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OK, I believe the code will now correct the post regardless of whether the tag is missing at the beginning or the end.

As with yesterday, if anybody sees anything weird please post here. I'll be online for the next 30 minutes to an hour, and I'll make a point to refresh in the morning as well.

more testing

Props to nockermensch too. He took the initiative to fix the code.

So... looks like the code only fixes when there are more open tags than close tags. So, improvement but not perfect. I should be able to tweak the fix to cover both scenarios, but not tonight - my mind is too much goo to concentrate tonight.

And... that looks about right. So, the code is pretty simple overall. If there are more open tags than close tags, it simply adds close tags until there are the same number of each. It does this right before submitting the post to the database. I'll do a few more tests, and I'll be around for about ...

test post #1

Nockermensch was kind enough to take a look at the code that writes posts to the database, and he believes he was able to correct the ever-annoying bug that causes missing quote tags to fuck up the format of the entire page. The code looks solid to me, but unfortunately I'm going to have to experime...

I'll go ahead and unstick this now, on the assumption that any maintenance window has passed by now, even if they didn't give us a timezone in their message.

When we moved, all old posts should have migrated with us. Here's the "Why Monks" thread on 'new' Nifty for example. But then, why isn't there a copy of the 'Why Monks?' thread and other old Nifty threads here? Nifty and the Den are different places, so things that were made on Nifty would...

Howdy all. I've just received an email from support indicating that we could potentially see about a half hour or so of downtime on Tuesday December 17th, between the hours of 12am and 4am due to some maintenance. (Unfortunately, while they give the hours of the downtime, they don't give the timezon...

Thanks, Prak. Has anybody seen that problem anywhere besides this thread?

Performance still seems to be slow, but maybe a bit better than last night. Though that may just be wishful thinking...

And...

As part of the performance issue, it looks like we're now getting "500 server" errors. Hopefully it clears up soon, but I'll enter a ticket with support in a moment.

OK, hopefully the "General Error Could not insert new word matches" error is resolved. I was just able to post and make some edits to the post. However, things are still slow. That might be on host; I'll keep looking into that, though I do need to go cook a pot of chili for tomorrow's game...

Looking into things now...

test edit

and again...

Sometimes I double or triple--it's usually when the loading is slow so I'm not sure if it registered, and I click "submit" several times. When the site goes slow, it almost always makes your post, as best as I can see anyway. The "insert" to the database happens first, and that ...

For those with the issue: is this an intermittent, once-a-week sort of thing? Or is it a couple-times-a-day thing?

Thanks. Anybody else notice connection problems? Two makes a strong case for being on the host side, but another member or two would pretty much seal the deal.

Did the extra posts appear immediately after you edited? After editing, do you wait for the auto redirect, or are you impatient like me and click one of the links? Were there posts between your triple post, or did they pop up all in a row?

Anybody else ever have this happen?

When it happened to you, fectin, was there anything else odd going on that you noticed, like the server responding slowly?

edit #1 just to test....

Anybody else having the issue? That'll help determine if it's a host issue or user issue. My hunch would be host side, though.

503 The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems . Please try again later. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. capacity problems? In total there are 23 users onli...

Ah! Yep, now I remember - that's definitely it. I made a post under my wife's account to test, and then deleted it. So that'd definitely be it.