Weird things happening with the forum | Page 48 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

Sometimes people put odd bits of code into forum posts, which means the page doesn’t load fully or at all. It’s very difficult to fix – mod tools aren’t normally available until everything loads. I think last time I managed to do it using a browser that wasn’t throwing the errors, but I can’t really remember. It’s affected a few old threads.

I don’t think the rogue code is intentional, probably a copy/paste from somewhere else that throws everything off. If I could check the source code of the messages I’d have a better idea of what causes it and could put a block in place.

It’s interesting that the Way Back Machine loads the page, but has the old design. That suggests there’s a conflict since the last redesign. On the currently page 127 all the content is in the source code, it’s just not rendering correctly. Interestingly, on Chrome it loads briefly then turns blank.

Edit: it looks like it’s the old YouTube embed code. We don’t need it nowadays because embedding happens automatically. I think those older bits of code might cause problems when there are multiple ones on the same page. Will investigate further.

Edit 2: Found the problem. It’s a weird one. beatlez-luver16 made the first post in that thread, but for some reason everything subsequent on that page is nested within the first comment. Looks like an unclosed <div> tag. The only way to fix it is to delete that first post, but I’m not sure I can while the page is going blank. Anyway, that’s why you see a lot of broken images on the Way Back Machine version – they’re quotation marks because the forum thinks the first post is quoting everything that came after.

Trufact: @Ahhh Girl looks exactly like the person in the GRITS logo.