Bug: Certain posts show more than once on index pages (may be due to posts being in two different pools?)
Expected behavior: Index with unique IDs
Actual behavior: Index with duplicate IDs
Steps to duplicate:
https://e621.net/post/index/1/raijin%20-pool:5427

bug: trying to comment as a <1 week user or forum post as a <3 day old user generates code gore error

ex.1

ex.2

Munkelzahn said:
Bug
You can flag a post as an inferior version of itself.

Expected behavior
You shouldn't be able to do that.

Actual behavior
You can.

Steps to duplicate
post #650953

it's still possible to do this
post #718523

Bug: The 'show conversation' option in the messages page doesn't seem to do anything.

Expected behaviour: I assumed it was supposed to show the whole coveration on one page starting from the original message and showing all responses sequencially.

Actual behaviour: A green pop-up bar states the messages have been loaded but nothing actually happens.

Steps to duplicate: Open a message with at least one response and click 'Show conversation'.

DragonFox69 said:
Bug: The 'show conversation' option in the messages page doesn't seem to do anything.

Expected behaviour: I assumed it was supposed to show the whole coveration on one page starting from the original message and showing all responses sequencially.

Actual behaviour: A green pop-up bar states the messages have been loaded but nothing actually happens.

Steps to duplicate: Open a message with at least one response and click 'Show conversation'.

The link shows the conversation in reverse order. You have to view the latest message you either received or replied to and the link will show you the conversation history from that message to the beginning.

At least that's how I've seen it works

Xch3l said:
The link shows the conversation in reverse order. You have to view the latest message you either received or replied to and the link will show you the conversation history from that message to the beginning.

At least that's how I've seen it works

Ahh, so I was just doing it the wrong way round? Thanks! :)

DragonFox69 said:
Ahh, so I was just doing it the wrong way round? Thanks! :)

Maybe and no prob

Munkelzahn said:
it's still possible to do this
post #718523

I just pushed a fix. It should be ready with the next update.

randomhajile said:
bug: trying to comment as a <1 week user or forum post as a <3 day old user generates code gore error

ex.1

ex.2

That is pretty nasty code gore. Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce it myself yet, but I've made a note of your report and communicated it with the other devs. There's still some pending work that needs to be done on that area of the site, so having this available to us is definitely useful for troubleshooting.

Thanks for letting us know.

It's currently possible to blacklist Admin forum posts, comments, Dmails, and blips. Shouldn't that not be a thing? Foolishly intentionally ignoring Admins aside, someone might blacklist an Admin because of their uploads without realizing it was an Admin.

Bug: When previewing my last forum comment, that had Snowy's colorful comment and Shylok's comment plus my replies to both (5185 chars), I got got a 520: Web server is returning an unknown error written on the errir message and then got redirected to CloudFlare's error page.

Refreshing the page won't load the right page, but clicking "Retry for a live version" does work so in case I accidentally knocked down the server, here's the ray ID: 221702ff0db82132

Xch3l said:
Bug: When previewing my last forum comment, that had Snowy's colorful comment and Shylok's comment plus my replies to both (5185 chars), I got got a 520: Web server is returning an unknown error written on the errir message and then got redirected to CloudFlare's error page.

Refreshing the page won't load the right page, but clicking "Retry for a live version" does work so in case I accidentally knocked down the server, here's the ray ID: 221702ff0db82132

Cloudflare does that sometimes when it detects traffic that it doesn't like (for lack of a better way to put it). It's similar to anti-flooding where it gives you a cooldown, but usually just trying again/refreshing the page is enough. In this case that forum post was probably just exceeding CloudFlare's header size limit (which I believe Nginx defaults to 4kb per header, but I'm not 100% on that).

Since I know this has been a recurrent problem (particularly with the forums), I will try to bring this up with Dari to see if it's feasible/desirable to tweak or increase that limit a bit.

In the wiki, multi-line [code] blocks have an unnecessarily large amount of blank space between each line (though it appears normal in the preview).

purple.beastie said:
In the wiki, multi-line \[code] blocks have an unnecessarily large amount of blank space between each line (though it appears normal in the preview). You can see this in the two line blocks in the Basics section of e621:api.

That's an annoying one I plan to tackle soon. The dtext code is kind of a mess internally and it needs a serious cleaning. For whatever reason \[code] tags have 2 line breaks if there is 1 line, and 1 line break if there is 2. It's harmless for most code but can be pretty annoying if you are trying to make something look pretty. :(

parasprite said:
That's an annoying one I plan to tackle soon. The dtext code is kind of a mess internally and it needs a serious cleaning. For whatever reason \[code] tags have 2 line breaks if there is 1 line, and 1 line break if there is 2. It's harmless for most code but can be pretty annoying if you are trying to make something look pretty. :(

I've already looked into this client-side. By default, when DText finds a single line-break, it will insert a &lt;br&gt; tag there. If it finds two or more consecutive line-breaks between chunks of text, it treats it as the end of a paragraph, closing one with &lt;/p&gt; and opening another with &lt;p&gt;. Normally, it's the desired behavior. Unfortunately, this formatting is also applied within \[code] blocks, but those are already set as containing pre-formatted text. Because of this, the &lt;br&gt; plus line-break combinations will produce an empty line between lines of text, while paragraph boundaries look line single line-breaks, having zero margin and padding between them.

