Develop Bugs

Why didn´t allow the Phorum linebreaks???

Hello XDA-developers....
Noticed today, that when you´re posting without HTML-Code all the text is shown in one line....
I´m sure this wasn´t so all the time and i don´t want to turn on the HTML-code.
it´s ugly enough receiving HTML-Emails, so I´d like it more without HTML-Code in the postings.
Also it´s very ugly to read the postings, when much text is in it....
Maybe you can have a look at it...
Regards
Stefan

you are right, that should not happen.
this is something that has recently had some code changes.
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( jus ttesting )

hmm.
probably something to do with our new usergroup HTML.
I'll ask pp tomorrow.

Noticed today, that the preview shows all correct.
Only when you submit the post, this strange thing appears...
HTH
Stefan

Whoops... I'll fix it.
Stay tuned...

I think all should be well now: old messages that were posted when stuff was broken now have line-breaks fixed, and new messages shoud work OK.
Apologies for the mess...

Peter Poelman said:
I think all should be well now: old messages that were posted when stuff was broken now have line-breaks fixed, and new messages shoud work OK.
Apologies for the mess...
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Yeap.
Looks great. Thnx a lot.

What in the world... a 8 year old thread? You 10 posters... :banghead:
I am a potato, problem?

Hmoki said:
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Prawesome said:
What in the world... a 8 year old thread? You 10 posters... :banghead:
I am a potato, problem?
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Lol! I think he taught no one would notice his post.. he didn't know that thread would come to first page if it gets new post
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Forums not refreshing properly

I notice that the forums don't load after I post... and that it doesn't update my thread views like normal... for instance it tells me a thread is new even though I have already seen it.
Anything change in the past couple weeks?

neoobs said:
that it doesn't update my thread views like normal... for instance it tells me a thread is new even though I have already seen it.
Anything change in the past couple weeks?
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I get this sometimes. To Fix it:
Log out and clear all your cookies (even though log out tell's you they are all cleared). If you using Firefox 3, click the Icon to the left of the address bar, the click More Information, Security Tab, View Cookies, and remove any remaining.
Somethings have changed, but this problem occured before and after the changes for me.
Ta
Dave

I noticed I am not being sent to redirection pages... I think this is part of the issue... I will PM Flar

I sometimes get this. Often hitting refresh seems to fix the problem.

I'm getting the message on my Treo, something along the lines: 'a script causing device slow may become unresponsive'

Testing to see if I still get the white screen
Yep still getting them

neoobs said:
Testing to see if I still get the white screen
Yep still getting them
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The site admin has changed some more vBulletin settings, please can you test again.
Thanks
Dave

Testing again per request LOL
Same effect, same errors.

neoobs said:
Testing again per request LOL
Same effect, same errors.
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Can you try a log out, clear cookies, et al. and try again please.
Ta
Dave

I hope this one works *crosses fingers*
Still happening

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I hope this one works *crosses fingers*
Still happening
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KK, I'll pass it on.
Dave

we should just call this the spam thread LOL

testing again
Works perfect now... can we delete all my posts LOL

ahhhh, I was already PM'ing with neoobs whilst dave was nice enough to relay all of this in the mod forum , if no-one objects in the next 24hrs, can I close the thread?
Thanks for all your help guys
Greetz,
Flar

Hrm, big bump in the road:
the thing causing the quick reply function not to work properly is a google ad. I removed it because I thought that it was an old, incorrectly working ad on the wrong location. But it turns out it's our ad hack that supplies us with 2/3's of our monthly income.
Now let me get this very straight: we are not in this to get rich, the current ad income is enough to keep xda-dev running but losing 2/3 to gain a correctly working quick reply function, will get us into serious money problems very soon.
So the only thing I can do at the moment is break the quick reply function and enable the ads, whilst searching feverishly for a better solution.
I'm well aware of vbulletin.org so I will be searching my ass of there, and try every possible solution they have, but untill the time comes where I've found a working ad solution, I hope you can all avoid the quick reply function.
I'm very sorry to have to make decision, but I hope you can all see that this the lesser of 2 problems.
Best regards,
Flar

we understand you Flar, though im lazy to press the "post reply" button..but i can handle it

ather90 said:
we understand you Flar, though im lazy to press the "post reply" button..but i can handle it
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Ditto to that LOL or for me I just forget that there is a problem and post and then hope that it really goes through and my long rant wasn't lost forever LOL

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.

