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[angelfromanotherpin]

EDIT: And I think I found why. It only searches in posts done in the new system. At least that's the only explanation I can find why a search for "free" returns just 5 results, all of them after April 8th

I'm pretty sure the same thing happened after the first migration. I remember finding it very difficult to hunt down my earliest posts after that.

[Zherog]

EDIT: And I think I found why. It only searches in posts done in the new system. At least that's the only explanation I can find why a search for "free" returns just 5 results, all of them after April 8th

I'm pretty sure the same thing happened after the first migration. I remember finding it very difficult to hunt down my earliest posts after that.

Yes, that's correct. This time is the same result, but a different cause - hopefully one I can resolve eventually.

[GreatGreyShrike]

I don't know how much you care about restoring the appearance of older threads - but if you do, there's three issue's I've noticed:

- The syntax for centering lines doesn't seem to have been changed in at least some old threads
- Embedded base64 image data formatting is broken (maybe not supported?)

A thread with both issues:

viewtopic.php?t=54524 (Nmage vs Omage review thread)

Note that, in that thread, the board's filter seems to have found a naughty word in the middle of the second Base64 image's data and substituted [EDITED].

Also many tables are not translated as noted e.g. here viewtopic.php?f=6&t=57595

[Zherog]

Thanks. I knew about tables - it's mentioned above [edit]But I appreciate the example you provided![/edit]. The IMG thing is just fucking weird. And... I'll look at what I can do to make some consistency between the old "align=" tag format and the new one. I should be able to make them match up. The tricky part is re-parsing the POSTS table so it gets updated correctly.

edit: The link to the thread with an example of the TABLE tag also shows another missing tag - the HR tag, for the horizontal rule.

edit2: Can somebody confirm embedded images actually ever worked? I don't recall it being a feature previously...

[GreatGreyShrike]

They appeared correctly on the old boards, at least on my browser of choice (Windows Firefox). The example thread on the old board:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130825055 ... hp?t=54524

You can see the images render correctly - or at least I can at least on my browser.

I can manually edit via regex to replace them as I load the page and make them work (excepting any image data that got corrupted by the boards' filter):

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(\[img\]data:image\/jpeg;base64,)([\w+/=]*?)(\[\/img]) 

->

<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,$2" alt="picture">

[Zherog]

Yep, the rendered correctly for me in Chrome as well. I didn't know that was possible. Hell, I don't even know how one would've gone about doing it. I always thought the IMG tag only took a URL... But, I'll dig around and see what I can find. Thanks for providing the example

[vergil]

This is Virgil with a different spelling. I had attempted to login with my original account, which didn't work. When I tried to reset my password, the auto-generated one the system sent me didn't work; hence me setting up a new account to be able to even say this.

[JigokuBosatsu]

Is a dark/night mode available in the new setup?

[Zherog]

This is Virgil with a different spelling. I had attempted to login with my original account, which didn't work. When I tried to reset my password, the auto-generated one the system sent me didn't work; hence me setting up a new account to be able to even say this.

I'll send you a PM in a moment. Stay tuned...

Is a dark/night mode available in the new setup?

Out of the box, no. But I can look for one.


I also clearly need to look at some way of preventing spambots.

[Zherog]

The HR tag now exists. I'll need to do run the reparser on old posts for them to pick it up, and I'm hoping to only do that once after adding all the missing tags and/or updating the ones I created (such as making a CENTER tag rather than ALIGN= tag).

The HR tag is pretty simple, like before:

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[hr]

Will give:

---

And that's that.

So far, I think the only thing I would actually classify as a bug would be the weird IMG thing reported GreatGreyShrike. Without going back and looking at the lists I'm trying to maintain in the 2nd post, I believe everything else is cosmetic. That's a really good thing!

(Speaking of the lists in the 2nd post... If you report a problem here, I reply to you about the problem acknowledging it, and you don't see it in the list - either for things already reported or going forward - kindly nudge me. I try to update the list right after posting, but I'm easily distracted...)

--Z

[Zherog]

And... Superscript and Subscript are now back as well.

