Pound and Euro characters on 3.8.9 beta 1

[Paul Stenning]

Just installed beta 2 and can confirm that the bug is now fixed. Thank you Paul M.

[Paul Stenning]

Thank you Paul. I did subscribe to this but never got email notifications.

Do we have a release date for beta 2 yet, or is it still in development and waiting to catch other reported issues...

[Paul Stenning]

We have just updated a forum from 3.8.7 to 3.8.9 beta 1 and this seems to have caused a small problem with Pound and Euro characters (it's a UK based forum). If either of these are typed in the Quick...

[Paul Stenning]

I would also like to see vB 3.8.x continued as a "vB classic" type product. But since even security patches will be discontinued when vB 4.2 is released it seems that there is no chance of...

[Paul Stenning]

And bringing out the v3.8.5 update (rather than a PL update) once they know a lot of v3 customers who don't want to upgrade have passed the end of their maintenance contracts.

I'm not paying...

[Paul Stenning]

Cool, I should have checked before posting. ...

[Paul Stenning]

Have you considered offering PayPal as an alternative payment method? Quick and easy, and many of us probably already have PayPal accounts.

[Paul Stenning]

Thanks both!

[Paul Stenning]

If I buy (or upgrade) to vB4 now, when will I get access to vB4 beta code, and will I be allowed to use this on a live site?

Thanks.

[Paul Stenning]

Fix posted here http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=25623

Please close this thread.

[Paul Stenning]

I have looked at the source code of the file and it is relating to badwords (assembling an array of them?).

One of the words in our Censored Words list was a long URL which someone kept spamming...

[Paul Stenning]

I just ran it. There are a few not recognised as vBulletin (because they are part of add-ons) and the offending file as 3.7.0 (because that's what I have uploaded for now to fix it). All others are...

[Paul Stenning]

I have just updated two test installations (not the live site yet, thankfully) from 3.7.0 to 3.7.1. 3.7.0 worked fine. However with 3.7.1 whenever I post a new thread or reply to a thread I get an error...

[Paul Stenning]

I have done so here http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...22#post1184722, as I couldn't find an existing thread about it there....

[Paul Stenning]

If your board is international, it could be worth finding a regular contributor in anothet time-zone that you can trust. Then someone will be around when you are asleep....

[Paul Stenning]

I had problems on my board about a year ago with a load of idiots signing up, posting silly replies to threads and starting other irrelevant threads. I had email validation on but that didn't stop them...

[Paul Stenning]

Well if you have one user that is intent on breaking your forum I would ban him immediately, and if he's on a fixed IP address block that too.

I believe there is an option where you can have...

[Paul Stenning]

I have this issue too, and it doesn't just affect AOL users. It definitely affects form FireFox users but I haven't specifically found out whether it also affects IE users or not.

Ticking...

[Paul Stenning]

See http://webproworld.com/viewtopic.php...oglebot#242327 and http://webproworld.com/viewtopic.php...oglebot#240965

This is not normal spidering....

[Paul Stenning]

Normally no. But when their robot accounts for over half the site's monthly bandwidth use, when on previous months it hardly registers (yet still successfully indexes) then something is amiss.