A Bug Fix, SoylentNews' allowedtags, and a Brief Summary of How Each Page is Created [Updated]
by janrinok from SoylentNews on (#5274V)
[20200416_005831 UTC; Updated title and corrected spelling of balanceTags(). --martyb]
martyb writes:
Ooops! Things should be working correctly, now.
tl;dr: Back on March 20th, someone tripped over a bug that appears to be in the balanceTags() routine in our Perl code. I found a way to made a quick fix to prevent its happening again, but the fix was missing a couple steps. I caught and fixed one of them, but only now just handled the other.
Workaround: When writing a comment, writing or editing a journal entry, or when submitting a story, use "DEL" instead of "STRIKE" to make text look like this.
This story is the result of something I learned in the process: properly notify the community of any changes to the site!
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