Org Issues and Improvements

**Tellos Athenaios** · 12-30-2012, 18:30

I am unable to edit my signature, using Opera (-next) or Firefox (18.0.0 ...!). Also unable to edit some posts (first post of the SD tool thread linked to in my signature).

What happens is, I click the edit button but the box with the VBulletin code remains empty -- or at least I am unable to *see* the code (could be a case of white text on white background or similar).

EDIT: Screenshot of the problem (with dragonfly open so you can see the HTML structure of the textbox):

**TinCow** · 12-30-2012, 20:13

Confirmed. I suspect this is the result of some change our host made to the server. I shall look into it.

**TinCow** · 12-31-2012, 16:21

I have fixed this problem (I think). The issue is that the server was recently upgraded to PHP 5.4, but vBulletin is not yet fully compatible with that version. Specifically, it has some issues with handling special characters due to issues with UTF-8. I made a change to the code which appears to have resolved the blank edit box issue, but it's entirely possible that there are more side-effects of the PHP upgrade out there that I have not yet noticed. I actually fixed another error last week that was also related to a UTF issue, and it occurs to me now that that one was probably also related to the PHP upgrade. So, please keep your eyes peeled for any oddities on the forum, particularly in any posts that contain non-standard characters.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 12-31-2012, 20:45

Thanks, it seems to have done the trick.

**Montmorency** · 01-15-2013, 01:56

Made a post in the Mead Hall. Most of it appeared in white space. Made another post. The portion in white space remained, though now it appeared beneath the newest post. See spoiler.

Using Guild skin. Chrome.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Edit: Tried editing the post with no changes, and after saving everything returned to normal. I suppose that's that.

**TinCow** · 01-15-2013, 14:07

I've experienced similar things when posting on occasion. I think it's some kind of Chrome-related issue. Refreshing the page fixes it.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 02-04-2013, 10:33

I just noticed that in the avatar selection section in my profile I can choose Mod, Admin, Custom, Mafia etc avatars as well. Is this intentional or a mistake?

For example I chose TinCows avatar.