Moreover, \[code] blocks also have... Other weird properties.

Bug: https source links do not hide the https: part

Expected behavior: both http://something.deviantart.com and https://something.deviantart.com in the source field show up as "something.deviantart.com".

Actual behavior: http://something.deviantart.com shows up as "something.deviantart.com" but https://something.deviantart.com results in "https://something.deviantart.com"

Steps to duplicate: pick any DA or FA image with the source field filled, try changing http <-> https.

EsalRider said:
I've already looked into this client-side. By default, when DText finds a single line-break, it will insert a &lt;br&gt; tag there. If it finds two or more consecutive line-breaks between chunks of text, it treats it as the end of a paragraph, closing one with &lt;/p&gt; and opening another with &lt;p&gt;. Normally, it's the desired behavior. Unfortunately, this formatting is also applied within \[code] blocks, but those are already set as containing pre-formatted text. Because of this, the &lt;br&gt; plus line-break combinations will produce an empty line between lines of text, while paragraph boundaries look line single line-breaks, having zero margin and padding between them.

Moreover, \[code] blocks also have... Other weird properties.

That would definitely explain the weird behavior I've seen, and gives me a good lead to work with. Thanks for narrowing that down Esal. :)

Ultimately we will have to either fix the escaping with more case-specific workarounds or (more ideally) spruce up the code to actually ignore *everything* inside \[code] tags (as opposed to the obfuscated mix of conditionals that we currently have set up :/).

hslugs said:
Bug: https source links do not hide the https: part

Expected behavior: both http://something.deviantart.com and https://something.deviantart.com in the source field show up as "something.deviantart.com".

Actual behavior: http://something.deviantart.com shows up as "something.deviantart.com" but https://something.deviantart.com results in "https://something.deviantart.com"

Steps to duplicate: pick any DA or FA image with the source field filled, try changing http <-> https.

I've got a partial fix ready, but I'm having a bit of trouble with the link detection. I'll hopefully have this fixed by the next update.

Noticed a very minor thing:

post #379457

This image is displayed at 100% of its original size. View original | Always view original | Hide this message

Shouldn't this just display the original?

I was trying to suggest an alias for demon_girl to demon.
E6 gave me an error stating that demon_girl is already aliased to something else - but it's not.

What gives?

Peekaboo said:
I was trying to suggest an alias for demon_girl to demon.
E6 gave me an error stating that demon_girl is already aliased to something else - but it's not.

What gives?

It already exists: forum #170143.

Genjar said:
It already exists: forum #170143.

Ah, right.

Alot of the pictures I look at don't show up and when I try to download one it gives me an error.

Is it just me or is this with the site?

Bug: Tag counters are off by one.
Expected Behavior: Tag counters should reflect how many times the post has been tagged, n.
Actual Behavior: Tag counters show n+1.
How to Replicate: Tag any post with a brand new tag. Tag counter will show that the tag has been tagged twice, not once.

Blazikendude said:
Alot of the pictures I look at don't show up and when I try to download one it gives me an error.

Is it just me or is this with the site?

• What browser/OS are you using?
• Are you on a mobile network?
• If you try a different network (home internet -> a friends internet/school wifi/starbucks/etc.) does this still happen?

ShylokVakarian said:
Bug: Tag counters are off by one.
Expected Behavior: Tag counters should reflect how many times the post has been tagged, n.
Actual Behavior: Tag counters show n+1.
How to Replicate: Tag any post with a brand new tag. Tag counter will show that the tag has been tagged twice, not once.

I haven't been able to reproduce this.

• Do you have an example?
• What browser are you using?
• Some browsers have been known to send duplicate requests in certain circumstances. We have checks for this on many parts of the site, but you never know.

parasprite said:
I haven't been able to reproduce this.

• Do you have an example?
• What browser are you using?
• Some browsers have been known to send duplicate requests in certain circumstances. We have checks for this on many parts of the site, but you never know.

I've noticed the tag counts being a bit off sometimes too. I think the closest thing I can provide as an example is that my listed tag count on this list is different to the one shown on my profile. Not sure if this is a related issue.
(I'm using Windows 7 with Firefox)

DragonFox69 said:
I've noticed the tag counts being a bit off sometimes too. I think the closest thing I can provide as an example is that my listed tag count on this list is different to the one shown on my profile. Not sure if this is a related issue.
(I'm using Windows 7 with Firefox)

Nah, that's likely a separate issue.

