Viewing topic Small update for article comments and forum posts

Title: Small update for article comments and forum posts

Liam Dawe a day ago

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Last night I put live hopefully something that will help with broken quotes in comments and forum posts.

A small bit of JavaScript will quickly check over the text, to see if there's enough matching opening and closing quote tags:
[quote] [/quote]

As I've noticed a few users quote, then go to edit it (possibly to cut something out?) and then screw up the BBCode resulting in semi-broken looking posts. It will just flag up a quick warning that the formatting is messed up.

Example:

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Last edited by Liam Dawe on 11 Feb 2026 at 11:43 am UTC

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FeRDNYC 2 hours ago

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TBH, while I think the intention to do something about the issue is great, I'm not convinced it'll help. (Well, I think it'll keep broken posts off the forum, but I worry that will happen as much because users either abandon their broken post, or start over again from scratch, rather than trying to fix it.)

Absent a WYSIWYG post editor that takes care of keeping the quotes tags balanced at all times, one solution for posts like your example might be auto fixing. If there are quote tags in the post, but one is unclosed, just insert another close immediately after the existing one. I bet in 95% of cases, that's where it belonged anyway.

Last edited by FeRDNYC on 12 Feb 2026 at 4:48 pm UTC

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