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Forumthread can't be opened because it has no name

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Arseny

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                                                Posted: Thu, 01/02/2018 13:58                                                (6 Years ago)
                                            

It's impossible to open the thread since there is no title which makes it impossible to open by normal terms.
Here's a screenshot

This is that thread when you open it, other way around by changing the id number in the url of other thread to this thread's id.

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                                                Posted: Thu, 01/02/2018 14:02                                                (6 Years ago)
                                            

Thanks for letting us know; I gave it a 'title'
//solved.

Aparently, this was not the way to go, so just ignore this post x'D

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                                                Posted: Thu, 01/02/2018 14:05                                                (6 Years ago)
                                            

Nice title :3

It would be more useful if this wasn't possible to happen in the first place.

Riako

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                                                Posted: Thu, 01/02/2018 14:09                                                (6 Years ago)
                                            

It actually shouldn't be possible to give a forum thread an empty title (try it out - you'll see that it will tell you "Please enter a thread title!", even if you put a bunch of spaces). I don't know what the user inserted, I'm guessing some special character that the server 'allows' but is then displays as no-character on the browser?
Unfortunately hard to find out now that the title has been changed :D

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                                                Posted: Thu, 01/02/2018 14:14                                                (6 Years ago)
                                            

I'm well aware on that, hence I knew this was a bug. Special character, probably nothing else could be.

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                                                Posted: Thu, 01/02/2018 14:18                                                (6 Years ago)
                                            

Alright, turned the title back, so you can check.
[It's ALT-code, maybe that'll help you figure out a solution?]
Moved to 'confirmed', instead of 'solved'.

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                                                Posted: Thu, 01/02/2018 14:39                                                (6 Years ago)
                                            

Ah I see. Well, yes, apparently thes used Alt+255, which is a blank space - but technically not the same as a regular space. This character is not considered a forbidden character by our engine; and it's also not possible to change that.

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                                                Posted: Wed, 02/05/2018 13:17                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Can't you just use the same filter like you use for changing your username? Maybe change it slightly?
Or make it so that the title has to be at least 4 non-special characters long, which you also can count with the filter mentioned above.

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                                                Posted: Mon, 22/04/2019 16:41                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

This recently happened again in fanarts. It was solved, but the forums were given stock titles like [INSERT TITLE HERE]
That's what it was, square brackets and all.

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                                                Posted: Mon, 22/04/2019 17:15                                                (5 Years ago)
                                            

Yeah, that's me editing those blank titles, because I'm not about to think hard on someone else's title (':

It's a bug that Riako currently can't fix, so stock-titles are the way.