I see a poster called MATTDAVIS and a quote from MattDavis_2. What is it? The forums should not capitalize everything that is not meant to be capitalized.
Look at me! I have the same name as the guy who started this thread, and his profile links to mine!
Do you mean that you are not the thread starter and it was falsely attributed to you?
That's exactly it. I haven't posted to these forums in YEARS, but I've been crunching the whole time. When I looked at the new format of the updated website I was surprised to notice recent posts under my name. For example, I"m not the guy who started this thread, but the name (MattDavis) and the profile of the thread starter link to me. Who knows why!
I don't think it is a mixup of accounts but rather a bug in the "Recent Posts" page. Looking at the first post of this thread it was indeed started on 8 Aug 2007 but the same comment is listed on your recent posts page as started on 4 Aug 2016. There are some more comments that have a wrong date but only on the recent posts page.
I'll double check with the old DB if this is all correct but I don't think there is a mixup because we used the userid's not the names to convert from BOINC to Drupal.
I looked at the original BOINC forum database and everything checks out. You are the legitimate starter of this thread. It's just that some of your posts are displayed in the search and recent posts page here on the Drupal site with a wrong timestamp. So the migration was all fine we just need to fix the problem with the mismatching timestamps. Thanks for noticing this problem.
A more likely scenario is that this new forum structure can't handle capitalization and underscores properly. The fact that the username displayed is not the username in the quote clearly shows that.
A more likely scenario is that this new forum structure can't handle capitalization and underscores properly. The fact that the username displayed is not the username in the quote clearly shows that.
The mismatch between the displayed username and the username shown in the quote is understood. This is due to the fact that BOINC didn't force unique usernames but Drupal does. So there is a BOINC username (shown on the left) and a Drupal username which was forced to be unique during migration. Since there are two MattDavis in the BOINC DB we added _2 to one of them during migration. The problem is that the Drupal username is used when quoting the post of a user not the BOINC username. This will be fixed so it is consistent.
The capitalization of the username was a design decision and only affects rendering not the name that is actually stored in the database.
As I said there are two different usernames. One is the Drupal internal one which has to be unique (case insensitive) but is only used internally. You should not see or need this username publicly. The other username is the displayname that was imported from BOINC which does not have to be unique and which is the one used in the forums and profiles and which can be changed by the user itself.
The rendering of the displayname in uppercase is done using CSS like this:
I see a poster called
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I see a poster called MATTDAVIS and a quote from MattDavis_2. What is it? The forums should not capitalize everything that is not meant to be capitalized.
I created a bug report for
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I created a bug report for the name issue when quoting. I would still like to know if the user accounts where messed up during import.
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That's exactly it. I haven't posted to these forums in YEARS, but I've been crunching the whole time. When I looked at the new format of the updated website I was surprised to notice recent posts under my name. For example, I"m not the guy who started this thread, but the name (MattDavis) and the profile of the thread starter link to me. Who knows why!
I don't think it is a mixup
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I don't think it is a mixup of accounts but rather a bug in the "Recent Posts" page. Looking at the first post of this thread it was indeed started on 8 Aug 2007 but the same comment is listed on your recent posts page as started on 4 Aug 2016. There are some more comments that have a wrong date but only on the recent posts page.
I'll double check with the old DB if this is all correct but I don't think there is a mixup because we used the userid's not the names to convert from BOINC to Drupal.
I looked at the original
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I looked at the original BOINC forum database and everything checks out. You are the legitimate starter of this thread. It's just that some of your posts are displayed in the search and recent posts page here on the Drupal site with a wrong timestamp. So the migration was all fine we just need to fix the problem with the mismatching timestamps. Thanks for noticing this problem.
He said he didn't start this
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He said he didn't start this thread.
A more likely scenario is that this new forum structure can't handle capitalization and underscores properly. The fact that the username displayed is not the username in the quote clearly shows that.
Are there any estimates when
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Are there any estimates when new LIGO data will be available to crunch?
mmonnin wrote:A more likely
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The mismatch between the displayed username and the username shown in the quote is understood. This is due to the fact that BOINC didn't force unique usernames but Drupal does. So there is a BOINC username (shown on the left) and a Drupal username which was forced to be unique during migration. Since there are two MattDavis in the BOINC DB we added _2 to one of them during migration. The problem is that the Drupal username is used when quoting the post of a user not the BOINC username. This will be fixed so it is consistent.
The capitalization of the username was a design decision and only affects rendering not the name that is actually stored in the database.
Christian Beer
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Does Drupal see William, WillIam, william and WILLIAM as distinct usernames?
As I said there are two
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As I said there are two different usernames. One is the Drupal internal one which has to be unique (case insensitive) but is only used internally. You should not see or need this username publicly. The other username is the displayname that was imported from BOINC which does not have to be unique and which is the one used in the forums and profiles and which can be changed by the user itself.
The rendering of the displayname in uppercase is done using CSS like this:
.user .name, .node-type-forum .user .name, .node-type-team-forum .user .name, #comment-form .user .name {....
text-transform: uppercase;
}
So in general you can disable this in your browser by overriding the CSS definitions. You might need extra plugins for that though.