HostRocket has been doing maintenance, which is probably what the downtime a few minutes ago was about. It's supposed to last until 7 EST, I think.
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
Willow ,'Never Leave Me'
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.
Dana - Feb 27, 2003 1:23:19 pm PST #3277 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Liese S. - Feb 27, 2003 3:34:37 pm PST #3278 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
On the user name thing, I wondered about that when we first started, but since we didn't use user names for anything, and because I really wanted to have both my space and my full stop in my id, I didn't bring it up. Bad me. It's a shame, because it's nice to be able to have nifty names, but regexps really are picky about that sort of thing.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 27, 2003 4:05:48 pm PST #3279 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Is the reason we're not using user numbers just that poor Jengod can read names more easily?
jengod - Feb 27, 2003 4:09:21 pm PST #3280 of 10000
That's pretty much the reasoning behind using usernames this round. I guess user number arguably more authentic, but I feel like I know you buy your user names, and I don't want to have to doublecheck that if user 61 says she's Rebecca Lizard that that is in fact that case. For me, it's easier to prevent fraud if I'm just making sure there aren't six msbelles.
jengod - Feb 27, 2003 4:09:48 pm PST #3281 of 10000
Whose name, by the way, in my head, I pronounce meesabell.
Jon B. - Feb 27, 2003 7:35:11 pm PST #3282 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's a shame, because it's nice to be able to have nifty names, but regexps really are picky about that sort of thing.
Didja see my post upthread that I fixed the problem?
msbelle - Feb 27, 2003 7:47:21 pm PST #3283 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
jengod, we're gonna have to have a talk when I come to LA.
RobertH - Feb 28, 2003 9:12:08 pm PST #3284 of 10000
Disaffected college student
Is anyone besides me seeing italics going unclosed, and no one noticing? (I'm using Mozilla.) I don't know if these are HTML errors that most people's browsers are correcting automatically, or if it's a problem with Mozilla's parsing.
(And since I don't know, I'm not entirely sure where to post this. But I didn't think of that until after I posted, so I suppose I'll leave it here until someone yells.)
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2003 9:21:54 pm PST #3285 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
RobertH, if you notice which post started it, yell in thread or in Bureaucracy, and a admin can close it.
Me, I use Opera, which means that every font tag is implictly closed after each paragraph. Great for errant italics, lousy for bulk text spoiler-fonted the long way round.
RobertH - Feb 28, 2003 9:24:18 pm PST #3286 of 10000
Disaffected college student
I would, except every time I've come across it so far, I'm catching up on my reading, so it's easier just to finish the page and move on.