Develop Bugs

Retweet button not working?

Wanted to try the ReTweet button you see on each thread and post, but when i click it, it takes me to a blank pages saying:
An error occurred
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Edit: Tried with Firefox, Chrome, IE and Opera all 4 gives the same message as above. This is on Win7 64bit if that has anything to do with it.

Nitrius said:
Wanted to try the ReTweet button you see on each thread and post, but when i click it, it takes me to a blank pages saying:
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Same here, Chrome 5.0.375.99, Windows XP SP3.
Dave

Okay good to know, It's probably not working for anyone at the moment then. Hopefully it will be fixed.
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Here working well: Opera 10.60, Win7 32bit

Hm, i've tried Firefox, IE and Chrome all three give the same message. Gonna install Opera and check. But anyway, there must be some kind of problem with the feature, can't be right that it should only work on Opera?
Edit: Nope, not working in Opera either here. Don't suppose there is on option in my User CP here on the board i must enable or something?

We're trying to fix - it has to do with the Twitter API we're using. Thanks for the note!

Ah great, looking forward to when it's fixed =)

Removal of some very irritating features

Hello I just joined xda developers and immediatly noticed something very irritating >
1. The capcha before posts - a capcha at signup is enough for most people , aren't u guys a little too paranoid.
2. Quick reply options in threads and removal of the title bar for posts - haven't yet seen even one post which uses a title bar in 5 hours

captcha needed to stop spammers
Zer07777 said:
Hello I just joined xda developers and immediatly noticed something very irritating >
1. The capcha before posts - a capcha at signup is enough for most people , aren't u guys a little too paranoid.
2. Quick reply options in threads and removal of the title bar for posts - haven't yet seen even one post which uses a title bar in 5 hours
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If you saw the amount of spam that manages to slip through then you would see why the captcha is still necessary for a time after signing up. It should stop after your next couple of posts however.
Unfortunately people are sometimes in too much of a hurry to type a title in for posts and the titles don't show in the XDA app, but they are still important to keep and use.

Captcha's unreadable
It is nice to know that the captcha's go away eventually. I have seen other forums that have been entirely taken over by spam-bots, so I understand the need, but the captcha's in use on this site are about 90% unreadable. I mean literally unreadable, the text is clipped so that only a corner of one of the letters is visible. I have to click the next captcha button on an average of 5 times bfore getting to one that I think I MIGHT know what it says...
P.S. This is a wonderful example of that, I tried to post this without the PS, and it turns out I was not correctly reading the captcha. This one looks a little better, so here is hoping...

acwest said:
It is nice to know that the captcha's go away eventually. I have seen other forums that have been entirely taken over by spam-bots, so I understand the need, but the captcha's in use on this site are about 90% unreadable. I mean literally unreadable, the text is clipped so that only a corner of one of the letters is visible. I have to click the next captcha button on an average of 5 times bfore getting to one that I think I MIGHT know what it says...
P.S. This is a wonderful example of that, I tried to post this without the PS, and it turns out I was not correctly reading the captcha. This one looks a little better, so here is hoping...
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Ya i didnt know that the capchas go away eventually , Thanks acwest
But as the quoted text says capchas are very much unreadable and some simple math instead of the capcha would be great

Zer07777 said:
2. Quick reply options in threads and removal of the title bar for posts - haven't yet seen even one post which uses a title bar in 5 hours
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Seriously? So you'd prefer having to go to a post, click 'quote', be taken to a separate page to type your reply (on which you won't be able to scroll through the thread gathering info or whatever for your reply), clicking post and then being redirected back to the page again causing it to refresh? Quick reply is fast and handy (hence the name).
As for the title bar, you've got to be kidding me. I don't think it even deserves an explanation.

