it suddenly works... 

of characters that gets cut off with an ellipsis 

:P

i can't even type in more than 70. Does Opera not use the "maxlength='70'"? Or are you using something evil. 

might be an apostrophe counts as two characters after it's encoded? 

Yeah I guess it's the apostrophe's fault. Probably "quotes" too? 1 2 3 <-- 70 chars, does not validate.

Yeah I guess it_s the apostrophe_s fault. Probably "quotes" too? 1 2 3 <-- 70 chars, does not validate.

Yeah I guess it_s the apostrophe_s fault. Probably _quotes_ too? 1 2 3 <-- 70 chars, ok. 

yeah, i know about the database problem from the last 6+ hours. Not sure what caused it, but it was server-wide (it also brought down the cube forums.) I'll ask sleepy if he knows what was up.

But it did reveal that my attempt to have a single, clean error message for when the DB is down failed. 

the NEXT time the database takes a shit, there will hopefully be a nice clean error message. 

please add: beer, hookers, and coke to snort off said hooker's tits; to func. 

there's already a beer icon. The coke was smuggled into the country inside the crate icon. And if you want hookers, you need to find a pimp, who already has an icon. 

There was a bug where if you login on login.php and choose "remember password" in firefox, and then visit account.php it will have one filled-in password field, which means they won't match and you can't submit the form without blanking them out (or filling in the "confirm" field to match.)

This should be fixed now, and firefox's "remember passwords" feature should no longer attempt to autocomplete that field. 

I lifted the requirement where you had to enable "referer logging" in opera, and similar settings in firewall software, in order to log in successfully. Please test it out and see if you can log in with referer logging disabled. If you can, great! Then we won't have that issue anymore.

It was originally implemented as general hack protection, but i don't think there's much evil that can be done without it, and it seemed to confuse a lot of people, so it's gone. 

Has the "Your news submission has been submitted. It has to be approved by a moderator." message (or something) been removed? It's a little confusing now - risk of double news submissions and all. 

Um, I'm not sure there ever was such a message, but I agree that there should be if there isn't. 

you might want to make custom error pages for this site.
2 be cool and all rite. 

i actually have that on my to-do list. 

i <3 new logo 

 

wtf a heart has to do in the crate ? I'd rather see a quake logo.. metlslime, go change this fucking shit ;) 

plus it's pink 

I love you weighted companion cube! 

Best inanimate companion ever. <3

By the way, how about a cake icon? 

Yes, but there's also a needle that shows the addiction and that explains why Spirit has so bad taste in color choice ;)
I hope metlslime will not turn this forum into a "pinky shit" :P 

otherwise i would not have recognized it 

cut-off of long words behaves badly when there is a html-"encoded" character involved. The length calculation looks at the length of the whole string instead of what is visible to the eye and breaks the symbol-code.
"1234567890123456789012345678"
"123456789012345678901234567"
"12345678901234567890123456"
"1234567890123456789012345"
"123456789012345678901234"
"12345678901234567890123"
"1234567890123456789012" 

good point. That's similar to the problem CZG noticed with the maxlength in the titles.