I hesitate to say it, but things look normal to me. There’s one bug I see as of 8:30pm Redmond time on Monday: In the Recent Replies list, anonymous p
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Still cannot “trash” an entry if one, after submitting it, discovers that one was either wrong in writing that, or things one did not know at the time of writing had already made the entry irrelevant.
And I wish to express my personal desire to see the list of forums again running from the middle to the bottom of the brown sidebar, as before. They are now in “Forums”, in the menu bar at the top of every page, yes, but they are all bunched close together there and, for me at least, harder to see and find than was the case with the previous arrangement. The one thing gained is that not having those forums listed in the sidebar, more “Recent Replies” can get listed because there is more space for them. But, if the site’s speed remains reasonably high, as at the moment, one can find recent postings that drop out of the brown sidebar as they are, eventually, pushed out by newer ones, easily and quickly enough by looking in the “New Posts” section for “Last Day”, if not there, then in the “Last Three Days”, etc. Just saying.: I imagine you cannot please everybody.
But the ability to trash one’s own entries completely when necessary is a very useful thing still missing.
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You’re right – the Forums list no longer appears.
That was a custom widget – and may have been disabled pending some assessment of all custom programming on the site.
(I can’t help but wonder if some of the custom stuff on the side is causing the slowdowns — maybe even the instability….)
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I can’t help but wonder if some of the custom stuff on the side is causing the slowdowns — maybe even the instability
If you hadn’t said it, I would have. I find that customizing any computer system multiplies greatly the chances of a system error or worse. Voice of experience here, with Windows and Linux. (Although, there are also times when system-level changes are part of an update or an upgrade — again, both Windows and Linux have these issues.)
Anyway, it’s great to have the site here up and running at least as fast and responsive as I remember it. And with most of the features working the way they are supposed to. The weekend was a nightmare!!
-- rc primak
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@woody, I still have one odd thing happening. You know how when you go back into a thread, or refresh the page, any new posts that came in since the last visit there are tagged as “new”? Well, in this thread every post beginning May 24 continues to be marked as “new” for me, no matter how many times I refresh the page.
Fortunately, thanks to your team’s dedication, once again we can attach images to our posts, so here is an image of what I’m talking about:
That is the only thread I’ve tried where this is happening; every other thread I have visited is working as before this weekend’s hiccups (and much faster BTW).
Not sure if you or the administrator team would consider this worth looking into, but I’m reporting it in case it indicates something important.
Keep up the great work.
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Thanks for all the staff’s hard work in getting the site back up and running smoothly again. The site was previously loading as if I were using a dial up connection, but it’s now loading each page very quickly. Keep up the great work! Thanks
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“New”? What is that? I’ve never, ever seen that here! I see from Cybertooth’s screenshot what I should see now and should have seen in the past…but I have NEVER seen that! I usually come here on Basilisk which is forked off of Fx 52 ESR by the Pale Moon folks. I use Waterfox some and have never seen “new” there either. Is the “New” tag disabled, perhaps, if you always have a tab open to the site (or two or three)? I usually have at least 70 tabs open on Basilisk all the time and one (or more is to here).
The ONE thing I most wish the software here offered is a very basic function that I have NOT found missing at any other forum I frequent. That is the ability to choose MY time zone! It is a constant hassle to even LOOK at all at the times on posts here because they are so wildly different from MY Hawaii Standard Time zone that it is confusing. When I post this it will appear HOURS INTO THE FUTURE. This is something that was true for many forums 20 years ago but today….geez.
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If you are blocking ads and/or cookies, these tags may not show up. Same with the Gravitar images.
You can run any ad/cookie blocker while viewing this site. Just white list AskWoody. There are no hidden agendas here, so an ad blocker is moot. Woody is upfront about everything.
I get your point though. The past few days the “new” annotation has been on again off again. (as have other things)
A dynamic website is always a work in progress and stuff is gonna happen.
I think the car is out of the shop and running well, we watch for speed bumps and pot holes.
