It's been real, it's been fun...
 

...and despite what you may think, I actually really enjoyed MT.

I'm leaving IB next week, not exclusively because of MT (about 50% because of MT), and wanted to introduce your IB community manager, @Robb M. .

Robb is an OG and knows of IBs past sins, he'll fight the blurry pictures and related threads of the world. Please tag him as much as possible with any questions or concerns, hourly if needed.

This is one of the few forums that I will stick around as a lurking user and I can't wait to join in when there is an uprising against change.

Many thanks to @Braineack , @shuiend , and the rest of the MT team for putting up with everything during the transition over to your corporate overlords.

I wish those of you in the US a Happy Thanksgiving!

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...cd0fb05083.jpg

oh snap, what did I sign up for? Happy Thanksgiving from Canuckistan!

I like this guy. He will be missed.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...142c2b4171.png
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c074697001.gif

Everything you thought you knew...


...is probably solid, foundational book-knowledge, but doesn't apply to the real world. It helps you understand why shit's cray, but it doesn't help you fix it.


now, as your first order of business
and I mean order

fix this bullshit right here:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2052c01c8e.png https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fdfb2f7a77.png


Pro Tip: This location of "MARK FORUMS READ" is inconsitent and broken in all your forums. Fire the lazy coder who doesn't give a shit about your business.

Sad to see donal leaving and yet the retards that constantly break our forum and screw it up because they’re dumb probably get to keep jerb

That's just silly. On it.

You are not the first Canuck to try to be our overlord.

As to what you signed up for.

Right now you are in a Hell in a Cell match. You can be a beta bottom bitch and let the stretcher wheel you out of the show after the Undertaker(us the regulars) throw you off the cage. Or you can be Alpha Chad Ape like Mankind and get back up and go back on top of the cage. How you handle the hazing will determine how things go.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...0a1bbe18b5.png

i think i can, i think i can, i think i can

IB Nolan, your time has come
We'll sends shivers down Robb M's spine, his butt-hole aching in no time
Goodbye, IB Nolan, you have got to go
Gotta leave this all behind and let Robb M face the truth
Robb M, ooh, (Any way the wind blows)
I don't want the forum to die
So we'll make you wish you'd never been born at all.



(Last one, I promise)

Post pics of your cats or GTFO!

:bowrofl:

You'll be missed, you heartless, sadistic, forum-wrecking sunnofabitch*.

* = seriously, though, I love you man. Good luck on whatever comes next.

Diva says 'sup?
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...14f81ff641.jpg

Hi, Diva.

Is that astroturf on your stairs? I like the way you Canadians party.

I fucking hate cats, and because of that I can't bang my cute redhead British neighbor. She's 32 and has 2 of those feline devils.


Fucking sucks.

Oh yeah, welcome Canadian!

@Robb M.

HOW "on it"?

I tried to fix it myself, but don't have the permissions required so I had to send in a ticket. Hoping for a Christmas Miracle.

@The Driver, on the one hand, I'd normally perma-ban someone for this.

On the other hand, you've got me thinking about cute redheads.

A compromise has been reached.

I'm not giving you her digits.

Dang it, an effing cat?

Meow!

Gingers, what a sweet addiction!

Yeah, but gingers have no soul. She looks more like a daywalker though.

I am generally not looking for a soul when looking at gingers. Other things are far more important.

Such as the carpet matching the drapes. In Gingerville, that's like best ever!

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2b7cfa7b70.png https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...28d51bb274.png


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...056be6e7bd.png

It's the little things that tell me you love me.

:ughug:

Am I the only one slightly bothered by the fact that our new corporate overlord seems to have less administrative power on this forum that I do?

I can reset the passwords of my corporate overlords on another forum. And change their email addresses to yahoo addresses, which means they'll never get the reset emails, due to Yahoo blacklisting them.

It's pretty funny.

braineack might be able to do that to me :inout:

@Robb M.
I'll ask him personally if you do me one more favor:

tell me why when I give props, it takes me to a separate page so I have to come "back" to the one I'm on. I don't like reloading the picture thread for no reason and re-finding my place.

Also that "quick reply" button down below this quick reply is confusing asf. I'm already replying and click it to submit but oh no, we're starting a new post in a new pop up window? no, that's not right.

But that one has a lightning bolt so it must be faster. I guess it is a proofreading issue. Or the code writers don't actually use forums themselves.

I just gave you a prop for this post by just clicking the kitty. I am in Firefox on a Mac. It did not take me to any new page and I did not have to click a back button. I will try out a few different browsers and also on a Windows machine.

