.

Michele T. - Sep 23, 2002 11:51:26 am PDT #312 of 10000

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

There was just a problem in which Rio's non-closed whitefont tag led to the post after hers ending up in whitefont as well. Is it possible to force tag-closing at the end of each post?

Michele T. - Sep 23, 2002 11:52:26 am PDT #313 of 10000

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Ooh, and now I'm getting the no-CSS version of the site when it reloads.

msbelle - Sep 23, 2002 11:56:59 am PDT #314 of 10000

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am having many Netscape "cannot find a connection" messages this morning. don't know if it is Netscape (I'm on 4.7) my connection (T1, so I kinda doubt it) or the host.

also? and I haven't mentioned it before although I've seen it since the day we went live. Occasionally people's taglines look like clickable links - occasionally it's been an entire post. Is this just do to unclosed html stuff in posts? It is always gone when I reload or go up one page and then back.

beth b - Sep 23, 2002 11:57:22 am PDT #315 of 10000

oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

ie 5.o

w2k

getting the server can't be found -- looks like it happens about every 3rd time I hit next or message center.

Gudanov - Sep 23, 2002 11:58:50 am PDT #316 of 10000

Coding and Sleeping

Looks like the hosting service is having issues.

Aims - Sep 23, 2002 12:17:05 pm PDT #317 of 10000

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I'm having same issues.

IE 5.5 (work)

IE 5.0 (home)

T1 connection at work

Cable connection at home

Jessica - Sep 23, 2002 12:18:05 pm PDT #318 of 10000

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I think it's HostRocket and nothing to do with the board, but the style sheet seems to be flitting in and out of existance. (About 2:10 EST, W2K, IE5)

§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 12:40:15 pm PDT #319 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hostrocket says "We are currently experiencing some netork latency, the issue is being worked on and will be fixed as soon as possible."

Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 12:46:16 pm PDT #320 of 10000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

In terms of closing HTML. This would not be tough to program, but might give some performance issues.

Search through the post for allowed tags, count each tag (number of bolds, number of fonts , number of pres .. etc.) Count closes at the same time (number of end bold, number of end pre, etc..). where there is a positive difference, generate closing tags, and add to end of post.

If we did this, (and I'd be glad to create the code), I think we might add an html check box next to the posting box (by default unchecked).

If checked then we parse for HTML -including generating closing tags. IF not hmtl is just posted as literals (giving a new way to generate fake tags as well). Since a lot of posts have nt html, the savings in not having to parse those would make up for the extra time in checking for and generating closing tags.

Worth the trouble? Or not?

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