From what I understand the tag counts aren't updated live on many parts of the site, because that would cause a lot of strain on the DB. Instead we can save server time by estimating and recounted them at regular intervals. The different numbers come from different implementations of these estimates and the methods they use to update each of them. Tag reverts, deletions, blank edits (go to post, hit edit, hit save) are the sorts of things that might affect this, but it's hard to say without testing them individually for various conditions.

ShylokVakarian said:
Bug: Tag counters are off by one.

Tags on deleted posts still affect the counts. Could that be the cause? Try searching the tag in question with status:any to show deleted posts.

parasprite said:

• What browser/OS are you using?
• Are you on a mobile network?
• If you try a different network (home internet -> a friends internet/school wifi/starbucks/etc.) does this still happen?

I haven't been able to reproduce this.

• Do you have an example?
• What browser are you using?
• Some browsers have been known to send duplicate requests in certain circumstances. We have checks for this on many parts of the site, but you never know.

So I guess everybody on e621 uses Chrome and Safari, huh? Firefox.

Well, I'll try by tagging a post with something completely new and snapping a pic of the results. Don't worry, I'll revert it back.

EDIT: Huh. I have no idea how any of this works, it's weird.

ShylokVakarian said:
So I guess everybody on e621 uses Chrome and Safari, huh? Firefox.

.. Firefox version what?
On what OS (and, 64bit or 32bit version of the OS)?

This os, browser stuff Parasprite asked for is all standard bug-reporting practice (report the version of every major piece of software involved). There is no guarantee that eg. Firefox 40.0.3 on Windows 64bit behaves the same as Firefox 40.0.3 on Linux 64bit, etc. Things that you didn't even think of, like firewall software, proxies, and other stuff running in the background, can also affect the outcome. Debugging can be very complex.

savageorange said:
.. Firefox version what?
On what OS (and, 64bit or 32bit version of the OS)?

This os, browser stuff Parasprite asked for is all standard bug-reporting practice (report the version of every major piece of software involved). There is no guarantee that eg. Firefox 40.0.3 on Windows 64bit behaves the same as Firefox 40.0.3 on Linux 64bit, etc. Things that you didn't even think of, like firewall software, proxies, and other stuff running in the background, can also affect the outcome. Debugging can be very complex.

I would presume version 40.0.3, on 64 W7.

Lynnden said:
Bug: favorites are broken?

simply put i'm unable to unfavorite posts. when i look at a post I've already favorited it won't display the unfavorite button.

Steps to duplicate:???

parasprite said:
I can't replicate this. I'm assuming you are talking about the post's page with the big green/red button rather than clicking thumbnails to favorite them, correct?

• What is your browser/OS?
• Can you check your settings to make sure you don't have javascript disabled? (steps vary by browser, let me know if you need help with this

I want to touch on this again, since I also have this problem and Lynnden doesn't seem to have responded. Yes, I believe that's what they mean.

I'm on an iPhone, iOS 8.3, using google chrome version 45.0.2454.68. Since an update or two ago of the browser, any posts I favorited show the green +favorite button, and clicking it simply gives me the error "you have already favorited this post".
There's no JavaScript settings for this version of the browser. The latest public release for the desktop version of chrome doesn't have this problem, so I'm not sure what it could be if it isn't JavaScript.

Blazikendude said:
Alot of the pictures I look at don't show up and when I try to download one it gives me an error.

Is it just me or is this with the site?

I'm getting that problem too.
A lot of image don't display (such as post #453879 ,
and when i click on download link get error message
"...(FILENAME).png" cannot be displayed becuase it contains errors."

parasprite said:

• What browser/OS are you using?
• Are you on a mobile network?
• If you try a different network (home internet -> a friends internet/school wifi/starbucks/etc.) does this still happen?

...

Using up-to-date Firefox (version 40.0.3 ).
On homecomputer using ethernet cable.
Could be a problem with this version of Firefox (Firefox can handle jpg i have on my computer, but seems to gag on PNG on my computer. Micosoft IE browser doesn't seem to be gagging on PNGs.)

UPDATE: made a small PNG (17.8 Kb) and Firefox handled it just fine. Hmm.

UPDATE (about two hours later): Firefox crashed, went out and when i came back Firefox displays the PNGs fine now.

EarthFurst2 said:
I'm getting that problem too.
A lot of image don't display (such as post #453879 ,
and when i click on download link get error message
"...(FILENAME).png" cannot be displayed becuase it contains errors."

(...)

UPDATE (about two hours later): Firefox crashed, went out and when i came back Firefox displays the PNGs fine now.

The most likely cause I can think of is the browser caching an image that failed to download properly. Clearing the cache or force-reloading the page by hitting Ctrl+F5 should fix the issue. In your case, the reason why the problem solved itself is because when the browser crashes, it clears the cache to avoid using data that might got corrupted.

ziltahni said:
I want to touch on this again, since I also have this problem and Lynnden doesn't seem to have responded. Yes, I believe that's what they mean.

