Question mark invasion on the Hub

[Farger]

I am noticing lots of question markings at the end sentences, randomly here and there, coming after existing punctuation, on random post all over the Hub. I dont recall the puncuation marks being there before. I started noticing it on posts after there was some recent Hub maintenance. Not that this is such a major thing, just worried there is a glitch in the matrix.

 

[Farger]

maybe it is caused by copy and pasted text...

 

[SlimerJSpud]

It might also be the hub not knowing what to do with some Unicode characters.

 

[Farger]

I was thinking something like that, but didnt know how to describe it, it may be like an end of line or carriage return.

 

[AshAuryn]

I was thinking something like that, but didnt know how to describe it, it may be like an end of line or carriage return.

Do you have an link to an example?

 

[AshAuryn]

Also is this in-game or when you are browsing the site from your PC?

 

[Farger]

Also is this in-game or when you are browsing the site from your PC?

Hi. I am seeing it while browsing the Hub on PC, I haven't looked for it in game. Examples are like many of the out of place question marks at some of my profile posts towards the top: https://hub.virtamate.com/members/farger.40902/

Also, I noticed that Maru01 reply to my post on Maru01 profile page, there is a question mark, and in looking through Maru's profile posts there are quite a number of question marks after existing punctuation. I think in many of these instances it is due to copy and pasted text, possibly for translation.

maru01

hub.virtamate.com

Sometimes question marks can cause misunderstanding, like sediments of sarcasm, so it is not a good thing. I think it is probably some sort of Unicode that is not understood, so it is replaced with a question mark.

 

[Farger]

Also, on this thread, I did not put three question marks after my statement at the end with "Let's go team!"

Teaming on the Hub

Something to perhaps consider as a starting point for encouraging teaming on the Hub might be to count how many teaming resources each creator is associated with. At certain threshold numbers, lets say 5, 10, 25, 50 etc, a teaming badge is earned.

hub.virtamate.com

 

[SlimerJSpud]

Also, on this thread, I did not put three question marks after my statement at the end with "Let's go team!"

Teaming on the Hub

Something to perhaps consider as a starting point for encouraging teaming on the Hub might be to count how many teaming resources each creator is associated with. At certain threshold numbers, lets say 5, 10, 25, 50 etc, a teaming badge is earned.

hub.virtamate.com

That kind of rules out mishandled Unicode. I suspect multi-legged creatures crawling on the hub's shoulders.

 

[Farger]

That kind of rules out mishandled Unicode. I suspect multi-legged creatures crawling on the hub's shoulders.

I may have put an emoji, cant remember.

 

[AshAuryn]

Ok I can confirm this issue definitely exists. We are looking into it.

 

[AshAuryn]

This appears to be emojis being converted into question marks somehow.

 

[AshAuryn]

We recently upgraded the Hub's servers, and this appears to be a result of moving the database. We're investigating if anything can be done at this point.

 

[Farger]

Thank you. At my age, sometimes I wonder if I am just seeing things. ☺

 

[AshAuryn]

Unfortunately, the emojis that were erased during the move to the new server cannot be recovered. If you have posts with `?` where there should be an emoji, we recommend editing the post and removing or replacing the `?` at this time. Really sorry for this inconvenience.

 

[Farger]

Unfortunately, the emojis that were erased during the move to the new server cannot be recovered. If you have posts with `?` where there should be an emoji, we recommend editing the post and removing or replacing the `?` at this time. Really sorry for this inconvenience.

That's alright. Honestly I was mostly worried if someone was trying do be nefarious on the server. I'm glad it is not something like that.

 

[HolySchmidt]

I think this thread shouldn't be pinned, makes no sense.

 

[AshAuryn]

I think this thread shouldn't be pinned, makes no sense.

It was pinned because the database error that wiped emojis affected a lot of users. I think it's blown over at this point though. Will unsticky the post.