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The '''Paperpusher's Message Board''', often abbreviated to '''PPMB''', is the longest-running message board in Daria fandom history, and the major gathering place for ''Daria'' fans. Founded in 1999, it originally served as a replacement for the [[Lawndale Commons]] forum, and later the [[Outpost Daria Message Board]]. The board gets its name from the original owner and founder, the [[Paperpusher]]. It has over 900 registered users, the largest known gathering of Daria fans outside of Facebook. Until late 2010, it and the [[Sheep's Fluff Message Board]], were hosted by [[Gamer]]. In December 2010, the PPMB moved to Site5, a webhosting company. The PPMB is run on phpBB, an open-source message board software.
'''Site movement has garbled the characters of various fanfics - see Rosetta Stone below for the solution.'''
The PPMB may be unusual and perhaps even unique—please note the use of the conditional here—among '''free''' online communities for its longevity and size. As of January 2015, it hosts posts dating back more than a decade, and boasts members who even antedate its current incarnation.
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==Rosetta Stone==
Fanfics that were written in Word and then copied to the board years ago may, circa 2018, have garbled characters. Some really old fanfics have goine through ''three'' garblings.
There are ways to fix this:
===Bookmarklet solution===
Suggested by user Heir of Norton: "[ http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/bookmarklet.html Bookmarklet Crunch] Copy and paste the script into the box and click Crunch. This will create a "bookmarklet". If you bookmark the new link, you will get a bookmark or favorite that you can click to decode the junk characters. Just go to one of the affected stories, and click your new bookmark to clean it up. You may need to click it two or three times before it is finished."
For AndroidS:
"save the bookmark on Chrome on your desktop as I explained above. Make sure to give it an easy to find name.
"Sync your bookmarks with your android device [https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en (see here)]
"Go to the page you want to clean up. Then tap in the address bar, and start typing the name of the bookmark. It should come up in the dropdown suggestions, then you can tap it."
===Old school text work===
1) Copy the old post into some sort of text file. I used a .doc file.
2) Using find-and-replace, make the following substitutions
… is replaced by ... (ellipsis)
’ is replaced by ' (back apostrophe)
– is replaced by -- (long dash)
‘ is replaced by ` (front apostrophe)
“ is replaced by " (front quotation)
†is replaced by " (back quotation)
For even older stuff:
‘ - opening quotation mark
’ - ending quotation mark and apostrophe
– - dash
In general, this should get rid of the "special characters" and replace them with normal ones.
===Androids===
==External links==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/19991008000618/paperpusher.simplenet.com/Message_Board__Beta_/message_board__beta_.html The inital portal to the PPMB]
* [http://twitter.com/PaperpusherMB Kara Wild's PPMB Twitter account]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=46025 Rosetta Stone thread]
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