Shos Confusion Count +1

Shos, you have to go to the CaveList entry, soccerboy13542, to manually update it. It won't update automatically.

Anyway, it appears now.

doesn't it also update when you search the name of the level? cuz I searched it in order to find out what the username was >_>

Man, shos, you're really on a tear today.

No. For that to happen, it would have to be updated already(so that it could find it when it searches for it), and for that to happen, it would have to recheck every username in the database every time you searched for a cave, or it would have to be able to some how detect whenever a new level is uploaded.

Not a bug, just an inconvenience.

Shos confusion count +1

BTW, to find this cave you're looking for, all you need to do is look at soccerboy13542's username

Shos confusion count +2 oh wait, I think you already recorded that as a +1 shos confusion count on another topic...

*sigh* you could just say no, you know.
and after seeing that it's not there I went to his user lookup and found it.

anyways, so far we have less than 5000 names, shouldn't it take a splitsecond to make a recheck?

this isn't really a bug, but:
lately I see lots of levels that have one line or another with an extra space at the end, so that it removes the line. can you make some kind of script that fixes the lines to be in the length of the first one, so that people won't mess out with the coding? or at least a checkbox for it, so that if you *do* want stuff to disappear using that(like having a super-small cave) you can..

Already suggested that, Livio turned it down due to time reasons I think.

The spaces at the end problem is pretty complicated. Sometimes the line of code might end in a space naturally, and when that happens you don't get a space at the end of that line. But if it has another character, you will have a space. So how would you determine what the real width of the level is, if the first line can't always be trusted to have that width?

Maybe instead of automatically detecting it (which is hard to do), I could just make a page where you can go and get the spaces pruned by the script. It will probably first have to go through each line and calculate its width. Then it'll go through the lines with the largest width (in order to avoid cutting off lines without spaces on their end), and remove the spaces at the end.

And just to be super safe, it'll ask the user at the end if the code came out okay and if they would like to save it.

The whole thing seems like a pain, though.

Check if the beckground of the level ends with a space. If so, remove the last character in all lines.

You can have it check the background line. That line can't have anything other than "background 1", so if there is a space at the end of that line you know that code needs to get fixed.
You should also compare the length of the fifth line of code to the last line of code. That will find any level where only the last line has an added space.

edit: Ninja'd. By three minutes...

whoa that's a great idea. I should have thought of that...

However, I don't like the idea of making the database automatically changing your level codes. Maybe if it detects the presence of spaces, it'll ask you if you want to let it remove the spaces for you. And I imagine such an alert would get annoying every time you edit the level, so there would have to be an option to get rid of that alert.but I don't know what you mean by this

Fifth line: Where the actual level code starts. If there is an additional space at the end line but not at the first line, your level is glitched due to bad copy-pasting.

Actually, if you look at the code for Meteor Shower, taken straight from the old forums:
http://interguild.domingo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40 (scroll all the way down)
and paste it into a textbox where the text lines up:
http://www.interguild.org/levels/add.php?game=4

they you'll see that the spaces are more uneven than I thought. But is the fifth line always guaranteed to have a space on it?

That is because the old forum had problems with multiple spaces at the end of a line, even if it was inside [code] tags. I always fixed this by replacing any spaces at the end of a line with air pockets.

So I guess that means the fifth line isn't always guaranteed to have a space at the end of it.

Or you guys could just deal with it and remove the spaces manually. It takes two seconds.

I dunno if that's true. I think "background 1 adfasdfasfaklfhalksfjhaslkhf" uploads...?

yeah I never had problems for having spaces after that line. Only if there was a space after the title.

This isn't too important, but I just noticed that on this page, when your mouse is over the usernames, the join dates are all wrong. The order is right, though.

I already figured out what the problem is. The dates being shown are not the actual dates, it's the month, and then where the day should be, it's looks like it's displaying the numerical value of the month(ex: Sept 9th, Dec 12th, Feb 2nd, July 7th)

oops. Fixed.

Livio, what the hell happened today?

I think the server had some kind of a reset? yesterday i had over 3701 posts, now i have 3685; yesterday i had 121 karma, now i have 119, and nobody took off any; and Frank's account was deleted? hmmmmm???

oh, AND each and evey topic in the forums is marked as unraed for me. EACH ONE. now how do i know which levels i have to play?! the read later was made to the whole site?

Sure, don't read the news posts. IDC. Adds to the confusion count.

This is what happened. A simple neezlés account deleting went terribly wrong.

yes well uh, the news post was one of the more-than-5000-unread-topics so i didnt read it before posting here. after i posted i went to the more topics button to see what IS new, and saw it...

lol shos.

I'm thinking of doing a post/karma recount. good thing I still have the code from the last time I did it.

There might be a purpose behind this, but everyone's trophies from the walkthrough comp have the wrong titles.