(still a few scratches to buff out)
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That is the ability to choose MY time zone! It is a constant hassle to even LOOK at all at the times on posts here because they are so wildly different from MY Hawaii Standard Time zone that it is confusing
Agreed. Even worse, there are a few small corners of the site that use different time zones — Central US time for some, Pacific US time for others.
It’s definitely on my to-do list.
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Still cannot “trash” an entry if one, after submitting it, discovers that one was either wrong in writing that, or things one did not know at the time of writing had already made the entry irrelevant.
And I wish to express my personal desire to see the list of forums again running from the middle to the bottom of the brown sidebar, as before. They are now in “Forums”, in the menu bar at the top of every page, yes, but they are all bunched close together there and, for me at least, harder to see and find than was the case with the previous arrangement. The one thing gained is that not having those forums listed in the sidebar, more “Recent Replies” can get listed because there is more space for them. But, if the site’s speed remains reasonably high, as at the moment, one can find recent postings that drop out of the brown sidebar as they are, eventually, pushed out by newer ones, easily and quickly enough by looking in the “New Posts” section for “Last Day”, if not there, then in the “Last Three Days”, etc. Just saying.: I imagine you cannot please everybody.
But the ability to trash one’s own entries completely when necessary is a very useful thing still missing.
I agree – it seems it was much easier to find the forums you wanted when they were all listed in the sidebar. Please add them back. Thanks!
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I agree – it seems it was much easier to find the forums you wanted when they were all listed in the sidebar. Please add them back. Thanks!
Yes, please
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I agree with both of you, but wonder if the (custom-built) widget was the source of slowdowns and/or instability.
I definitely want it back, but… I’d much rather have a vBulletin-style (Windows Secrets-style) listing. If it can be done without bringing the house down.
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Woody said:
Site seems to be sprightly. (Correcting my earlier mistake!)I don’t think you made a mistake. The site was infected with sprites, imps and other mischievous creatures. Playing whack-a-mole with them isn’t much fun.
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In the old days, we used to call them gremlins.
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I’m wondering why the AKB2000003 topic at https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/2000003-ongoing-list-of-group-b-monthly-updates-for-win7-and-8-1/ is grayed out for me. Is this a peculiarity of the setup on my particular machine (I’m traveling with a small Chromebook I don’t use all the time), or did I miss something about an address change? I keep it in my Favorites and haven’t seen this before.
Thanks to everyone for all their hard work on the site. It’s definitely much improved.
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Aaarrrgghhhh, now I am not getting the “new” tag on new posts anywhere except for that MS-DEFCON thread.
Nor is there an “Edit” button for posts I’ve previously submitted in any thread. Will check this one (of course) when it’s posted in case there is a time limit for editing posts.
EDIT: Now the Edit button is there on this post. But older posts don’t have it. I don’t recall there previously being a limit on how long one had to edit a post, has this changed?
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No, it hasn’t changed. There’s always been a time limit – and for good reason. If you post something that says
The sky is blue.
And somebody responds agreeing with you — but you then change the post to say
The sky is green.
Much hilarity will ensue. There’s a reason why we’ve always had a time limit on making edits to your own posts. (Or deleting them, for that matter.)
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I gotta say, I never noticed a limit either. There have been times where I posted something here and decided about an hour or two later that I should edit something out or maybe just delete it altogether. I understand limits to some extent, but NOT quickly expiring limits. I never noticed editing time limits either, but if they were in place and I didn’t notice them, that’s obviously fine.
Your example about the sky is kind of malicious in the sense that the poster is attempting to make others look like fools. If someone does choose to do that, why not just penalize them instead of everyone? I do think it’s important to have a long window for editing or deleting posts, but perhaps deleting could be disabled once a reply to that post has been made and you lose the ability to edit your posts in a stealthy manner. In your “sky” example, the edited post would show what time it was edited and could not be hidden by the editor.