I'm on an iPhone, iOS 8.3, using google chrome version 45.0.2454.68. Since an update or two ago of the browser, any posts I favorited show the green +favorite button, and clicking it simply gives me the error "you have already favorited this post".
There's no JavaScript settings for this version of the browser. The latest public release for the desktop version of chrome doesn't have this problem, so I'm not sure what it could be if it isn't JavaScript.

iOS Chrome uses mostly Safari/Webkit on the back-end, so I'm not surprised that desktop Chrome doesn't have this problem. It's possible that some javascript is running before others, causing the red -favorite button to not override the green, but I still haven't been able to replicate it so far (on desktop). I'll do some tests on my mobile device to see what comes up. I should still have an 8.3 device handy to test with.

By the way, I remember Chrome having a "data saving" feature, do you happen to have that enabled?

EarthFurst2 said:
I'm getting that problem too.
A lot of image don't display (such as post #453879 ,
and when i click on download link get error message
"...(FILENAME).png" cannot be displayed becuase it contains errors."

Using up-to-date Firefox (version 40.0.3 ).
On homecomputer using ethernet cable.
Could be a problem with this version of Firefox (Firefox can handle jpg i have on my computer, but seems to gag on PNG on my computer. Micosoft IE browser doesn't seem to be gagging on PNGs.)

UPDATE: made a small PNG (17.8 Kb) and Firefox handled it just fine. Hmm.

UPDATE (about two hours later): Firefox crashed, went out and when i came back Firefox displays the PNGs fine now.

EsalRider said:
The most likely cause I can think of is the browser caching an image that failed to download properly. Clearing the cache or force-reloading the page by hitting Ctrl+F5 should fix the issue. In your case, the reason why the problem solved itself is because when the browser crashes, it clears the cache to avoid using data that might got corrupted.

This gives us a lot to work off of. Even if it turns out to not be a bug related to the site it is still very useful to have for troubleshooting.

Thanks both of you for the additional info. :)

Hello!
For like, a week or so, more and more images suddenly stopped working, both thumbnails and the images itself. Clicking download wouldn't work either. Using F5 won't work as well.

I tried loggin out, using CCleaner, and still I get that issue a lot of times.

I use IE 11. However, viewing the site on "InPrivate" mode makes them all load perfectly.

Is there any solution? I use e621 to get references to drawing, but it's a pain if I have to use the InPrivate mode everytime :c

i think i just learned a way to potentially break and/or abuse the quote DText when making a quote. see example i just found:

pic

not sure how he did it but apparently if i try to quote HIS comment, anything i type below the final [/ quote] makes it look as if it's HIM saying my response.

i'm thinking it has to do with the [/quote\] seen there.

anywho, as is, my comment which he attempted to quote now looks as ifi said his response and anything typed bello this mess when responding to his comment makes it look as if he is saying you're comment in the resulting quote stack.

treos said:
i think i just learned a way to potentially break and/or abuse the quote DText when making a quote. see example i just found:

pic

not sure how he did it but apparently if i try to quote HIS comment, anything i type below the final [/ quote] makes it look as if it's HIM saying my response.

i'm thinking it has to do with the [/quote\] seen there.

anywho, as is, my comment which he attempted to quote now looks as ifi said his response and anything typed bello this mess when responding to his comment makes it look as if he is saying you're comment in the resulting quote stack.

It's not a bug. The system basically says "quote everything after [quote], end at [/quote]. If there's nothing to end at it will just assume the rest of the comment is part of the quote.

treos said:
i think i just learned a way to potentially break and/or abuse the quote DText when making a quote. see example i just found:

pic

not sure how he did it but apparently if i try to quote HIS comment, anything i type below the final [/ quote] makes it look as if it's HIM saying my response.

i'm thinking it has to do with the [/quote\] seen there.

anywho, as is, my comment which he attempted to quote now looks as ifi said his response and anything typed bello this mess when responding to his comment makes it look as if he is saying you're comment in the resulting quote stack.

parasprite said:
It's not a bug. The system basically says "quote everything after

[quote]

, end at

[/quote]

." If there's nothing to end at it will just assume the rest of the comment is part of the quote.

You got owned, bro. :P

parasprite said:
It's not a bug. The system basically says "quote everything after . If there's nothing to end at it will just assume the rest of the comment is part of the quote.

True, but I got another bug then, just look at this quote and compare to your original message, i.e. the

apparently doesn't work well when quoted, if this is a feature, it still looks weird.

Edit: Hm... Or maybe not... Needs more testing, it's still a bit strange here and there.

Chessax said:
True, but I got another bug then, just look at this quote and compare to your original message, i.e. the

apparently doesn't work well when quoted, if this is a feature, it still looks weird.

Edit: Hm... Or maybe not... Needs more testing, it's still a bit strange here and there.

You suspicions about [/quote\] were right, that's completely invalid and has no effect on the result. If you look at your own image, you can actually see it showing up as-is. Nesting quotes should not be an issue.

