stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days

Can you just check it's not happening on all stylesheets -- does old.css work, for instance?

not a problem in old.css

Hey y'all, I'm noticing a thing lately where if a url is posted with a closed parenthesis at the end, that closed parenthesis shows up in the post as plain text rather than as part of the url, which leads to an error when you click the (now incorrect) link. Like so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Downey_(comedian)

NBD, just thought you should know.

That has been happening since forever.

Which, as anyone familiar with my observational skills can tell you, in no way contradicts my having just now noticed it.

if you feel fancy you can replace the ) at the end with %29 when you post a link

ty, I will employ that when fanciness next overtakes me.

I agree - or not, since you said it was NBD - it is mildly bothersome, btw, but I don't know how often it happens the other way round, i.e. someone actually posts a parenthesis-less link inside parentheses and doesn't leave a space

theoretically the link finder could check whether the opening bracket is after the http or before but if we try to make it aware of all possibilities we'll bring SkyNet online before we know it

(I may try this line next time my boss asks for something I don't want to do)

ever since twitter changed their site, links through to twitter posts on desktop - i.e. when images are off and you want to click through to see the tweet - usually result in a 'something went wrong' page on twitter, which stays that way even if you hack the referrer string off the URL! copying and pasting the tweet URL without the referrer string into a new browser window works. odd. i'm on Opera on a Mac.

This is definitely Twitter. I think they’re trying to do something smart and failing

I assumed they are just mad that i'm not on twitter.

(Sufjan Grafton and (Old Lunch making great points.

)) Jesus, you animal.

The parentheses bug is a more general message board code issue, I think? Or at least I've seen it happen on other boards too that use BBCode.

Ffm, I think you meant (((Jesus

I will quit my job (programming, where we respect parenthesis symmetry) for this cause. )))

Getting a 'poxy fule' error when I try to create a new poll, y'all.

mods, please keep this new feature, thnx

by feature are you referring to the disabling of polls or regular reminders that I am a poxy fule

well, since you asked, which one of those is really a new feature?

getting poxy fuled trying to post some extremely urgent lols to the Elon Musk thread

Hi all - post to thread and bookmark thread buttons not working for me when using Safari on iPhone 5s. Could anyone please fix?

Working for me - are you using a content blocker of any type?

Works now, thanks!

yo, why do posts at top of long threads not load anymore? is this an intentional design decision or a bug? because it's very bad (imho)

if it's intentional can we at least get an option to toggle off?

thx,
-flopson

Definitely not intentional. Got a link to an example thread please?

What's changed with the signoff lines? There's no space after the comma any more. Ie

― stet,Friday, 8 November 2019 22:41 (five months ago)

(Firefox, android)

Oops, my bad

I just tried to flag a really old post (mostly for comedy purposes; in what universe Seal indefensible? c'mon man) and got a stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException at com.conversationboard.controller.VoteForBanControllerServlet.doPost(Unknown Source) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:660) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:741) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at com.conversationboard.filter.GatewayFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:200) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:543) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:690) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343) at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.service(AjpProcessor.java:525) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:818) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1627) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Feel free to delete if you don't want stack traces publicly posted on the site; was mostly wondering if this is a known issue tied to old data, indication that something is screwy with my authentication, or an actual problem.

.... and I should have quoted instead of using code

oops

I'll take a look, the age of the post shouldn't count I don't think

ok,

love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

that image shows as a broken link to me. it's a convoluted fbcdn url, but i've seen the same thing with twitter images. the broken link isn't the problem though. when i right click and view image i can see the image fine, but then i can't get back to the original page - the back button is greyed out, the back on the context menu is greyed out. why would that be?

(firefox, mac)

(ah, ok, right click, then middle click on 'view image' opens it in a new tab, which is missing as an option in the menu in firefox)

thread of tim rogers content (do not read if you hate tim rogers)
is coming up broken on zing as "There are some old or corrupted messages in this thread which Zing can't read"

^ yeah i'm getting that too

should be fixed now, ta

gracias

neither of these are big deals but just since they crossed me mind:

can we embed youtube links that look like the urls you get when you click share, i.e. https://youtu.be/TuP86rfnR3A ?

and can we rewrite youtube embed urls to youtube-nocookie.com per https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking?

vote against the first - it's very handy to be able to select and post Belgium links when you don't want to embed, rather than have to type open square bracket you are ell equals paste url close square bracket paste url again open square bracket backslash you are ell close square bracket

you could leave out the https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

not as useful imo

what are Belgium links?

Think it's just because YouTube puts .be in the shortened url

oh ofc thanks

the men were here to get your Belgian links

Only Built 4 Belgian Linx

there it is

Something odd might be happening - at the moment, the 'second thoughts' thread has an answer from 37 minutes ago - but it doesn't show up on ILE's New Answer page at all, the most recent thread there is from 59 minutes ago. Is it cutting off the very top entry?