Also, it still takes a lot of time “Waiting for http://www.askwoody.com….” when loading the page or replying to posts for me, but once it starts loading, it’s super fast. It took a good 20 seconds for this reply box to appear after clicking “Reply” on your post.
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Your example about the sky is kind of malicious in the sense that the poster is attempting to make others look like fools. If someone does choose to do that, why not just penalize them instead of everyone? I do think it’s important to have a long window for editing or deleting posts, but perhaps deleting could be disabled once a reply to that post has been made and you lose the ability to edit your posts in a stealthy manner. In your “sky” example, the edited post would show what time it was edited and could not be hidden by the editor.
How frequently would you like the moderating team to check up on historic posts?
We’re stuck with a relatively limited feature set/options list with the site software, extra plugins to give such fine grained settings would increase the attack area and perhaps lead to further slowdowns, vulnerabilities and an increased chance of instability.
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I gotta say, I never noticed a limit either. /snip/ I never noticed editing time limits either, but if they were in place and I didn’t notice them, that’s obviously fine.
That’s the idea. You didn’t notice them because the time allotted for editing your post hadn’t expired and was sufficient.
Your example about the sky is kind of malicious in the sense that the poster is attempting to make others look like fools.
I think Woody’s example was a glittering generality, a “for instance” if you will, in the simplest form.
If someone does choose to do that, why not just penalize them instead of everyone?
The idea isn’t to penalize anyone, it’s to give everyone an even playing field. As such, rules have to be in place. 99.99% of all posts are looked at by one moderator or another, still we can’t watch every post continuously. The rules in effect allow the site, posters and viewers (hopefully) the best experience possible. Does it meet everyone’s idea of perfection? No, it is what it is.
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How much time, then, do we have to edit a post? Sometimes I discover a typo or an incorrect statement, or find additional information, and it is much cleaner to edit the original post than to post a new post referring back to the first post.
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I can understand limitations on software options, however, Cyber asked twice now how long we have to edit posts and I would like to know as well. Also, has it been shortened from how it was previously or is it always the same?
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@satrow, the link is leading to a 404 “Page not found” error.
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Apologies, it’s a private staff link relating to the ongoing repairs/changes and it refers to the removal of some (possibly buggy) options/plugins and rebuilding with minimal customisations.
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Much hilarity will ensue.
We could use some of that.
There’s a reason why we’ve always had a time limit on making edits to your own posts. (Or deleting them, for that matter.)
Default is five minutes: https://bbhelp.club/answer/editing/why-are-users-unable-to-edit-their-replies/109/
WordPress changed theirs to one hour: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2121
Any logical reason not to tell us what the limit here should be?
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How about carryover of reputation & thanks from old site?
If by “the old site” you mean Windows Secrets… I intentionally brought over as little as possible. We didn’t bring billing information, roles or passwords, either. Lots of reasons why – privacy and compatibility being key ones.
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My last reply took over 3 minutes. I kept getting a small window with the subject line saying to wait or cancel.
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***** the bugs, how bout lag loading? Crazy slow from SF west coast. Bad router or slagged server?
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Site seems to be sprightly.
Not any longer. Takes minutes to load anything… Sigh.
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Is AskWoody back to normal?
I hesitate to say it, but things look normal to me.I’ve forgotten what normal looks like. How do you define it?
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I am writing this to see if it is back the button for removing a post one wrote, submitted and then realizes is not appropriate.
Nope. It is not back. Bring it back, please, it saves this site space otherwise occupied by unintentionally incorrect entries and even, now and then, some embarrassment. I wonder if this already made it to the list of things to be fixed.
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It’s now running faster for me. Not sure what’s being changed – and, yep, the site was slow as molasses a while ago.
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More site strangeness: while looking up something else, I found the following (see screenshot):
If we are to believe it, the “freshness” information displayed for the Windows 8.1 Mobile and Windows 10 Mobile sub-forum suggests that AskWoody member @b posted here well over 16 years ago regarding the mobile version of Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. So @b would have been posting about one of these operating systems close to a decade before either of them was introduced.Clicking on the actual post gives the date of the post as February 24, 2017.