^ Ditto here. Chrome on Win 7. I clicked on :likecat:, Y8s' kittycounter incremented by one (and turned blue, to indicate that I had made a change to it), and that was it. No refresh, no screen changes.

:likecat: / :hatecat: is one thing that does not seem to have broken recently.

Happens to me about once out of every ten cats given. Windows 10, Firefox.

I have not experienced this either. Any commonalities we can determine?

Windows/Firefox and no problems with the cats opening windows.

'Bout the same for me. Firefox and both Win 7/10.

when you click the cats, it makes an ajax call to send the data and return the new props.

there's also an href="" url for the link to follow. if you follow that code youll get the confirmation page, as it's doing the props using a query string in the url to submit the props and not the asynchronous ajax call:

https://www.miataturbo.net/misc.php?...65a0e889390e3d

i think some browsers are failing to follow the rel=nofollow html5 code and navigating through the link. probably should just remove the href, unless you can use it as a backup if the ajax does not return a success.


i helped write the props code long ago.

I just poscat you and it incremented by one without opening a new window.

so like

dear mechanic
my car makes this noise: GRRNT GRRNT GROOOOOCH
but only when I'm alone and not recording it

Take it to Aamco. They know exactly what it is just according to your description. Does Aamco work on websites?

Like I said, each cat is technically a hyperlink. But there's an attribute to prevent browsers from actually following the link (the original implementation of the props code), and instead it follows some php code, i believe parsing the data out of the query string of the url, and that will update the props without navigating to a new page using ajax.

It seems that for some reason, certain browsers are failing to following the rules of rel="nofollow".

funny, i just gave you props and it opened in a new window. I've never seen that before, and didn't do anything but reload this page since it was still open in the tab from yesterday.

This is what happens when someone with an art degree writes code. It works so well that it only messes with Y8s.

i basically just changed the + and - to the cats. I believe the code was mostly written by a Canadian.

Scott loves to mess with me.

But that's ok. I enjoy it.

We're updating some software today, so blame Nolan if anything breaks.

Nolan who? Robb is the one who breaks things now.

As soon as Robb deployed the new code, my cat went deaf, I now have a metallic taste in my mouth, and a large burlap sack filled with ashes and blood, from which "Ave Maria" is faintly audible, showed up on my doorstep.

It stands to reason that these are related.

I blame Dolan
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...81549e737b.jpg

Ok, serious time:


This is what the message composer looks like now (with hovertext shown for several of the buttons):

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...0992e4a058.png


On the plus side, Indent appears to be fixed. So thanks for that.


[Also, [noparse] is working again. [B]Nice. [/B]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUWLT02Daoo

(Interesting, it's still being presented as a clickable URL, although I did not use a [URL="https://www.miataturbo.net/tag."] tag.


Let's try this:

White house spokescats still deny that [/URL]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUWLT02Daoo"]the administrator[/ame] of an El Segundo-based automotive forum has had any contact with, or influence over (...)



Wow, that's even more broken than it was before. Looks really freaky in the composition window when I switch out of [source] mode. And I don't know where the hell it's getting [/ame] from...

Ah, well. Progress.

I am unclear what the issue is. I pasted a youtube URL into the post above and it seems to have worked. What did you do that didn't work?

It should -=> NOT <=- do any parsing when the url is inside a [noparse][/noparse] section.

For instance, let's say I'm writing something, and I want to say something to the effect of "... and you can see more proof of this in Any Of These Three Videos," where each of the five highlighted words is surrounded by a [noparse][/noparse] tag, such that the word is clickable and leads to a youtube video.

In other words, I specifically want the forum to NOT automatically embed the video (which noparse is correctly preventing), but then I also don't want it trying to interpret the url (which it is trying to do, and failing.)


Example:


I have already laid down a noparse, and now I am going to say that you should look at [ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5czSr2UD7-Q]This Amazing Cat Video[/ame] before it's too late!


Here's what the sentence above looked like while I was typing it:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...a56d315c40.png



Same problem with Twitter links, which have been quite profuse of late in the political press.

i have never in my life seen noparse used on a vB. here we use code to achieve that.

-

i will report the noparse issue.

Hey @Robb M. , i don't know if you knew this about us, but we really really really really don't like fuzzy pictures.

Like, for real.

AND, it is unlikely that at any time in the foreseeable future, we will begin liking fuzzy pictures.

Like, for real.

If at any point, you or your overlords consider that maybe we are growing out of our huge dislike of fuzzy pictures, it is safe to assume that we aren't/haven't.

Like, for real.

Love,

Everyone On This Entire Forum.