PSA: RTE data loss warning

[azurelunatic]

I got word of an LJ RTE bug that is causing data loss in composing and/or editing entries, so really, avoid the RTE on LiveJournal until it's fixed.

If you have the <lj user> tag more than once in your entries, with a user first and then a community, the RTE is eating the data between those tags.

This is if you are doing it all in the RTE, switch over to the RTE to post, switch to HTML mode to post, switch briefly into the RTE to look at it, have it in the RTE at all, either composing or editing ... in short, this is a bad, bad, bad bug if you use the <lj user> tag and the RTE.

Keep an eye on lj_releases for word on when it's safe to use the RTE again. (I will probably forget to tell you, because I loathe the thing like burning, and THIS IS JUST ANOTHER SIGN, MY FRIENDS, A SIGN OF THE TIMES. *marches about with cardboard "TITS AGAINST THE RTE!" sign, mumbling and shouting*)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Yes.

Perhaps there should be a colorbar.

[mathsnerd]

I would sport one, if we were to have one. ;)

[azurelunatic]

There's an interest: http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=tits+against+the+rte

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

Erm... I don't quite get this one? I've seen the phrase "tits <something>" batted about a lot recently, but don't know what it means. =/

[azurelunatic]

I'm not sure what the current thing is (I don't think I've seen it; can you point to some examples?) but "Tits Against the RTE" is one of those weird and oddly specific injokes, which started out as a "Look, if you take away the RTE, we'll show you our tits" promise to a developer, and turned into a somewhat less specific "I'm against the RTE" sort of thing.