Alicornutopia

I can confirm that it works when logged on but not when logged off. Just tested it.

Does this occur on pages that are not viewing a thread (such as viewing the list of continuities)?

I'm pretty sure he's referring to the one that appears in the top-right corner of a thread (in the bottom-right of this image). While logged in, it gives the drop-down to Mark Unread and View Flat HTML (and mark complete/hiatus if you're an author), but if you're not logged in, the button still shows but nothing appears when you click it.

It's very possible I only load the JavaScript for logged in users because it used to contain only post writing code, which you can only do with an account. I'll separate it when back at my computer.

There seems to be a very subtle bug in this reply. The background color for the first period is different from that of the rest of the reply, in the default logged-out theme. It may or may not be related to the italics or to the missing space after the period, but either way it is probably a low-priority Constellation bug of some sort, probably CSS.

@Unbitwise / atheistcanuck I have fixed the thing! If you're logged out it just gives you a downloadable option, basically.

@DanielH There is legitimately a <span style="color: #101010; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; background-color: #e3e3e3;">.</span> in that reply's database text. I expect that it is more an issue with the RTF editor; best guess is a copy/paste problem. Right now the editor preserves formatting if you paste to it; I can imagine cases where this is useful so I haven't turned it off, but if people find/expect it to do more harm than good it can go away.

We were muttering about it in chat a while back and consensus was that there are some things that should definitely be preserved when pasting into RTF (bold, italics) and some things that definitely shouldn't (highlight colour, why) and some things we're not sure about (font??).

In case people do happen to be copying and pasting from something like Word (or a Web page, or anywhere that formats text) and they don't wish to keep the formatting, you should be able to right click and do 'paste without formatting' or alternatively you could go into the HTML editor and paste it in there after the last word you wrote (the former is probably easier).

To remove formatting if you've already pasted, go into the HTML and remove the 'tag' (text enclosed in '<' and '>' characters) that starts with the word 'span' and includes something like 'style="some text here"'. Also remove the '</span>' bit and then view it in the RTF editor again - it should have fixed the formatting (and if you did the HTML thing incorrectly, the RTF editor should either fix it or make this very clear by displaying it incorrectly).

Unfortunately it's kinda complicated, yeah.

According to what I've managed to find, turning off formatting is easy and anything else is complex. I can look into just turning off background colors but it'll take a bit since sadly not straightforwards.

Also, continuities that are not open to everyone (so in theory everything except Sandboxes and the testing board) should now order by date tagged descending by default, as a quick hack to make it more "table of contents"-like until I add actual ordering like I did with sections.

EDIT: Also, my IconUploadError emails continue to not be incredibly useful, but I think I've at least determined what "you left the page open too long and your ability to upload images has expired" looks like, so I improved the alert around it.

On the petty theme, it'd be nice if the page-1 links went to the same address as the thread-main and first-page links, so that they properly show as visited when you've read the first page.