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I think Microsoft must have fixed my flashlight, not my phone!
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Do remember that we have just absorbed a large volume of topics from Windows Secrets Lounge. We have a number of topics from 16 years ago!
This however, as you quite rightly point out, is another anomaly!
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Sorry Woody, but I must answer not yet. This Forum / Area is blank but for the first message. I can see no replies.
https://www.askwoody.com/2019/patch-lady-cant-upgrade-if-you-have/
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If you are blocking ads and/or cookies, these tags may not show up. Same with the Gravitar images.
You can run any ad/cookie blocker while viewing this site. Just white list AskWoody. There are no hidden agendas here, so an ad blocker is moot. Woody is upfront about everything.
I get your point though. The past few days the “new” annotation has been on again off again. (as have other things)
A dynamic website is always a work in progress and stuff is gonna happen.
I think the car is out of the shop and running well, we watch for speed bumps and pot holes.
(still a few scratches to buff out)
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I did not block ads here in the past (turned off ublock origin) and saw ads here but never saw any tags about “new posts” so I am not sure that is the reason why I didn’t see them then and don’t see them now. I thought there were no ads now for logged in members so I have not disabled uBlock and it is blocking 2 requests (1%) for askwoody.com domain but allowing all the others here.
As for cookies, I have 10 from AskWoody but that could be the culprit as I have NEVER allowed third party cookies anywhere. After Mozilla (Basilisk is based off Fx 52 ESR) dropped Ask Me setting for cookies, I had to get an extension, Cookie Controller, to manage cookies. It is set to allow all first party cookies here for Session and to block all third party ones. I don’t see the “new post” on any browser but I block (and always have) all third party cookies.
On further examination, I see that uBlock is blocking GOOGLE ADS at this site…but I thought the site was ad free now?
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That’s not the way that the “new” tags worked until last week. One could be (logged in) in a thread, simply hit the refresh button (F5), and any new posts that came in since the previous refresh would show up as “new”.
In any event, it would be onerous to have to log out and then log back in every single darned time that one simply wished to see what new posts had come in. My AskWoody.com browser tabs stay up for weeks at a time when there is a hot discussion going on, and up until the last few days there has never been a problem with new posts being tagged.
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I agree. This has been my experience also. Either refresh with F5 (Firefox) or revisit the replies after viewing the main AskWoody.com page.
I always check the “Remember me” box, so once logged in, I stay logged in for a week or more. Eventually I get logged out (which I don’t always realise at first) and have to log back in again. Maybe there is a time limit on how many days you can stay logged in, even with “Remember me” checked.
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That’s not the way that the “new” tags worked until last week. One could be (logged in) in a thread, simply hit the refresh button (F5), and any new posts that came in since the previous refresh would show up as “new”.
Correct
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In the top gray menubar, there is a Forums button. The layout is not as nice, but all of them are there. That Forum tree was a custom Widget and is currently not in use.
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Well, it’s not normal yet, but getting closer: slightly “Abby Normal” as per Igor in Young Frankenstein.
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In order to get logged on, I must log on twice.
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I can replicate that, and have contacted the devs.
Thanks!
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I see a few. It’s a weird bug – hopefully we’ll have it fixed in a moment.
Or two.
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Before the crash, one used to be able to hover the mouse/pointer over the hyperlink for a given reply listed under “Recent Replies” and see the first line of the reply. Alas, no more.
Yes, I’ve had tracking blocking disabled for AskWoody ever since the site went back to the donation model and dumped the ads from Google.
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How do you find new posts then Joe? I haven’t found an ideal solution. I use “Recently active topics” and keep a note of the time I searched. I then just look at threads with a newer time than that the next time I look. One problem with this method is that if a thread has a reply to a post halfway along that thread, you’ve then got to look carefully if any other new post elsewhere in the thread. Easy if it has few posts, but a nightmare if it has 30 or more.
