have done it. will let you know if the board continues to hate me.
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msbelle - May 23, 2005 8:22:14 am PDT #9906 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Steph L. - May 26, 2005 5:14:23 am PDT #9907 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The board is loading reeeeeeeeeeeeallllllllllllllllly slooooooooooooowly for me this morning. Are we having problems?
No other Web sites (as of yet) are loading slowly, FTR.
Jon B. - May 26, 2005 5:24:33 am PDT #9908 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's working snappily for me.
Jon B. - May 30, 2005 2:39:35 am PDT #9909 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
There's bugs when someone tries to register with certain punctuation in their user name. Two things I've seen recently:
- An apostrophe -- The validation URL doesn't work. I'm sure there are other delimiting problems.
- A comma -- the confirmation email gets messed up as it gets divided into two addresses. For instance, if someone at email address joe@shmoe.com registers with the user name "Joe, Ruler of Shmoeville", the confirmation email address gets parsed as "Joe, Ruler of Shmoeville <joe@shmoe.com>", which incorrectly gets split into two addresses. It still works, but it's awkward.
We could try to patch each situation to avoid problems, or we could code to disallow certain punctuation in user names. I'd suggest the latter.
§ ita § - May 30, 2005 4:17:39 am PDT #9910 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I like the latter too, Jon. I'll get on it.
How goes the prettification of the quote pages?
Jon B. - May 30, 2005 4:20:48 am PDT #9911 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
You mean the thing I completely forgot to do?
§ ita § - May 30, 2005 4:22:02 am PDT #9912 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And perhaps not coincidentally, the thing I mostly forgot I ever mentioned.
Consuela - May 30, 2005 3:56:32 pm PDT #9913 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I've been logged out repeatedly today. I am using Firefox on WinXP, and so far as I know, haven't changed any settings lately.
§ ita § - May 31, 2005 5:16:46 am PDT #9914 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No changes had been made to the board code, so I'm not sure what could be making that happen -- is it possible you were switching from buffistas.org to www.buffistas.org or vice versa?
Speaking of logging, msbelle, I've found the core of your identity problem -- PHPSESSID. That's what PHP uses to track a user's settings if you aren't using cookies. It puts it into the URL. So if someone else uses a URL with your PHPSESSID, they become you for the duration.
I don't know if there's a way around it, programmatically, other than deleting that in the code from the URL if someone posts a local link. Which'll need to be tested.
Consuela - May 31, 2005 3:05:23 pm PDT #9915 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
is it possible you were switching from buffistas.org to www.buffistas.org or vice versa?
nope, it's happening while the message center is loaded in an open window. I read some messages, go back to the MC, wander off to check email or do laundry, come back, click reload on the MC, and *poof*, I'm in guest status.
I'll check it again from home, though: maybe it was a fluke yesterday.