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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #220 on: 02/20/2019 02:39 pm »
Sometimes it's cached - hit "Back" and see if it's there.


One warning - especially if you write long ones (that therefore take some amount of time to write), you hit "Post" and there's a warning that one or new posts have happened while you were writing your post and you therefore have to hit Post again or you will lose the post...
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #221 on: 02/20/2019 03:07 pm »
I have just completed a very long post and hit the post button.  It did not post and disappeared.  This has happened to me a few times in the past.  Has anyone experienced the same problem and have any suggestions.  It’s very frustrating!
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Most of the time with me it's been because my site timer expired and I'd been logged out, or near to logging out. When I've logged in again sometimes it's been recoverable, sometimes not. I'm guessing you've been still logged in when its happened.

If it's a long one I'd suggest write it offline in some editor or take a copy before hitting post so it is recoverable. That takes just a few seconds and you're covered if posting fails. As always "Less haste, more speed."
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #222 on: 02/20/2019 04:54 pm »
I write my posts in a text editor and then copy/paste them into the web form.  Way too many sites have post timers that will timeout and kill everything.

The extra 3 clicks and 4 keystrokes are well worth not having the frustration.

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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #223 on: 02/20/2019 05:18 pm »
Moved this to forum feedback as there's some good suggestions here.

1) Don't set your login time for a short period, because if you spend a long time writing a post and go over the time you're logged in, you'll be logged out by the time you post it and that's not going to end well for the post.

2) Make sure you're on a solid connection. People posting as they are losing their mobile signal are going to suffer a timeout.

3) "Another new post" message. I don't get those, but perhaps because I removed it from my settings years ago. Check settings (someone can help with that if they know how they turned it off). All forums have that, has always seemed a pointless "didn't post, as you may want to read new posts first" crap ;)

4) I don't think it caches on some browsers if you back click, so be careful of that.

5) Mega long posts, draft and then copy and paste when ready to post. If you suffer from the above points, at least you haven't lost it.
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #224 on: 02/20/2019 05:35 pm »
3) "Another new post" message. I don't get those, but perhaps because I removed it from my settings years ago. Check settings (someone can help with that if they know how they turned it off). All forums have that, has always seemed a pointless "didn't post, as you may want to read new posts first" crap ;)

It's under the Look and Layout section of your user profile.  (The option right above it is also a useful one to turn on.)

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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #225 on: 02/21/2019 03:15 am »
I've been getting 500 Gateway errors starting last night, off and on.  Came here to see if anybody else got the same.  I'll try screen printing and documenting date and time when they occur.   Tony
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #226 on: 02/21/2019 12:38 pm »
I've been getting 500 Gateway errors starting last night, off and on.  Came here to see if anybody else got the same.  I'll try screen printing and documenting date and time when they occur.   Tony

No obvious signs of any issues, but it can happen. The thing I'd ask is if anyone ever sees one, it will clear the next time you refresh unless it's a serious issue (which we'd get to know about), but before you refresh look for the RAY ID at the bottom of the error notice and copy that to me so I can pass it on to Mark. It's like a finger print of what went wrong.

Basically, one of our hosts is cloudflare and it likes to act like monitoring, so any issue, it'll come up saying it in a nice overview, but with that RAY ID number at the bottom. So it's all very clever to track an issue, even if it was just for a second or so.
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #227 on: 02/22/2019 04:12 am »
I've been getting 500 Gateway errors starting last night, off and on.  Came here to see if anybody else got the same.  I'll try screen printing and documenting date and time when they occur.   Tony

No obvious signs of any issues, but it can happen. The thing I'd ask is if anyone ever sees one, it will clear the next time you refresh unless it's a serious issue (which we'd get to know about), but before you refresh look for the RAY ID at the bottom of the error notice and copy that to me so I can pass it on to Mark. It's like a finger print of what went wrong.

Basically, one of our hosts is cloudflare and it likes to act like monitoring, so any issue, it'll come up saying it in a nice overview, but with that RAY ID number at the bottom. So it's all very clever to track an issue, even if it was just for a second or so.

Will Do, and yes the incidents I had were from Cloudflare and refreshing did not help.I just waited a few minutes and came back in.
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #228 on: 02/22/2019 12:19 pm »
I've been getting 500 Gateway errors starting last night, off and on.  Came here to see if anybody else got the same.  I'll try screen printing and documenting date and time when they occur.   Tony

No obvious signs of any issues, but it can happen. The thing I'd ask is if anyone ever sees one, it will clear the next time you refresh unless it's a serious issue (which we'd get to know about), but before you refresh look for the RAY ID at the bottom of the error notice and copy that to me so I can pass it on to Mark. It's like a finger print of what went wrong.

