Re: Website unusable at the moment
Specifically the NetApp animation, that takes about 3 minutes to load.
I've alerted our ad/ops team to this, thanks for your report!
Ye Bug List
Shaun's tried to post this on the Boot's thread: Philosophy is not dead, it just smells funny. I see an "Approve" and "Reject" buttons - not sure why - but Approve doesn't work. Did it trip a spam checker?
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Monday 7th August 2017 17:46 GMT Vimes
Re: Edit Forum posts
While we're on the subject is there any chance of increasing the length of the editing window for people that have proven themselves in your eyes to be reasonably responsible? There have been a few occasions where I wanted to make some innocuous changes after the 10 minutes - typos mostly - but have been unable to do so because of this rather arbitrary limit.
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Tuesday 8th August 2017 12:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Edit Forum posts
In a sense all limits are arbitrary. What do you think is a reasonable time?
I think the 10 minutes tidying up window is reasonable compromis between no edit (c.f. Twitter) and perpetual edit (c.f. Facebook).
I am wary of perpetual edits as readers can misuse to rewrite posts to undermine arguments made by others.
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Monday 21st August 2017 09:10 GMT Marco Fontani
Re: Odd HTML error.
I've tracked this down. Your original submitted text contained newlines at the end of the href, just before the ending double quote… which in turn later made the auto-paragraphs feature spit out horribly invalid HTML.
I've "fixed" your original post, and I've made it so that newlines found within those hrefs now constitute an error.
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Wednesday 1st November 2017 17:36 GMT I ain't Spartacus
An odd bug that just caused me to double-post on the latest Bong thread. Hit post, nothing happened. Went back to thread, nothing showing, hit the browser back button to get to my post, and re-submitted. Still nothing. Then a minute later, two posts. So deleted one, and edited a speeeling mistake in the duplicate, and neither have updated.
Will this post?
Edit: Test-edited another post in that thread, and it didn't initially show up. So this is a test to see if it's a thread-specific problem?
Edit 2: Ye But List seems to work as expected. But that Bong! thread has now deleted both of my duplicate posts. Could just be a minor connection problem, or a mis-setting on that article. I'm on Win 10 with latest Firefox.
Edit 3: Seems to be working again now. Must be a weird connection issue, so you can probably ignore me.
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Thursday 2nd November 2017 16:34 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Yes. I even closed the browser session and re-opened. I know that posts don't immediately turn up in the threads, but they also weren't showing when I clicked on the "my posts" link.
Then when they did and I hit the edit button, edited and hit post - refreshing that page showed the original message still.
However it appears to have been a temporary issue, as it hasn't happened since. Bloody computers!
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Saturday 4th November 2017 11:40 GMT Marco Fontani
Yes. I even closed the browser session and re-opened. I know that posts don't immediately turn up in the threads, but they also weren't showing when I clicked on the "my posts" link.
Your request to post… well, a "post" on a forum… is "done" (shows up on the forum, shows up on "my posts", etc) only when it's been completely processed by our backend.
Until then, it's just a JSON file on a disk, nothing more.
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Saturday 4th November 2017 11:38 GMT Marco Fontani
The posts don't update immediately like they used to.. Some server side caching I suspect
Your "requests" to post a comment, or edit a comment, are placed into a "FIFO queue" along with other things.
If the queue is not empty, your post may take a little while to show up on the site - depending on how many requests there are before yours, their type, and how long they take to be processed.
As the message shown after your post has been sent says, "be patient".
On top of that, if we're making sweeping changes to our backends, we may temporarily stop the processing of new forum posts. You're still able to post, and your posts will be recorded - they'll just not appear on the site until maintenance is complete.
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Wednesday 20th June 2018 11:29 GMT GrumpenKraut
One of my comments vanished from the "My posts" list.
This one: https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/4/2018/04/06/on_call/#c_3477849 does not show anymore on said list. This may have happened in the last two weeks.
A suggestion while at it: I got a comment rejected (sniffle!) and it would be interesting to see the votes with that (depressing in this case: it was apparently downvoted to hell because everybody got it wrong initially).
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Friday 22nd June 2018 08:41 GMT jake
Question.
I have "Sort Comments By" set to "newest" ... When I go to "Forums" >> "MyTopics" >> "Ye Bug List" it takes me to page 7 of the comments, which date to 2012. To get to the actual newest posts I have to click on page 1, which seems like a wasted step. (Happens to everything under MyTopics; I just picked this thread as an example.) Is this a bug or a feature?
I asked this question once before, years ago, but never got an answer.
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