Forum issues: word from TGR HQ

[Core Shot]

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What is with all this &lt; P &gt; stuff all of a sudden?

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&nbsp;learn to code</p>

[old goat]

And BTW the nickel will be next to go.

[bobz]

My less than comprehensive observation is that if you post via web browser, most things work fine, more or less (here, I'll include an apostrophe and some "scare quotes"). However, if you edit your own response, rich text (which I presume is stored internally as HTML) displays as HTML. The < p> tag means paragraph break, for example, and apostrophes are stored internally (and thus, posted that way when subject to this editing problem) as an escape sequence that includes the apostrophe's ASCII code. So then, post and don't edit after you post; one and done.

Response-with-quote may take your content into HTML-land too. In any case, response-with-quote is broken in that it will frequently quote an entirely different post, so stop using that too.

Posting via the mobile browser has other issues. I'm not sure where the explosion of emoji tags comes from when you do that. I'm genuinely curious about how that glitch works.

Posting via Tapatalk seems to work fine (posting images works, even) aside from Tapatalk being annoying generally. So when you post or edit something and it gets bolloxed up, you can hold your nose and use Tapatalk to edit and fix things.

[Danno]

All of those html codes show up when I post via web browser on a computer (firefox or chrome).

But yes, I can go in via the app or tapatalk and delete things.

[bobz]

Testing, &#39;testing&#39;, 123 New paragraph The above appeared properly, originally. Now I&#39;m editing the post, so watch for the HTML version to appear now (bold text, italics)
Edit: Interesting, it&#39;s partly rich text (see bold and italics above, also no p-tags), but apostrophe gets the escape sequence instead, and line spacing was changed.

[bobz]

Was originally:

Testing, 'testing', 123

New paragraph




These have been posted on Windows Firefox browser. Also, Danno, your last post looks fine to me; what are you doing differently when you get HTML'ed?

[RShea]

What is with all this < P > stuff all of a sudden?

If you edit any post then the html tags
is paragraph, etc. appear and rear their ugly head...

[singlesline]

All of those html codes show up when I post via web browser on a computer (firefox or chrome).

But yes, I can go in via the app or tapatalk and delete things.

I’ve been using the mobile site on desktop and it works better.

Can edit (even though editing on mobile actually deletes your post), quote, etc. as long as you open the links in a new tab.

[Danno]

Was originally:

Testing, 'testing', 123

New paragraph




These have been posted on Windows Firefox browser. Also, Danno, your last post looks fine to me; what are you doing differently when you get HTML'ed?

I posted on a laptop and got the crap. I edit that post in the app and while I can't see the offending crap, I delete all the spaces between paragraphs (then re-enter the paragraph break as normal, ie normal typing). That seems to work

[summit]

I'm concerned that if this forum is left in this barely usable state for 4-5 months, by the time it is upgraded, the bulk of the user base will have moved on to functional pastures. With that low cost consultant based move it looks like you could buy a license and have someone migrate for around $500 total without a huge load from the IT team and it could be done very quickly.

[Elkhound Odin]

I’m never leaving. I will stay to the end.


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[RShea]

Don't know the budget, but if the full migration is going to be 6 months, maybe think about a faster fix of moving to the newest edition of vBulletin or go to the migration immediately to Xenforo and then start working on the customization once it is working as intended with the addition of the coding customization, ads and other things they feel they need to monetize and all their wish list of things they did and are hanging onto with this version.

[Core Shot]

Can iceman recover his password?
I will miss Ötzi

Will we get tags?

Will Burt realize Jodi is gay?

Next week on soap. Tune in. Or not.

[summit]

Users lost will be hard to recover.

User loss is usually an exponential curve. It's a slow bleed until eventually a forum falls below critical mass needed to sustain conversation.

Like an arterial bleed, the best thing is to stop it fast and keep the important stuff in.

[BmillsSkier]

Unfortunately the loss of users has been very pronounced over the last year. I hope many of them are still lurking, waiting for the site to come back to some semblance of usability.

I mean, if you have to figure out 5 different ways to post without a bunch of code appearing, walls of emoji syntax and other illegible shit, never mind no ability to post pics, then it's no wonder why so many users have checked out.

[mcski]

I think if it was stable they’d mostly return (not counting summer lol). I disappeared for almost three months because my login stopped working for three weeks. Not sure when it came back but I didn’t try again for a while. Who knows who else was having that problem whatever it was. The crazy emojis are just a bonus

If they build it they will come. People need their fix somewhere and I don’t know where else people would have gone ? Insta? reddit?

[Mod Team]

The Mod Team obviously has the same concerns and has been in communication with HQ. They are supposedly looking into Xenforo.

[toast2266]

If they build it they will come. People need their fix somewhere and I don’t know where else people would have gone ? Insta? reddit?

They'll return after they go to another forum, say something snarky, and get banned.

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[Hott Butt Mud]

Advres needs to come back and run this shit (in to the ground).

[jm2e]

I can only imagine how productive my life will be if this forum shuts down.

[BmillsSkier]

Advres did run a tight ship. He even started Polyass and apparently that's still a hot topic.

Although, this place was a lot edgier back then with Smokey McPole posting TRs, Tedski dropping philosophical knowledge bombs, and Mr. Profane shaking the proverbial fist at every passing cloud, so maybe a strong pimp hand is what was needed.

[::: :::]

no doubt

times & mores have changed

[BmillsSkier]

That and he was already angry so it was a natural fit.

[shroom]

a career staring at a dark terminal will do that to a man

we’d be terrible customers

[S_jenks]

I will throw another comment out there in support of buying TGR swag and/or forum specific swag if it went to help support the transition.

Hell, even stickers would be awesome. I’d throw in some design work if needed.