Emoticons maybe actually fixed. !

The secret is to use \B next to punctuation marks and \b next to letters, e.g. \B:o\b for ":o".

Or use a zero-width space, U+200B? ;​)

Uh. No. This is about making sure regexes can be replaced unless they're adjacent to a word inappropriately. Feel free to break 'em up however you want—there's always [no_emote], too.

Also, the smileys still look like it's the 90s. Very un-antialiasing. Many pixel. Wow.

That is called style.

…image smileys existed in the 90s!?

Almost undoubtedly—the insipid original yellow "smiley" graphic dates to 1963. Can you really imagine a 90s internet without such symbols plastered liberally everywhere? Look at this beautiful thing, and contemplate it.

Gifs a plenty were ubitquitous, sure, but I mostly meant smilies in text.

AIM 3.5 was released in March 2000 and supported these. I'm not sure who wins.

the website actually reminded me of ardalambion... though ardalambion was done well and this isn't, the vibe is quite similar.
ah, the old internet

Search page fixed: no longer craps out when searching for pages of all types. Still working on pretty display of getv() key-value store pages, though; as a result, user pages, dictionary pages, and universes (and possibly some other types) will look bad in the search results.

*searches madly for madness*

Well, in the bad news, pthag was right and I am a terrible person.

In the good news, Octavia seems p reasonable to handle, so there is a reasonable chance I can do something for you if you want a change or find a bug.

edit: actually I think I am going to fuck around w/ the location system to make it less shit, is that coo' with everyone

*screeches unintelligibly*

/me burns a flag

Way to go dispelling stereotypes, hon

As it appears H13 is not quite a bad enough dude to get around to RTFSing, I will probably fancify the locations display in a week or so.

Untrw. I have RTFSed, but I have not gotten around to trying to implement it!

But now I feel sufficiently insulted to have to try to prove my Badness, which has resulted in a hilariously wrongheaded attempt that is on exhibit at beta.anthologi.ca until later today when I do the second wrong-headed attempt.

(Also, Octavia does not do preg_quote, does it?)

I could make a bad joke here, but I'm going to let it slide this time.

maed locations more awesomererererer

(credit goes to rhetorica for finding my silly errors)