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Discussion: Bugs in the messaging system?
Well, I guess I'll go first.
When I rolled out the above-mentioned fix for message clipping, I included some work on the reply feature so that when you reply, it does what you'd expect with the subject line and the message body. It worked on my test system at home, but as it turns out, only for what were more or less accidental reasons. It shouldn't have, because it wasn't working on the live site! Grrr.
Anyway, after sorting out my dyslexia between the internal ID numbers of the message objects and message status objects (the things that track whether a message has been read), all seems to be working correctly now. Lesson learned: just because it's late at night and things work on your test system, ALWAYS try it for real on the live system when you roll out a new feature.
My apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by this bug in the past couple of days.
My manuscript has been striped of most of the tab sets. So that there are endless long paragraphs with different people speaking and now paragraph returns. It's a mess. Where did I go wrong??? What should I do about it?
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In the interests of full disclosure, let me say that I found one of those "D'oh!" bugs in the messaging system today. For those who care, a database column was defined to be of type "string" when it should have been "text", with the result that the body of any messages that had been sent were clipped at 255 characters.
That bug has been fixed, but alas, there is no way for me to magically restore whatever long messages may have been affected. Which is kind of a shame, because I found the bug in the first place as the result of someone sending me a long message. Oh well. I'll reply to that person and maybe they'll remember what they wanted to say.
Anyway, I just wanted you all to know what was going on. And if you find any other bugs with the messaging system, please post them here!