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Recent content by alethiophile

  1. alethiophile

    Unsure if this goes here: Is it possible to make the site work with Wayback machine/am I just doing something wrong when archiving?

    Wayback Machine, and other similar public archivers, cannot see QQ NSFW pages at all. This is a natural consequence of those pages needing a login to view. If you want to archive stories, you can use FanFicFare or similar, which let you use your own username and password.
  2. alethiophile

    Pasting from Google Doc

    Which rich-text editor are you using?
  3. alethiophile

    Lagging/Loading issues

    I've been away from computers for a few days, but now getting back to look into this. I am no longer seeing the problem, and I don't see any issue on the server end. We've had lag spikes like this before, usually for mysterious reasons. However, this one was worse and lasted longer than usual...
  4. alethiophile

    Character length limit?

    Try now. The limit should be disabled.
  5. alethiophile

    Ay Tone, I gotta question about Rule 8

    There's a fair amount of leeway granted to people in-thread playing along with the story. In most reasonable cases there won't be an issue. Assuming there is an issue, the way forward is to heed mod warnings and make a good-faith effort to resolve it. We will issue warnings before taking more...
  6. alethiophile

    XF2 transition feedback

    I've turned off the media auto-embed for the moment. This means the only way to trigger that is to type out the full invocation, e.g. <url>, which is a bit of a pain. I'll look into finding a better way to do that later.
  7. alethiophile

    XF2 transition feedback

    The bug where the editor kept duplicating itself on the profile comment pages should now be fixed.
  8. alethiophile

    Restoring the QQ XF1Textbox (or an approximation thereof)

    It's in your user preferences, select "Rich text editor". There's also a third option which is just a plain text box you can type BBcode in.
  9. alethiophile

    Alerts Small Window Potential Bug

    Is one of the two scrollbars the whole-window scrollbar? I just shrank my window down to very narrow, and the alert box scrollbar ends up right next to the one for the window as a whole.
  10. alethiophile

    Restoring the QQ XF1Textbox (or an approximation thereof)

    What are you looking for, the system like on old QQ where the plain text editor had buttons to insert bbcodes?
  11. alethiophile

    Restoring the QQ XF1Textbox (or an approximation thereof)

    The functionality of the textbox specifically should be almost entirely possible to bring in. The old QQ textbox was (an older version of) TinyMCE, so the differences are fairly minor. The functionality of the rest of the forum is harder to duplicate.
  12. alethiophile

    Restoring the QQ XF1Textbox (or an approximation thereof)

    The plan is to update the current TinyMCE implementation to duplicate all the functionality of the XF1 editor. This will take a little while, because I have about two dozen things to fix otherwise.
  13. alethiophile

    XF2 transition feedback

    I've found the issue here. Those posts include some syntactically invalid BBcode; on the old site implementation, they coincidentally worked (or rather, were ignored and the subsequent element worked), whereas on the new one they coincidentally fail and mangle some of the surrounding text. I...
  14. alethiophile

    XF2 transition feedback

    If you just click the "Watched" text, it will take you directly to the Watched Threads page.
  15. alethiophile

    XF2 transition feedback

    The [spoilerbb] tag should now be working again. Note that it's now just an alias for the ordinary [spoiler] tag, it doesn't have the distinct styling.
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