Fix broken tags/quotes on old threads

[chasedig1 (chasedig)]

Hi,

I often am browsing old threads on the DevForum, and when many people are discussing something, it started getting confusing. The quote tags, albeit being there, were not creating a quote of the user’s reply.
Here are some screenshot examples:

This also has an effect on tags such as [size=1]:

Threads shown were:

Electing player moderators

No, I’m not saying that. What I’m saying is that they don’t always have fast enough reaction times for something like the given example. Who are they going to moderate? The user that put it in? Good for them; now how do they fix the stolen accounts? Do they moderate the place? Why? The place has done nothing wrong. The issue isn’t the moderation time or anything of the sort. It’s simply that the moderators cannot be in every place at once.

Disable Youtube Thumbnails Autoplaying

I found a way to solve this if you’re on Firefox: Type about:config in your URL Change media.autoplay.enabled to false (default is true) If you’re on Chrome, you need to download an Add-On. I don’t use Chrome, but this is what I got from googling: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai edit: the Firefox option works (forces the Roblox Youtube Thumbnail to pause)

Multiple types of tags from old threads are broken, which confuses me when I try to view an old article.

Thanks,
chasedig

[VegetationBush (FartedWayTooHard)]

This should be a feature request for Discourse.

[sjr04 (uep)]

No, this should not be a feature request for discourse. Before October 2015, the devforum used another forum software called Kunena. The posts are broken because they were posted under Kunena. Basically think of any posts before then as legacy content. Legacy stuff usually isn’t updated.

Seeing all the broken formatters does get on my nerves lol but there are a lot of posts out there that are broken. Is it both time-consuming and invasive to go edit all these to fit discourse.

cc @VegetationBush

[buildthomas]

I think the problem is that nested kunena quotes were converted like this:

[quote] layer 1 [/quote]
layer 2 [/quote]
layer 3 [/quote]

Instead of

[quote]
[quote]
[quote]
layer 1
[/quote]
layer 2
[/quote]
layer 3
[/quote]

So making sure there are enough opening quote tags, and making sure paragraphs inside are at their own separate lines.

The fix can probably be automated if you can show this is a significant enough problem to put engineering time into.