Caesar.: It's only fair to acknowledge the team for
keeping their word and
bringing notifications back. I was among those who complained about the lack of notifications and requested their return, so now it's my turn to thank GOG.
Both emphases mine... and the following is from an April 2015 post by mrkgnao on
The "what did just update?" thread :
Reminds me of a
traditional Jewish story, which I love, so I copy it below: [Reprinted with permission from "How the Children Became Stars" by Aaron Zerah, published by Sorin Books.] A poor man lived with his wife and six children in a very small one-room house. They were always getting in each other's way and there was so little space they could hardly breathe! Finally the man could stand it no more. He talked to his wife and asked her what to do. "Go see the rabbi," she told him, and after arguing a while, he went. The rabbi greeted him and said, "I see something is troubling you. Whatever it is, you can tell me." And so the poor man told the rabbi how miserable things were at home with him, his wife, and the six children all eating and living and sleeping in one room. The poor man told the rabbi, "We're even starting to yell and fight with each other. Life couldn't be worse." The rabbi thought very deeply about the poor man's problem. Then he said, "Do exactly as I tell you and things will get better. Do you promise?" "I promise," the poor man said. The rabbi then asked the poor man a strange question. "Do you own any animals?" "Yes," he said. "I have one cow, one goat, and some chickens." "Good," the rabbi said. "When you get home, take all the animals into your house to live with you." The poor man was astonished to hear this advice from the rabbi, but he had promised to do exactly what the rabbi said. So he went home and took all the farm animals into the tiny one-room house. The next day the poor man ran back to see the rabbi. "What have you done to me, Rabbi?" he cried. "It's awful. I did what you told me and the animals are all over the house! Rabbi, help me!" The rabbi listened and said calmly, "Now go home and take the chickens back outside." The poor man did as the rabbi said, but hurried back again the next day. "The chickens are gone, but Rabbi, the goat!" he moaned. "The goat is smashing up all the furniture and eating everything in sight!" The good rabbi said, "Go home and remove the goat and may God bless you." So the poor man went home and took the goat outside. But he ran back again to see the rabbi, crying and wailing. "What a nightmare you have brought to my house, Rabbi! With the cow it's like living in a stable! Can human beings live with an animal like this?" The rabbi said sweetly, "My friend, you are right. May God bless you. Go home now and take the cow out of your house." And the poor man went quickly home and took the cow out of the house. The next day he came running back to the rabbi again. "O Rabbi," he said with a big smile on his face, "we have such a good life now. The animals are all out of the house. The house is so quiet and we've got room to spare! What a joy!"
• • •
The fixing of the newly improved tags will be met with the same elated gratitude, I suppose. Although, please, do NOT hold your breath ! It's ONLY been reported since August 25th on the
Gaming deals thread from post 66030 onward (the first three from HypersomniacLive / Grargar / muntdefems being quoted below)... However, as directly linking to a post in that thread is broken, due to entire posts deletions there, better visit page
4389 (when logged out) to read more about GOG's latest ¹ chickenpox)...
— Aug. 25 post 66030 by HypersomniacLive on page
4389 (when logged out) of the Gaming deals thread
Grargar: [url=https://www.humblebundle.com/spooky-horror-bundle]<span class="bold">Humble Spooky Horror Bundle</span>[/url] […]
https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/indie-legends-6-bundle]<span class="bold">Bundle Stars Indie Legends 6 Bundle</span>[url] […] What's up with these links? I'd swear that they were proper hyperlinks a couple of days ago.
— Aug. 25 post 66031 by Grargar on page
4389 (when logged out) of the Gaming deals thread
Seems like bolding only the words inside the hyperlinks produces these trainwrecks. If you instead bold the whole hyperlink, no such thing happens. Let me confirm my suspicions: [url=https://www.gog.com]<span class="bold">This GOG</span>[/url] is broken. Edit: Yup
This GOG is broken.
— Aug. 25 post 66032 by muntdefems on page
4389 (when logged out) of the Gaming deals thread
Great, I'll just have to exchange the [ b ] and the [ url ] tags in my updates reporting script... :\
< and as promptly discovered, likewise for any [ i ] because why stop at [ b ] when 24 letters remain (no, really...) >
Another place to start reading about that issue is HypersomniacLive's reply to skeletonbow, yesterday, in post 1111 of fan favourite
The "what did just break" thread 2.0 (direct-linking not broken, there, but visiting page
75 when logged out is another option – it's the first post, second part, which further links ² to MarkoH01's echo / report in post 1036 of that same thread)...
— Sept. 6 post 1110 by skeletonbow on page
74 (when logged out) of The "what did just break" thread 2.0
At some point in time, probably recently as part of GOG's masterful expert spam blocking mission, they managed to break the way certain nested forum markup works. Putting bold tags inside the text of a URL tag, will cause it to display raw HTML <span> tags in the output retroactively across the forums. No doubt other combinations of tags are broken also I bet.
< indeed, indeed ; and you win a
GOG's English Dictionary for such a feat (which is still far less impressive than
phaolo's prophetic powers – but thankfully far more optimistic than
BenKii's prediction... or rather, since GOG seems
adamantly bent on going under the weather,
forecast >
— Sept. 6 post 1111 by HypersomniacLive on page
75 (when logged out) of The "what did just break" thread 2.0
You are [url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_break_thread_20/post1036]way too late to this party[/url]. It's one of the side effects of GOG's genius fix of a security issue that was reported about ten days ago. The forum is littered with such broken links, GOG's own release threads is as far as you need to look to get a taste.
At this point, I cannot be bothered.
♪ ♫ ♩ ♬
Shakespears Sister 'I Don't Care' ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬
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EDIT ► Links, of course...
¹ That is, as of today, September 7th – and as far as I currently know...
² This somehow reminds me of when I once tried to silently, and thus ineffectively, reflect the overarching deployment of Galaxy ³ by cross-linking my posts... Then again, how to properly illustrate the twists and turns of that chimera – or should I say
manticore ? Hmm, lo and behold,
GOG Suddenly Stopped Working... And it doesn't stop there ?
After the "notification" update, GOG Galaxy takes almost 10 minutes to start up ? My, my... Once bitten, twice shy !
³ Don't say its name. It may hear you. […]
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