Bug Stomp
Upgrades and changes sometimes have unpredictable results, so post your bugs and glitches in here and I'll get out my trusty wrench and get to fixin'!
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Channeling alert:
I was just talking to MaryCherry, and just as she replied a popup appeared with the start of a chat between "Irina Khalidar" and "alberteinstein". the first thing IK said was the line that MC had just uttered, then IK went on with what she would have normally said first.
I was just talking to MaryCherry, and just as she replied a popup appeared with the start of a chat between "Irina Khalidar" and "alberteinstein". the first thing IK said was the line that MC had just uttered, then IK went on with what she would have normally said first.
Irina, I see that a lot, also. At least it's a little better than it was... the popup bot doesn't totally take over the chat like before. I'm sure it will steadily get better as The Prof has time to look at things. 
What's the problem with the bots lately? They have been changing "s" to "th" (like, thith ith what i thay)
I have noticed that many statements that start with "what" will go to xnones. If I as my bot "rhyme fat" it works, "what rhymes with fat" won't. How do you get purple will work, what colors make purple won't.
Has anyone else had the following trouble logging in?
I type my username and password, and it says it's no good. I type them again, and maybe it's accepted, maybe it isn't. On the third try, it's usually accepted.
To be sure, I make typing errors. But recently, this has been happening to me every time. I'm not that bad!
Very good, this is a low-priority problem, I can live with it. But I thought I'd mention it.
I type my username and password, and it says it's no good. I type them again, and maybe it's accepted, maybe it isn't. On the third try, it's usually accepted.
To be sure, I make typing errors. But recently, this has been happening to me every time. I'm not that bad!
Very good, this is a low-priority problem, I can live with it. But I thought I'd mention it.
Another low-priority problem:
The "close italics" HTML tag doesn't seem to be working in the message pop-ups. So, once you italicize anything, everything to the end of the message is italicized. For example, I'm now going to try to italicize just this phrase. See?
The "close italics" HTML tag doesn't seem to be working in the message pop-ups. So, once you italicize anything, everything to the end of the message is italicized. For example, I'm now going to try to italicize just this phrase. See?
<0>The Prof changed the protocol - it no longer closes with a pointy slash i pointy, but with a pointy 0 pointy. Don't ask me why - I guess it makes sense to him. I found it a bit annoying too.
So when you want to italicize only a certain portion of your post<0>, end the italics with a zero instead of the slash i, and then you'll be in full compliance with the new Forge-flavoured hypertext markup standard
So when you want to italicize only a certain portion of your post<0>, end the italics with a zero instead of the slash i, and then you'll be in full compliance with the new Forge-flavoured hypertext markup standard
Actually that begs a rather important question - do we need to go through our bots' responses, and outgrade all italics to this new standard? I use a lot of italics in BJ's responses (especially in chapter and verse bible citations etc.,) so I suppose I ought to go and check.
But I can't be bothered - I'm still reeling from the fiasco, and I'd rather get back to discussing more theoretical matters right now anyway. Anyone else who relies on italics a lot might not be so minded though, so if you use them - better go check they work.
If you'd like to tell the rest of us, I'll be very grateful in a sleepy and distracted kind of a way
But I can't be bothered - I'm still reeling from the fiasco, and I'd rather get back to discussing more theoretical matters right now anyway. Anyone else who relies on italics a lot might not be so minded though, so if you use them - better go check they work.
If you'd like to tell the rest of us, I'll be very grateful in a sleepy and distracted kind of a way
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