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Another miscellaneous bug that’s inexplicably appeared. If you want to reply to a post — and have your reply appear “nested” (indented) under the ori
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Hey Woody

UPDATE: The devs tell me it’s been fixed. That was quick. Let me know if you hit any problems.

Just an FYI, I had to use the *Ctrl + F5* key combination to force a *Refresh* of an existing page in order to have whatever fix the devs have put in place take effect.

Otherwise the previous behavior of needing to repeat the *Reply* Button being pressed on the posting you wanted to nest from was still active. I repeated it several time prior to doing the force refresh, and it required the 2 times clicking of the Reply Button every time.

After the forced refresh, the Reply Box is showing up under the post you wanted to nest under (of course–if others have Replied to the same post before you, then your Reply will be queued up below the last person’s Reply that was before yours).

I have not seen the problem on any new Tabs that I have opened with AskWoody content, or associated links that I have clicked on.

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Lately I’ve had a lot of web pages (on the Internet in general) that I’ve had to make two attempts to load.

And many other things simply acting “funny” (on the Internet in general).

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Keep in mind all of the people working at home, teleconferencing, etc. and you definitely have a big burden on the Web/Internet.

Note:  This will also serve as a Nesting test.  Let’s see.

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@ Charlie

Just Lurking wrote:

@ rd23

rd23 wrote:

Almost every where I go and fill out a web form, it bombs somehow.

Maybe the Internet is suffering from a high level of *stress* with all the workers and students home from work or school!?

I see that @ rd23 has above, earlier expressed concern about how the Internet is acting recently, and that you had already suggested the same answer I gave him below when he expressed concerns again.

Sounds like we’re both on the same page, and thought I should give credit where credits due.

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Strange you should mention that. For weeks, on two different forums using different versions of the same phpbb engine I needed to log on twice. Did all the cache-clearing etc but nothing changed.  I just noticed they both work fine today.

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Does one have to hit “Reply”, then write the comment, then hit “Reply” again? Is this the correct order? I tried hitting “Reply” twice before writing, and that did not work: the comment ended at the bottom of the thread. But that might not mean much without more outside information, as things, or at least so it seems to me, are becoming more of a probabilistic rather than of a deterministic nature here.

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[Charlie]

In my reply to rd23 I only hit Reply once and it worked.  Before that (yesterday) I had to hit the Reply button once, which would take me to the bottom, and then go back up and hit Reply again to get a reply screen directly under the post I was replying to.  After doing that, then I would start writing my reply.

Seems it’s fixed now.

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[Just Lurking]

@ OscarCP

OscarCP wrote:

A. Does one have to hit “Reply”, then write the comment, then hit “Reply” again? Is this the correct order? B. I tried hitting “Reply” twice before writing, and that did not work: the comment ended at the bottom of the thread.

A. No, that’s the wrong order. Yesterday, and on into today, you needed to press the Reply Button of the Reply you wanted your Reply to be nested under. Then, you needed to repeat that same thing on the same Reply that had just done that on. Now the Reply Box should have been present under the Reply you wanted to be nested under. But, if others had already replied and nested under that post, then your Reply would be at the bottom of the list of previous post(s) that had nested before your post.

Now, you would enter the message you wanted in your Reply.

B. Which posting did you press the Reply Button on? Where did you expect (hope?) your Reply to be nested under?

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NightOwl ( #2214134 ), right now I am going to try to reply to you in two ways: (1) with a single “Return” press, and see if, as some recent comments here have it, that now works OK. If not, (2) I’ll try the double press, although I am still not clear as to whether to press “Reply” twice and then write, or to press “Reply” once, then write, then press it again. So before doing (2) I’ll wait until have this point has been clarified.

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Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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@ OscarCP

OscarCP wrote:

(1) with a single “Return” press, and see if, as some recent comments here have it, that now works OK.

1. Hope you meant *Reply* and not *Return*.

OscarCP wrote:

(2) I’ll try the double press, although I am still not clear as to whether to press “Reply” twice and then write, or to press “Reply” once, then write, then press it again.

2. *I am still not clear as to whether to press “Reply” twice and then write,*–Correct, if that was still the necessary work around step.

*or to press “Reply” once, then write, then press it again.*–Incorrect work around steps–never did work this way.

At least for the moment–niether of the above two presses of Reply are necessary.

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Oh, dear–I just had to try! I wonder how many nesting indents are being allowed. Let’s see if it will allow one more …

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Well, yes it did!

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Well, looks like it allowed for 3 nesting indents. How about 4?

Edit by NightOwl:

Nope, 3’s the limit. #4 is lined up with the #3 above.

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Night Owl: Yes I meant “Reply”. And, at least in that case, as you can see, it worked out jut fine. Now, in this case…?

Hope this ‘solved problem’ stays solved and does not turn into a pumpkin again without previous notice.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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I only had to hit Submit once, so it appears to be fixed, like stated above.

Now if Woody’s devs could just fix the rest of the Internet.

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@ rd23

rd23 wrote:

I only had to hit Submit once

Hopefully you were referring to *Reply*, and not *Submit*.

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[rd23]

E.g., I just filled out a support form on NetZero, and upon attempting to submit it, I got:

“There was an error processing your request.  Please try again in a few moments.”

Almost every where I go and fill out a web form, it bombs somehow.

 

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• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by rd23.

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@ rd23

rd23 wrote:

Almost every where I go and fill out a web form, it bombs somehow.

Maybe the Internet is suffering from a high level of *stress* with all the workers and students home from work or school!?

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rc primak

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(This is via “Reply” while other posts were with via “Submit” to avoid being nested.)

Adding to the confusion of where the problems may be, I just upgraded from Windows 7 (Home) to Windows 10 (Home) in late February, so in some ways my computer is the same, but different.

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There have been slowdowns and bandwidth issues for the past week or so. This affects video conferencing as well. I’ve had meetings using proprietary and open-source video conferencing apps. Open-source seems to be suffering worse than proprietary, though my sample of services is small. Peer to peer methods often failed altogether, where users reported previous successes. I know from my tech reading that many ISPs prioritize traffic, and P2P is usually on the low end of the pecking order.

-- rc primak

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