liked ;)

I've created a monster!

when someone's post is deleted, their post count stays the same

having looked at phpbb3 before I don't think this can be easily fixed but maybe something has changed

I think modifying someone's post count to reflect deleted posts requires manually resetting it. This is just a guess based on what I remember of the Control Panel offhand, though--I haven't bothered looking recently.

I thought 'deleted' posts were not really deleted?
Or am I missing something here?

They aren't, but last I checked, the place we chucked them into for safekeeping is set up to not increase post count.

URLs with brackets with them get messed up:

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Searc ... spx?name=+[Thrull]%7C%7Ctype=+[Thrull]%7C%7Csubtype=+[Thrull]%7C%7Ctext=+[Thrull]

And adding URL tags doesn't help at all.

[url]http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=+[Thrull]%7C%7Ctype=+[Thrull]%7C%7Csubtype=+[Thrull]%7C%7Ctext=+[Thrull][/url]

It's a limitation in bb code, I believe anywhere. The work-around is to use the ASCII code for the brackets (%5B for open bracket, and %5D for closed). For example:

I work!

If you ever need to find the codes for these or other character, Google "Table of ASCII Characters" (without the quotes). You want what's listed in the hex or hexidecimal column, and you stick a % in front of that value. Here's one such table, that I just used to get the codes for the brackets.

Thanks for pointing this out!

Technically it is not a bug; square brackets aren't legal in URLs (you're supposed to use the urlencoded forms, %5B and %5D, instead), so php is looking at those URLs and saying "nope, not valid, no link for you". And technically it's right to do so.

But I get that it's really annoying to not be able to do this. I'll see if I can find a workaround.

[fake edit] Argh, beaten by Fire!

I guess that's not so bad then, it's just gonna be somewhat annoying to deal with.

Update: You can now use square brackets in URLs in [url] tags. It will replace all the square brackets with the corresponding HTML entities (%5B, %5D). Example:

becomes

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=+%5BThrull%5D%7C%7Ctype=+%5BThrull%5D%7C%7Csubtype=+%5BThrull%5D%7C%7Ctext=+%5BThrull%5D

Doesn't work without the tags, and you can't use it in url= tags either.

good work

Yay, thanks!

I get the message "You cannot read posts in this forum." when I tried to quote a post

and then when I tried to refresh the page I got a message "You cannot read this forum"

in the metaboard

oh I just checked again and the post I was referring to was deleted so I guess that is why

Gotta love late night typos.

~SE++

It was like 5 am give me a break

Not sure if it's a bug or just an incomplete feature, but we currently have an incomplete set of Dreamblade Symbol smilies.
Madness ( ), Passion ( ) and Fear ( ) are all present, but are missing Valor (The crossed swords icon), the Blade symbols, and a few miscellaneous Dreamblade symbols from the old forums.

Even if we don't have many Dreamblade folks here, we used these symbols for forum games and notation a lot down in F&S. Hell, the blade and multiblade icons were practically a mechanic on their own.

If you link me to the images you want I'll add 'em.

Here's all of them. Better to do this now than miss them later.

Name (Suggested code) {image}
Valor (valor)
Blade (bl)
Double Blade (dbl)
Multiblade (mbl)
Double Multiblade (dmbl)
Scoring Cell (sc)
Comes into Play (cip)