Site Problems 10/06/2007

[UKJAY]

I write a post and when I click the button to post it, half of it has vanished...
it only posts first line of text




when I click edit, it doesn't come back and then what I rewrite goes too.

[Sage]

I posted a comment and it just didnt appear at all, but that might be due to my phone

[UKJAY]

it works for me now...maybe I was on some Spam list?

[Messiah]

Originally Posted by UKJAY

it works for me now...maybe I was on some Spam list?

You talk a lot, so maybe the system thinks you're spamming

[UKJAY]

Very True

[Curry]

Test.

Test.

Test.

Just to see if multiple lines works

^^^ well that appears to work....? Are you talking about the frontpage or the forum?

Half a post disappearing would seem to be really strange...

Originally Posted by Sage

I posted a comment and it just didnt appear at all, but that might be due to my phone

Posting from phones may very well be a problem: they work via proxies which are often abused for spamming purposes, so it's not unlikely that they are blacklisted.... which causes the behaviour you describe, that it just doesn't do shit and the comment doesn't appear.

[UKJAY]

Yeah sometimes it works, sometimes it don't - only started today. It is odd, but I have my video phone to the ready should it happen again

[Curry]

Please be more specific, I need stuff like 'I was watching page {url} and then I pressed {button X} with input {Y} and I was expecting {A} but then I got {B}", so I can try to reproduce it or find it in logs

Thnx for helping btw

[UKJAY]

Originally Posted by Curry

Please be more specific, I need stuff like 'I was watching page {url} and then I pressed {button X} with input {Y} and I was expecting {A} but then I got {B}", so I can try to reproduce it or find it in logs

Thnx for helping btw

OK it first happened in ShadowRun thread and was this post I was writing a reply to Ross which was 4 or 5 lines worth and posted quick reply. All it originally showed was the first line of text which read: [/quote Rossko Uk ... and nothing I had written. So I wrote it again and a message appeared full screen page, stating duplicate post (or something similar) and that it was taking me back to original post. So page reloaded back on my original posting.


I pressed edit and rewrote my message and then pressed save, still it wasn't posting more than 1 line - so I edited it to what is shown now on 1 line only.

[Curry]

Since it's apparently all fixed now I'm tempted to say caching was giving some problems... had something comparable on the frontpage right after upgrades that gave me a few headaches.

[360NORML]

HA! When I saw the thread title I thought to myself, wow you guys sure are prepared if your already planning on having problems on here in Oct.

[UKJAY]

yeah we do dates differently here in the UK... Day Month Year

[Rival24]

Originally Posted by UKJAY

yeah we do dates differently here in the UK... Day Month Year

That's the way it should be! Now all you need to do is get rid of that retarded imperial system.. miles, pounds, foot, feet, thumbs whatever...

[Nino]

Exactly. Dates should come before months, since months come before years. Start with the figure that changes most frequently (days), then the one after that (months) and then years.

[Rival24]

All we need to do now is convince a couple of hundred million people

[nofear360]

Euro date system FTW!

[UKJAY]

erm foot feet, pounds & ounces lol.. that system went years ago. We're Centimetres, Millimetres, Kilograms, grams, we're metric

[Rossko_UK]

Imperial rules. None of this metric bollocks that we have to learn in school. Me and some mates made a point of quoting everything in imperial measurements during maths just to piss off the teacher, and boy did it work.

Sigh, they were the days

Originally Posted by UKJAY

erm foot feet, pounds & ounces lol.. that system went years ago. We're Centimetres, Millimetres, Kilograms, grams, we're metric

Well that's not entirely true. Yes products on shelves are now metric, but go to a good 'ol cheese counter or whatever and it's all imperial. Football measurements are still referred to in feet rather than metres (despite TV things trying to convice us otherwise).

Imperial still plays a huge roll over here.

[360NORML]

"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."


I knew an exchange student back in college that was quite ticked off that he couldn't buy any alcohol until he turned 21. So, when he got his drivers license he "accidently" forgot to put the month before the day on his application.

[Rival24]

All you fuckers need now is the Euro

[Curry]

How convenient

Originally Posted by 360NORML

I knew an exchange student back in college that was quite ticked off that he couldn't buy any alcohol until he turned 21. So, when he got his drivers license he "accidently" forgot to put the month before the day on his application.

Humm I just had the same problem

[UKJAY]

I have one euro coin ... maybe pass it off as a £2 coin get it into circulation...

[Curry]

The problem seems to be isolated in the rich text editor... if you have problems please switch to the regular editor with the topright button:

Meanwhile I'm trying to solve the problem, but at least knowing it's the rich editor helps

[UKJAY]

thanks, and for spotting it

[Curry]

Since no reports have been heard on this for a week I'll consider the forum posting problem fixed

I've also fixed problems I think with frontpage comments not always appearing right away, which was caused by the anti-spam measures and our caching not cooperating perfectly.