Changelog

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Fixing Formatting

After about a month of preparation work, I got the formatting on 144 970 of 167 769 possibly badly formatted stories fixed. The character encoding of a lot of older stories should now be all right.

(note: the diff of those roughly 20 000 not updated stories is where there was a significant discrepancy of them old texts and them converted texts).

Hurray, better formatted stories!

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Fixed old thread links

Wrote a little "threadid-to-tid-script.php" script to redirect old stories links to the right Threads (using the "tid" parameter).

Created redirects for various old Thread-URI-formats, which redirect to said script, then receive another redirect, e.g.:

• /showthread.php?t=2443
  
• /showthread.php?threadid=24433
  
• /showthread.php/4449-Trish-s-Monster
  
• /showthread.php?33723
  

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I cleaned up the Roleplay's and Story/Writing's Sub-Forums Rules/Sticky Threads' BB-Code-Formatting.
Also added a Database Index to some Table, improving Performance slightly.
Also using a different query for the Story Listing, which is a lot faster now (even 'though quite a lot older threads are not in it, unfortunately).

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Also added another database index to the private messages, so that private messages now are sent within 207 milliseconds as opposed to 4940 milliseconds without that index.

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Threw away old BBcode size=2 markup in the Forum rules to make them more readable.


Unstickied the Thanks to Echoen (former Owner) and Known Issues threads. This is in order to reduce the number of "Important" Threads. I feel it is important, that they be kept to a minimum.

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Our Owner swammy posted the new rules. They are in effect as of today.  I added a little text and explanations below.

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Fixed Formatting of size=123 expressions

Fixed Stories often having too small, non-legible text by incrementing too small font sizes automatically.

For example you'll probably be able to read this size=1 text here, because it now automatically gets incremented by 10pt font sizes

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Header/Logo updated

Re-introduced our old trusty logo_embed.jpg to the header.

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Fixing some more Forum links

So I just wrote another if-case for matching old style forum links with a regular expression. They get redirected to their respective new threadid. This fixes links like the following:
/showthread.php?33738-Angela-and-Nicki
/showthread.php?988-quot-Beautiful-Freak-quot-a-story-by-Beatrix

As far as I know, of the remaining broken Thread links, this should fix a large swathe of them.