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Subscript: H[sub]2[/sub]O

Superscript: The Gaming Den is the largest forum on the internet[sup][citation needed][/sup]

Will give:

Subscript: H₂O

Superscript: The Gaming Den is the largest forum on the internet^{[citation needed]}

Again, they'll work fine in new posts; old posts won't pick up the formatting until I reparse the text.

--Z

[Zherog]

So far, I think the only thing I would actually classify as a bug would be the weird IMG thing reported GreatGreyShrike. Without going back and looking at the lists I'm trying to maintain in the 2nd post, I believe everything else is cosmetic. That's a really good thing!

I went back and looked. Search, obviously, is also a bug and not cosmetic. Moar coffee!

[Zherog]

And the last one for now... The weird phantom "phpBB BBCode Demonstration" thread is now gone. I'm not at all sure what happened to it, but I whacked it from within the database.

[violenceinthemedia2]

Hello everyone! So I can't get my old username back either. The system didn't even send me a reset email when I requested it.

[Zherog]

Hello everyone! So I can't get my old username back either. The system didn't even send me a reset email when I requested it.

You should have a PM sent to this account with help.

[violence in the media]

I've got it fixed, thank you. The email address I had for this account is ancient and no longer in use (hence why I didn't get any password reset email), so when you delete my temp account I can switch this one to my current address. Thanks for your help, Zherog!

[Eikre]

I think it's cute that we're all coming up with different ways to permute our names when we make secondary accounts to get back into our originals. It's like we're assembling the roster for a TGDMB all-sidekick spinoff. Can we lock fbmf out for a little while and see if The Lesser Fencebuilder makes an appearance? cherubfromanotherpin, perhaps? We can get the whole crew together and chat about our favorite bits of the Tome series by Frank Trollboy and lower-case k.

[Thaluikhagain]

Thaluikhain here, also unable to get the password reset email sent to me, tried firefox, chrome and edge for that, get to the page that says it's been sent by nothing arrives. Still using the same email address as when I first registered.

I think it's cute that we're all coming up with different ways to permute our names when we make secondary accounts to get back into our originals. It's like we're assembling the roster for a TGDMB all-sidekick spinoff.

I'd say more a totally not copyright infringing rip off rather than spinoff, but yeah, now that you mention it.

[Zherog]

I've got it fixed, thank you. The email address I had for this account is ancient and no longer in use (hence why I didn't get any password reset email), so when you delete my temp account I can switch this one to my current address. Thanks for your help, Zherog!

Fantastic! I was hoping the issue was that it was an old email address.

Your temp account is deleted, and I swapped the email address for you while I was there. You'll still want to check, though, to make sure.

[Zherog]

Thaluikhain here, also unable to get the password reset email sent to me, tried firefox, chrome and edge for that, get to the page that says it's been sent by nothing arrives. Still using the same email address as when I first registered.

You should have a PM from me.

[violence in the media]

I've got it fixed, thank you. The email address I had for this account is ancient and no longer in use (hence why I didn't get any password reset email), so when you delete my temp account I can switch this one to my current address. Thanks for your help, Zherog!

Fantastic! I was hoping the issue was that it was an old email address.

Your temp account is deleted, and I swapped the email address for you while I was there. You'll still want to check, though, to make sure.

Yes, everything is good now. Thanks!

[Foxwarrior]

Seems a bit botty now, is making new accounts easier than it was before?

[Thaluikhain]

Thaluikhain here, also unable to get the password reset email sent to me, tried firefox, chrome and edge for that, get to the page that says it's been sent by nothing arrives. Still using the same email address as when I first registered.

You should have a PM from me.

Yup, working now, thanks from me for that, and for fixing everything in general.

On another note, are we going to see the same problem if something gets the quote tags wrong?

[Zherog]

Thaluikhain here, also unable to get the password reset email sent to me, tried firefox, chrome and edge for that, get to the page that says it's been sent by nothing arrives. Still using the same email address as when I first registered.

You should have a PM from me.

Yup, working now, thanks from me for that, and for fixing everything in general.

Great, glad it's sorted. I've deleted Thaluikhagain.

On another note, are we going to see the same problem if something gets the quote tags wrong?

We shouldn't. But it's easy enough to test...

[Zherog]

Looks like the answer is no. That empty quote at the end of my last post is an open quote tag.