Bug Reporting

[nixshadow]

Putting a list bullet inside of an indent will mess up the forum pages styling.

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[CaloprymnusGenome]

I'm trying to post a colored BBCode log on the forums for an RP and it keep saying that Im trying to post 236 images

This continues even when I take out the colored code and leave only the text

[Blueberry]

Something in your text is probably being parsed as emoticons. there should be an option to disable them in advanced mode, try that.

edit: as in, if it's a pesterlog, you probably have a "DD:" or something like that, which gets translated by the forums into "D"

[creidieki]

The documentation at http://www.mspaforums.com/faq.php?fa...faq_vb3_albums describes a "Pictures & Albums" link on the control panel page, but there is no such link. The documentation should be updated (presumably the name or location of the link has been changed?)

[Kíeros]

The documentation at http://www.mspaforums.com/faq.php?fa...faq_vb3_albums describes a "Pictures & Albums" link on the control panel page, but there is no such link. The documentation should be updated (presumably the name or location of the link has been changed?)

There's no albums; there never were. That's just part of the standard, boilerplate VB FAQ. So I do not think that it can be removed, nor is there any intention to ever add it.

[creidieki]

There's no albums; there never were. That's just part of the standard, boilerplate VB FAQ. So I do not think that it can be removed, nor is there any intention to ever add it.

In that case it's a bug with the FAQ/documentation, but still a bug.

[Wiwaxia]

In that case it's a bug with the FAQ/documentation, but still a bug.

Looks like the FAQ's also boilerplate.

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e. oh man i am so 1337 (posts) right now

[teenyPowerhouse]

I'm having trouble with my profile picture. It doesn't show up when I post anything to the forum, but it's up on my profile.
Is there anyway I can fix this??

[kwinse]

Profile pictures are only visible on your profile. You want to upload an avatar if you want something to show by posts.

[teenyPowerhouse]

Profile pictures are only visible on your profile. You want to upload an avatar if you want something to show by posts.

Ooooooh! Okay, I didn't know they were different. Thank you :3

[Ace of Dark-Hearts]

Wrapping items in tags (or at least bolding, italics, and underline tags) don't work and the tags appear before everything else when clicked.

Also, this has been happening to me all the time. The text box disappears when I go to type things in it sometimes. I tried a different browser and it did the same thing. Refreshing multiple times usually and clicking the text box before it disappears seems to work, though.

[Nimz]

Wrapping items in tags (or at least bolding, italics, and underline tags) don't work and the tags appear before everything else when clicked.

Also, this has been happening to me all the time. The text box disappears when I go to type things in it sometimes. I tried a different browser and it did the same thing. Refreshing multiple times usually and clicking the text box before it disappears seems to work, though.

What do you mean by 'items'? If you mean links, I'm pretty sure it's a matter of putting the tags in the right order. I had to make a few attempts before I got bolding, colour, and linking all working the way I wanted in my sig, e.g. MSPA is color, b, url; whereas MSPA is b, url, color. I'm not sure what the this is referring to (or why it's colourful). I have had the input box do weird things when I'm on a slow connection, though.

If wrapping items in tags means highlighting text and clicking on the buttons to include bold, italic, and underline, I don't do usually do that, but when I tried that right now, I get the tags appearing before and after the highlighted text, as expected... * shrug *

On a completely different topic, a friend of mine has been having some difficulty logging in properly on a certain computer. After putting in the username and password, the forum says welcome, but as soon as anything is clicked on, the forum does not appear to remember the login. I encountered something like that with a browser that did not accept cookies, and as soon as I made it allow cookies, problem solved for me. My friend's problem was not solved even when the complete history, all the cookies, etc. were flushed, and the browser set to allow cookies. I don't know anything else about my friend's platform, browser, etc. that might be useful to add. My friend can still log in properly from another computer, but there is an inconvenience factor with that.

[kwinse]

Sounds like they have a program other than the browser blocking cookies. Some firewalls do that if they're set strict enough.

[simon.clarkstone]

I have seen this board do something that looks like sessions-via-URL-mangling, but I have never investigated it much. I don't know what is required to make it use that properly instead of cookies though, but it would, well, let you browse without needing cookies.

[deltron zero]

I'm not sure where exactly I would take this, but I'm typing this on behalf of the user Reed R Gale. He tells me that he is unable to log on without the forums automatically logging him back out. Could someone take a look at that, maybe explain if the problem is on his side or something?

[anomalousEntity]

The board seems to have some problems with handling CJK text, and oftentimes a relatively common kana syllable, ideograph, or even simple asian punctuation is enough to cut off the rest of the post's text for some odd reason.