Nigeldg said:
Seriously? So you'd prefer having to go to a post, click 'quote', be taken to a separate page to type your reply (on which you won't be able to scroll through the thread gathering info or whatever for your reply), clicking post and then being redirected back to the page again causing it to refresh? Quick reply is fast and handy (hence the name).
As for the title bar, you've got to be kidding me. I don't think it even deserves an explanation.
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Sorry U must Have misunderstood i meant that the quick reply never worked for me as how much i clicked the reply box would not activate thats why i said that

Zer07777 said:
Sorry U must Have misunderstood i meant that the quick reply never worked for me as how much i clicked the reply box would not activate thats why i said that
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Are you sure you're clicking "Quick Reply" on someone's post? It works fine for everyone else
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The fact that their are captchas really isn't the problem. It is that they really are almost 90-95% unreadable. I have had some captcha pop up that literally was just the bottom corner of a letter and that was it during registration. I had to refresh about 20 times before I found one that I could sorta read.
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Hey the quick reply works with the 2010 theme i dont know but u cant get it to work with the new one.
Browser used is firefox but the button works in internet explorer.

Zer07777 said:
Hey the quick reply works with the 2010 theme i dont know but u cant get it to work with the new one.
Browser used is firefox but the button works in internet explorer.
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Maybe its a problem with Firefox then? Do You have installed some add-ons that could block the quick reply?
For me the quick reply works perfect on pc(chrome) and my stock HTC one s browser. And I'm using the 2013 theme as well, so the theme would not be the probleme I think.
Why don't you try some other browsers like opera, chrome or safari ?
And you could reply back here on this thread or tell an admin if it is a problem with Firefox, and maybe its getting fixed then.

CrayzyBoy said:
Maybe its a problem with Firefox then? Do You have installed some add-ons that could block the quick reply?
For me the quick reply works perfect on pc(chrome) and my stock HTC one s browser. And I'm using the 2013 theme as well, so the theme would not be the probleme I think.
Why don't you try some other browsers like opera, chrome or safari ?
And you could reply back here on this thread or tell an admin if it is a problem with Firefox, and maybe its getting fixed then.
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Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 works fine
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Quinny899 said:
Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 works fine
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Thanks for letting us know.
Would be nice to know if the OP is on windows Mac or Linux.

I would like to have that 5 minutes limit between posts removed. That's the most annoying feature so far
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demlasjr said:
I would like to have that 5 minutes limit between posts removed. That's the most annoying feature so far
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It goes as you post more and they are sure your not here to spam. When there are this many users extreme spam prevention has to be used
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That's true, but in a mobile community where most US US are using the smartphone and the creepy autocorrect or our fingers are doing mistakes, I guess at least the edit function should be allowed without waiting 5 minutes. Any word posted mistakenly here can be seen at least 10 times in 5 minutes (and there is judge chance to get a reply with quote and the mistake will be visible forever)
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demlasjr said:
That's true, but in a mobile community where most US US are using the smartphone and the creepy autocorrect or our fingers are doing mistakes, I guess at least the edit function should be allowed without waiting 5 minutes. Any word posted mistakenly here can be seen at least 10 times in 5 minutes (and there is judge chance to get a reply with quote and the mistake will be visible forever)
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The reason it is not allowed is that spammers would use it to add links that they would not have been able to include in the original post. I know it is a pain, but "read twice, post once".

No quick reply here too. Do I need 10 posts for this too ?

Aly007 said:
No quick reply here too. Do I need 10 posts for this too ?
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Uhm... No idea but I have it.
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CrayzyBoy said:
Maybe its a problem with Firefox then? Do You have installed some add-ons that could block the quick reply?
For me the quick reply works perfect on pc(chrome) and my stock HTC one s browser. And I'm using the 2013 theme as well, so the theme would not be the probleme I think.
Why don't you try some other browsers like opera, chrome or safari ?
And you could reply back here on this thread or tell an admin if it is a problem with Firefox, and maybe its getting fixed then.
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Sorry Men Actually I identified the probelemn that i was using the nightly of firefox and that seemed to be the problemn everything works good with the stable version of ff with the same profile and addons as the nightly build.

[Q] A question on multiquote and how to turn it off

Hi, I've not found anything that relates to my problem so I'm hoping I can get some clarification here.
I seem to have got stuck in Multiquote mode. I think I pressed it one day and now everything I do will add to the same post, ie. it gets multiquoted.
The way I understood it, if you press 'Multiquote' then it will ... uhm ... multiquote. If you press 'Reply' it won't.
Currently it doesn't matter if I press reply it still gets added to the same post. So the question is, is this a toggle and if so how do I turn it off and more importantly, if it's a toggle is there any indication which mode I am currently in?

