28 posts · 6 participants · started Nov 19, 2019, 11:45 PM
Keep letting us know. . . .
1. The *freshness* function of “Support and Suggestions” is not working.
2. Some replies are landing in the *pending* folder when an individual submits his/her reply. This should not happen. The disappearance prevents the individual from editing the reply.
Dear Friends,
The webmaster has tried a few more things to attempt to fix these issues. Here’s what she’s said:
For the missing forum posts, I disabled another spam filter. It’s also possible your comment moderation settings have been affecting the forum, so I made a change to them – since Nigel said his posts went into pending after some details like IP address changed, it’s possible the comment setting was having an effect. If you’re really eager to lower the chance this happens again, I could also disable the last spam filter – Akismet. Akismet does put things in pending if their server doesn’t respond or a paid account lapses. However, in my experience this is pretty rare, and disabling Akismet would be opening the floodgates. So my default tactic is to be cautious. If even disabling Akismet doesn’t work, I’ll just have to do a lot more troubleshooting and research, which will take time.
For the other issues of freshness and things showing up or disappearing, I disabled a bunch of caching. I should warn you that this might slow the forums down for people. Please have them report back on whether this is an improvement. If the latest poster notices still aren’t current, I could do more troubleshooting. Again, I do low hanging fruit first, and time intensive things as a last resort.
I’m supportive of her tactics. I’m not keen to see the last spam filter removed so if things improve that will be a relief. I’m also in favour of her tackling the “low hanging fruit” first as her time is our money! All we can do is keep monitoring things. Please keep your error reports coming to this thread.
Cheers,
Kathleen
From Sydney, Australia
keep monitoring things
I agree with your conclusion to leave Askismet in place. Replies are still being diverted to the pending folder. I am retoring them as soon as I can. I restored one by Rick Warren today. After taking that action, I tried to view it on the public forum. I clicked on his now-restored- reply and got this page:
It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try one of the links below or a search?”
I performed this action several times and continue to get this oops page. The only way I can read Rick’s most recent reply is by clicking on *general discussions* to find the freshest reply for a topic and by clicking on that. The *freshness* function works fine within this layer of the forum.
Another missing post today in Reincarnation. Oh dear…
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
Another lost post in “Reincarnation” this morning……
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
Hi!
Looks like the missing posts problem is still around – got the message that it posted but it didn’t…
Also, I cannot edit my own profile – none of the features are working…
Thanks!
the missing posts problem is still around
It happens from time to time. Your post has been restored.
Heads up….
It appears that Nameless has a new post stuck in the spam folder… or wherever they go instead of where they’re supposed to go…
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
