Boards Update - Character Encoding, Hot Sorting Fix, & Notification Service Fix

Modmichaelchan·2/13/2019, 2:59:26 PM·9 votes·3,590 views

Hi all,

The issue where characters were automatically decoded when a thread was initially posted has been resolved.

What this means: When you first post a thread with characters like > or #, etc, it will no longer show as > or #, but rather as the appropriate markup. As an example, this thread will include the quotation markup, which would have not have encoded properly prior to the update, and would've required a thread edit to fix. No more "amp;gt;"'s.

This is the example quote

I'd like to thank the folks who've been working on this fix, along with many of the other issues that've been brought up. And of course, thanks to all of you for your reports.

That being said, the Notification System is now working again, and the Hot sorting appears to be working as well!

Cheers!

15 Comments

Salvor Hardın2/13/2019, 3:09:34 PM2 votes

No more "amp;gt;"'s

Goodbye to those days of having to edit the post as soon as you publish it. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0c97cbc7ed9c81d89ad73d6c3195b2f0ae0415d79831d1c942103418f2a442de.gif

A little question Wuks, do you think that someday we can have an application of the forum for mobiles?

2nd Chance2/14/2019, 12:18:56 AM1 votes

Bless

KFCeytron2/17/2019, 8:48:15 AM1 votes

I actually had an issue recently where a ">" that I'd manually HTML-encoded so that it would show up as such was being turned into a quoted section as if I'd used the bare character. The resulting post was different from the live preview, which showed a literal ">" character. The only way I could get the literal character to show up properly in the actual post was to escape with a backslash. Is this related to the fix that forces the leading ">" characters in an OP to be parsed as block quote markdown rather than escaped?

I'm gonna go ahead and try it again here.

this has a simple leading ">" which should be the only one of these that shows a block quote

and

this is encoded with gt

and

this is encoded with #62

and

> this is escaped with a backslash