A Conversation for Old Announcements: January - September 2011
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Icy North Posted Oct 20, 2011
I just tried putting War and Peace in my tag, but it truncated it.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) Posted Oct 20, 2011
Icy, you will have to ammend that daily, ... You now have me interested and I want to see the rest of the tale.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 20, 2011
There's something like 250 characters allowed (in the name, not War and Peace). But they display in a shortened version.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 20, 2011
Ooops.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
drt Posted Oct 20, 2011
testing
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 20, 2011
That was 12345678910 about 20 times I think. It doesn't truncate.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) Posted Oct 20, 2011
There goes that page ...
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
drt Posted Oct 20, 2011
The menu bar on the left in brunel has got all squashed fro this convo. Wonder why.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
drt Posted Oct 20, 2011
And now it's back.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) Posted Oct 20, 2011
Kea, try a 'space' every 10 or 20, see if perhaps it wraps around then?
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 20, 2011
Fixed now . Letters seem to wrap ok.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 20, 2011
Probably would Nick, but I can't really be bothered 
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 20, 2011
I'm curious as to why Icy's truncated though.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Geggs Posted Oct 20, 2011
Brilliant! It's like being freed from a straight-jacket. Oh, the relief.
Geggs
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Icy North Posted Oct 20, 2011
It was just a joke, kea, I'm not so foolish as to seriously test the limitations of h2g2 while it's in its current state.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Oct 20, 2011
So... we can use just about every character but the apostrophe? Bit inconvenient for grocer's, that.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Baron Grim Posted Oct 20, 2011
I love this bit of bugblatting. Just turning off a "feature" we never wanted in the first place. The whole suffix thing was just a duct tape and baling wire fix for a restriction meant for other parts of BBCi, part of the barelyscrewed reconstruction. It was just a poorly done work around to calm some of the outrage the character limit restrictions caused around here.
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 20, 2011
Unlike me and Geggs you mean Icy?
Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
Z Posted Oct 20, 2011
The difference is Icy's seen the current state of the back end, where all the blue tack and duct tape are fully visible.
They daren't breath those poor Guide Editors..
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Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back.
- 21: Icy North (Oct 20, 2011)
- 22: Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) (Oct 20, 2011)
- 23: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 20, 2011)
- 24: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 20, 2011)
- 25: drt (Oct 20, 2011)
- 26: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 20, 2011)
- 27: Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) (Oct 20, 2011)
- 28: drt (Oct 20, 2011)
- 29: drt (Oct 20, 2011)
- 30: Z (Oct 20, 2011)
- 31: Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) (Oct 20, 2011)
- 32: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 20, 2011)
- 33: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 20, 2011)
- 34: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 20, 2011)
- 35: Geggs (Oct 20, 2011)
- 36: Icy North (Oct 20, 2011)
- 37: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Oct 20, 2011)
- 38: Baron Grim (Oct 20, 2011)
- 39: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 20, 2011)
- 40: Z (Oct 20, 2011)
More Conversations for Old Announcements: January - September 2011
- Thursday 20 October 2011: Bug Fixing Update: you have your names back. [204]
Dec 21, 2011 - Announcements [172]
Dec 11, 2011 - Friday 30 September, 2011: H2G2 Moves to its New Home [155]
Oct 21, 2011 - Announcements from the new h2g2! editors. Small bug with the yikes button. [86]
Oct 20, 2011 - Wednesday 07 September, 2011: Jane Belson has Passed Away [74]
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