[Q] What happens after #999? (edit: no leading zeroes?)

[Candlewhisper Archive]

You guys want something special for 1000, eh?

It's just a number, right?

[Australian rePublic]

You guys want something special for 1000, eh?

It's just a number, right?

Maybe "Just a number" could be part of the joke...

[Trotterdam]

Do the URLs below 100 have 0s in front?

The ones for the unofficial spoiler thread currently do: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=88#000. The ones in the actual game don't: http://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=0 (that's from memory, since I don't actually have an under-100 issue right now). Technically the server code reads identifiers as integers rather than strings, so if you manually type http://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=000 into your URL bar it'll have the same effect as simple http://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=0, but the game code itself will never produce a link of that form.

[Minoa]

Do the URLs below 100 have 0s in front?

The ones for the unofficial spoiler thread currently do: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=88#000. The ones in the actual game don't: http://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=0 (that's from memory, since I don't actually have an under-100 issue right now). Technically the server code reads identifiers as integers rather than strings, so if you manually type http://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=000 into your URL bar it'll have the same effect as simple http://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=0, but the game code itself will never produce a link of that form.

I can actually confirm the lack of leading zeroes in the URL (i.e. https://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=89) as well as the newspaper strap thingy (i.e. “VOL. 32 NO. 89”), given that I founded a few nations very recently, and these were the basis in which NSindex decided to remove the leading zeroes last Saturday.

[He Qixin]

You guys want something special for 1000, eh?

It's just a number, right?

Maybe "Just a number" could be part of the joke...

Well, 1,000 is the number of years for a full millenium. So, you can write an issue about something that has significance (in any way) and is 1,000 (or perhaps more) years old? I think there are more possibilities.

[He Qixin]

Nobody cares about Secret Agent 7.

And this is related to this topic. But how?

[Jutsa]

Oh man... I forgot about this...

I await Jutsa’s move because if the link anchors change, then that will have an effect on one of our templates.

I didn't think I'd be doing this this morning

Ok, uh... I'm not going to change the anchors, with [anchor] and everything, since that's probably not necessary,
but I will change the shown numbers of 000-099 to 0-99. This way, you won't have to worry about all the link stuff going all bonkers.

As for tabbing... naeh, I don't think so. We'd have to tab for everything before 1,000 as well because that's increasing.
I'll just keep it simple, unless you advise otherwise.

[Jutsa]

Hey, bad news, I just realized that if we change #001 to #1, and the anchor stays 001, things'll get very confusing...
BUT GOOD NEWS! The # will have the old anchor and the number after it will have the new anchor,
so now both linking 001 and 1 should work!

er... that is, when I'm done actually updating everything.

[Gaihia]

I just wanna revisit an old issue, as I accidentally picked the wrong choice... and some how it's still bothering me...

[Ransium]

You can’t change issue choices after you’ve made them. Also please don’t gravedig old threads, it’s against site rules. Thanks.