Forum update

[NickFitz]

Now seems you can embedded a youtube link as https - last time I tried that I had to drop the s

unless that was in a previous update I missed.

Ah, I was going to test that - glad that's sorted!

Related, in that it probably had something to do with PHP having been built with HTTPS support for its Curl module: the "Automatically fetch titles from external links" feature hasn't been working for a while as many sites switched to HTTPS, but maybe that will work properly now? But it seems to have disappeared

And in a vague attempt to be helpful rather than just whining: removing margin-right: -165px; from .editor_textbox_container.smilie fixes the dropped-down smilie box for me (Safari, account configured to use the Standard editor) as seen here (image linked to full-size version thereof):

Needs checking in other browsers and with the other two editor choices, of course. It may well be that it was originally a fix I introduced when trying to bring IE6 to heel last time around

[administrator]

Posting the Monday Links just now, I added the usual tag, but the system had apparently scanned the text and added a bunch more tags automagically.

This is presumably a feature rather than a bug, but among the autogenerated tags was "line", from the line printer piece, which doesn't strike me as particularly helpful. The other were similarly useless.

So until that works with some kind of AI figuring out which words and phrases might be deserving of tagging in the overall context of the forum, it might be worth holding off on it

Cheers. Just had a look for auto tag adding in the options to see if some new feature has been enabled but couldn't see one quickly. Will have another look in a sec.

[Eirikur]

Not sure if this bug has been reported
If you click on a link to another thread in CUK you get a warning that you are leaving CUK

Warning! The intended destination is not part of Contractor UK Bulletin Board.
If you do not recognise Substitution or do not trust the person who gave you this link, close this tab or click the Back button in your browser.
I understand the risk. Proceed anyway.

[NickFitz]

Cheers. Just had a look for auto tag adding in the options to see if some new feature has been enabled but couldn't see one quickly. Will have another look in a sec.

This thread is tagged "diet" because of your comment about MF in the first post

[NickFitz]

Not sure if this bug has been reported
If you click on a link to another thread in CUK you get a warning that you are leaving CUK

FWIW, all external links are being rendered as e.g. https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com even on old posts.

[NickFitz]

Cheers. Just had a look for auto tag adding in the options to see if some new feature has been enabled but couldn't see one quickly. Will have another look in a sec.

Might be a DragonByte SEO thing?

[mudskipper]

FWIW, all external links are being rendered as e.g. https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com even on old posts.

What about on new posts?

Edit - that's OK - must be the different subdomain

[AtW]

[GreenMirror]

I thought he whole point of the forum update was to remove the cretins?

Well that went well.....

[WTFH]

I thought he whole point of the forum update was to remove the cretins?

Well that went well.....

You're still here, it failed.