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@Ennovy: Could you try www.portablefreeware.com/forums/feed.php again?

I made some changes to CloudFlare and verified that it works now.

The link actually redirects to www.portablefreeware.com/forums/app.php/feed.

Let's debug this step-by-step. - Visit RSS Advisory Board's Feed Validator - Enter https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/app.php/feed and submit You should see the following: screen01.png This shows an external server is able to access the feed and verifies that it conforms to the RSS format. Now ...

Ennovy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 10:29 am The forum rss feed has not been updated the last 10 days. Can you confirm this?

Works fine for me. Could you try loading:

https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/app.php/feed

in your browser and see what you get?

Please take a look at the link I sent earlier. The TDLR is that only the alphanumeric characters, hyphen, underscore, tilde and period characters can be entered directly into the URL bar. All other characters (including [, ], # etc) must be encoded. I know you can get '@" to work in this instan...

@lwc: "#" needs to be encoded as "%23". If you do that, you should get the correct result.

The difference between the 2 categories is as you have described, and sometimes both categories can be assigned to the same entry.

If you feel strongly about certain entries being tagged the wrong category, you can either go ahead and edit the entries, or if you are unsure, we can always discuss.

Can't seem to replicate the bug?

https://imgur.com/a/KOuxUz6

I might be the only one who's been using Thunderbird (portable) since its earliest days, and keep all my mails locally. Mind you, I do use it with Gmail and some other email provider via IMAP, but I download all my emails and keep them in local folders. I have over 20y of emails stored that way! SIn...

lwc wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:18 am Sorry, no change, using it still looks like in the last screen of the video.

"Looks like", yes, but the URL has been changed to use "%5B" and "%5D" in the GET paramaters.

lwc wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:14 am Maybe a short video capture will explain it more clearly.
Alas, this forum doesn't allow videos, so it's a temporary link, please try to see it today or tomorrow:
https://streamable.com/ry8zd7

A video is indeed worth a thousand words!

I have fixed the error. Please try again.

Can we establish some baseline here? If you go to the home page and enter "[#lwc]" into the search box, you should get the page "lwc's private submissions (4)" with 4 private entries. The URL will be "https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?q=%5B%23lwc%5D&m=", ri...

I am 100% sure all the RSS feeds (both main and forum's) have been whitelisted from Cloudflare's anti-bot tech. I even tested it at a friend's place on his computer last weekend. So if you try loading eg. https://www.portablefreeware.com/feed.php, you will see that the "Verifying you are a huma...

Actually the "Forum topics matching your query" box is only shown if a forum search returns matches. If there are no matches, it will not be shown. So what I done is to simply not perform forum searches for usernames, so the result list is empty, which means the forum topics box will not b...

It's only because this link was manually encoded, probably so you can save it in the forum. q=%5B%23lwc%5D might work, but q=[#lwc] doesn't: portablefreeware.com/index.php?q=[lwc] - works, but* portablefreeware.com/index.php?q=%5Blwc%5D - works portablefreeware.com/index.php?q=[#lwc] - broken porta...

Sorry, still broken. More details pls? For example, this search lists all your private submissions. Hard to test since that aforementioned entry is now public. :D Should be a one-off. Basically the score was already above 10, but the status wasn't updated to "New" because the periodic cro...