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

[charmian]

Darn, they always seem to be having problems with that thing. 0_o (I always use the simpler editor) But I thought they got it from an external source rather than coding it themselves? Is it just that incompatible w/ LJ code or something?

[thedivinegoat]

I have nothing but this icon.

[afuna]

Oh BWAH, RTE :-(

[lacey]

Another reason not to use the RTE! Though I am occasionally guilty of it, try like hell not to.

[watersword]

Oh, RTE, why you still here?

[mathsnerd]

This is why HTML is LOVE.

[sraun]

Have they just had on-going problems with the RTE editor?

I prefer the plain-text 'I'll enter all my own codes, thank you' editor. I never bothered to figure out either the RTE or HTML editors.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

thank you for the heads up!

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I didn't even know there was a problem with the darned thing. XD Since I have JS disabled most of the time, I rarely ever use the RTE except when I'm too lazy to hand-type the tags for a lengthy table or list. XD

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

So timely, this post! I just had to point a friend to your post, as she has apparently fallen victim to this bug.

Me, I would never ever use RTE. Give me plain text every time, let me write (and munge) the code on my own, thankyoufverymuch.