Posting issues?

[Rushlight]

So, i have had a few problems posting things recently. I can enter text into the forum posting system, but when i post it cuts it off after a few lines, deleting all but a sentence or two.
Also, whenever i upload a picture it comes in as blank. This is kind of a problem for someone who wants to post his poetry here.. cause... well I can't!

[xanitos]

This is probably due to the major server crash which Rainrat and Unition are still working on fixing up

[Temrin]

you arent the only one having the issue. myself and three others i have talked to are having this issue too. XD Ahah. I find that its mostly with copy and pasting and the editor not liking certain characters. Remove the certain characters and itll post fine. Just a pain trying to figure out what is triggering it when you copy and paste. (only had issues with actual typing if i was trying to type out on a post that already had been auto shortened due to the copy paste issue. Otherwise, it worked fine.)

[RainRat]

Thanks for narrowing it down. I found a description of the problem, based on the new information

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=472921.0

It seems there may not be a fix, except for fixing the problem characters.

[Sasha]

except for fixing the problem characters.

The suggestion recommended changing the database to UTF-8, through a conversion feature found within SMF. Could that have been done in the past and not this round of installation?

Could file permissions be fixed to let pictures be uploaded?

May I inquire as to what the delays are in adding back essential features such as registration in events, and a means to make a profile?

Tigerface.

[Rushlight]

huh, well good to know it's not just me derpin. Thanks all.

[Univaded_Fox]

So what is the solution that the rest of us who do not speak computer can follow?  I need to post a large chunk of text.

[Univaded_Fox]

DOES ANYBODY HAVE AN ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM?!

[Temrin]

DOES ANYBODY HAVE AN ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM?!

>Copy text from your document (but keep document open for reference)
>Paste into forums. replace commas, apostrophe's, quotes, etc with the forum charset versions:  ' " , . etc
>Click post, and if something cuts off, find where it does, reference your open document to find where it happened and replace those characters with the forum generated ones ( you can type it into the forum and then copy the rest of your document after the fixed character.)
>Rinse and repeat if you have other cutoffs.

This is what i have to do when i post something from a copy pasted document outside of the forums.