Towns mentioned in blogs

Hi,

Often when I mention the name of a town in a blog entry, after a while something weird happens. Square brackets appear around the hyperlinked name and sometimes the name of the country its in followed by a / as well. Any way of solving this?

written by

BenWH on April 8, 2009

I get this to. And if I don't delete them they keep getting added until I get something like [[[[[[[[[France]]]]]]]]]

written by

The Happy Couple on April 16, 2009

I finally got to the bottom of why this was happening today, and I've put a fix in place so at least it won't happen again.

Now for the fun part of tracking down all the posts it happened to and fixing them...

written by

Jason Kester on April 17, 2009

Hey, I think I know why this happened to you two, but hardly anybody else.

Can you guys confirm for me that you've been using the Trip Builder to mess with your maps since writing the blog entries in question? I've isolated two ways that this would have happened, only one of which applies to the entries in question. And I notice that you both have little black "waypoint" dots on your maps, so that pretty much convinces me. (I've fixed the problem, so you can continue using the Trip Builder now and it shouldn't hurt anything).

Fortunately, I only found 29 affected blog entries across the whole site, so it should be easy enough to clean up.

Sorry again for the hassle!

written by

Jason Kester on April 17, 2009

Actually while we're on this subject... why does it take forever and a day to save any changes made using the Mapbuilder? Like 10 minutes sometimes.

written by

The Happy Couple on April 18, 2009

Ok, thanks, that makes sense. I wondered why not everyone seemed to be affected!

written by

BenWH on April 18, 2009

Exactly the same reason. Wow, I hadn't ever noticed it, but thinking about the events that happen when we save a blog entry, yeah, I can definitely see why it might take forever to reorder a trip.

I'll fix that as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for bringing it up!

Jason

written by

Jason Kester on April 18, 2009

Usually I'm not reordering anything, just adding one to the end, which I'm sure shouldn't take long if that's all the routine does.

written by

The Happy Couple on April 19, 2009

Yeah, it doesn't actually matter. The Save routine for that page simply spins thru all the towns in the list and saves them again regardless of whether they've changed. Since "saving" also meant linking up those place names (which is quite slow), it would try to process each location again, taking forever in the process.

It's fixed at my end now. I'll push it live tomorrow.

written by

Jason Kester on April 19, 2009

Did this change go live? I'm still finding it very slow...

written by

The Happy Couple on April 29, 2009

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Towns mentioned in blogs

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