h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some of the smileys seem to be blocked by the filter. So...

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Kea, I tried all sorts of replies a while back, but none would pass the filter - then I got an error message. So [fail] I'm back in the old alabaster right now. I'll try again with the new barlesque shortly.

Sorry, didnt realise anyone had replied. Lanza I thought we could use the shortcuts to make smileys eg ; - ) is but I cant get them to work.

Hey blicky

Or at least they don't work in preview. Good grief.

Hi Kea

I'm replying in the old faithful alabaster. Sorry you can't read my present journal. I was testing the new system, in particular seeing which of the smilies work using the forum codes. I'd never even heard of forum codes up til now, but if you look on the (old) smiley h2g2 pages you can find various ones that seem to work in Barlesque.


It's a bit of a red herring though, as surely this issue will be addressed. I was just being curious.

You're right though, they don't preview, so you can't tell if they're going to work or not, but they do pass the filther

I just remembered another bug I discovered - the link to smileys on the new system doesn't take you anywhere. I am amazed how wrecked the place is, surely there was no need to launch it in such a poor state?

Hi Lanza, it's a bit slack of me to not read your journal, but I'm tired and the apostrophes are doing my head in (in amongst everything else).

I noticed the smileys in burlesque aren't clickable links at all

I keep noticing other bugs too but can't be bothered noting them down.

disillusioned kea.

I started off hopeful, but the silence from the Eds yesterday was rather deafening. I'd expected a little feedback via the bug reporting page. Normally when you report stuff via feedback they at least acknowledge it


Maybe they are just overwhelmed by all the problems. I mean, it's not their fault is it? They are not the technicians who built the new site, I presume they were told it all worked fine.

I seriously wonder if this was launched way before it was tested and checked it was good enough.

I wonder if we'll ever get an explanation about what went wrong. It's certainly an embarrassment and I doubt the bbc wants that discussed in public.

I'd like to think that there were two versions of the #fail new skin - the beta-test version and the post-testing cleaned-up version - and that somehow they managed to release the beta thing again rather than a version that actually functions.

This may just be an odd form of wishful thinking, of course. I'm trying to be charitable.