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"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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Yeah, somethings up with your PC. I checked a bunch of topics and hit the spoiler tags and they're working.
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Oh good, glad to hear that. I was worried all my writing was gone. XP Thank you!
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http://thefluxnet.com/boards/detail.php?board=9&topic=4161&message=123897
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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It's cut off at the bottom when you click spoiler tags.
He has no sig and this seems to cut off in mid sentence
[JUNIOR enters.]
Jr.: lol whoops eavesdropping again.
Ziggy: It's fine, I gave up on caring a long time ago. MOMO, I
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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I vote for that to be TFN's new motto.
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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This has been happening to TFN all day. It renders in plain text until I refresh.
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Lately, when I refresh sometimes Firefox will interrupt and prevent it on the basis that it's stopping the page from automatically refreshing (which shouldn't be true because this happens on manual refreshes.)
Not sure if that helps any, or indeed, if it's even the same thing, but it'd be an odd coincidence if they're unrelated and yet sprung up at the same time.
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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This just started? That looks like an unloaded stylesheet. This may be a side effect of my disabling most of the Javascript the site was using.
Lately, when I refresh sometimes Firefox will interrupt and prevent it on the basis that it's stopping the page from automatically refreshing (which shouldn't be true because this happens on manual refreshes.)
Not sure if that helps any, or indeed, if it's even the same thing, but it'd be an odd coincidence if they're unrelated and yet sprung up at the same time.
That's totally bizarre; I can't imagine it's related. This only happens on TFN?
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Could it be the host did something weird or something? I mean, again, could be a really weird coincidence, but that'd be some weird timing!
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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I actually don't know what the source of that error could be. I suspect it has something to do with Javascript, though, because that seems to be the root of Kodan's problem and that's also what usually brings up those alerts in Firefox.
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Every instance of cutting off that I've found like this, when I viewed the source and jumped to where the cutoff was, there was a red "/td" (with the < and > brackets around it.) And hovering the cursor on it gave a little pop-up saying it found an end td tag and noted there were some open elements still. So, as far as I can tell it's erroneously reading an HTML tag that shouldn't be there? Maybe? And it cuts off everything past it.
As for it "just" happening with spoiler tagged stuff... I'm not so sure. If you want to find a lot of these errors, the vgmusic topic series is a great place to find them, and if it's a CG7 post the odds go up dramatically. Which is... interesting, but obviously I linked that Kenri example so it's happening to others.
But check this out: http://thefluxnet.com/boards/genmessage.php?page=9&board=13&topic=3982
Go to Posts 447, 449, and 450.
447 is a classic example of this phenomena, happening to CG7. It cuts off after the song name and there's no link or commentary on the song by her... which isn't right, check most of the rest of the topic to see how most things are formatted there.
But then me and Kenri clearly try to quote it in 449 and 450 and we're similarly cut-off.
Couple of things here:
1. There's a ton of examples in the vgmusic topics where if someone else quotes a cut-off post they are cut-off in the same spot. I'm just not linking a ton of them. That's not the only time.
2. CG7's original wasn't in spoilers and still got cut. Likewise for me and Kenri we get cut-off without using spoilers.
So I'm thinking there's more to it then "spoiler tagged stuff acting up occasionally." I don't know what causes it though. The vgmusic topic example pretty much suggests it isn't post length because I truly can't imagine any of those 3 posts being very long. They're certainly smaller than other posts, and likely this one.
What I'm interested is if someone by chance had exactly what they posted saved somewhere and could see if reposting it replicates the problem, but that sounds unlikely. And even if they did, HTML tags might be involved and if those aren't also put in the same spots it may not matter much.
If I had more time I might try to look into the latest confirmed case of this happening and see where it lines up with like... host changes or restoring from backups or something, but... yeah. That'd be a real pain I think.
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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I'm almost certainly quoting CG7's Post 445 which is also cut-off. Except my cut-off in 448 happens regarding a part of her post that isn't even displaying there because it's part of what got chopped off.
Which makes me think that maybe whatever glitch is causing these cut-offs may not have entirely lost the data because I have a partial quote of some cut-off text there that just happens to annoyingly cut-off again. Because it seemingly "remembered" enough about the cut-off parts of her post to cause it to happen in my post on quoting her.
Or maybe it's just a coincidence but that seems unlikely. Unless I'm just totally off on what's going on here which is perfectly plausible.
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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http://thefluxnet.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=510&topic=2694
Post #21 is the one it happens to. I know some people can't see it, but Ogor can. In that post the trigger for the cutoff isn't even an HTML tag, it seems to be an apostrophe that causes it.
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I'd need to check the raw DB backup to see if the data's still there, but if I still have that, it's on my old computer, so it'll be a while until I can do that. My assumption, though, is that this data is sadly unrecoverable.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Huh, that's kinda weird. But then, this whole thing kind of always was. >_>
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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I also know how this happened. Since the messages table is ginormous (technical term), I couldn't upload it through a browser, as it would time out, so I used a script to break it into pieces and uploaded it that way. This script apparently had great difficulty with characters like é.
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76935 is the only ID of such a post that I've found DSB wise.
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So, unless there's a time limit for this it may be a long while before I report back. Rather try and collect most/all of them and do it in one post than just collect a few at a time.
...if there's a time limit i'm not sure what my plan is. >_>
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu