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Posted 12/22/08 - 05:12 AM:	#161
Primitive must have been using MS-Word or something to write, (at least it will be spell-checked). But when cutting and pasting into the forum, it came with six kinds of quote-marks and creates a broken link. The subject line had "kant`s", (note the "backwards apostrophe"), which gets included in the links, but is missing from the target. (Removing the backwards quote from the link will find the posting). Probably should just give an error message: "Hey! Don't use MS-Word with smartquotes", but thought there might be some back-end hook possible in this bug, (since a "back-tick" executes stuff in PHP). Does that make sense?
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Posted 12/22/08 - 11:14 AM:	#162
Please explain what post you're talking about.

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Posted 12/23/08 - 06:17 AM:	#163
I've been having a similar experience with clicking on the "Last Post" arrows. As far as I can tell, it has something to do with changing the number of posts displayed per page. I say this because, for me, it only started happening when I changed from the default setting to 30 per page. If I click on an arrow from the front page, I get sent to an empty page. But if I click on an arrow from "My Threads," which displays the proper number of pages as well, I go to the correct spot. While I know nothing of coding beyond HTML and some basic CSS, it seems that the front page links may be determined by the settings of the last poster to a thread (for whom page 16 might be the last page he sees), whereas the links from My Threads are (appropriately enough) determined by the given user's settings. Or it could be something else entirely.
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Posted 12/23/08 - 07:34 AM:	#164
Paul wrote: Please explain what post you're talking about. Okay, here is the link that was in the Metaphysics Forum: http://forums.philosophyforums.com...60-s-antinomies-32493.html Clicking on it gives a 404. The "%60" is a "backtick" -> `. Remove the backtick from the URL and the topic shows up. I just fixed the topic title to use apostrophe (') instead of backtick (`). So now it works again. The new URL is: http://forums.philosophyforums.com...ants-antinomies-32493.html I can reproduce it for you if you want.
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Posted 12/23/08 - 11:30 AM:	#165
The WOWK effect. If I push the <- on the shout page, I get the letters WOWK.... I edited the post and now I've got WOWK at the beggining of my page... it should so be Zoinks! Instead of WOWK...
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Posted 12/26/08 - 07:55 AM:	#166
PMB. I think you're right. A moment ago I clicked the go to last post arrow and got an inexistent empty page. So I changed the number of posts per page (from 20 to default) and now it seems to be resolved.
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Posted 01/05/09 - 07:50 AM:	#167
I've been getting this error frequently, though by no means constantly: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 269120 bytes) in /home/pgk/public_html/forums/includes/templatefunctions.php on line 962 And sometimes it looks like this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1966080 bytes) in /home/pgk/public_html/forums/includes/commonfuncs.php(878) : eval()'d code on line 2811 Might it have something to do with the RAM upgrade? I am using Safari 1.3.2 (v312.6) at the moment, though I seem to recall it happening with Firefox 3 as well.
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Posted 01/05/09 - 07:52 AM:	#168
Oh, and for whatever it's worth, it seems to happen to specific threads repeatedly while not happening at all on other threads. Edit: And it seems to have gone away now that I've changed "posts per page" back to "use default." I guess I'm just stuck with ten posts per page.
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Posted 01/05/09 - 08:44 AM:	#169
I need to know what thread you see such errors on, if it's consistent.

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Posted 01/05/09 - 09:28 AM:	#170
This thread and this thread are the ones that consistently have the problem for me. But like I said, it's not happening now that I switched back to the default posts per page.
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