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Apologies, I asked for people to report forum bugs in the downtime thread, forgetting that members cannot post in there. Please report issues that have arisen as a result of the most recent upgrade in this thread. There were several significant changes in how vbulletin handles styles, so there may be some issues with our custom styles.
Found a way to circumvent the issue of the forum insisting on sending me the default skin regardless of what I select on my Settings page in Opera 12. It involves altering the site specific browser settings of forums.totalwar.org: I needed to change how the browser identifies itself, I went with “Mask as Firefox”.
Sounds like an Opera-specific issue then, but I'll do some research and see if I can find what is causing it. Others are bound to be experiencing it as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
I use Opera 11.52 and haven't found any issues with selecting skins in it so far. :shrug:
It isn't Opera's JavaScript environment which suddenly behaves any different if you toggle the switch. (It doesn't suddenly gain full Firefox compatibility or drop Opera features.) The only software which does behave differently now is the VBulletin code -- implying it relies on browser sniffing to select different code paths...Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
Therefore that looks to me more like hacks in the forum code failing to work ...
Tellos, can you clarify whether you were experiencing this problem on a mobile or desktop device? We've found similar issues with style selection which seem to be related to the upgrade, but so far every other example we've experienced or found comments about is related to a mobile device, not a desktop device.
Opera 12 on a laptop.
Well, isn't 12 only in alpha status?
Could that have anything to do with it?
I'm using 11.60 now and the STW2 skin, no forcing of anything, my browser identifies as Opera as well. :shrug:
If it's something about identifying as Opera in general then it should force the dafault skin on me as well, changing to TheGuild works just fine for me, too.
Uh, how? If I trick the forum into believing I am some Mozilla Firefox user it works. If I declare myself an Opera 12 user, it balks. This suggest something to do with changes in browser sniffing/version checking, as did work before the forum upgrade!Quote:
Originally Posted by Husar
By the way, this is the string the browser would ordinarily supply to identify itself:
EDIT: Just found out that I can trick the forum by identifying as Mozilla Firefox (which still leaves a reference to Opera in the string) as well.Code:Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.10.238 Version/12.00
If it were buggy for every Opera user, then I should have skins forced on me as well though.
Or are you saying I'm special?
No I am thinking that between Opera 11 and Opera 12 the way the browser identifies itself by default changed. However, the point is that any well-behaved website should not break on such a change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Husar
A forum analogy: it is like Beskar changing his name to Tiaexz (have I spelt that correctly?): a well-behaved forum would not suddenly stop displaying PMs sent to the former “Beskar” when “Tiaexz” looks at his inbox.
I should've seen that one coming, shouldn't I? How about... in your very own special way, you are?Quote:
Or are you saying I'm special?
Thanks to therother for fixing it for me. Now the forum works again properly with Opera 12; or at least as far as I know/have tested, it does! :2thumbsup:
Yes, that's what I meant, but since I don't know the details of how it's done, I thought the identification might be buggy in some way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
Huh? No, I mean yes, there's a difference though in that your Opera doesn't have an account on the server and its identification is not handled in a database, then again I have no idea how that identification stuff works, I just suppose it's useful for server-side browser optimizations. In that case you may be right that these optimizations should never switch to "forum is broken and things don't work".Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
If you had simply ignored it, I would feel better now... :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
To be clear, this bug had nothing to do with the Org itself. It was caused by changes in vBulletin code, not any mods or hacks we installed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
Good to know. OTOH it doesn't do much for my opinion of the VBulletin code itself. A look at how it's JavaScript code prepares passwords before hashing them should suffice. Though since it would be unfair to let you risk you sanity without warning, I've got to say: that code is not for the faint of heart.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
If I report a bug and it gets fixed can I have the bug report thread named after me?Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
When I select the embed video button in the Quick Reply editor, it pops up the window and I add the YouTube link. If I then hit "Go Advanced", it goes to a white screen, then the usual advanced editor, but with the following text at the top of the page:
It doesn't affect the post at all, but it's a weird artifact.Code:Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/class_bbcode.php(432) : eval()'d code on line 1
Firefox v3.6.24
Thanks for finding this. The problem was caused by a conflict with a bbcode module we were running. I have disabled the module and the error no longer occurs. I'm not sure whether this will impact some of our custom bbcode though, so please let me know if you see any of it behaving abnormally.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
When I edit my post and then choose "Go Advanced" option my post becomes total mess. What ever formatting I had before will be nullified.
I can confirm this bug. It is a vBulletin issue which has been patched in the next release. I have no idea when that will come out though, so I will try and find a way to fix it manually before then.Quote:
Originally Posted by The King
This bug has been fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by The King
Maybe it's just my setup, but the favicon is now the default vBulletin icon.
Yeah, there's always something you forget after an upgrade. If it doesn't update itself, click on this link and press refresh.
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