I had a look into the soundcloud thing and I'm 90% sure it's a problem with soundcloud itself. As far as I can tell, the forum is doing everything that soundcloud tells it to do, and it's broken on their own demo site. If I follow their URL-rewriting instructions manually, I also get the same failure. I also remember playing some embedded soundcloud stuff right after the upgrade, so I think it's just bad timing. All going well it'll fix itself.
OK, my best guess is that either the old version had some heuristics to detect the really old comment style and switched the format specially and that's now gone, or things just got more strict. Anyway, it may be fixed, at least in part now. All the examples I could quickly find had a handy shibboleth which made them easy to spot. Let me know if you see any more.
I'm going to leave my open-heart surgery notes here in case I need to reverse it or something.
MariaDB [emusers]> select format,count(*) from GDN_Comment where Body like "%<ol id=\"Comments\">%" group by format;
+--------+----------+
| format | count(*) |
+--------+----------+
| BBCode | 180 |
+--------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [emusers]> -- update where Body like "%<ol id=\"Comments\">%" ;
MariaDB [emusers]> begin;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [emusers]> update GDN_Comment set Format="Wysiwyg" where Body like "%<ol id=\"Comments\">%" ;
Query OK, 180 rows affected (3.52 sec)
Rows matched: 180 Changed: 180 Warnings: 0
MariaDB [emusers]> select format,count(*) from GDN_Discussion where Body like "%<ol id=\"Comments\">%" group by format;
+---------+----------+
| format | count(*) |
+---------+----------+
| BBCode | 8 |
| Wysiwyg | 1 | -- from an earlier test
+---------+----------+
2 rows in set (0.17 sec)
MariaDB [emusers]> update GDN_Discussion set Format="Wysiwyg" where Body like "%<ol id=\"Comments\">%" ;
Query OK, 8 rows affected (0.18 sec)
Rows matched: 9 Changed: 8 Warnings: 0
MariaDB [emusers]> commit;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
(this, btw, is a nice example of the "$1: hitting it with a hammer, $999: knowing where to hit it" adage there was a good hour learning how the database is structured going into those two update commands.)
OK, there are some issues with the admin dashboard now. I'm going to try some things that will cause weirdness on the site to try to track it down. Expect features to turn on and off a bit.
OK, I basically did a fresh reinstall of it. That seems to have helped. Probably cleaned out a few years of cruft anyway.
note to admins: the spam checking has changed, with some old stuff going away, but there are some new things we can turn on if needed. Ping me if it becomes a problem.
OK, uploading works again (I broke some directory permissions.) How about linking... so that seems to work if you type it. But how about pasting? Well, I get the same right-click issue in Firefox. But I'm not really web-developery enough to know where to start to fix it, but until they fix it upstream you can use shift-ins or whatever your paste key combo of choice is.
I did leave them a bug report, maybe something will happen.
I just wanted to mention how much I appreciate your work on the site. I'd also like to know if it is possible to bring back the old search function. If there is something I can do to narrow the search, I'd be happy to try that. For example if I search Bill Laswell, it shows results for every Bill or Laswell and both, but there are a lot of pages that I have to go through to get just Bill Laswell. Thanks, I hope it's not too much trouble.
About the deletion, is that still an issue? I can delete things, but I'm also an admin. There's nothing obvious in the settings about it, but I haven't dug very deep (and am about to go out for dinner so may not have a chance to look for a bit.)
I just wanted to mention how much I appreciate your work on the site. I'd also like to know if it is possible to bring back the old search function. If there is something I can do to narrow the search, I'd be happy to try that. For example if I search Bill Laswell, it shows results for every Bill or Laswell and both, but there are a lot of pages that I have to go through to get just Bill Laswell. Thanks, I hope it's not too much trouble.
Oh! I forgot that would have gone away. I'll investigate, but it should be possible.
Comments
Now lets have a look at that HTML blob thing.
I'm going to leave my open-heart surgery notes here in case I need to reverse it or something.
- And the HTML thing is back as it was supposed to be (or something)
Your feedback is as always much appreciated, thank you very many !
ETA: evbvd = Eve Beglarian
Thank You
note to admins: the spam checking has changed, with some old stuff going away, but there are some new things we can turn on if needed. Ping me if it becomes a problem.
It does respond differently than before:
I can't upload images (Firefox and Crome) - but copy/paste works in both browsers
Adding links to images and texts is not possible in Firefox but works fine in Crome.
(the post window looks different and disapears when I rightclick)
- But I have no idea if these issues are only on my part.
ETA: If I try to delete a post, there's a little window that tells me I don't have permission to do that (Firefox and Crome)
I did leave them a bug report, maybe something will happen.
Testing 2 . . . hey it works ! . . . But I could'nt attatch a link to it
ETA: but the link thing works in Crome