Out of the Blue

Another new function is live here, thanks to the ongoing efforts of Frans. We now have the ability to add breaks to stories, so it will no longer be necessary to arbitrarily cut the length of longer posts, as we can now offer a link to read the rest of the story. A few of today's posts already make use of this, providing the chance to offer feedback on this if you are so inspired.

Speaking of feedback, I'll repeat a request for HTML advice from the forums yesterday. We want to make the default instructional text gray in the "post a message" text box for our forums, which we have not been able to work out. If anyone has any insight into how to make this happen, we'd appreciate your help.

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Re: Out of the Blue
Nov 25, 2009, 15:56
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Language filters seem kinda pointless, it usually leads to a bunch of people just typing out weird combinations in an effort to skirt it and their words meaning is well known by anyone with a brain anyways.

They are amusing though. On one site where political stuff is discussed, I remember 'dick' was filtered. Every time someone complained about Dick Cheney, it would get blocked. 'Bush' was okay however.

I think they are intended to force a sense of civility into a discussion. I don't think it ever really works though.

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