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Message 33 of 85 (894275)
05-10-2022 2:17 PM


Many Minor Bugs Fixed
Having just completed a significant release I took the opportunity to continue on to fix a long list of very simple bugs, releasing them without any notification over the past few days. Most had no visible effect, causing only inconsequential exceptions.
But if you happen to notice any unexpected behavior please post a note to this thread.
I still have a few more bugs to fix.

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Message 35 of 85 (894293)
05-11-2022 8:03 AM


Another New Feature: No Edit Comment for First Ten Minutes
If the edit comment field is left empty, no edit annotation is added to the message for ten minutes after the message was submitted. For example, this sentence was just added by edit.
But the signature was added after 10 minutes had passed, so an edit annotation was added.

Edited by Admin, : Add signature.


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Message 39 of 85 (894316)
05-12-2022 12:16 AM
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05-11-2022 2:21 PM


Re: time
The Washington Post allows edits for around 10 minutes, and I’ve been at a couple other places I can’t recall that allow a “no record” grace period of around that long, so I chose that. But there’s nothing hard and fast about it. It’s easy to change.

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Message 40 of 85 (894322)
05-12-2022 10:46 AM
Reply to: Message 36 by jar
05-11-2022 9:33 AM


"Start Thread With Message" Removed
The "Start Thread With Message" capability has been restricted to administrators again, as was originally intended. Thanks for catching this.

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Message 41 of 85 (894324)
05-12-2022 10:58 AM


More Minor Fixes, and a Change
I've just released some very minor fixes over the past couple days. Some of the handling of blanks lines was incorrect, and that's been fixed. More exceptions were fixed, though they wouldn't be noticed by members.
One I didn't describe before is the vertical spacing on block elements, like a quote block or an indentation region. Now the vertical spacing you use is the vertical spacing you get. For instance:
If you use single spacing after the quote box when you compose your message...
...then you'll get single spacing when the message is rendered.
And if you instead use double spacing after the quote box when you compose your message...
...then you'll get double spacing when the message is rendered.
I'm considering a "pretty" mode that always uses double spacing around block elements.
About the peek feature, not only is there a "peek" button beneath each message, but when you reply to a message, that message has two buttons just above it on the right that control how that message is displayed. "Normal" is, uh, normal. "Peek Mode" displays all the original mark-up from when the message was composed.
Oh, one minor new feature I forgot to mention is that [quote] now accepts an argument, just like [qs]. With [qs] you've always been able to say this:
[qs=John F. Kennedy]
  Ask not what you can do for your country...
[/qs]
And get this:
John F. Kennedy writes:
Ask not what you can do for your country...
And now you can do the same thing with [quote]. This:
[quote=John F. Kennedy]
  Ask not what you can do for your country...
[/quote]
Will produce this:
quote
Ask not what you can do for your country...
  —John F. Kennedy

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Message 68 of 85 (894475)
05-17-2022 10:20 AM
Reply to: Message 67 by Tanypteryx
05-17-2022 9:52 AM


I'm still making some minor improvements, probably later today. If I break something please let me know.

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Message 69 of 85 (894646)
05-25-2022 8:46 AM


Security Update
A security update to the 4.1 version will be released in a few minutes. By the time most of you read this it will already have been released.
The security update increases the security of passwords by using a more robust encryption algorithm. The maximum length of passwords is now 100 characters (it was previously 13). The minimum length of passwords is still 6. Passwords can still consist of any printing character, including spaces and tabs.
You'll be required to log in again. If you do not remember your password then click on the Request New Password link on the login page just above the upper left of the login box.

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Message 73 of 85 (894650)
05-25-2022 9:25 AM
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05-25-2022 9:12 AM


Re: Security Update
Sorry that happened. If you liked your old password the software doesn't check for old passwords and you can reuse it.
I think you may have gotten caught in mid-release. I had to release the software before updating the database, and if you tried to log in after the software was released but before the database was updated then you would have had to request a new password.
If anyone else is still experiencing this problem please let me know. I'll try to replicate the problem myself, but that will have to wait an hour or so as I'm in the middle of something else.

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Message 78 of 85 (894656)
05-25-2022 10:05 AM


Thanks for the Reports
Thanks for letting me know you all got in okay. I've checked the problem and the update seems to be working properly with the updated database.

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Message 81 of 85 (894678)
05-26-2022 10:17 AM
Reply to: Message 80 by jar
05-26-2022 8:39 AM


Problem fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

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Message 83 of 85 (894714)
05-27-2022 9:04 AM
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Message 85 of 85 (894893)
05-31-2022 3:44 PM
Reply to: Message 84 by dwise1
05-31-2022 2:55 PM


Introducing dBCodes for Underlining ([U]) and Strikethrough ([S])
There are now dBCodes for [u]underlining[/u] and [s]strikethrough[/s].

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