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Laria says she's unable to make posts or send PMs. It gives an error about unable to send blank messages.

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Damnit. Thought I had it fixed.

Disabled the FCKEditor again.

@Laria,

you should be able to post now again. What OS and Webbrowser are you using?

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Have white background in my message space, but since you disabled something, I'm assuming it is normal.
Just sent a message without problems and if this sticks after pressing save, posting works too.

Using Windows 7 and Firefox.

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Odd. I got the same and it works. Doesn't work on Ubuntu though.

Yeah, the white filed is drupals default text box. Not really usefull or pretty but it works for the forum.

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We've just been attacked by a 3 week old bot in the Lore Forum.

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Xarnac The Conqueror wrote:
We've just been attacked by a 3 week old bot in the Lore Forum.

I'm not seeing it.

Is it still there?

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I killed it shortly after that post. Forgot to post about it, sorry.

In other notes, is the WYSIWYG editor ever coming back?

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What source do the homepage descriptions of the various holidays come from? Some of them are a bit strange, seeing as there's no context here. Today, for example, is Children's Day, a holiday whose origin lies in the terrible kidnapping of several dozen children "over a hundred years ago." Not only is this rather a short period of time by Tamriel's standards, and therefore odd to suggest it has nearly been forgotten, but it puts me in an uncomfortable position of temporal uncertainty. When am I? Might this be revised? Some basic editing of the various holiday descriptions is rather overdue, I think. Maybe some of the typos could be cleared up while we're at it.

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They're all copied verbatim from the Daggerfall Chronicles (and the game itself?). Putting editing on the mental list.

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Mental list? Okay, that's fine...that's fine...

I have some free time on my hands, incidentally. Just saying.

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Lady N wrote:
In other notes, is the WYSIWYG editor ever coming back?

Yes. But I'm not sure when yet.

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There's another spambot. How are they getting through?

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Where? Do you have a link?

edit: Nevermind, looked at the date.

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We're being hammered right now. In the past few week a couple thousand spambots registered. I'm using a really blunt hammer to whack them down again.

If you have registered an account at TIL but you've never posted, you'll have to register that account. I'm really sorry about that but I can't stay ontop it otherwise.

Looks like I'm on top of it now. Most spam bots sign up with an invalid email address so they can't post at all. A few of them do have a working email address but they should get stuck in the approval queue. I can fish out the legitimate users from there and turn them into Patrons which means they can properly post without further approval. This is basically how it worked for a long time but I had to turn it off as there was no one around to moderate the queue. That is pretty much how they got true.

It's not ideal but it will have to make due for now.

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Wish I had more time to work on the Library but I'm short right now.

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Crap. Looks like I hit some innocent bystanders as well. By the looks of it people who've posted once, got their post approved but were never made patron.

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If it helps any, the spammer forum post that I was referring to is still up: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/front-doorstep-loans-folks-adva...

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And he's down. Cheers!

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New format? I like that we can see avatar pictures, it'll help more quickly identify posters.

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Why is there an oriental character in the corner of my screen?

And why can't I access any of the actual library?

What's going on?

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Everything looks fine to me.

Jeroic wrote:
New format? I like that we can see avatar pictures, it'll help more quickly identify posters.

I guess I missed that one.

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Bibliophael wrote:
Why is there an oriental character in the corner of my screen?

And why can't I access any of the actual library?

What's going on?

Oh wow, you're right, I can only get to books by clicking "random book" and then the individual catalogues from within that, or by searching. That might be an issue for me, as I really like scrolling down the lists of titles.

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The Imperial City 2 layout is also a bit messed up. On the homepage, the sidebar links and featured quotes are in new and mysterious places.

Besides that, looks great. I like the new background and visible avatars.

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This can't be right. Have we been hacked? Or did a change go wrong?

Divinitas's picture
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Just some new layouts with kinks, I think.

Kingslayer Sul's picture
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Perhaps try using another skin for now. I know that the gray and red one works (I'm using that and everything looks fine).

Hope it gets fixed though soon. :<

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Works fine on the ipad.

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We're working on a new theme.

It blew up. Yes. Themes do that occasionally. :)

It should all be back to normal now.

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Fancy post capabilities coming back any time soon?

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Let me know how you like these.

 

edit:

Background is transparent again.

 

Firefox spellcheker should work again. Use ctrl+click to get to the menu.

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Weee, awesome! Thanks Prow!

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And here I was hoping to see avatars again.