Site and/or forum bugs or things not working

Voros said:

even though his post count is over 9000

WHAT? 9000?

THATS IMPOSSIBLE!

Ok srsly, what happened? Is that some sort of custom title?

Moderators can generally set their own custom title.

fraggle said:

WHAT? 9000?

BIG FUCKING Vegeta Gun!!!!!!! 1111111111

I'm surprised no one has interpreted it as him registering just to eventually make his 9001st post for the sake of making that meme joke.

I'm 100% sure Ling knows about this, but oh well: Not being able to view the accounts whose names contain special characters such as # < > etc could maybe be fixed, mrcrispy and I were attempting to work out how earlier

There's a typo in the "you already voted on this poll" message.

Hi.

I was browsing the forums and I noticed something strange. As we know, our dear friend Sodaholic changed his user name to Blastfrog, but in the thread listing, the ones he started under his former name still appear to have been started by Sodaholic, and if one clicks this user name it redirects to the "user has not registered..." message.

Probably not a bug, but I thought it may be of interest to you.

Good day.

For some reason IDGAMES for me is down, I get a Page 404 when I access any part of it.

Not seeing anything referencing it been removed in the news or anything.

XLightningStormL said:

Not seeing anything referencing it been removed in the news or anything.

That's because it's Just You™.

Unless you meant the Doomworld front end, which is also fine.

Hey, on my phone right now; I just got a pm from a buddy and when I try to open it, Chrome tells me:

The doomworld.com page isn’t working

doomworld.com didn’t send any data.
ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

I don't get this problem with any other PM; only the newest ones. Tested ones from before I got this phone (no way to be cached) and they work fine. Downloaded Firefox real quick to further test and it was much the same, with the only difference being that it treated old PM's as text instead of as links, heh. Still, that narrows down a few possibilities for it to be. I also logged out and back in again (mostly just so I don't forget how) and still the same result, but I didn't check to see if it was plugged in or if the power was o-- *ducks tomato*

It'll be another hour or so before I am home, but I'll test it on my laptop then and PM buddy to resend message if it still doesn't work. So no biggie on my end, but it is something strange worth noting.

Of course, these short tests I ran do not fully rule out the possibility for the problem being on my end somewhere, either with my (new) device or with the service provider, so grain of salt and all that.

Can anybody shed some light on this?

A bump I suppose, but when I went to check this last night on my comp it also didn't work. I've never seen something like this happen with these forums; a strange bug.

Fonze said:

A bump I suppose, but when I went to check this last night on my comp it also didn't work. I've never seen something like this happen with these forums; a strange bug.

There's a thread for reporting problems like this. Merging this into that thread.

It seems that i can only create one new thread per day. Does this limit apply to everyone or only to new members?

I`m not from important part from the world,but I have problem-I can`t reach this page/forum and id games database without vpn service(even with vpn service help site gets down for me sometimes). I tried change DNS settings,checked antivirus,firewall settings,tested ping and tracert things. Maybe server is blocking me somehow(I`m still thinking if I broke some rules here in this forum)
Problem occured at friday morning,I tested everything which has access to internet(I used phone,web browsers-Opera,Mozilla firefox and avast safezone).
(please, delete this post,thank you)

Doom 2016 Multiplayer forum is a "Not working" thing, Dead and utterly Pointless, get rid of it .

Why is searching in Post Hell not allowed? That seems pointless.

^ Linguica once gave an answer here.

So the main page of the forum says
"Doomworld news
Last post: Fonze 01:50"
But when I click Fonze I end up on Doomkid's profile.
Have I just uncovered a conspiracy of some sort? Creepy.

Even though darknation has been banned, it still says he's a Forum Staple...

Doomworld administrator Lut's page still doesn't load properly: https://www.doomworld.com/vb/members/L%C3%BCt/ (as linked from https://www.doomworld.com/vbmisc/faq.php )

Not sure how fixable this is without nerfing a feature that is kinda cool, but:

// Code tags in Doomworld can contain BBCode, which can be useful
 Melee:
   SARG EF 8 A_FaceTarget
   SARG G 8 A_SargAttack
   goto See

But what about code that looks like BBCode?

for (int i = 0; i < end; ++i)
{
    array[i] = ItalicStart;
}

This still kinda works, but purely by accident because there's no italic elsewhere in this post after this. Now suppose I do the same thing, but the message later actually use the same tag:

for (int b = 0; b < end; ++b)
{
    array = LetsBeBold;
}

As you can see [b]this causes a problem. A possible workaround would be to force it to ignore any tag that's not closed by the time the closing code tag is reached; but as I've never seen the entrails of vBulletin I don't know whether that would require a two minute tweak or a two year complete rewrite of the parser engine.

When you preview a post, you can always press the button to post it. If your post has an attachment, the attachment is lost when you preview the post, so you get a post without the attachment unless you add it back before posting the previewed post.

FYI I intend to change the forum software soon so these sorts of complaints aren't being looked at for now.

^ it's not gonna make me tear my eyes out, right? right?

Hey y'all,
I've been having problems with PMs. Three separate times now I've received a PM that was not viewable by either myself or the sending party.

I just wanted to jump in here and say that I've been having the same issues as Fonze in regards to PMs lately (actually specifically with Fonze, for some reason). I just tried re-sending my reply for the third time and when I go and check my "sent items" folder to read the sent message, I get a "secure connection failed" page.

Would it happen to be a big long PM with big long inline quotes or other bbcode by any chance?

First I had the ability to deleted my posts, then I lost it but the option remains but triggers an error. Confused I went to the FAQ and found out I wasn't supposed to.

I might have deleted a post before I realised my mistake.

Linguica said:

Would it happen to be a big long PM with big long inline quotes or other bbcode by any chance?

Yes actually. I figured out that the consistent thing with the PM in question was the quoted text from Fonze (which was a rather lengthy reply). The other PMs I've sent to him have gone through just fine.

If you need specifics, let me know.