The reason why parasprite's post "breaks" when quoted is a different issue. When you hit "Respond" on a forum post, a JavaScript function first fetches the text from the server. The response will contain the post as it was written, quotes and all. To avoid responses getting bigger every time someone replies to someone else, the script will remove quotes from it. Essentially, it will look for matching \

\ \

tags and remove them with everything else in-between. parasprite used backticks to highlight/escape the tags, but the script is not smart enough to realize they shouldn't be removed. Here, I've used backslashes to escape the tags, but if you quote me, the script will remove them. Only the first backslash will stay. (Believe me when I say that it's no easy task to make something that can properly recognize when something, that otherwise should be removed, should be kept.)

ShylokVakarian said:
You got owned, bro. :P

was that really necessary?

Chessax said:
True, but I got another bug then, just look at this quote and compare to your original message, i.e. the

apparently doesn't work well when quoted, if this is a feature, it still looks weird.

Edit: Hm... Or maybe not... Needs more testing, it's still a bit strange here and there.

Yup, separate bug. Backtick code doesn't get escaped properly when quoted. I've been revamping the dtext over the last couple weekends and there are a dozen or more bugs and other formatting weirdness that have fixes ready. I'll summarize what I've fixed if anyone's curious:

1.Some things don't escape properly in backtick code tags:

http://direct_link"direct":http://link"relative":/linkmailto:nope

(mailto links will be disabled since they don't work anyways and absolutely nobody uses them)

______________________

2.Newlines in code tags where there shouldn't be:

[quote]some text[/quote]

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spaces aren't preserved in backtick code tags

spaces             aren't             preserved             in         code             tags

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3.Odd code nesting behavior:

odd[code]code[code]nesting[code]behavior

[/code][/code][/code]______________________

4.Disappearing text before/after header tags:

http://i.imgur.com/FuCszhx.jpg

A header

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNdhso+/////++oyyhmNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmho/::::---------:::://ohmNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNmdho/:::--------:://///:------:oNMMMMMMMMMMMMNhs+/::-----------:://+++++++/:-..---hMMMMMMMMMNho/:-..

.--:---//++++++++++:..-:/dMM MMMMMNy/:-. ---:--::/++++++++o++..-::://h
MMMMd+:-. .--::---::+++++++++/:./--:::-o MMMy/-- ..--::----:...-:::-...-/oshN MMy:-- .----::------:--............/MMMM Mh/-- .----::::------::-:..--:MMMM
N+--- .----::---/:-----::-/-:---.::-../y:sMMMM h/--. .----::---:os:-----:-..:-/mNs../o:NMMMM
o:--..-----/----/dMh+:----:. :+/.oMMMMM
/:---------/---:oMMMNy+:---:-.-mMMMMM /:--------::--:+mMMMMMNs:----:---......--/smMMMMMM s:--------:/+ohNMMMMMMm/----------:sddmmNMMMMMMMMM m/:-------:sNMMMNNNMMm+------------oMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Md+:-----:+ysoyo:-/hd+-------------/NMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMNhs+++oo:......::--------------/NMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMM/....-:----------:---:-/sMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMo.....::-------::--:----::-sMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMNs...-:----------:::----::-:sMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMm:--.:------------::-----:---sNMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMmNhs:-----------/::-----:::::/smMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNo:--------:::::----::::::-::dMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMy/-------------::-------:/osymMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMdyso++//://:/++o/:/:/++oyNMMMMMMMM

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5.Unpredictable backslash escape behavior:

\Unpredictable{\{backslash}}escape\{{behavior}\}
\Unpredictable[\[backslash]]escape\[[behavior]\]
`Unpredictable`backslashescape`behavior`
\http://unpredictable ht\tp://backslash http\://escape http:/\/behavior
\*unpredictable
\h6.backslash
h\6.escape
h6\.behavior

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6. Trying to put backticks inside backticks is unreliable:

some
test
test

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7. HTML escaped stuff tends to render anyways:

&rarr; &gt; &lt; &amp;
&rarr; &gt; &lt; &amp;

→ < > &

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8.Symbols falling into the URL where they shouldn't:

Here is a website: "http://site.com".
Here is a website: (http://site.com).
Here is a website: ("http://site.com").

(also, the period at the end doesn't show on the last two)

EsalRider said:

When you hit "Respond" on a forum post, a JavaScript function first fetches the text from the server. The response will contain the post as it was written, quotes and all. I've used backslashes to escape the tags, but if you quote me, the script will remove them. Only the first backslash will stay.

Oh would you look at that, I never noticed this.

Yeah, that one is going to have to be part of a future update as I'm not as familiar with javascript.

parasprite said:
Oh would you look at that, I never noticed this.

Yeah, that one is going to have to be part of a future update as I'm not as familiar with javascript.

I think replacing the regular expression could solve the issue. I've tried to come up with one that could deal with nested, \

-d, \`backtick\`-d and \\escaped quotes as well, but I gave up after a while. It would always have some fault somewhere. And as it got longer, it pretty much became impossible to keep track of things.

