Sometimes, usually when the site is ntot performing well, when I press "post" it then takes an absolute age to post, and in fact may fail.
However, if I press post, and then press it again, it immediately takes me to the message "this message has already been posted" or somesuch.
This leads me to believe that in the normal course of things the site is up to something totally irrelevant and perhaps wrong, where causing an error bypasses the issue.
And don't tell me its related to today's problems, because it isn't. It always does that.
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"However, if I press post, and then press it again, it immediately takes me to the message "this message has already been posted" or somesuch."
Same happened to me the other day .... I had initially assumed I was being cackhanded.
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My posts take about 3-5secs to complete, always. that's fair enough since it's probably writing several dB's & goodness knows what else.
I imagine when you 'double' post, the first part of the process has completed quickly, then you post the same again & this first part of process recognises the same url & request string as being duplicate, hence your error message - it then most likley just ignores the second posting.
Are you sure a router/firewall/anti-something software is not mediating & causing a delay, since as I said, my posting rarely takes more than 5 seconds & usually less. (it wouldn't be the ISP since you'd notice the same delay when reading pages too)
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Is is time-out? The only time I have a problem is when I take too long putting a reply together and it asks me to re-sign-in. The answer to that is to save what you are posting just before you post it and then you are able to re-paste. IIRC HJ has a recovery process but I can never remember it.
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IIRC HJ has a recovery process but I can never remember it.
Mine is simple;
Type my text
Press "post"
Get timeout message and sign in window
Sign back in
Press "back" in the web browser until my typed text appears
Press "post" again
Observe success
No need for cut and paste or any other malarky.
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>>No need for cut and paste or any other malarky.>>
A case of Cache in the Attic...:-)
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Not had any problems with Safari on Mac.
But have with IE7 on Windoze.
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Press "back" in the web browser until my typed text appears
I do 'lose' a post every now and again, and I can never get back to it again.
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>>I imagine when you 'double' post, the first part of the process has completed
quickly, then you post the same again & this first part of process recognises
the same url & request string as being duplicate, hence your error message
- it then most likley just ignores the second posting.
Doesn't really fit what I said, now does it. The action of double posting is causing another action to be ommitted or srhotened.
>>Are you sure a router/firewall/anti-something software is not mediating & causing a delay,
I tend to use the same router etc. for both presses of the button.
To be clear - I do not have an issue. I merely mention a peculiar behaviour in case Stephen has the time/interest to look into it.
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To be clear - I do not have an issue. I merely mention a peculiar behaviour in case Stephen has the time/interest to look into it.
As Stephen doesn't look in on a daily basis, I'll draw his attention to it.
Can't say that I've experienced anything untoward myself though. DD.
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Sorry the title is an oxymoron!
Noticed that now I have Mozilla on my home PC that stops all the associated junk coming up, that this site is faster, work one is still IE so is still slow.
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I visit The Back Room 6 days a week and I've never had this problem. Is it perhaps associated with the equipment you are using?
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My work laptop is a mid range Dell Lap top with IE6 & my home machine is a white box 1700 AMD CPU machine with a fair amount of RAM. Working from home I'm on a reasonable ADSL link & at work when I'm there it's an Ethernet connection. The other forums I spend time on are fine
As I say Mozilla on the home machine is an improvement as it stops all the pop ups and other junk, I can't do that on the work one.
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As I posted in another thread, and asked the mods to remove once I'd proven that I could easily force multiple posts to appear, I find this site lightning fast - I really mean it - when browsing from home using my XP MCE SP2 2.4Ghz dual core PC with 2Gb RAM, two HDDs, careful partitioning, and Internet Explorer 6 over a nominal 8Mb (actual 2Mb) ADSL connection. Browsed from home using my XP Pro SP2 1.7Ghz Pentium laptop with 512MB RAM, also with Internet Explorer 6, it is noticeably slower, but still fast. Only when I take my laptop abroad do I find that performance starts to really drop.
I recognize that this site and the pleasure we derive from it is reliant on sponsorship, but a reason for my consistent high performance appears to be pop-up blocking and a hosts file modification to ensure that pop-up adverts can't "get back to base" (the separate server they are actually running from). If I remove either one of these tweaks performance starts to drop, and if I remove both, it really drops.
If Stephen Khoo is therefore able to do some tweaking, I would suggest that the method of pop-up advertising be the first port of call. This is said not as a dig at pop-ups (It's HJ's choice how he chooses to earn revenue whether we like it or not) but in good spirit as a means of improving a good web site without resort to technical know-how by us end users.
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I haven't had Mark's problem with posting but being on the other side of the world I am logging in when the load on your server is probably very low. Does this problem occur if you log in and post before breakfast? I would assume that to be a low traffic time.
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I normally get a long delay when posting. I'm used to it and wander off to read another post while it updates.
I use firefox and open separate tabs for each 'new' post on and they seem ot load fast enough - it's just posting that seems to take the time to return.
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