First, for some reason every time I try to post a directory link without a trailing slash, it comes up with some oddball message about it being a redirect?!? Next up could you fix up the code blocks so they're... Oh, I dunno, PRE+CODE instead of goofy blockquotes? It's getting REALLY annoying when copying/pasting that you end up with 2 lines for the price of one -- if that means losing the cutesy line-numbers, so be it. Though I'm also wondering why in blazes EVERY post is a blockquote -- I'm pretty sure the original instance of a text cannot -- by definition -- be quoting anything... just more proof whoever wrote this skin doesn't know enough HTML to be writing a blasted thing. Also, were you down for three hours this morning (like 8AM untill... now?) Or some weird server error or something? Everyone else was reporting you up and running - but from here I was getting a complete timeout as if the server wasn't even there... and it was ONLY digital point. It's almost like the connection limit blacklist tripped on your end-- wouldn't surprise me with the AJAX alert nonsense probably spamming the hell out of the server once you get multiple tabs open... What I get for attempting to turn scripting back on? ... and you say this makes LESS connections?!? :/
What is a sample of one of the URLs? It's probably a site that is on an old web server that redirects if you don't include a trailing slash, which would be out of our control since it's the web server that's redirecting it. How exactly are you ending up with extra lines when pasting? I just tried it and I'm not seeing that behavior. I suspect the idea behind the blockquote is that the user is being quoted since they wrote the message. {shrug} We were not down for 3 hours (or any time) in the last 24 hours. Network traffic chart looks exactly as expected: There is no "connection limit blacklist" or anything else that could have been tripped (nothing will block traffic on our end). But if you want to blame the alert menu for your ISP sucking, uh... okay.
Just odd it was just me... and you don't have a connection limit blacklist? Wow, that's kinda odd... though you could be right, Time Warner does get down on it's knees in front of the proverbial equine... but the only other choice is "fairpoint"... uhm, no. On the cut/paste... wonder if it's opera specific... one sec... ok, it does it in Opera and IE, but not FF and Chrome... Probably because opera treats on cut/paste ... yeah, the LI and the DIV for nothing... OMG I didn't even notice that... EVERY LINE?!? <li style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align:top;"><div style="font: normal normal 1em/1.2em monospace; margin:0; padding:0; background:none; vertical-align:top;"> // If so, extract the price from the name</div></li> OUCH... The non-breaking spaces are a laugh too... That's some major suckage for what could be: <li><code> // If so, extract the price from the name</code></li> Code (markup): Styled off the parent OL's class, with the CODE tag set to white-spacere ... You know, the ENTIRE advantage of CSS being saying it just once instead of on every line?!? Don't take this the wrong way, but what rhesis monkey put that together? Ah, go ahead, take it the wrong way -- you should know me by now! Wait... if those are LI shouldn't IE be copying the line numbers?!? Why yes, yes it does...
The non-breaking spaces are a bit of a hack we had to come up with because TinyMCE (the editor that XenForo uses) flat out sucks. Without it, tabs are stripped out by TinyMCE and you lose all indentation in things like code blocks. It's not a matter of styling, it's a matter of the idiotic editor actually STRIPPING tabs/white space from the source when you submit. The idiot TinyMCE developers actually think this is a feature, not a bug... and they are unwilling to even add a toggle to have it not strip stuff out. I'm actually surprised more users haven't complained about the editor in general, because I really was expecting them to. Again... *I* hate it with a passion. Like *HATE* it. I hacked together some stuff like that to at least make it workable until a good replacement can be built (unfortunately it's not as easy as flipping a switch and replacing some files to replace the editor completely). That being said, I really like this editor: http://imperavi.com/redactor/ It's about 50x faster, about 1/3 the code and just flat out works infinitely better.
Well, again there's a reason I keep disabling javascript... and when scripting on "opt-out" of using the editor - I'd rather just type the BBCode so I can actually SEE the code instead of some stupid WYSIWYG nonsense. To me a fancy wysiwyg type editor is just as stupid for forum posts as it is for building websites. It's the forum equivalent of Frontpage. Silly idea -- you're not using the private codepage, right? Swap the tabs for uE000 before tinyMCE can screw with them, and swap 'em back client side -- or does it screw with that too? I've actually been playing with making my own js minify (just for laughs) that does token replacements using the private codepage. Then you could use that wonderful new CSS3 property 'tab-size' -- works in everything except IE (oh wells!)... even if this: -webkit-tab-size:2; -moz-tab-size:2; -o-tab-size:2; tab-size:2; does get a little ridiculous after a while...
I tend to agree... I dislike the existing editor so much, I actually tossed around the idea of just ripping it out and not replacing it with *anything* other than an old-school <textarea> input. But the reality is a lot of users like it and would become a support nightmare with them asking where it is, why it was removed, etc, etc...
Well, Shawn, the editor stinks compared to the old one (which I rarely used in WYSIWYG mode) in terms of speed, but that's one minor issue. Over all, the site is a big improvement over before, so it didn't seem worth mentioning as you have enough headaches after the change. However, as you were expecting, why not mention it?