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As you can see, selecting "reply with quote" shows the entire message in the message editor, so I think that there might be encoding problems causing the board to split a utf-8 character into two Win-1252 characters, one of which might be one of those special non-glyph characters such as #03, #04 and #17-#19, of which either of them may ultimately "jam" the text. While I understand that the board might be converting UTF-8 text into W-1252 and then back into UTF-8 for the sake of disinhibiting data transmission, this still presents a problem, since I'm pretty sure that CJK characters might not be the only ones from the unicode lot that might cause such problems. Please take note that the characters

私　使

are extremely common in Japanese and Chinese text, yet are still split into their respective sets of three and two "unrecognised character" glyphs in the quote, and that the text in the post gets jammed upon the appearance of the first of those glyphs.

[simon.clarkstone]

TL;DR: It will probably help if you insert some spaces or newlines into the text until the split-up-long-words mechanism doesn't damage it. You can get maybe a dozen CJK glyphs in a row without space/newline before it will break things.

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I have had a similar problem with long strings of ████ that I sometimes deploy. The board has a mechanism for stopping people stretching the page by posting really wide words. AFAICT this mechanism is not very smart and counts bytes (as if the text were ASCII or an 8-bit encoding), and just inserts an extra "space" byte whenever the text has gone more than 50 bytes without a space byte / newline byte, therefore it does not have the intelligence to not break up UTF-8 multi-byte sequences. If this theory is right, then inserting 1 extra byte at be beginning of a "broken" word will change the "phase" of the point at which the word is damaged, e.g:
████████████████� �
_████████████████� ��
__████████████████ █
___███████████████� �█
____███████████████� ��█
_____███████████████ ██
______██████████████� �██
"█" is a 3-byte character (1 start byte followed by 2 continuation bytes), so in the first row we get 16 "█"s (48 bytes), followed by a start byte, a continuation byte, a space byte, and the third continuation byte. The start-byte + continuation byte pair forms one broken-character symbol, and the last continuation byte is the other broken-character symbol. On the second row everything is shifted along one byte because of the 1-byte character "_", so it ends: start byte, space, then two continuation bytes, and so the start and continuation bytes each get rendered as a broken-character symbol. On the third row, the space ends up being inserted just before the start byte, so nothing is broken. The pattern repeats itself every three rows as one would expect.

[Isoraqathedh]

As was said earlier in the thread, vBulletin appears to insert 0x20s every 50 consecutive bytes that aren't spaces or newlines (I'm unsure if it resets the counter after a CRLF or just a plain CR or LF). To fix this you will need to try using a negative space, and deploy one after a space once every 50 bytes (or less). ASCII characters are 1 byte long, anything below U+07FF needs at most two, the rest of the BMP needs three, and anything outside of that needs four.

This could be alleviated by having the limit be revised up to 60 or down to 48, which would generally solve the system for people who aren't superheavy users of post-ASCII characters. That is the easy solution.

Unfortunately, vBulletin is proprietary software, so "smarter" revisions (or even just smarter line break rules) will be hard to see coming.

[Wesley Foxx]

I also don't see much extra effort being put in to allow for it, since on English speaking forums, they would see very little use outside of single words or emotes.

[Ace of Dark-Hearts]

All of the text boxes on this forum have been disappearing like this

I tried a different browser and it still happens. I don't know what's going on or how to fix it other than refreshing like five times to get the text box to appear, which is super annoying.

[Firecrow]

I tried to upload a new avatar, and I got this message:

[Nimz]

All of the text boxes on this forum have been disappearing like this

I tried a different browser and it still happens. I don't know what's going on or how to fix it other than refreshing like five times to get the text box to appear, which is super annoying.

I can offer two suggestions, both of which will probably not work, but might be fun to experiment with, for some value of the word 'fun'. First suggestion is to resize the textbox. The little series of slashes at the lower right of the box is where you can do that. It might give you a different-sized un-type-in-able box, or it might do nothing at all, but SCIENCE! The other one is apply some patience. I have seen something like that before, but I don't know how to reproduce it. When I've seen it, it tends to coincide with when my connection is being pretty shitty, though. Hopefully someone else can offer more insightful ideas.

[simon.clarkstone]

Once I initially commented I clicked the -Notify me when new feedback are added- checkbox and now each time a remark is added I get 4 emails with the identical comment. Is there any method you may remove me from that service? Thanks! well done!

Click "Settings" in the upper-right, click the "View all Subscribed Threads" on the right, tick the boxes for the threads you don't want to get email for, then choose the appropriate option from the "Selected Threads" menu/button at the bottom and click the "Go" button.

Also, you can click on the "General Settings" link on the left to get to a few more settings that will affect what you receive email for. Of interest will be whether any new thread you subscribe to should give you email. By default you subscribe to any thread you post in, though there might be a way to prevent that.

Personally I use the subscribed thread list on the settings page as my main way into the forum because there are many long-lived threads around here to follow the story as it progresses.

[Captain Morpheus]

When I tried playing the first part of Openbound and I took off my headphones, Latula's obnoxious theme song would blast over the song that was already playing. I'm a little late to post this, but whatevs.

[SkaianRedeemer]

Was that when it first went up or recently? The walkaround has been patched several times, the problem may already be fixed!