[quote]HTML escaped stuff tends to render anyways[/quote]

Now that you mention it... Could you add " to the list of recognized HTML escape sequences? We could use it to put quotes inside custom link names.

Also, could you make sure that & gets resolved [i]last[/i]? Otherwise, these two will look the same: → →

EsalRider said:

Now that you mention it... Could you add &amp;quot; to the list of recognized HTML escape sequences? We could use it to put quotes inside custom link names.

Yeah, that would be easy to do.

EsalRider said:

Also, could you make sure that &amp;amp; gets resolved last? Otherwise, these two will look the same: &rarr; &amp;rarr;

Working on it. At the very least I'll make it easier to backslash escape these.

treos said:
was that really necessary?

Nope.

I've noticed some images don't have reduced samples.

This one shows up full size for me:
post #86806

purple.beastie said:
I've noticed some images don't have reduced samples.

This one shows up full size for me:
post #86806

Just want to add that there is a sample, but it is not shown.

Asbel said:
Hello!
For like, a week or so, more and more images suddenly stopped working, both thumbnails and the images itself. Clicking download wouldn't work either. Using F5 won't work as well.

I tried loggin out, using CCleaner, and still I get that issue a lot of times.

I use IE 11. However, viewing the site on "InPrivate" mode makes them all load perfectly.

Is there any solution? I use e621 to get references to drawing, but it's a pain if I have to use the InPrivate mode everytime :c

Could someone please help me out with this? Thank you ^^

Asbel said:
Could someone please help me out with this? Thank you ^^

Sometimes add-ons don't run by default in private browsing mode. Could this be the problem?

Asbel said:
Could someone please help me out with this? Thank you ^^

First just a quick tip:
Make sure images are enabled, see also Why can't I see pictures on websites?
Remove cookies/cache related to e621 (note that you'll probably have to log in again)

If that doesn't work, bring up the developer tools with F12 and check if you get any related errors/warnings under "Console". You can also check under "Network" and locate the image failing to load (easiest is to simply open the image itself in a new window). The image should have a "Result" of 200 or 304 and an appropriate size under "Received" as well (if Result is 304 the size will be very low). See e.g. Using the F12 developer tools for more info.

Maybe not too helpful, but might work.

Chessax said:
First just a quick tip:
Make sure images are enabled, see also Why can't I see pictures on websites?
Remove cookies/cache related to e621 (note that you'll probably have to log in again)

If that doesn't work, bring up the developer tools with F12 and check if you get any related errors/warnings under "Console". You can also check under "Network" and locate the image failing to load (easiest is to simply open the image itself in a new window). The image should have a "Result" of 200 or 304 and an appropriate size under "Received" as well (if Result is 304 the size will be very low). See e.g. Using the F12 developer tools for more info.

Maybe not too helpful, but might work.

Well, it actually did! I went to the remove cookies cache thingie you linked, and it works now! Let's hope it keep it this way, haha! Thanks again, man!
Nevermind, I'm getting the same error again...

Might be old and reported but my blind eyes couldn't find anything quite appropriate...

Bug: (Some) negative metatag searches work less than ideal
Expected behavior: Ideally the metatag would be subtracted from the results, but the search should definitely not generate more results than without the negative.
Actual behavior: No subtraction, repeated posts, generally very strange behavior.
Steps to duplicate: E.g. look at story_in_description -set:c_story_in_description, especially post #706039 caught my eye seeing it is repeated 10 times in that index!

Asbel said:
Well, it actually did! I went to the remove cookies cache thingie you linked, and it works now! Let's hope it keep it this way, haha! Thanks again, man!
Nevermind, I'm getting the same error again...

Hm... That's too bad, but if I'm going to be of any more assistance I need more information, see second part of my answer post. In addition to that Request headers and Response headers for an image could be interesting, but they might contain your login cookie so you might want to skip that part. That said, if it really is server side I won't be able to help you.

Chessax said:
Might be old and reported but my blind eyes couldn't find anything quite appropriate...

Bug: (Some) negative metatag searches work less than ideal
Expected behavior: Ideally the metatag would be subtracted from the results, but the search should definitely not generate more results than without the negative.
Actual behavior: No subtraction, repeated posts, generally very strange behavior.
Steps to duplicate: E.g. look at story_in_description -set:c_story_in_description, especially post #706039 caught my eye seeing it is repeated 10 times in that index!

Hm... That's too bad, but if I'm going to be of any more assistance I need more information, see second part of my answer post. In addition to that Request headers and Response headers for an image could be interesting, but they might contain your login cookie so you might want to skip that part. That said, if it really is server side I won't be able to help you.

Hello there, sorry, I just saw you answered me.

I'm afraid I have no idea of to do that, I don't know anything about this sort of stuff, and I get lots really easely.
Opening a random image that fails to load in a separate window doesn't work, as "HTTP 400 wrong request", and using F12 shows 4 warnings and 3 messages. I don't understand what I should do now, I'm sorry.

