[Mkguild] Problems with the archive website

[C. Matthias]

I have a different issue with the Metamor Keep Archive.

It appears that a lot of the stories are showing 
various special characters as diamonds with "?" 
inside them.  This is extremely off-putting and 
renders stories difficult to read.  I suspect 
some of them are quote characters, en-dashes, and 
so forth.  This is showing up with both FireFox 
and Safari.  It is especially bad in my story 
Inchoate Carillon, Inconstant Cuckold.

Somebody definitely ought to take a look into 
that!  It wasn't at all like this two weeks ago the last time I checked.

May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love,

Charles Matthias

At 03:13 PM 7/18/2015, Virmir wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Yes, that was merely a google custom search 
>page.  I'm sure the syntax has changed 
>throughout the years.  It looks like the 
>service is still offered, so it's probably just 
>a matter of setting up a new one. 
><https://cse.google.com/cse/>https://cse.google.com/cse/
>
>Regarding the domain, I do own and pay for 
><http://metamorkeep.com>metamorkeep.com.  This 
>is no big deal since it is a pittance, however 
>if someone else more active in the community 
>would like to take up ownership, I certainly 
>wouldn't have any problem with that (I have like 
>seven of these things anyway).  Whoever takes 
>it would have to promise to be super attentive 
>and pay the bill on time to avoid a 
><http://transform.to>transform.to situation though.  ;)
>
>Somewhat related--I actually have the domain 
>pointing to my nameservers before it goes to 
>Xepher.  This gives us a little more control in 
>case people have their own sites or blogs and 
>want to use a subdomain or something. E.g. 
><http://mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com>mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com
>
>On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alex Green 
><<mailto:alexsurikat at gmail.com>alexsurikat at gmail.com> wrote:
>The first problem Chris mentioned was a php 
>error. A variable, Counter, was being accessed 
>before it had been defined. I haven't run into 
>it, so it looks like whatever caused it has gone away for now.Â
>
>The second problem is that the search feature 
>provided by Google has stopped working. I 
>haven't been able to figure this one out. At 
>first glance, it appears there is a lot of stuff 
>in the search URL that shouldn't be there, but 
>even after deleting it and trying to manually 
>rerun it, the error persists. In that case, the 
>reason it failed might be that the account that 
>the search feature was tied to has been deleted, 
>but this is all conjecture as I am totally 
>unfamiliar with how Google's custom search feature works.Â
>
>It might be worth it to ask Virmir about this 
>one as he set it up and might remember how to do it again.Â
>
>P.S. I find it funny that both Chris and my test 
>searches were related as we both searched for or respective species.Â
>-AlexSurikat
>
>On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Vineyard 
><<mailto:dimensional42 at gmail.com>dimensional42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm looking at the site, but I'm not seeing 
>anything wrong with it. I'm getting access to it 
>and everything. It may have been a slight hiccup 
>in the server engine. I'll still look into it 
>and see what might be the problem, but it 
>appears that whatever was happening was simply a connection error.
>
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