Several times, I have posted a reply only to find that it is not showing up on the forum. I've been checking the time that I post the message and have noticed that someone else has posted a reply at the same time. The message warning me that someone else has posted does not appear.
Has anyone else experienced this?
No, can't say I have, but then, I don't post a lot....
G.
All ok here Jane. I have been posting several replies with no apparent problem.
There's a setting in Vbulletin to stop spam, it's probably active, you can tue it to just deny multiple posting from the same user account at the same time, it's probably at some weird setting to disable multiple postings by any user at the same time stamp :)
Just went to post a reply and I got the warning message without any problem and Donkey has just posted a reply, so, no problems here (using Chrome)
This is not a recent issue, it has been happening intermittently over the past few months, maybe about ten times and can be frustrating if I have researched a reply. Now I take a copy of some of my replies in case they 'get lost'.
Sometimes I do get the warning message.
Have you done a deep scan recently for viruses/malware, just a thought ???
Quote from: whiteswan on August 14, 2012, 07:47:22 PM
Have you done a deep scan recently for viruses/malware, just a thought ???
Yes, I regularly do scans. I am using Firefox on a Macbook Air (with Mountain Lion) at the moment.
Ah well, if you will use these strange machines, what do you expect (ducks) :nerner:
Quote from: whiteswan on August 14, 2012, 07:54:30 PM
Ah well, if you will use these strange machines, what do you expect (ducks) :nerner:
Bit forward of you to call Pengy 'ducks' :worried:
Made me reach for my pint of Creme de Menthe, that did :pint:
Pengy - you didn't by any chance refresh the page when losing your message ???
That's the only time I have suffered the problem and, basically, it was warning me that someone else was posting - and it turned out to be me myself :-X
I have found some messages take a bit longer than usual to appear but I just put it down to our lousy broadband connection here in Oz, 500kb sec if flying by Oz standards.
On a more important subject that Creme de Menthe sounds great Mike.
Quote from: oldrailbug on August 14, 2012, 10:49:11 PM
On a more important subject that Creme de Menthe sounds great Mike.
You are much better off with Blue Bols :doh:
That Creme de Menthe is some strong stuff - according to Billy Connolly that's what the pope drinks and they carry him everywhere in a chair.
Quote from: newportnobby on August 14, 2012, 09:26:36 PM
Pengy - you didn't by any chance refresh the page when losing your message ???
That's the only time I have suffered the problem and, basically, it was warning me that someone else was posting - and it turned out to be me myself :-X
No, I didn't refresh the page. This makes me think that maybe I was posting at the exact time that someone else is posting.
I've lost a post but very rarely.
I now write up anything more than a few words in Word and then copy n paste it in. Saves that huge frustration when your classic prose is lost into the ether!
Dave
Quote from: scotsoft on August 14, 2012, 11:59:35 PM
Quote from: oldrailbug on August 14, 2012, 10:49:11 PM
On a more important subject that Creme de Menthe sounds great Mike.
You are much better off with Blue Bols :doh:
That's just a side effect :o
posting
Answering...got the warning.
Posting.
Answering...again warning.
Posting here and waiting a bit with the other account to reply in order to let the session expire... I don't remember when it expires though...
You said you had and have the issue of messages "disappearing" since a year or so, can you describe it a little better?
What does exactly mean that the posts do not show up? Do you get an error page? (Apparently not, but better ask twice) You are thrown back to the message index? Or to the topic? Or...
Does it happen with any kind of message? (Long ones, short ones, from the quick reply, from the main "post" page, etc.)
Did you ever notice any kind of pattern? (Maybe when you write long posts that take a lot of time, or when you use something in particular (a video, many images, something else).
Someone mentioned that while posting there were new answers, did you notice if it is common?
Are you using the "full post page" or the quick reply?
Do you have the setting to come back to the topic after posting or it comes to the message index?
Quote from: emanuele2 on July 08, 2013, 12:48:44 PM
You said you had and have the issue of messages "disappearing" since a year or so, can you describe it a little better?
What does exactly mean that the posts do not show up? Do you get an error page? (Apparently not, but better ask twice) You are thrown back to the message index? Or to the topic? Or...
I write the post and press 'post'. i am then thrown back to the message index. There are no warning messages or errors. My post does not appear on the topic
Does it happen with any kind of message? (Long ones, short ones, from the quick reply, from the main "post" page, etc.)
Happens with long and short messages
Did you ever notice any kind of pattern? (Maybe when you write long posts that take a lot of time, or when you use something in particular (a video, many images, something else).
Someone mentioned that while posting there were new answers, did you notice if it is common?
It happens with messages without images and with images. Once I realised some of my posts were getting lost, I noticed that whenever this happened, someone else had posted at almost the same time
Are you using the "full post page" or the quick reply?
"Full post page"
Do you have the setting to come back to the topic after posting or it comes to the message index?
Mine comes back to the message index for that Board
Answers embedded in your quote. This is intermittent most of the time I get the warning that someone else has posted. I now check that all of my posts show up and use the back button to recover the post if it does not.
This is doubtfully weird...
Never encountered something like that...I'll try to understand what is going on.
I'll take a guess from where I've seen this kind of thing before:
A lot of UK big internet providers and especially mobile providers make heavy use of big caching proxies. If you are trying to detect duplicate posting by IP address only it won't work, you need to parse the proxy headers from the http header or key off the account instead.
Alan