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@tom-b-2 Testing...


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 7:53 pm
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We're getting somewhere. Well, by 'we' I mean Andy in Tech.

It's seemingly not a problem with usernames or spaces or hyphens or anything like that. It's a problem, specifically and possibly uniquely, with Tom's account. Current thinking is that there may have been a previous (deleted?) tom-b before the current incarnation and it's bolleauxed it. They're picking this back up tomorrow.


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 7:58 pm
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There's me....then there's also a TomB

Not sure if that is what is causing the issue?!

I'm not overly (at all) fussed about whether or not people can '@' me. Understand that you folks may want to iron out tech issues though.


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 8:27 pm
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There's a logic to that. I've passed on the information, thank you.


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 8:49 pm
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Are they aware that attempts to escape html tags fail to stay escaped?

If I type ampersand lt;strong ampersand rt; it unescapes it.

I know pretty niche use case 😀


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 10:14 pm
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I've seen it the other way around. Not sure as it's causing a problem though?

(Your rt should be a gt, hth.)


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 10:50 pm
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Test 1: `<strong><code>
Test 2: <code><strong>`

Oooh that's weird! All sorts of rearrangement!

Double wierd!
test 1:
test 2: <strong>


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 10:55 pm
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I wouldn't expect mixed tags to work, and as far as I can tell a post containing < or &-lt; markup pairs is functionally identical.

Can you elaborate on the second pair? That looks like the same markup to me.


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 11:11 pm
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The 2nd pair is what I typed the first time round, but upon editing, the backticks and code tags had been mixed up and rearranged over the two lines.

test 3:test
test 4:test


 
Posted : 30/09/2020 11:42 pm
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Correct me if I'm missing something but I'm not sure as that's a particularly pressing problem. I mean, we're deliberately posting bogus HTML / BBcode nesting in order to throw the renderer into a knot, at best it's an edge case. So long at it's not exposing us to a potential Little Bobby Tables issue I think we're OK.

@tom-b should now be fixed (and looks like it is from the posts above). Andy believes he's got to the bottom of this particular bit of weirdness.


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 4:14 pm
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I’m TomB. It’s not my fault!


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 5:19 pm
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No I'm Tom B/Tom-B/tom-b


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 5:24 pm
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TomB or not Tom-B that is the question?


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 5:31 pm
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> round of applause <


 
Posted : 01/10/2020 5:35 pm
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Delete your account.


 
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