Org Issues and Improvements

[therother]

There's no built in way to do that, we'd need a code modification. Best we can do for now is to use the CMS article highlighting.

[Monk]

There's no built in way to do that, we'd need a code modification. Best we can do for now is to use the CMS article highlighting.

Ah, a shame then.

Thanks for clarification.

[TinCow]

A found a different function (notices) that works similarly, and have added an announcement about the screenshot contest.

[Tellos Athenaios]

There is an odd issue with markup that the forum generates for forum listings (forumdisplay.php?$forum_id-name/page$page) when it contains moved threads. For some reason the forum software injects ETX (0x3) characters in the markup for the thread summary and tooltip. This suggests a more serious bug with the forum software because ETX is a non-printable ASCII control character dating back to the olden-days of teletypes and it is not supposed to surface in normal data.

To illustrate what I mean, the forum markup for a moved thread looks like (where ETX is the single character 0x3 rather than the string "ETX"):

<div class="threadinfo" title="ETX">
  <!-- stuff -->
  <div class="threadmeta">
     <p class="threaddesc">ETX</p>
     <!-- stuff -->
  </div>
</div>

For example if you go to https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forum...prune=-1&pp=30
And break out your hexeditor, use it to search for the char sequence of "Tactic" you will find:

[drone]

All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.

[TinCow]

There is an odd issue with markup that the forum generates for forum listings (forumdisplay.php?$forum_id-name/page$page) when it contains moved threads. For some reason the forum software injects ETX (0x3) characters in the markup for the thread summary and tooltip. This suggests a more serious bug with the forum software because ETX is a non-printable ASCII control character dating back to the olden-days of teletypes and it is not supposed to surface in normal data.

To illustrate what I mean, the forum markup for a moved thread looks like (where ETX is the single character 0x3 rather than the string "ETX"):

<div class="threadinfo" title="ETX">
  <!-- stuff -->
  <div class="threadmeta">
     <p class="threaddesc">ETX</p>
     <!-- stuff -->
  </div>
</div>

For example if you go to https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forum...prune=-1&pp=30
And break out your hexeditor, use it to search for the char sequence of "Tactic" you will find:

I am not sufficiently intelligent to understand what this means.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Short version: it's exceedingly unlikely that this ETX (End-of-Text) character is *supposed* to be there. It's more likely the result of a bug and/or data corruption. The character dates back to when computers didn't have displays and you needed to print out the response of commands on paper much like a receipt: its purpose is to signal that the end of a response message is reached.

[TinCow]

Short version: it's exceedingly unlikely that this ETX (End-of-Text) character is *supposed* to be there. It's more likely the result of a bug and/or data corruption. The character dates back to when computers didn't have displays and you needed to print out the response of commands on paper much like a receipt: its purpose is to signal that the end of a response message is reached.

What is this indicative of that I need to be concerned about?

As for data corruption, some of the posts on this forum have been ported over from different forums, some running software other than vbulletin, about two or three times. Could this be related to really old database information from ported posts/forums?

[Beskar]

I saw what you did there, it works very well.