It's not like me to complain, but at least twice recently I've tried to post a reply, and after hitting the 'post' button I'm back at the discussion, without my post, and no longer logged in.
Going back a page takes me back to my reply, still in its box, but I can no longer move forward or post it successfully.
Is it just the gremlins, or is someone trying to censor my deathless prose ?
Well for what it's worth, I tend to highlight and copy before hitting the post button. At least then if something goes wrong you still have your text..
I'm permanently logged into the Yella Board on my laptop and that doesn't happen to me. When I use any other machine, I copy a post before posting, otherwise the system times out and all that beautiful, insightful text is lost forever.
It'd divine intervention.. that post you just spent ages preparing, was never meant to be.. (this is the third feckin' time I've tried to post this comment)!
I'm waiting for the day when my boyfriend or flatmates "frape" me on thesession.org and post lots of rude things pretending to be me. I doubt anyone would know the difference.
Just to be serious for a tiny moment, I reckon it's a dodgy server or link somewhere that's not under Jeremy's control. I haven't had the problem here but it's happened very occasionally with another forum I belong to that's based in the US. There, it seems to have been a server at fault. Preparing and saving a post offline is the only way.
If you use Google Chrome you can install a tiny program called Comment Save. It automatically keeps (for a time period specified by you) all the replies you type to sites like this one, so, if the worst happens, you can restore your message without tears.
Oh, I know. But that little add-on increases the overall level of evil by about 0.0000000000274%. And it's actually saved me from chucking my laptop through a closed window twice in the last three days!
Website faults
Website faults
It's not like me to complain, but at least twice recently I've tried to post a reply, and after hitting the 'post' button I'm back at the discussion, without my post, and no longer logged in.
Going back a page takes me back to my reply, still in its box, but I can no longer move forward or post it successfully.
Is it just the gremlins, or is someone trying to censor my deathless prose ?
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Website faults
Yes! Me too.
Priceless stuff lost!
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by yhaalhouse
Re: Website faults
Well for what it's worth, I tend to highlight and copy before hitting the post button. At least then if something goes wrong you still have your text..
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: Website faults
There would have been a lot more replies to this post but they've all got lost....
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: Website faults
YEP --
Now I always write it first on ' Notepad ' before I post it in here,
for that very reason.
jim,,,
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: Website faults
I'm permanently logged into the Yella Board on my laptop and that doesn't happen to me. When I use any other machine, I copy a post before posting, otherwise the system times out and all that beautiful, insightful text is lost forever.
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Website faults
Ah, Jim - that would be it! Notepad doesn't have an inbuilt apostrophe remover!
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by RichardB
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# Posted on November 24th 2011 by Will Harmon
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# Posted on November 24th 2011 by Will Harmon
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RichardB
I'am working on it : )
jim,,,
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: Website faults
"I'm permanently logged into the Yella Board"
The Silver Spear, I think there's a number you can call for help with that disorder...
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by oldstrings
Re: Website faults
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# Posted on November 24th 2011 by seaniemcg
Re: Website faults
Yes, that happens to me too. As the others have said, always copy your text before you hit the post button.
# Posted on November 24th 2011 by DaveL35
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# Posted on November 24th 2011 by Feargal French
Re: Website faults
It'd divine intervention.. that post you just spent ages preparing, was never meant to be.. (this is the third feckin' time I've tried to post this comment)!
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by On Sabbatical
Re: Website faults
I'm waiting for the day when my boyfriend or flatmates "frape" me on thesession.org and post lots of rude things pretending to be me. I doubt anyone would know the difference.
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Website faults
Just to be serious for a tiny moment, I reckon it's a dodgy server or link somewhere that's not under Jeremy's control. I haven't had the problem here but it's happened very occasionally with another forum I belong to that's based in the US. There, it seems to have been a server at fault. Preparing and saving a post offline is the only way.
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Website faults
Actually, only 2% of posts ever make it through. The rest vanish.
Talk about a silver lining!
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Will Harmon
Re: Website faults
so we only ever hear from the terminally verbose?
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Dont
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and that was on the first try!
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Dont
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> so we only ever hear from the terminally verbose?
Um... yeah. Hadn't you noticed?
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: Website faults
If you use Google Chrome you can install a tiny program called Comment Save. It automatically keeps (for a time period specified by you) all the replies you type to sites like this one, so, if the worst happens, you can restore your message without tears.
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: Website faults
It also monitors everything you do throughout your entire life and uses it for commerical gain. Grrr!
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by ethical blend
Re: Website faults
No it doesn't! Where do you get that from? It's just a little Chrome add-on as far as I can see. Not that I'm sayin' google is innocent.
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Steve Shaw
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Comment Save - that's a useful one. Thanks, Steve, I'll install it.
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
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I dunno, Steve. I just think Google are evil.
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by ethical blend
Re: Website faults
Oh, I know. But that little add-on increases the overall level of evil by about 0.0000000000274%. And it's actually saved me from chucking my laptop through a closed window twice in the last three days!
# Posted on November 25th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: Website faults
Guernsey Pete, are you checking the box which says 'Remember Me' when you log in? It should renew the cookies which keep you logged on..
# Posted on November 26th 2011 by Batgirl has left the GPL ;)