Forum functionality issues

[Max Rockatansky]

"Threat of legal action by a banned user"

Hmm, I wonder if this bit I saw when the forum was closed gives a clue to said user


EDIT: Never mind, it was mentioned above.

I must know, where did you find that?

[DTComposer]

The Northeast board shows Ian's name several times.

Where exactly?  Ian's name only shows up once for me on the front page as well as inside of that section.

There are a number of regional boards that show moderator names multiple times, with Corco's being the most displayed of all.

Weird.  Seems to be hit and miss with that.  I just got it now, but most of the time, I only just get 1 name.

For me, the repeated names only show up on the boards I post in, and the number of times a name appears seems to be relative to the amount that I post in that board - don't know if that's a coincidence or not?

[Alex]

 I am going to temporarily put the forum in maintenance mode while I reset a table in the database.

[froggie]

FWIW, I'm not seeing the "moderators listed multiple times" issue that was reported upthread.  Nor am I seeing the "arrow problem".  Granted, I use the Core Theme because the default and button copy themes are too hard on my eyes.

[SkyPesos]

"Threat of legal action by a banned user"

Hmm, I wonder if this bit I saw when the forum was closed gives a clue to said user


EDIT: Never mind, it was mentioned above.

I must know, where did you find that?

It was one of the rotating News messages when the forum was under maintenance. It was shorter than what I was used to seeing there, and I never expected to see a forum meme there.

[hotdogPi]

Moderator socking duplication is fixed. Quacbec still exists, though.

[1995hoo]

I concur, moderator duplication is no longer happening on my screen.

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

[kphoger]

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

As has already been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the issue of nonstandard symbols rendering improperly is a known issue.

You should be able to manually fix your own signature, though, by going into your profile.

[Alex]

I reset one of the tables that logs what boards have been visited via member id to try to address the green arrow/new posts issue. But problems persist...

There is another database change I can try related to sessions and "mark-read", but I am going to run it by rickmastfan67 first.

[1995hoo]

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

As has already been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the issue of nonstandard symbols rendering improperly is a known issue.

You should be able to manually fix your own signature, though, by going into your profile.

I didn't think an em dash was a nonstandard symbol.

Edited to add: Thanks for the suggestion of editing my profile, as that seems to have fixed it.

[hotdogPi]

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

As has already been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the issue of nonstandard symbols rendering improperly is a known issue.

You should be able to manually fix your own signature, though, by going into your profile.

I didn't think an em dash was a nonstandard symbol.

It's outside this.

[webny99]

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

As has already been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the issue of nonstandard symbols rendering improperly is a known issue.

... specifically a known issue even before the recent maintenance, right?

It might be worse/affecting more characters now, but I used to get quotes displaying incorrectly in thread titles quite frequently.

[hotdogPi]

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

As has already been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the issue of nonstandard symbols rendering improperly is a known issue.

... specifically a known issue even before the recent maintenance, right?

It might be worse/affecting more characters now, but I used to get quotes displaying incorrectly in thread titles quite frequently.

The only thing that happened before the maintenance was Tapatalk converting curly quotes and apostrophes into HTML entities (not mojibake). This is affecting everything non-ASCII except for posts made the day it's been up after the maintenance.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

And some posts I've restored back to the correct version. I've changed an ß back to ß, for instance.

[1995hoo]

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

As has already been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the issue of nonstandard symbols rendering improperly is a known issue.

You should be able to manually fix your own signature, though, by going into your profile.

I didn't think an em dash was a nonstandard symbol.

It's outside this.

Oh, well, of course, obviously. How could anyone be so stupid as not to know such basic information as that. 

[hotdogPi]

This thread will not show as read no matter how many times I read it. Posting here doesn't fix it, either.

Fictional license plate systems is now doing that, too. In addition, I put fake mojibake in one of my posts (after the two-minute downtime an hour ago), and now it's just three question marks... but the actual mojibake in other threads isn't fixed.

[74/171FAN]

Yes, 1, the same thing is happening with the I-73 Updates Thread to me.  (it may be every thread now)

[hbelkins]

I don't remember exactly what it was that caused Baloo Uriza to get banned.

[kphoger]

I do now notice that the em dashes in my autosignature are displaying as gibberish.

As has already been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the issue of nonstandard symbols rendering improperly is a known issue.

... specifically a known issue even before the recent maintenance, right?

It might be worse/affecting more characters now, but I used to get quotes displaying incorrectly in thread titles quite frequently.

The only thing that happened before the maintenance was Tapatalk converting curly quotes and apostrophes into HTML entities (not mojibake). This is affecting everything non-ASCII except for posts made the day it's been up after the maintenance.

The same basic translation problem that has existed between Tapatalk and the forum now exists between old iteration and new iteration of the forum itself.

[Alex]

Unfortunately, the collation problem is that the previous database was latin1_swedish_ci, and imported that way. Simply changing the collation to utf8mb4_unicode_ci in the database table structure does not actually recollate all the existing data.

Going forward, new posts should be in utf8mb4_unicode_ci. But everything posted previously needs to be converted. The available options I read about are time consuming such as creating a new database table with utf8mb4_unicode_ci, then importing all of the existing data, then sending it all back into the original table. There's over 1 million records in the messages table, so not trying that right now...

[hotdogPi]

Two things:

1. Can you add the most common non-ASCII character mojibake sequences to the word filter list so that they look fixed?

2. Our messages still can't be marked read. This started at 3:10 EDT, not when you did the 2-minute downtime (which was at 2:20).

[freebrickproductions]

Clicking the global "mark all posts as read" on my end does not mark the whole forum as read, it seems there are a few topics (like this one) that refuse to get counted as being "read".

[kphoger]

Clicking the global "mark all posts as read" on my end does not mark the whole forum as read, it seems there are a few topics (like this one) that refuse to get counted as being "read".

Yeah, it's kind of funny to click on "MARK ALL MESSAGES AS READ" and then see the list of unread topics get longer (because someone posted somewhere in between).

[Scott5114]

One small change I've noticed - and I say "change" because I haven't fully judged whether it matters enough to the forum experience to be an "issue" - previously, after clicking on a board, then back to the home page, the green arrow next to that board would turn gray, to represent that board having been viewed. Now, the arrow remains green even after clicking on and off a board several times. My guess would be that the arrow will still turn gray, but only after each individual thread in that board has been viewed, although I haven't tested this yet.

This is just straight-up broken, unfortunately; once lit the green arrow never goes off. There's obviously something stuck in some table or another that isn't supposed to be there, but finding out which table and what needs to be removed is tricky.

[Scott5114]

I don't remember exactly what it was that caused Baloo Uriza to get banned.

Legal threats.