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I’ve tried these but there’s nothing like the new posts button on WSL. These gave you a list of the threads but there was a menu item added in each thread which took you to the first new post.
“new posts since last visit” has always given me none – even after logging out and back in
“new posts last day” – only gives you the thread not the posts
I use “recently active posts” – same issueWe’ve lost the new reply icon, though that took you to the latest post, not necessarily to the first new post in the thread.
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Oh and there’s a whole bunch of stuff in Chinese (would expect spam from the sheer volume) apparently awaiting moderation. That’s not quite the usual thing.
Don’t know if those were just blocked before or if it’s a new thing altogether.
I am seeing those Chinese posts as well in the Recent Topics list in the sidebar on all of the pages I’ve gone to except the Home page. There I can still see the actual recent topics.
Can someone please delete those so that we can see the Recent Topics list on every page?
Thanks!
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Yay OK – looks like it is fixed! Thanks so much!!
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I noticed this just after the calendar:
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The button to trash a post one wrote, then realized it was not right and decides to wipe it out, is still missing…
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For me anyway, the “New Posts Since Last Visit” link is not accurately reflecting what it should.
I write this based on the fact that, if I click on the “New Posts: Last Day” link, I will see a number of posts that have been added since my last visit, but which do not show on “New Post Since Last Visit” list. This is happening on three different computers of mine.
Could this be some sort of cookie problem/setting on my computers, or a growing pain still from the changeover?
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Please add me to those who cannot see or find the new posts since last visit.
I’m still not able to search on “rt n” in order to find those new posts since the last time I was on a thread. This thread is an example, as is the “Where we stand with the May 2019 Windows patches” thread.
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OK, things are awry again at Woody’s:
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Whoa, and after submitting that post, “recent” replies looks even worse:
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Oh hey, I’m seeing “new recent replies” that… are from 2001?
Posting age rollover on the archive-transfer backlog or something?
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The Recent Replies are working properly again. <thumbs up>
Just noticed the Toolbar Toggle, too, but am not sure how to use it. The first try resulted in the following:
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Just noticed the Toolbar Toggle, too, but am not sure how to use it. The first try resulted in the following:
«¡Nicework!»
Toolbar Toggle is on the *Visual Tab* for the Reply Box. Here’s the pre-click view:
And here’s what happens on my system after clicking on it:
As second Tool Bar shows up on the Reply Box Editing Tool Bar Menu.
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Small mistake in the label I gave the last color, it’s supposed to be “Gray” and not “Dark Gray.” But the colors are not actually showing up. Here is what I saw in the reply box as I was typing it:
And here is what showed up on the screen after hitting Submit:
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Remembering the site only includes support for Simple BBCodes, the colors are not meant to be supported features, which is why that toggle was not previously visible. I’m not sure why it is showing now, but I suspect it shouldn’t be…
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@ Kirsty
… the site only includes support for Simple BBCodes, the colors are not meant to be supported feature …
*The site* appears to support colored fonts just fine. I’ve been using NightOwl in my signature for a long time. And others who have posted bbCode for various functions have also shown colored text formatting.
The variable seems to be that text color formatting has to actually be *simple bbCode*, and for unexplained reasons, this Reply Editor uses something other than *simple bbCode* for text color formatting in the *Visual Tab*.
Here’s the *simple bbCoding* I use in my signature:
[i][color color=#ff0000][b]NightOwl[/b][/color][/i]
And here’s the bbCoding used by the *Visual Tab* of the Reply Editor:
<span style=”color: #ff0000;”>NightOwl</span>
What’s not supported by the Reply Editor is there’s just no pre-formatted editing button(s) for adding color content to a reply post in the *Text Tab* (one has to insert the bbCode manually), and the font formatting button for text color in the *Visual Tab* works just fine–within the editor itself–but after hitting the *Submit* button, the code that the editor is using for colored font text is removed by some other function.
