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News Credits: 3595 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Jun 16, 2025 2:36 pm

https://www.seibertron.com/caption/

If you go to the caption contest, it's been revised significantly. It is now tied into the new system for comments and now you can vote and favorite messages. There's also a new "user" view where you can view a gallery of the captions a specific user has posted.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Mon Jun 16, 2025 7:19 pm

Oh man I love this. The new layout in mobile is on point.

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Thu Jun 19, 2025 4:14 pm

Is there a character limit with the new style for the caption text submissions? I'm looking at a 2006 comment by the user Brooke on the page for "Daniel tells Rodimus about a dream" (no direct link is available), and I'm not sure if it's because the user cut themselves off or if the website is to blame.

Also the "user view" is not working when a user name contains a space it seems. For example:

versus

News Credits: 3595 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Jun 19, 2025 4:25 pm

Thank you for taking the time to help debug some things regarding this, Silver Wind. I really appreciate it. On that note ...

Silver Wind wrote:Is there a character limit with the new style for the caption text submissions? I'm looking at a 2006 comment by the user Brooke on the page for "Daniel tells Rodimus about a dream" (no direct link is available), and I'm not sure if it's because the user cut themselves off or if the website is to blame.

I have no idea what was going on 19 years ago with this code. I'm assuming it had a 255 character limit which is pretty standard. That post from Brooke has 245 characters so I'm assuming they just hit submit before completing their post. It might be beneficial to have things like this flagged which adds another element and dimension to Seibertron.com's new UERS. This could be helpful for flagging questionable or broken content, especially in situations like the captions.

Silver Wind wrote:Also the "user view" is not working when a user name contains a space it seems. For example:

https://www.seibertron.com/caption/user/xhat007
https://www.seibertron.com/caption/user/brooke

versus

https://www.seibertron.com/caption/user/silver+wind
https://www.seibertron.com/caption/user/oncoming+storm

I know what's causing this. I'll resolve this error later. PLEASE keep the feedback coming. It is incredibly helpful. The good, the bad and the ugly.

by **trailbreaker** » Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:57 am

I love the captions !! Hoping the issue gets fixed so we can continue posting on them. I’ve tried posting several replies and keep getting those error messages:

We encountered an error while processing this page ...
MySQLi Error: Out of range value for column 'create_date' at row 1
Out of range value for column 'create_date' at row 1
Caption upload failed — even the Constructicons couldn’t salvage it.

News Credits: 3595 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:48 am

trailbreaker wrote:I love the captions !! Hoping the issue gets fixed so we can continue posting on them. I’ve tried posting several replies and keep getting those error messages:

We encountered an error while processing this page ...
MySQLi Error: Out of range value for column 'create_date' at row 1
Out of range value for column 'create_date' at row 1
Caption upload failed — even the Constructicons couldn’t salvage it.

this has been fixed. Thank you for sharing this error with us, trailbreaker.