Subject: omguh Google did something right (nm)
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Posted on: 2022-04-01 14:31:38 UTC
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In honor of April Fools day, the Board has become more comic by
on 2022-04-01 01:05:45 UTC
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(I only just now realized that it was now April Fool's Day on Board time, and so had to think of something real quick.)
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Oh, hey, Tomash... by
on 2022-04-03 19:05:36 UTC
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I've just had this message through on the Wiki, from someone who's apparently having trouble signing up to the Board. Any chance you can take a look and try to help them?
hS
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I've taken a look by
on 2022-04-03 20:12:57 UTC
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and resolved this particular issue. I also updated the version of the library we use to talk to our email-sending provider just in case that's part of the fix.
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That was me by
on 2022-04-15 17:34:06 UTC
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I was the one trying to log into the board. Thankfully, it has worked now.
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Oh hey, awesome! by
on 2022-04-15 19:46:16 UTC
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Welcome a'Board, I'm glad it worked!
hS
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Iām glad it worked too (nm) by
on 2022-04-15 22:37:17 UTC
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Nice pun.
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So, is your Canon Analysis Device running? by
on 2022-04-01 23:18:11 UTC
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Yes? Then go retrieve it!
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The font was different on April Fool's Day. I know it's changed back now. (nm) by
on 2022-04-14 18:48:08 UTC
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So that's why the font's different, eh? (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 16:52:44 UTC
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Excellent! (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 14:23:00 UTC
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at last. the ideal font to describe my writing. =] (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 12:35:26 UTC
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Yep by
on 2022-04-01 14:27:42 UTC
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Your writing is funny and quite pleasant to read. (IFun fact I 've heard: Comic Sans improves dyslexic people's ability to read text in some measurable way)
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*is confused* (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 10:38:24 UTC
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The font on the Board should be Comic Sans by
on 2022-04-01 14:23:40 UTC
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If it isn't, you may not have it installed or something
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I just learned that my phone doesn't come with Comic Sans installed by
on 2022-04-01 14:35:50 UTC
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But, anyways, nifty joke, especially with the pun!
-kA
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Hey, who let our author in here? (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 10:38:59 UTC
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Shut up, David! (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 10:39:16 UTC
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It's Mr. Null to you (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 10:39:39 UTC
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Shut up, Mr. Null! (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 10:39:49 UTC
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Cheese! by
on 2022-04-01 04:23:39 UTC
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:3 by
on 2022-04-01 03:24:05 UTC
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Joke's on you; I'm into that stuff! ^_~ (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 02:39:11 UTC
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Except now there is a message to explain the edit resulting from accidentally hitting Post when I meant to preview.
~Neshomeh regrets nothing!
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Joke's on all you modern technology users, aktually. by
on 2022-04-01 11:06:56 UTC
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My phone is running so badly these days that it doesn't even show the change; until I looked on the PC I had no idea what you were on about.
hS
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It doesn't work on my rather new phone either by
on 2022-04-01 14:29:47 UTC
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I think maybe Android just doesn't have Comic Sans installed
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Can confirm. On android and didn't know what was changed. (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 14:48:51 UTC
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omguh Google did something right (nm) by
on 2022-04-01 14:31:38 UTC
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How'd you get the empty subject to go through? by
on 2022-04-01 04:23:12 UTC
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(I thought I'd found the problem and fixed it, but it looks like that wasn't the problem...)
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I'm not sure. by
on 2022-04-01 14:05:01 UTC
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I was trying to use HTML/CSS to put the subject line in Papyrus, and IIRC the tag was incomplete when I misclicked, so that might have something to do with it?
~Neshomeh
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I think I fixed it by
on 2022-04-02 18:25:05 UTC
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So here's what I'm rather confident happened.
You had an unterminated HTML tag in the subject line, something like
<i Wordsinstead of<i>Words</i>or even<i>Words(which'll get fixed up automatically).Since this wasn't strictly speaking an empty subject line, the Board's database let that go through
However, when the Board displays text like the subject and the body, it gets run through an HTML cleanup to make sure of things like that only specific tags can be used (to prevent nefarious nonsense). One part of this cleanup is throwing out stuff like
<i Words, since, if it was left in, it would make a big chunk of the page disappear (because people's browsers would just keep looking for more and more information about how the italics were supposed to work until they finally got to a point where they could guess "ok, there's probably a missing '>' back there).If that cleanup process led to removing all the text in the subject, then the result of cleaning would be a blank subject, which would duly get used as the text for the link.
This has now been fixed to detect when this happens and replace the blank text with
[[[bad HTML in subject]]]so there's still something to click on.