Beginning sometime this evening Pacific time (GMT-7), I'll be performing some maintenance on the forums. This will involve taking them offline, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes perhaps for several hours. I'll be doing some backups, code clean-up and changes, and some internal maintenance. You probably won't be able to immediately see many changes (if any at all), but I hope to be able to unveil some significant changes in the next couple of weeks.

How free one can feel upon finishing training for a dream.

The maintenance window got started a little late. I had planned on getting up around 10pm, but overslept until around 12:30 and then had to get something to eat. Still, it lasted about as long as I'd expected (three hours or so) and I got a couple of things more done than planned. Most importantly, though, we're at a properly stable codebase for the changes that I want to do in the next couple of weeks... or sooner, if things work as I think they will.

If you find anything broken, please post it here so that I can fix it.

Martin Blank wrote:If you find anything broken, please post it here so that I can fix it.

Looks like you broke......... .........my heart.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: Haha! Looks like I broke out of some shitty web designer's layout....oh wait, that's me.

Are you paying The Who to follow you around again?

Actually, as layout breaking goes I think the text running outside boundaries is much better than those boundaries becoming distorted. Ain't nothing in HTML/CSS alone^[1] gonna break up a long word so better to maintain the layout.

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^{[1] You can of course use JavaScript to manually insert a breaking character such as a soft hyphen or zero-width space.}

Well, if I had thought about it before, I'd have probably thrown in a overflow:hidden to prevent it from flowing outside of the post box. Also CSS3 has word-wrap:break-word that will fix just a situation. Maybe I'll throw them both into the CSS next time MB has me update the template (or I finally get around to finishing the fluid width template).

Interesting, I didn't know about that part of CSS3. How's the browser support, from my testing it actually seems perfect, but I don't keep older versions of browsers around for testing?

It works in Internet Explorer 8 (works in IE7 compatibility mode, don't know about actually IE7, don't have it installed), Opera 10, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome, and Safari 4.

Sorry for the additional downtime. I realized that I hadn't completed something important this morning.

On a happier note for some, I believe that the occasionally-mentioned login redirect issue should now be fixed. Baghead, you may want to have a look at this phpBB post for the small fixes to three files that are needed.

Ah, cool, I'll see about fixing that up tonight and send you over the files. Perhaps I'll and in the CSS word-wrap as well.

Martin Blank wrote:Sorry for the additional downtime. I realized that I hadn't completed something important this morning.

On a happier note for some, I believe that the occasionally-mentioned login redirect issue should now be fixed. Baghead, you may want to have a look at this phpBB post for the small fixes to three files that are needed.

I noticed that when I loaded up Opera it took me to the forum index instead of the error message I usually get. Thought that was kinda weird.

You know the features that some software packages add in which seem to work fine for 94% of the people out there but make the other 6% want to take hatchets to electrical lines in hopes of ending it all but still imposing misery on others? That's phpBB's AutoMOD.

WAIR ARE THE JURNALS?!

Thanks boys. I have no idea what you're gibbering about with your operas and your C3-POs. But I'm sure it's all good.

Patience, my sexy Scot.

Sir Spankspeople wrote:I noticed that when I loaded up Opera it took me to the forum index instead of the error message I usually get. Thought that was kinda weird.

Spoke too soon. When I loaded Opera I got the "The forum you specified does not exist" message like I usually do. =\