Question Shoutbox malformed after upgrade to VB4.2.3

Over the weekend I upgraded to VB4.2.3 from 4.2.2, I also upgraded all the dragonbyte plugins I have. All appears to be working fine for a couple of days. Now I come back to it and in Google Chrome it is malformed

Yet in firefox it looks okay.


The shoutbox is only displayed if you are logged in, I PM'ed you login details a long time ago, can send again if you need to view it on the site.

The other interesting thing, if I try to log into AdminCP in chrome I get a blank white page (have cleared all cookies and cache too) yet in Firefox it works, so perhaps there is some underlying issue somewhere else too causing VBShout to misbehave.
Also the photo albums used to work in VB4.2.2 Solent Renegades Breakfast Run November 2015 from sarah's albums I know this isn't your plug-in, but odd why soo many things have changed since the upgrade. Just trying to find where to start with the fixes.

On looking into this further to do with Attacements, Attachment Issues After Upgrade - vBulletin.org Forum I'm hoping this isn't the case, that all my attachments have gone. Sorry diverging from the thread a bit there, its not a Dragonbyte thing to look into.

I'll look into this and get back to you when I have more information or if I need more information from you

All these issues were related, and they were 100% unrelated to vBShout. The vBulletin config.php file had been saved as UTF-8 With BOM (Byte Order Marker), which is a character that causes problems in certain web browsers when displaying the content.

I have corrected this, and your ACP & vBShout is now working as intended

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