Bug:
post #740879 didn't have the avoid_posting tag originally

Tag history:
https://e621.net/post_tag_history/index?post_id=740879

It was uploaded the with mikachu_tuhonen tag.
mikachu_tuhonen is implicated to avoid_posting
Therefore, the post should've had the avoid_posting tag from the beginning.

But the avoid_posting tag was only added when I changed mikachu_tuhonen to mikachutuhonen because:
mikachutuhonen is aliased to mikachu_tuhonen which is implicated to avoid_posting

Asbel said:
Hello there, sorry, I just saw you answered me.

I'm afraid I have no idea of to do that, I don't know anything about this sort of stuff, and I get lots really easely.
Opening a random image that fails to load in a separate window doesn't work, as "HTTP 400 wrong request", and using F12 shows 4 warnings and 3 messages. I don't understand what I should do now, I'm sorry.

Don't worry, you don't need to apologize for not knowing how to do stuff.. But HTTP 400 means the error is most likely on your end... It might be a case of your browser trying to send too much information to the server. But I'll send you a PM, not sure everyone needs to listen in on this problem.

Bug: Undocumented parameter "post[old_tags]" in /post/update API.

Just a heads up according to Chrome, there is a "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" error. Every single topic I found on this error points to Chrome v44 completely removing something called "SSLv3" support. If that's what e621is running then it's on your end. If it's on my end (Windows XP r3) then I'm at a total loss as to why because I literally tried everything to fix it including clearing and resetting every bit of data in Chrome. ...FireFox meanwhile still works just fine

I was trying to upload a picture for 20 minutes and every time I got a Action Controller: Exception Caught error. I used a direct image source and it worked (post #746879). However trying to add the source and/or the artist name on the picture does the exact same thing. I can't even post a comment with the artist name or source links without the page hanging on me until I get the error a minute later.

The artist name may be an issue because rule34 doesn't take it too well when you look for the tag
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/-TOTO-/1

But the sources look fine and inoffensive, and with these alone I still get the crash
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/1708595
http://suicidetoto.tumblr.com/post/131031392011

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I finally was able to add the sources after a while, but can't add the artist right after, so I may think it simply has to do with the servers being overloaded tonight

iller said:
Just a heads up according to Chrome, there is a "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" error. Every single topic I found on this error points to Chrome v44 completely removing something called "SSLv3" support. If that's what e621is running then it's on your end. If it's on my end (Windows XP r3) then I'm at a total loss as to why because I literally tried everything to fix it including clearing and resetting every bit of data in Chrome. ...FireFox meanwhile still works just fine

Although it is a very old standard (~20 years old), websites and browsers have been gradually dropping support for SSLv3 due to some bad vulnerabilities that were recently published.

Chrome relies on the OS for verifying certificates, and in your case it is limited to what XP offers. Since XP doesn't have support for newer encryption types, sites that use those types will fail to load. Firefox works because it's one of the few browsers that doesn't actually rely on the OS for verifying certificates (it has its own code for that), so it can still support newer encryption types.

Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot we can do to fix this. The only workarounds at the moment is to either upgrade the OS to a newer one (if possible), or use Firefox.

Neitsuke said:
I was trying to upload a picture for 20 minutes and every time I got a Action Controller: Exception Caught error. ...

The artist name may be an issue because rule34 doesn't take it too well when you look for the tag
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/-TOTO-/1

Since - is also used for negation in searches (e.g., male -female), tags starting with it don't work. Normally it is stripped when sending the tags, but by prepending it with artist: (artist:-toto-) the site will try to change what is essentially an invalid tag to a different tag type before trying to strip the -, which results in the system failing to respond, and eventually timing out.

I don't know how easy this is to fix (we don't actually want tags like this in the DB), but I should at least be able to make it fail more gracefully.

Currently the only workaround for it is to use a different name (if they have one) or tag it with something like toto_(artist) instead. I just added the latter tag to that post, but if you have a better one, feel free to change it. I also went ahead and sent a bug report to Paheal, so hopefully they will be able to come up with a fix for that.

I tried to actually use this exact tag for the artist instead, but sadly got the same results. The servers just have may been very busy, or it had to do with the security certificates issues I am seeing around the forum lately. At least the problem is solved now

A couple of search options are broken

sub:slyroon
sub:slyroon:invalid_tag
Doesn't work both gives unrelated posts in return
_______________________________________
notes:whatever
note:whatever
Doesn't work both gives unrelated posts in return
_______________________________________

tagcount:2
gentags:2
arttags:2
chartags:2
copytags:2
speciestags:2
Doesn't work all of them gives unrelated post in return
_______________________________________
-set:goldenfamily
-set:2518
image in the specified set still appear and some post duplicate multiple times
______________________________________________________________

order:desclength
Works for the most part but also mixes in images without descriptions

post #87405 has no "sample" image size (warning large image)

slyroon said:
A couple of search options are broken

sub:slyroon
sub:slyroon:invalid_tag
Doesn't work both gives unrelated posts in return
_______________________________________
notes:whatever
note:whatever
Doesn't work both gives unrelated posts in return
_______________________________________

tagcount:2
gentags:2
arttags:2
chartags:2
copytags:2
speciestags:2
Doesn't work all of them gives unrelated post in return
_______________________________________
-set:goldenfamily
-set:2518
image in the specified set still appear and some post duplicate multiple times
______________________________________________________________

order:desclength
Works for the most part but also mixes in images without descriptions

