Bugs and things to fix

[OrigamiOwl]

Just wanted to mention that the word p**** is cencored, which is okay, but the word p****cat is also cencored, which can get weird. Any way to fix this?

I also noticed this, and thought it odd, but you beat me to it.

[Deirdre]

Feel free to laugh at my not-knowing if it's only my browser/coding problem.

I'm Polish and decided to introduce myself in Polish in the language-introducing thread. After sending the post I saw that Polish diacritics don't show properly (I  get question marks and other things instead, like in cze?? (hello), ending normally with versions of "s" and "c"). It seems to me as a problem of the forum, couse I cuoldn't see them afterwards when I edited the post, either.

[Eich]

Just wanted to mention that the word p**** is cencored, which is okay, but the word p****cat is also cencored, which can get weird. Any way to fix this?

Thought this might happen eventually.
I'll try something out that I just thought of.

Feel free to laugh at my not-knowing if it's only my browser/coding problem.

I'm Polish and decided to introduce myself in Polish in the language-introducing thread. After sending the post I saw that Polish diacritics don't show properly (I  get question marks and other things instead, like in cze?? (hello), ending normally with versions of "s" and "c"). It seems to me as a problem of the forum, couse I cuoldn't see them afterwards when I edited the post, either.

It's a forum problem.  I was working on a fix, but I hit a snag.
I'll get back on it.

[Nimphy]

Just wanted to mention that the word p**** is cencored, which is okay, but the word p****cat is also cencored, which can get weird. Any way to fix this?

That's a pain when saying stuff in Japanese, because "shit" comes up quite often inside words and gets censored, such messing up what little comprehension I do have.

[ThisCat]

That's a pain when saying stuff in Japanese, because "s***" comes up quite often inside words and gets censored, such messing up what little comprehension I do have.

Well, at least it's easy to guess what the missing letters are..

[Eich]

My idea didn't work.
Sorry, y'all.

Edit: FIX'D (the pussycat one.  The other one will just take running into every romaji word with "shit" in it, unfortunately).  That was a weird workaround, but I got it figured out.  If you stumble into any more compound words that are partially censored, I now have a way of un-censoring them. 

[Sunflower]

Yikes!  Something is wiping out Forum content! 

We first noticed this in the Scriptorium thread.  Several posts in the last 12-to-18 hours showed up empty of content.  We could see who posted them and when (incl. OrigamiOwl, Solovei, and Unlos).  The problem was first reported here:
http://ssssforum.pcriot.com/index.php?topic=193.msg15133#msg15133

Then I happened to review my received PMs and noticed that the same thing had happened to 4 or 5 of them.  The external format of each remains, denoting the sender, subject, and date/time -- but no content.  It wiped out (I think) 2 by Owl and 1 each by Solovei and Unlos.  (I'll update this post once I've double-checked.)

I'm a pretty heavy user of PMs to lots of people, so although the Silence Plague only affects a small fraction of my correspondence, I'm unnerved by the prospect that it might strike again.

Is there a systematic way to back up PMs to desktop/offsite, other than to just copy-and-paste into a word processing document?  I might be doing the Forum server a favor by removing so much text...

[Eich]

Okay, I just made a quick backup, in case things get any worse. 
The last error was at 4:29:07

There's no problems with the memory limits, yet, so it's not tied to that.
I'll keep digging.

[mithrysc]

mysterious disappearances

Also just noticed this happening with my PMs. It seems to be happening the most in posts with linked content. (i.e. I really hope all you people downloaded your Secret Santa presents, because I no longer have links to most of them)

[ThisCat]

I also lost one PM by Owl from december the 13th, though the other one from that day was fine.

[Eich]

There are missing posts as far back as day one, in the GDT.

[ThisCat]

There are missing posts as far back as day one, in the GDT.

this is not nice.

[Eich]

this is not nice.

Not at all.
This has to be something host-side.
Hush offered to help us switch to her host site, but she hasn't been around for a few days.  X10 has been irking me for a while now and, if this is their fault, it's the last straw. 

[Eich]

Tried posting this on the Forum just now -- no luck.  (I can tell if it won't Preview.)

Looking in my *received* PMs, I am missing 13 in all, ranging from Sept. 22 to Dec. 26.  They affect 4 or 5 people -- just a few of each that they sent me.  The most frequent "silenced" ones were Dec. 22 or so to Dec. 26.

I'll count the casualties among my *sent* PMs shortly. 

Also, Eich, I replied (randomly) to one of your Disqus comments about an hour ago, just to have another communications channel.  I may also see if your external e-mail works, for backup.

Meanwhile, COPY AND SAVE, everyone!!! 

Posting for Sunflower.
Not sure why, but the "Preview" function is also not working correctly.  I think it has to do with the length of the posts, because I couldn't see my preview when I tried posting one of the errors from the host site's error log. 

Unfortunately, we just had another wave of errors at 7:01:58 so, like Sunflower said, if you have any important PMs, copy them to a document or text file now.  I made a backup of the site at around 4:45, so those PMs can be restored but any urgent or special posts should be copied, if you need them for anything.

[Sunflower]

FYI, if this'll post (Eich has already gotten this via PM):

Among my *outgoing*/sent messages, 50 have been eaten out of about 150 total.  Again, the distribution is random -- some very long and link-filled messages are still there, and no one recipient seems to be targeted.

The earliest eaten *sent* PM was Oct. 22.  The latest was a whole bunch on Dec. 22-23, and a couple Dec. 26.  It still seems to be happening on-and-off today; I'm having about a 50-50 chance of getting through to you via PM.

COPY AND SAVE YOUR TEXT, folks!!!