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Jon B. - Apr 04, 2004 10:01:26 am PDT #7005 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I took a look at that bad URL sitch with Jilli's post. See: DXMachina "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Mar 31, 2004 8:15:06 pm PST

The good news is that a post only becomes uneditable if the href URL opens with a single quote and ends with a double quote. If the reverse error is made, it can be edited and corrected by the user. Also, the problem *mostly* self-corrects after another post is made. The original post is still messed up, and part of the user/date stamp of the following post is messed up, but posts after that are perfectly normal and the rest of the page isn't affected.

The bad news is that I have no idea how to fix the problem by redesigning the page. I think we need a code fix, like a regex, to fix any badly formed href URLs that are entered.

DXMachina - Apr 04, 2004 11:42:40 am PDT #7006 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

One interesting thing about having a ton of newbies around is that they find lots of new and fascinating ways to break the board. In this post,

MFNlaw "The Minearverse: YExpirationDateMV" Apr 4, 2004 1:29:23 pm PDT

The line, "<I am REALLY upset by this. Anything I know about sentence structure seems to have flown out the window.>" was interpreted by the system as an italics tag.

I fixed the post. (edit: And then she did as well, deleting the line. Oh well.)

esse - Apr 04, 2004 7:49:50 pm PDT #7007 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

New Minearverse thread, please. (As I say this, I'm sure it's being created. Because ya'll are fly like that.)

tommyrot - Apr 04, 2004 7:54:40 pm PDT #7008 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

When the Minearverse 'turned over' I was seeing three different post #10,000s (different users and text).

edit: still true. And FWIW, I had post 10,001, and now it's one of the post 10,000s.

RobertH - Apr 04, 2004 7:57:18 pm PDT #7009 of 10000
Disaffected college student

And they were separated by 2 seconds each, even. Hmm.

AND they took the place of 9998 and 9999 instead of 10001 and 10002. Hmm again.

Maria - Apr 04, 2004 8:01:27 pm PDT #7010 of 10000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Sorry DX... :( I didn't mean to break the board.

ETA: Does this count as a trip into the guac?

-Maria

tommyrot - Apr 04, 2004 8:12:02 pm PDT #7011 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Minearverse2 has (had) a post 31 of 30.

edit: Minearverse2 seems to be behaving itself now.

Gandalfe - Apr 04, 2004 10:08:11 pm PDT #7012 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
DXMachina - Apr 05, 2004 2:43:36 am PDT #7013 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Sorry DX... :( I didn't mean to break the board.

ETA: Does this count as a trip into the guac?

Nah, no guac. It was just kind of a weird thing that had never come up before, because fake tags are supposed to be stripped out by the system. I was just surprised that the system interpreted your fake tag as <I>, ignoring the rest of what was inside the brackets.

amych - Apr 05, 2004 3:41:58 am PDT #7014 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I was just surprised that the system interpreted your fake tag as <I>, ignoring the rest of what was inside the brackets.

Actually, I'm suprised that it hasn't come up before -- it's normal for browsers to take only the first "word" in a tag if they can't understand what comes afterwards, and <I> is an allowed tag.

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