Also (and this one might be a feature rather than a glitch), searching pool:D doesn't return just results from pool:D, but instead returns results from any pool with a title containing the letter 'd'. You can do similar things like (for example) searching pool:tiger. I'm not sure if it's better this way or not.

Chessax said:
post #87405 has no "sample" image size (warning large image)

Yeah, this is actually pretty common with older posts. I imagine they were posted before reduced image samples were introduced or something.

EsalRider said:
Yeah, this is actually pretty common with older posts. I imagine they were posted before reduced image samples were introduced or something.

I tried to "Fix thumbnail" just to see if it would regenerate the sample image but to no avail, apparently just ended up wasting server resources :|. Might be an interesting feature to add as well.

EsalRider said:
Yeah, this is actually pretty common with older posts. I imagine they were posted before reduced image samples were introduced or something.

I don't have much in the way of an actual fix, but they could probably be manually regenerated as long as we know which ones are broken/missing (I'm not 100% on this).

Nevertheless, I went ahead and added missing_sample to keep track of it. If anybody finds any more of them feel free to add them to that tag.

Not sure if this a bug or just a 'feature', but... It's not possible to change the post rating and also lock it in a single edit: doing that locks it to the old rating, instead of the new one.

So we have to edit posts twice to lock it to the correct one: first to change the rating, then to lock it.

Maybe it was mentioned before but...
Bug:
Whenever I create a comment to a post all spaces next to special characters (and sometimes even whole text segments) are removed once the comment is loaded through ajax. When I reload the page everything looks normal.
Example:
http://puu.sh/l0guU.png

Expected behavior:
The comment should be displayed correctly when it is first loaded.

Actual behavior:
As explained stuff is missing.

Steps to duplicate:
Open a post.
Type some text with special characters (.,\!"§$%&/_;:'*´<>). Paste a URL. Post the comment. Look at the comment. Reload the page. Look at the comment again. Edit: It does not happen with forum posts like this one.

Calimero000 said:
Maybe it was mentioned before but...
Bug:
Whenever I create a comment to a post all spaces next to special characters (and sometimes even whole text segments) are removed once the comment is loaded through ajax. (...)

It's still a known issue, but since it's purely cosmetic, it's not a high priority.

it does happen on forum posts as well, though usually it's not that pronounced if you have a link in your post. Custom text may or may not be required for it.

Also, you could get even weirder results if you start your comment with a URL, where literally everything disappears after http:

EsalRider said:
It's still a known issue, but since it's purely cosmetic, it's not a high priority.

it does happen on forum posts as well, though usually it's not that pronounced if you have a link in your post. Custom text may or may not be required for it.

Yup. Unfortunately it's also notoriously difficult to reproduce consistently, which makes it even more confusing to track down. Since it happens more with comments I'm starting to think it is related to the site's javascript (which I'm unfortunately not terribly good with).

EsalRider said:
Also, you could get even weirder results if you start your comment with a URL, where literally everything disappears after http:

I'll have to remember that one. If I can reproduce this off-site, tracing the cause should be fairly straightforward.

Most images don't load.

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to static1.e621.net. Peer's Certificate has been revoked. (Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

In Firefox Win 7 x64

Edit: And now they start loading...

Edit 2: http://e621.net fails to even load, no errors, just blank page. =>.<=

edit 3: Tried loading http://e621.net on Wii-U, browser, but fails, so not an issue with Firefox.

edit 4: e621.net seems to be working now.

furballs_dc said:
Most images don't load.

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to static1.e621.net. Peer's Certificate has been revoked. (Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

In Firefox Win 7 x64

Edit: And now they start loading...

Edit 2: http://e621.net fails to even load, no errors, just blank page. =>.<=

edit 3: Tried loading http://e621.net on Wii-U, browser, but fails, so not an issue with Firefox.

edit 4: e621.net seems to be working now.

We had some unscheduled downtime while troubleshooting some networking-related issues, but everything should be back up and running normally now.

parasprite said:
We had some unscheduled downtime while troubleshooting some networking-related issues, but everything should be back up and running normally now.

Well, it's working now. =^.^=

Trying to unhide a forum post bumps me to my account settings page, with a red-bar message header Error: You are already logged in.

Sharp_Coyote said:
Trying to unhide a forum post bumps me to my account settings page, with a red-bar message header Error: You are already logged in.

That error actually means "you don't have permission to do this". I think unhiding posts can only be done by mods/admins.