Ugh.
I was getting put on the troubles list a bunch on both TFL and TAFL. Turns out that codesort fucking CRAPPED OUT on me and none of the codes or any image in codesort are showing. On my animanga fanlistings I had to manually add three codes of different sizes on the codes page until I can fix this bullshit! I barely have the energy to do anything but I forced myself. TFL also has a weird rule that any image linking to their site has to be working. Since they were in codesort, they weren’t. I had a perfectly fine link in the intro to all my fanlistings, which is all I thought was required…that’s a silly rule. I just went into enth and deleted all the fucking images from the stats templates. The images for my fanlistings in enth aren’t working either for some reason I can’t fathom, so silent.am looks like absolute shite. I don’t know why these scripts fuck me over so often. It seems like every few years, enthusiast will just…stop working. Blank screen. Fanlistings no longer show stats or members. I have to reinstall the stupid thing and add them all again and change ALL the damn config files in ALL the fanlistings and worry about getting on the troubles lists again. I swear, sometimes I wonder if it’s worth the trouble. I seriously considered just letting them close the other day. /sigh
But they are very nostalgic. I opened my first fanlisting (and one hate listing haha, that site is long gone) in 2004. They were all closed, but I came back to the fanlisting community periodically but mine always ended up closing. I came back to fanlistings for good in 2016 and I have certainly closed more than a few in the past nine years, but I still have a lot of the ones I opened in that time. I even revived some of the really old 2004 ones with the same layout and old members lists! I decided I will never let them go. They are too nostalgic to me. Too Sentimental. So I forced myself to fix almost all the rule breaking problems just now. I don’t know what to do about my non-animanga fanlistings. I don’t know how I can fix codesort, or if I even can. At least I won’t get on troubles for that at TFL, unlike TAFL. TFL doesn’t require codes. They prefer that you have them, but it’s not breaking any rules if you don’t, so I can take my time to figure out what’s wrong. Honestly I hate PHP scripts sometimes, they seem to break a lot for no apparent reason. ☹️ It’s the most efficient way to run fanlistings if you have more than a few, though. In the 2004 era, I didn’t use enth, I updated everything manually. I only had a few though, so it wasn’t very taxing. I have a ton now. I was thinking of switching to the other one, forgot what it’s called. It’s an alternative to enthusiast. ListingAdmin? I think that’s it. It requires more code which would be annoying…idk. I don’t know how much more stable it is than enth. Enth has new updated forks for PHP 8 on GitHub. I’m using two different forks for both my enth installations. Don’t know really which is more stable. I can’t remember which one crapped out on me last time or if I was even using either at the time. Eh.
My air conditioner is still not fixed, it’s hot in my bedroom and I sleep with no covers. I wish they’d come fix this before Monday. I cannot stand it. Also, the huge window unit is making my lights flicker when it comes on. I’m afraid it’s going to blow a fuse or whatever it’s called. My microwave did something similar but it stopped working. Not sure how that works, but that’s what our maintenance man said. He got it working again but I already got the new one so I’m just gonna keep it.