Viking
Precursor
When reading through topics created before the switch of forum software, you may encounter posts that are completely blank. The contents of the post still exist, but it's not displaying.
This is due to a few different bugs that were introduced with SMF.
First of all, any posts longer than 20000 characters were eaten. This is because SMF had a default character limit of 20000, and posts longer than that became blank. This limit has been removed, but the posts affected stay blank.
Also, posts with certain special characters disappeared. I haven't been able to figure out exactly what kind of characters that does this, but I know I've fixed posts with it.
I'm not sure if there was anything else that ate posts, those two are the only ones I've confirmed myself.
The posts can easily be brought back by simply hitting modify and then posting without doing any changes, so if you find a post of your own that this happened to, you can fix it yourself. Otherwise, post in this thread with a link to the blank post in question, and someone will take care of it.
This is due to a few different bugs that were introduced with SMF.
First of all, any posts longer than 20000 characters were eaten. This is because SMF had a default character limit of 20000, and posts longer than that became blank. This limit has been removed, but the posts affected stay blank.
Also, posts with certain special characters disappeared. I haven't been able to figure out exactly what kind of characters that does this, but I know I've fixed posts with it.
I'm not sure if there was anything else that ate posts, those two are the only ones I've confirmed myself.
The posts can easily be brought back by simply hitting modify and then posting without doing any changes, so if you find a post of your own that this happened to, you can fix it yourself. Otherwise, post in this thread with a link to the blank post in question, and someone will take care of it.
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