Markup broken?

[antfarm]

Is the markup on this site broken? I see a lot of square brackets, not the intended rendering. This has always been the case for me (Safari on Mac), even with the old site design.

 

Example:

 

[Woodinblack]

There is a lot of that on old posts yes, from where we had changes a long time ago, but there shuldn't be any new stuff like that

 

[BigRedX]

There have been two site updates that rendered a lot of the old posts close to unreadable.

 

The end of BBCode as seen above was one, and the other was when using "return" added a paragraph spacing for after one update and then reverted back to just a line space with the subsequent one meaning that many posts from that time are now solid impenetrable blocks of text.

[antfarm]

No plan to fix this?

[Woodinblack]

7 hours ago, antfarm said:

No plan to fix this?

 

Not as the moment, it would be a lot of work and noone has ever asked about it that I am aware of.  As a background task I might look into the feasibility of it, but as a high risk, high effort and low reward task, I certainly wouldn't provide any promises on it.

[Dad3353]

23 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Not as the moment, it would be a lot of work and noone has ever asked about it that I am aware of.  As a background task I might look into the feasibility of it, but as a high risk, high effort and low reward task, I certainly wouldn't provide any promises on it.

 

Back in the day (a few years ago now...), I went over quite a few posts, when requested by Members, making posts legible again, and it was a slog each time (I did, normally, a whole topic at a time...). Some info, though, just was no longer there (notably photos...), so the absolute value was limited. I doubt that there's much, if any, value to be added with what's left, and, in my view, it would be difficult to write a robot script to do it, as there was quite a bit of interpretation involved. Feasible for a 'one-off' request, on the understanding that it might not be possible at all, given the time passed since those updates. 

 

Douglas