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Notices, Help With Problems and Your Forum Ideas... => Forum Ideas and Problems. => Topic started by: port perran on November 15, 2024, 07:45:15 PM

Title: Strange Goings On
Post by: port perran on November 15, 2024, 07:45:15 PM
I've experienced a problem with the forum this evening.
If I select someone else's topic the forum behaves normally :
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/146/230-151124194230.png) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=146953)
But if I select my own topics I get this :
(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/146/230-151124194310.png) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=146954)
The various buttons eg Reply, Add Bookmark etc have disappeared as have the ads plus the text seems to have elongated.
Any thoughts?
Cheers
Martin
Title: Re: Strange Goings On
Post by: Papyrus on November 15, 2024, 08:22:38 PM
They'll be there somewhere. I suspect it is due to the very long links in Chris Morris's post.

Cheers,

Chris
Title: Re: Strange Goings On
Post by: Newportnobby on November 15, 2024, 08:31:32 PM
@port perran
Martin - I've shortened your link and the two posted by Chris Morris so it should be OK now if you want to check
Title: Re: Strange Goings On
Post by: Nbodger on November 15, 2024, 08:34:32 PM
Martin

It is due to people posting long URL links.

This is the annoying thing on the forum and spoils threads.

It will change back to normal on subsequent pages unless someone posts another. There are at least ones person who is a repeat offender.

The first incidence could have been self inflicted with your links to CDU's also Chris Morris's links.

You can shorten links by using the URL icon on the posting screen which is to the right of the video link icon

Hope this helps
Title: Re: Strange Goings On
Post by: Newportnobby on November 15, 2024, 08:38:12 PM
Or possibly use Tinyurl

https://tinyurl.com
Title: Re: Strange Goings On
Post by: ntpntpntp on November 15, 2024, 09:20:06 PM
Quite often it's people posting links to ebay and amazon listing etc. and not realising that usually you only need to copy the URL up to (but not including) the "?" character. Anything after that tends to be tracking parameters, sorting parameters etc.

If I'm going to post such a link I copy the required part of the URL first and test it works in another browser tab, before inserting into the post.
Title: Re: Strange Goings On
Post by: Tank on November 21, 2024, 08:42:23 PM
I'll add this to our modifications list, to stop this happening in the future.
Title: Re: Strange Goings On
Post by: Newportnobby on November 21, 2024, 09:09:56 PM
Quote from: Tank on November 21, 2024, 08:42:23 PMI'll add this to our modifications list, to stop this happening in the future.

That's fair enough, but the solution is there for us anyway. Don't post long URLs! :stop:
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