Basically, one of our hosts is cloudflare and it likes to act like monitoring, so any issue, it'll come up saying it in a nice overview, but with that RAY ID number at the bottom. So it's all very clever to track an issue, even if it was just for a second or so.

Will Do, and yes the incidents I had were from Cloudflare and refreshing did not help.I just waited a few minutes and came back in.

Sounds like it could have been local as "a few minutes" is something we'd absolutely notice. Not happened since?

A few seconds, that can always happen with sites. Not a few minutes, so yeah the RAY ID would help in future.
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #229 on: 02/22/2019 02:10 pm »
I just got one (target URL was https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37310.msg1912565;topicseen#new )

Error 502 Ray ID: 4ad20b335ed07e75 • 2019-02-22 14:11:45 UTC
Bad gateway

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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #230 on: 02/22/2019 05:52 pm »
I just got one (target URL was https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37310.msg1912565;topicseen#new )

Error 502 Ray ID: 4ad20b335ed07e75 • 2019-02-22 14:11:45 UTC
Bad gateway

Hope that helps

Just got another one, here's the Ray ID: 4ad3a433ee41cb96
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #231 on: 02/22/2019 10:17 pm »
I've been getting 500 Gateway errors starting last night, off and on.  Came here to see if anybody else got the same.  I'll try screen printing and documenting date and time when they occur.   Tony

No obvious signs of any issues, but it can happen. The thing I'd ask is if anyone ever sees one, it will clear the next time you refresh unless it's a serious issue (which we'd get to know about), but before you refresh look for the RAY ID at the bottom of the error notice and copy that to me so I can pass it on to Mark. It's like a finger print of what went wrong.

Basically, one of our hosts is cloudflare and it likes to act like monitoring, so any issue, it'll come up saying it in a nice overview, but with that RAY ID number at the bottom. So it's all very clever to track an issue, even if it was just for a second or so.

Will Do, and yes the incidents I had were from Cloudflare and refreshing did not help.I just waited a few minutes and came back in.

Sounds like it could have been local as "a few minutes" is something we'd absolutely notice. Not happened since?

A few seconds, that can always happen with sites. Not a few minutes, so yeah the RAY ID would help in future.

Chris, it hasn't happened now since I posted.  It must have been a fluke.  I'll close this for now.  I'll nab the RAY ID if it occurs again.
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #232 on: 02/25/2019 09:25 pm »
When using the Dark Reader extension in Chrome, images within Twitter inclusions are colour inverted.

All other images on the forum are fine.

Example of how it looks to me with Dark Reader on:
1) Tweet
2) NSF Attachment of same image
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #233 on: 02/25/2019 09:28 pm »
Looks like it's inverting all images, because both of those look identical to me

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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #234 on: 02/25/2019 09:32 pm »
Looks like it's inverting all images, because both of those look identical to me

Yep, I posted the wrong images. Check it now.

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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #235 on: 02/26/2019 09:15 am »
Looks like it's inverting all images, because both of those look identical to me

Yep, I posted the wrong images. Check it now.

Oh My, A million Thanks ARB for finding this.  I do all my reading in the dark.  It's so much more pleasant to read now.
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #236 on: 02/26/2019 08:03 pm »
Just want to express my gratitude to all who are involved in running this forum - Chris Bergin and all other NSF team members and authors, the mods who keep the threads tidy, and all of you who contribute to this enormous collection of knowledge. I am greatly impressed by how this forum is managed and by the content quality. Thanks!
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #237 on: 02/26/2019 08:04 pm »
Just want to express my gratitude to all who are involved in running this forum - Chris Bergin and all other NSF team members and authors, the mods who keep the threads tidy, and all of you who contribute to this enormous collection of knowledge. I am greatly impressed by how this forum is managed and by the content quality. Thanks!

I normally dread reading "new posts" on this thread as it's usually about a problem, so that was nice! ;D
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #238 on: 02/28/2019 07:22 pm »
Had a couple of 525 errors. Mark says he was preparing the server hamsters for DM-1 and issues may have been seen between 8 mins after the hour and 15 mins after the hour (in the hour of this post). So providing we see no more it was just that.
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Re: Current NSF Forum Feedback Thread 2
« Reply #239 on: 02/28/2019 07:27 pm »
Yeah, I had about 4 of them, but none in the most recent 5 mins....
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