Issues

[watersong84]

Ah! I tried to post feedback to Answering Darkness, over at Completed fics authors L-Z, but it got posted about four times. I usually know how to delete extra posts, but I can't seem to do it there. Help?!

[maudmac]

Just start with your last post. (It's the "X" button in the upper right corner of your post.) You should have no trouble deleting that one. (Because you can only delete the last post in a thread.) Once you've deleted the last one, you should then be able to delete the third one, then the second. (Because each of those will become the last post in the thread as you delete the one following it.)

Post again if you have any trouble and a mod will go down there and get them.

[watersong84]

Hey, sorry to be a pain, but there is no "x" on the last one. I can't seem to delete it.

[xita]

I have made a delete button instead of an X. You should see it if you are the last post in the thread. It is next to the edit button. You may need to clear your cache to see it.

[watersong84]

How does one go about clearing one's cache?

[maudmac]

Which browser are you using?

Actually, if you just press the "Ctrl" and "R" keys at the same time, that should make it show up.

[watersong84]

Sorry, I know I suck, but I cleared my cache and I still can't see it.

[xita]

I am not sure why you can't see it. It should only be visible on the last post. Regardless. I have deleted you. In the future, please please only submit once. If you get an error, wait a few minutes and check then to see if your post showed up. Odds are it did post.

[urnofosiris]

I´ve noticed that for me most of the time a post does go through even if it seems to be stuck or I get an error. I just go back or open a new tab, check the thread and there the post will be. Save your post before you post though. If you do not, that is when it won´t go through and you will have to type it all over again. Not that that ever happened to me.

[justin]

Though when I had the problems earlier I did wait a few minutes and try reloading the page a few times (even pressing CTRL R) but none of the posts showed up till I managed to get one to go through successfully.

However I've noticed that even if the post doesn't show up on the thread, when you hit the reply button the post will be shown in the topic review at the bottom of the screen, so I'd recommend checking that before reposting.

[watersong84]

Justin - yeah, that is exactly what happened to me, but I didn't know how to fix it. I waited a few days even and my post was still in the reply screen but not in the post. I didn't know if I posted it again if it would post all of them or just the last one, but it posted them all. Woops!

Thanks to the mods for deleting them!

[justin]

If you're in that situation the best thing to do, rather than reposting the whole message, is to post something just saying something like "test".

This helps since being smaller it'll be more likely to go through successfully and you'll be less likely to have any problems when you delete it. This is important since if the servers time out when you're deleting a post it can cause the whole thread to be hidden.

[watersong84]

Yeah, that makes sense, thanks. Sometimes I'm just a big dummy about computers and stuff.

[Patches]

On the top banner links (at least I think that's what they're called -- um these..

Profile You have no new messages Log out [ Patches ] Memberlist Usergroups
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) Would you please add a link to The Inward Eye? I think a lot of people don't really know we're here. There's lots of wonderful stuff posted there. Muchly thanks

Cheers!!
Patches

[xita]

Ok, will do so when I get home.

[Patches]

Hey, trouble's back again...I'm still encountering the "page cannot be displayed" error screen on some posts. I tried Justin's ctr+R trick, and that didn't work. I also went back page to check the thread, no post...so, I tried the trick I'd used to get my post up on my Inward Eye story edit...backspace, then hit submit a second time. This time--double post. Will you please delete my second post from Survivor Ash Island?

Any ideas what might be causing the problem? It's only on the KB site since we've moved here, and seems to be a rather random occurance.

Also, I shut down the browser and when I brought the KB page up, this message appeared once:

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Obviously, I made it on after a second try.

Cheers!! and muchly thanks (again)
Patches

ETA: I'm wondering if my random encounters might not be so random after all. Normally, I compose in a word processor and copy/paste the post after. I downloaded the newest toolbar update from Google with the spell check function for web pages -- I think the "page cannot be displayed" error occurs after I compose right on the KB reply page and run the Google spell check. Perhaps this is merely coincident, and I don't know enough about the 'nuts and bolts' of computers to decide otherwise, but could something in this funky new Google function be interfering with the encoding somehow?

[Jenny22]

iu like this board alot better registering is awsome!!

[watty]

I'm getting 500 Errors when posting an update on Pens. I can review and post around 1,000 words, if I go over significantly I get the following error:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@thekittenboard.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It's not a problem, I can split the update, but it might be worth looking into.

ETA: I tried splitting the post but still got 500'ed. I tried to edit the original post to add more content in, no luck.

[maudmac]

Hey, watson. I see you trying to post your update in the fic challenge thread.

Not sure what to tell you. You should be able to make posts much larger than 3,800 words. I tested your post and it went through just fine for me. Then I copied it a few times and ended up with about seven thousand words and that posted just fine as well.

I know the server is weird sometimes and I've gotten that error myself a few times. Seems to be random.

I hope the server was just being pissy for a minute and all will be well soon. I'm not having any problems at the moment, so I don't know what's going on. I'd say wait a few minutes, make a face and see if you can't intimidate the server into behaving properly...and then try posting again.

But please post here again if after a while, it still won't let you post.

[kindagay]

Hi,

My avatar keeps vanishing. Most of the time it's fine, but, every so often, instead of my avatar, there's just a tiny white box with a red cross in it, & then when I go to my profile to fix it, it's not there at all & I have to retype the url.

Uhm, any ideas why that might be?

Hugs
Jeanne

[maudmac]

What's the URL of the picture you want to use?

[kindagay]

The url is:

http://us.f3.yahoofs.com/users/41b5a5d9 ... CB.7VTqbRi

[maudmac]

Hmm. Says "The URL of the remote avatar is not valid"

Do you have that picture at any other URL?

[kindagay]

Does this one work?

http://us.f3.yahoofs.com/users/41b5a5d9 ... CBU_8RqbRi

[maudmac]

No, sorry, that's not valid, either.

You could get a photobucket account or something, if you need some webspace.

[watty]

Hi Holley,

I managed to post in 3 parts, thanks for your suggestion and help.

I did send you an email, but you can ignore it now.

Thanks again, I'm touched by how quickly you came to mine and Jeanne's rescue, makes me feel like we're very well taken care of.

w.

[kindagay]

Thanks for the help

[maudmac]

Awww, y'all are welcome. Any time, any time.

And hooray for photobucket!

[WickedReds]

Okay not sure if this gose here but on my thread Wicked's Words on The Inward Eye. I want to get rid of this- (Update 4-12-05), and i cant figure out how to get it off or to change it. so if someone can remove it for me it would be most wonderful . Thanks

-reds

[Always410]

Hey..

This could be me..but..I was looking through the Poll section and..there is no option for me to vote. I havn't voted on any of them yet. Is this something that I'm doing?

Thanks,
Jen