The error I reported earlier was gone, but it's back now. Here's a screenshot of it from the Stardock Forums. The same issues affecting these forums appear to be affecting them as well.

Excellent new 'layout'... and, since i've been using Mozilla 1.7.11/Gecko (no longer supported, but has been replaced with SeaMonkey - which i will possibly upgrade to, if ever!) to visit these forums, i had experienced a few glitches before; but, now, all is perfectly lined-up.
I do use ad-block a lot to clearup the mess of some repetive footers & unwanted pub-images and thought the site framework didn't react so well to this customized method; not so, it was the engine itself and what steps Moz had to do to adapt to it (somehow).

Kinda new, but i DO like this format.


- Zyxpsilon.

I actually had something related to quote flags as well. It was a user error but the error was difficult to detect because of what I think may be an error in parsing unbalanced quote tags.

For example, I often quote an entire reply that itself includes quoted text. In this case I expect the quotes to cascade.

As a quick example

{quote}{quote}
quoted text from reply
{/quote}
reply text
{/quote}

should appear like this



However in a similar situation you may want to simply string a sequence of quotes.

{quote}
quote 1
{/quote}
response 1

{quote}
quote 2
{/quote}
response 2

And this should appear like


response 1


response 2

However if you make a mistake and instead have the following

{quote}
quote 1
{/quote}
response 1

quote 2
{/quote}
response 2

I attempted to put in the real example of the unbalanced quote here but it totally screwed up the entire reply in totally non obvious ways which in fact basically demonstrated the problem I'm trying to report. I also tried moving the offending tags to both the beginning and the end of the reply but still no joy. What I will do is place the single example in the following reply.


However in this case I would expect the above error to come out like this.


response 1

quote 2
{/quote}
response 2

I'm not totally sure that I'm correct as to what the proper parsing of incorrectly specified quote tags should be but the way I proposed places the error in a far easier place to figure out where the error is. When I first made the mistake for the life of me I couldn't figure out why my initial {/quote} wasn't being accepted when there was actually no problem with it but the problem was that a following {quote} was missing.

Actually it does appear that quoting a reply with a quote in it is now totally messed up.

Not only do no embedded quotes appear in the quote it also appears to me that now there is a total loss of every carriage return in the quoted text leaving the result totally formless.

I think this is a recent development since I think this used to work OK, or least the removal of carriage returns did not previously occur.

Congrats for the forum upgrade! It looks a lot more like state of the art than before.

The text box is fine for me, using Firefox 2.0.0.12. Just a note: The link to the thread "Forums are back up" from the main forums page (under GalCiv II News/General) points to a "this post has been removed message".

I guess you're right, thanks.

Whenever I'm editing a reply on the updated forums, I'm taken to the first page of the thread after posting the changes, is that intentional?

Most forums have a "go to last posting" functionality, this one doesn't seem to have one or it doesn't work for me. I get to see the first page of a thread when clicking on a thread title or on the small arrow on the right, not sure if that is what should be happening. Usually the small arrow takes you to the newest reply in a thread or the oldest one you haven't seen yet when logged in.

These operation aborted messages are killing me!!!

I probably have a fairly unique and restrictive setup of IE6 as it is possible to have.

I wouldn't doubt that because of this I'm am overly susceptable to these errors. But I'm getting these things every thread and almost every page I scroll to on every page I visit.

Yes I can merely go back and get to where I was going anyway but still these errors are making my life miserable.

Please help! Thanks.



BTW I know the web team would never make such a suggestion but I can do without the inevitable contributions from the peanut gallery that I should use FF, Opera, IE7 or anything other than what I'm using which happens to work exactly the way I want it to work on every other site that I visit.

IE6 is still the mainstay browser and even though I readily admit to using it with entirely customized settings chosen so as to restrict active content (there is no motion in GIF files on my PC for example), I have no interest in changing at this point.

Thank you for your understanding.

I saw the changes first on the SINS site. Probably because of cached images and pages here preventing me from seeing the changes sooner.

I'm a loyal FF user, but I'm not the type who says "death to IE, all problems stem from internet exploder!!!". Maybe I'm just not the pushy type /shrug.

On the flip side to things, last I checked, IE was still the dominating force of the most used browser (I'd like to see these numbers excluding windows/office update site visits though). That said, a site should work for the majority of users...so the "switch to X to fix it" mantra should be avoided at all costs. You should switch to X for reasons beyond website compatibility.

Scintor, it's not just a problem with AOL explorer.

Also an issue is in the "My Replies" section it's not distinguishing between your last reply and someone else's last reply. Perfect example, check your My Replies after I posted this and the dates match perfectly...even though it's not the date you had replied.

thanks Kryo for the updates. I actually agree with the going to the 1st page; I can see where it can be more helpful to newbies.

I am glad the read/unread detection will be back soon, that is currently my only major gripe I have of the new forum format.

its been an intermittent problem today. My guess is that they are trying to code in some forum fixes without actually shutting down the forums in the meantime. This also means that its not always possible to submit a MV game (as I found out)

0K My replies,....not working hopefully it has not been disabled