Color Tags Don't Nest

slvr_phoenix

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You can only have one color tag open at a time. :(

In TOF this wasn't an issue because the color tags were their own tags. So doing: The Devil loves you too. was simply:[code:1:c70ba0305f][blue]The [red]Devil[/red] loves you too.[/blue][/code:1:c70ba0305f]

Which in TNF would theoretically translate simply to:[code:1:c70ba0305f]The Devil loves you too.[/code:1:c70ba0305f]

But as you can see, that don't work none too well:
The Devil loves you too.

Instead you have to go through the effort of un-nesting color tags like so:
[code:1:c70ba0305f]The Devil loves you too.[/code:1:c70ba0305f]

Which isn't so bad so long as you've only got two colors going, but imagine how much of a pain that'd be with three or more.

Silence like a cancer grows.

TOF:
[code:1:c70ba0305f][blue]Silence [purple]like [red]a[/red] cancer[/purple] grows.[/blue][/code:1:c70ba0305f]

Direct translation of TOF:
[code:1:c70ba0305f]Silence like a cancer grows.[/code:1:c70ba0305f]

Actual required translation of TOF because color tags can't nest:[code:1:c70ba0305f]Silence like a cancer grows.[/code:1:c70ba0305f]
 

slvr_phoenix

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Actually, I noticed it ages ago when the various tags didn't play nicely together. When the tags seem to be fixed I had assumed this bug was fixed too. Apparently not though, as I only recently observed.

Still, the bug fixes and features are coming a long way. Sooner or later we'll even be at the same point of functionality as we were at TOF. :wink:

Okay, honestly, I know that in a lot of ways we're better than TOF already, but there are still a number of places where we're worse.