Kevin's Watch

Fist and Faith wrote: ↑ things have been pretty slow lately, and this was the big excitement for the week.

wayfriend wrote: ↑ Okay, I played Wordle (New York Times) so I could do a little debugging.
This info is for Avatar and Vain, who may know how to do something with it.

The Wordle Share button produces Unicode Text.
The text contains
-- a U+2B1C character for a grey square with a black outline
-- a U+1F7E8 character for a yellow square with a black outline
-- a U+1F7E9 character for a green square with a black outline
This can be pasted into the post/reply window just fine.

However, when phpBB3 renders this as a post, it makes some replacements.
-- U+2B1C is replaced with an image, src="//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/2b1c.svg".
-- U+1F7E8 is replaced with an image, src="//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f7e8.svg".
-- U+1F7E9 is replaced with an image, src="//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f7e9.svg".
In all cases, the original unicode character is used as the "alt" text for the image.

//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/2b1c.svg is a functional url for a grey square with rounded corners and no outline.
So this works perfectly.
But the other two URLs do not work. //twemoji.maxcdn.com does not have these images.
When they don't work, you get the bad image icon, plus the alt text, which is the unicode character for the square with the black outline.,

Note that when you use [code] or reply, it is rendered without this substitution, and it looks great.

twemoji is the twitter emoji source.
I don't know why they don't have any emojis in the 1F7xx range.
I don't know if they ever did.

These URLs work as replacements.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... _1f7e8.svg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... _1f7e9.svg
(There may be other places which source svg images like this.)

So, in conclusion,
- Find the code in kevinswatch phpbb3 that tries to use //twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f7e8.svg and //twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f7e9.svg.
- replace the URLs with the ones above.
It may be part of smilies replacement code.
Possibly you can just remove the substitutions altogether if people like the squares with the black outlines.

wayfriend wrote: ↑
Meanwhile..GCES posts are showing up in New Posts even though I am not a member. From there, I can read the whole thread. I think this is counter to your intention.

Avatar wrote: ↑ Thanks. My intention has changed though. Since we're manually approving each post, keeping the posts themselves hidden seems an unnecessary level of interference. One can't post without joining up, but you can read the posts now should you so desire.

Avatar wrote: ↑ Afterall, thread drift is inevitable.

--A

Avatar wrote: ↑ Nah, they delete themselves 30 days after you've seen them. You (annoyingly) can't delete them manually. (I'll see if there's an extension that will allow it, it bugs me too. )

--A

Fist and Faith wrote: ↑ I have 0 notifications. I click on each as it comes in, which makes it disappear. Some are posts that need approving, which I have to do. Some are telling me someone quoted me in their post, and I click it to see what I said and their response. Some are just telling me I have a PM, and those go away if I go to the PM directly or through the link.