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Voat had a handy regex where it would automatically fix it when someone accidentally typed "/r/" instead of "/v/". It was handy until you got used to the place. Maybe we could do the same?

Voat had a handy regex where it would automatically fix it when someone accidentally typed "/r/" instead of "/v/". It was handy until you got used to the place. Maybe we could do the same?

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DANGER!!! lazy context free regex broke Poal code already! Proof:

Trying to use freestyle posting markup and trying this without using an "at sign" and works, but FAILS using an at sign:

WORKS :

https://worldtruthvideos.org/%40ChristIsKing

but FAILS with "@" due to lazy hack regex this post foolishly recommends :

https://worldtruthvideos.org/@ChristIsKing

No simple way to type this now :

https://worldtruthvideos.org/@ChristIsKing

even using source code block delimitation in markup becuase SOURCE CODE IS TAMPERED WITH (refer to my source code of this post) I did NOT type what you see in the source code block!!! Another second dire bug!

The complex solution :

A workaround would be to type a pedantic link in markup []()...

https://worldtruthvideos.org/@ChristIsKing (worldtruthvideos.org)

Poal is broken now today for links with @ signs in the URL and the URL standard allows that character.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A

That shows proof that @ symbol is valid in URLS, and has many alternative purposes in URLs

Poal is broken now today for source code exerts that have things it ought not ever alter bracketed by ~~~

DANGER!!! QUIT BREAKING THE CODE with regex hacks out of context

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Hi,

Yeah, I found a similar bug where any variation of "bit do" would cause a post to fail.

I don't want to give the impression the above suggestion is an actual code commit or something. For all I know /*/ does horrible things with poals actual regex parser. I just know they had it on voat, it worked and it'd be handy if it were here. Every aggregator site seems to have it's own version of /v/ and it's a pain trying to remember them all.

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Every aggregator site seems to have it's own version of /v/

true, but the code of this site has proven fixes applied 4.5 years ago in voat so its code base it at least as recent as the fork they took from voat.co, I regression test probed some of the bugs from 4.5 years ago last night. It cannot survive a "gibberish attack" DDOS if the left or antifa makes it a target, so I think its allowed to live as a honeypot of sorts, despite having better ssl than voat.co

MY LAST POST, goodbye