It's working snappily for me.

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.

I like the latter too, Jon. I'll get on it.

How goes the prettification of the quote pages?

You mean the thing I completely forgot to do?

And perhaps not coincidentally, the thing I mostly forgot I ever mentioned.

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.

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.

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.

Huh. I was logged out this morning, and I don't think I should have been. Could be something on my end, though. I'll keep an eye on it.

On the message center page, just up above the maroonish bar that reads "Message Center", one of our graphics went missing for a moment, and was replaced by an X in a box. It's back, and now I can see it's the words "Message Center" in the fancy font, that is to say this: buffistas.org/images/shd_messagecenter.gif

(http and www removed so the board wouldn't to the linky thing like this: [link]