Multi-quote allows you to reply to multiple people in the same post. You can quote several posts simultaneously. You reply by either clicking on "reply" or "quick reply."

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I don't think clicking quick reply after multi quoting works..Though, I am not sure about it, i forgot.
However,pressing "Reply" after multi quoting works for sure
Controversies,controversies everywhere :what:

Prawesome said:
I don't think clicking quick reply after multi quoting works..Though, I am not sure about it, i forgot.
However,pressing "Reply" after multi quoting works for sure
Controversies,controversies everywhere :what:
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Yes it doesn't seem to work for me. I am getting mulitquotes regardless in another thread that I'm active in.

post-mortem said:
Multi-quote allows you to reply to multiple people in the same post. You can quote several posts simultaneously. You reply by either clicking on "reply" or "quick reply."
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Thanks it seems to work in this thread. I'll just have to test it out in the thread I'm having problems in.

[BUG?] "Save" button not working...

... in the latest Chrome browser, after editing the post. If I pressed "Save" after editing, I just getting a spinning indicator.
But if I switch to "Advanced mode" everything works as it should be.

Update: same behavior/bug on "Post quick reply" button
P.S. Hmm... I'm confusing: it works now...

sensboston said:
... in the latest Chrome browser, after editing the post. If I pressed "Save" after editing, I just getting a spinning indicator.
But if I switch to "Advanced mode" everything works as it should be.
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I confirm that its a bug. I need to use edit and then have to choose advance edit.

sensboston said:
... in the latest Chrome browser, after editing the post. If I pressed "Save" after editing, I just getting a spinning indicator.
But if I switch to "Advanced mode" everything works as it should be.
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refer to this and this for remedy
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.​

xsenman, thanks for sharing (I'm not first) but it's a still an issue. Workarounds are fine but definitely not a solution...

sensboston said:
xsenman, thanks for sharing (I'm not first) but it's a still an issue. Workarounds are fine but definitely not a solution...
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yup, @bitpushr should be aware of it and hopefully solve it for good some time in the future and its not the only issue XDA site is going through , so in the meantime the work around might have to do for now. :fingers-crossed:

Manage attachments

I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but I don't see the manage attachments button under the text field. I searched the FAQ, but could not find if there is some post limit/minimum before being able to do this?

TraceFormer said:
I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but I don't see the manage attachments button under the text field. I searched the FAQ, but could not find if there is some post limit/minimum before being able to do this?
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You have to select edit, then select advanced edit. That should be what you're looking for.

Sorry, I'm not seeing edit or advanced edit buttons under the text field. I see Post Icons, Image Verification, and then Submit Reply & Preview Post. I tried both Firefox and Internet Explorer, even turned off ad blockers.

I just realized, you meant edit an already existing post. What I am trying to do is attach a file to a post/reply.

TraceFormer said:
I just realized, you meant edit an already existing post. What I am trying to do is attach a file to a post/reply.
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If you click on the reply button, it will open a new screen allowing you to write your post, above the text field you will see lots of buttons, don't you see this "manage attachment" button in this create post screen like shown in my screenshot?
The UI may differ depending on the used theme of course.

No that button is missing for me. Tried to attach a screen shot, but it won't let me do that either (only put in a URL). Tried on mobile device too, and that button is not there.

TraceFormer said:
No that button is missing for me. Tried to attach a screen shot, but it won't let me do that either (only put in a URL). Tried on mobile device too, and that button is not there.
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This attachment feature is not present for members below 10 posts but you are above this limit so it should be there, I don't understand. Some ideas of tests:
- wipe cache of your browser
- try Google Chrome
- try another xda theme
- wait 24h or 48h and it may be fixed by itself
- or if still not working we may need admin assistance

TraceFormer said:
No that button is missing for me. Tried to attach a screen shot, but it won't let me do that either (only put in a URL). Tried on mobile device too, and that button is not there.
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I've no experience with IE but I'd the same issue quite a while ago on FF when I used the add-ons uBlock Origin and NoScript. For this reason, I've created an own profile for FF to use XDA.

Post reset
I had many posts years ago, had not been here for Ca. 2years and now I have 0 posts. So can't post link or attacment. /RANT/