Just fixed an embarrassing bug that could prevent members from changing their passwords.
If you ran into it, you’re probably uttering Damn yer eyes Frogman!
under your breath at the moment. Or out loud, even. I can’t blame you.
Hey now! The tags stripping & links munching little helpers (let's call them Muncher and Stripper and not mind how wrong that sounds) are ferocious. I bred them that way. If you receive a nasty validation error or half your comment vanishes, something has triggered them, and they answer with full aggression, not 'micro' ones. Try and reformulate your text to appease them (for instance, beware of copy/pasting from Word or another web page). Use the preview to confirm you pass by Muncher and Stripper unmolested (now that didn't sound any better)
Stripper (oh dear, oh dear) will put a ✂ in place of anything that looks like a link—and he has about half the subtlety of a bombing raid over Dresden. (but makes for it with twice the hostility) Do.use.the.preview, even if you don't think you've inserted a link, for he may disagree and he's not open to negotiation.
Some of these limitations can be lifted (depending on your membership rank) by signin-in or registering.
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5214 - mrmeval
mrmeval
I always thought frogmen were divers. I never absorbed whatever bigotry garnered the term frog for Frenchmen.
5216 - DaToad
DaToad Glendale, AZ, USA
Yes sir, that bug has been exterminated.
I was one of the mutterers, but being basically computer illiterate, I thought it was just me, and was muttering at myself. (I called myself, and my computer, things I would’t call a liberal’s Grandmother) But now, with the password change working so well, I’m changing mine every time I login. Nah, not really, but it is working just fine.