(I have to assume that the *bbCode* used by the *Visual Tab* in the Reply Editor is *advanced bbCode* and not *simple bbCode*.)
Simple bbCode that should work:
[color color=#ff0000][b]Red, [/b][/color][color color=#0000ff][b]Blue, [/b][/color][color color=#808080][b]Gray[/b][/color]
Red, Blue, Gray
*Visual Tab* bbCode that probably will not work:
<span style=”color: #ff0000;”>Red <span style=”color: #0000ff;”>Blue <span style=”color: #808080;”>Gray</span></span></span>
<span style=”color: #ff0000;”>Red <span style=”color: #0000ff;”>Blue <span style=”color: #808080;”>Gray</span></span></span>
Let’s see the results … hitting *Submit* …
(Edit: Interestingly, the simple bbCode used in the *Text Tab*, if you switch to the *Visual Tab*–the text color formatting is not *understood* by the *Visual Tab*, and the colors do not show up–strange inconsistency between two functions (text tab vs visual tab) in the same Editor.)
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At least once a day, I’m getting a “502 Bad Gateway” when accessing the site from a Pinned tab in Chrome (logged in or not). Yesterday when it finally loaded, it was fast but today it’s slooowww.
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“502 Bad Gateway” messages are a sign that the site’s screwed up. Currently the devs are merging the last of the Topics and Replies. The update’s supposed to be throttled, so as not to overwhelm the server. Supposed to be….
Right now it appears to be OK, but I say that with fingers crossed and wood duly knocked. At some point we’ll get back to stability. Just not sure when that point will arrive.
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Do you think it is the pinned tab?
No, I don’t really think it’s from the pinned tab as I was just giving information relative to when it happens. At least from the responses I see that I am not alone.
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Off Topic !!! Woody, the site is very slow loading today. I have been approx. 20 minutes getting to this point and maybe longer when I click on the submit button. Using Firefox 67.0.1 and it’s the same with Chrome and IE also. I am getting a ” 502 Bad Gateway error ” also, but not all the time. Going to submit and hope it post.
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Been having trouble accessing askwoody’s site intermittently for the last few days. When I check isitdownrightnow.com, the website indicates that the askwoody site is down for everyone for ~ 1 day and 19 hrs. Also when I check downforeveryoneorjustme.com this site indicates that the askwoody.com website is down for everyone. The results from isitdownrightnow.com and downforeveryoneorjustme.com are clearly wrong since I am currently accessing the site fine right now. There might be reason for false results, but just bringing to your attention in case helpful or you are unaware.
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Hmmm, the weirdest thing just happened. I was scrolling the askwoody home page with the mouse scroll wheel and it just stopped scrolling. I checked other tabs in Chrome and it works fine and if I right click a reply to open in a new window on askwoody, it scrolls fine.
Maybe a Ghost
Update: after refreshing the home page to see my reply populate, it scrolls fine now, LOL WEIRD!!
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That’s nice! (Green) Red too! But I gather the colors get removed in posting.
Edit: Well, that’s ugh!
“Keep a log of this edit?” I don’t recall seeing that before.
Moderator edit: Removed HTML. “Keep log”, uncheck box to prevent your edit showing. Once the edit shows it can not be removed.
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Things are running great today and seem to be back to normal! Home page loaded in a few seconds, same for log in, going to different parts of the site are relatively quick. I hope it stays that way.
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All we need now is for the “new” tags to be fixed. It’s really hard to find nested replies by date and time.
cheers, Paul
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I noticed a new glitch: the newest posts (at least, the ones posted by me) are not getting listed in the “Recent Replies” section over in the right-hand panel.
As I write this post, the most recent reply listed there is by @wavy in the Intel Optane thread, 58 minutes ago. However, I posted in that thread about a half-hour ago: it’s not showing up in Recent Replies.
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I have been seeing the same thing since I logged in this morning. The posts eventually get there, but there is quite a lag.
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