Andrew, thanks for the notice/response, and please understand that I am not one who is going to run away from TPM Cafe, because of a codebase change. I can and will adapt to the changes, but I am also able to grasp at a bit of the underlying processes intuitively, which gives me a leg-up on the adapting.

In regards to the post that caused me to publish this thread: I used the

 HTML to achieve a format I desired with a part of the post: preset linebreaks, and a different font to set it apart as obviously quoted text.  It got published as intended, except that every hard linebreak coded inside the 
 tag added an extra 
 into the post.  This struck me as being the result of a post run through a PHP routine, but I have no way of knowing if this thought is correct, or if this is correct, exactly what I can expect from this PHP routine without first trial and error experimentation.

I understand why it would be stupid from a security POV to expose PHP code directly to the web. I am fairly well-versed in HTML, XHTML and CSS. My PHP ability is weak, although I have in the past, with effort, hacked PHP code when it was imperative, but it is not something I do for amusement. I am also not one to stay angry long, nor hold personal grudges, so I am already amused by all of this, but others who have been loyal TPM Cafe members, do not have the advantage of my perspective. Their frustration is liable to be much greater, and longer lasting than mine.

A couple of final notes: is there any way for me to purchase from amazon dot com, using a TPM Cafe id string, which the site could derive income from? This needs to be some sort of universal method, and not just specific book titles, as I doubt that that TPM Cafe is likely to be hosting authors of software manuals and other arcane tech content, which is primarily what I purchase from Amazon. There are creative methods of funding websites that presently remain largely unexplored, which do not also come with a class-based censoring of users. Also, if you know any decent deserving folk, who are in the business of selling political satire products, I may have a rip of the RNCC 2008 convention logo that is salable (although less than tasteful), and am willing to give it away to an entity who could use it properly and commercially. Let me know and if curious about the image, let me know where i can show it to you without publicly posting it, as to many back-traceable threads, spoil the web_pseudos...

cheers

Unfortunately I really don't have anything to update you on. Our tech people are trying to fix a variety of things (including adding a server), but none of it is done yet.

I don't blame folks for being frustrated, I am too. But I unfortunately can't make solutions come any faster through my frustration, I just have to wait for our tech partners to come up with fixes.

workerbee, there is probably much more labour being put into this effort than you realise. I for one do not envy anyone who is faced with the difficulties of a codebase change, which they did not see coming, and are largely the result of an application of the great variable: the user.

I suspect that too much reliance was given to a function which claimed it was able to leap over tall building and outrun fast trains when it translated code between two open-source content management systems. I would hope that those responsible for working through this at TPM are also documenting the hell for potential future usage by others who are trying to get open-source systems into a place of permanence on the web.

Damn you to hell, Web 2.0!