Bug fixed; you may once again ask questions

Question

For the past four hours or so, users have been unable to ask any question with a space in the title due to a minor bug with major consequences. (Thank you to Lazarus for alerting us with the "aaaaaaaaaaa" reference article.) We are very sorry for the inconvenience.

Ask away.

Is that why I've been trying to correct an title for the last 30 minutes with no success :-) - 0074b507, Aug 27, 2009

Haha oh man -- sorry! - Toph, Aug 27, 2009

Answer 1

I keep getting errors saying that I'm using illegal characters in the title when I'm not.

I've completely erased the person's title and re-written it and still gotten the error. I had to go through and do a one letter correction at a time to finally get it entered.

Yeah, we rolled out a much stricter title-checker than we intended to. Are you still having this problem? What exactly is this title? It should be back to the way it was now, nice and permissive.... - Toph, Aug 27, 2009

Answer 2

I still get this whenever I try to edit my post in the Reference section:

It appears a question with exactly the same title has already been asked. Feel free to see if it helps you first, or please refine your question title.

Yup, we noticed the same thing. Sorry for the commotion. Should be fixed now. - Toph, Aug 27, 2009