Unable to Reply/Post Threads or Messages

Hey guys,
For the past few days, Ive been getting issues whenever I try to post threads/messages or reply to them. I tried both Quick Reply & Advanced Reply same story. Further tested with changing the theme from XDA 2013 - 1024 to XDA Classic and also tried switching browser from Chrome to IE10 and still same issue Basically, when I click submit, the loading of page seems to progress forever till the error message comes saying Server sent no reply data Its been bugging me for days and its annoying as hell
2 Points to note :
I might have issue posting to a specific thread for hours but I can post in other threads quite easily. After a while, I will be able to post again to the thread which I previously had issues.
I dont think I've made any changes my side and after trying 2 different browsers as well as different themes, I think its a problem on the Server itself
Hope the Site Devs can fix this soon Thanks in Advance and Keep up the Good Work
Cheers & Happy New Year

+1 Same here
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Sven_12 said:
+1 Same here
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His problem is different.. yours is because of 10 post count.. read rules.. you will understand.. now you have 11.. so you have ability to post in development section now..
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Just to confirm, Tried another computer and same issues

Min3r said:
Just to confirm, Tried another computer and same issues
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I think you should contact admins here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976627
Give details with links to threads where you are not able to post and when it happened etc..
Hope it will get solved..
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Thx I forgot all about that thread when I replied ;( Thx mate

same problem
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Hey guys,
For the past few days, Ive been getting issues whenever I try to post threads/messages or reply to them. I tried both Quick Reply & Advanced Reply same story. Further tested with changing the theme from XDA 2013 - 1024 to XDA Classic and also tried switching browser from Chrome to IE10 and still same issue Basically, when I click submit, the loading of page seems to progress forever till the error message comes saying Server sent no reply data Its been bugging me for days and its annoying as hell
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I might have issue posting to a specific thread for hours but I can post in other threads quite easily. After a while, I will be able to post again to the thread which I previously had issues.
I dont think I've made any changes my side and after trying 2 different browsers as well as different themes, I think its a problem on the Server itself
Hope the Site Devs can fix this soon Thanks in Advance and Keep up the Good Work
Cheers & Happy New Year
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i am having the same problem:crying:

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i am having the same problem:crying:
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You sure its same issue?
Because you don't have 10 posts.. so you don't have permission to post in development section threads.. if you got problems in that section.. then its common.. if you got problems while replying in other section then contact mods.. see link in above posts .. I think its just 10 post rule you missed..
Now that you have 10.. you can post anywhere..
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Ps any update on my problem ? I posted this long ago in the Thread to notify Staff and absolutely no replies Just went ignored I know its not the staff's fault but if they could take alook at it when they get a chance, would be grateful

i think that problem is in the server and it is inevitable...because we so many users in here...

Min3r said:
Ps any update on my problem ? I posted this long ago in the Thread to notify Staff and absolutely no replies Just went ignored I know its not the staff's fault but if they could take alook at it when they get a chance, would be grateful
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Hmmmm...this is strange. Apologies for no one having tried to help sooner. I'll see what we can do

Thanks for the albeit delayed feedback just in case it helps, I noticed that it depends in some way on the message content or the title. If I start a new page and retype (not copy paste) the same thing, it won't work sometimes changing the title helps and other times, the message itself... In the case of posts, if I can't post a certain message, copy pasting and then adding it via a quick edit works but if it doesn't, then same issue will show in normal reply.. I confirmed that its browser and platform independent and also, I didn't accidentally add any Unicode characters
Hope the above might give a clue what the issue is thanks in advance
Cheers

I have't heard this error reported elsewhere, it sounds like a network issue possibly.
Have you tried on another connection?

I considered the possibility but I'm mostly at college and only one ISP here plus it's not exactly reproducible so I couldn't find out about that if it's a network issue, any idea why it occurs ? I only see this issue on xda,ie, I can read posts and all, make different replies etc but specific messages won't work ( at sometimes and work fine later) and same issue with browsing in iPad so can't see why or how I'm getting this error and it's been bugging me for ages popping up for so long. Again, hope you have any advice
Thanks for the quick reply
Cheers

No issue here.
Sometimes loading seems to take a while but the pages are loading correctly

I've seen in the past weeks that sometimes this forum taking long before it load, maybe due to lot of traffics from readers...
Hopefully some issues from other user will be fixed!

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please delete my forums

My browser Is glitchung. So sorry. NOO IT LOOKS SO BAD. PLEASE FIX THIS
THATS HOW MANY TIMES I PRESSED REFRESH COZ I THOUGHT MY INTERNET WAS LAGGING. HELP

I cant be sorry enough. I press save. And nothing happened for like 3 min so i kept clicking it

How does happen to me. Help!!!!!!! Can you tell uts my first time. Omg. I dont mean to spam.

i think i need to move countries after this disaster. I OPEN MY XDA APP TO SEE IF IT POSTED. MY HEART STOPPED. Just started sweating. ADMINS please go easy on me
I CANT DELETE THREADS. NEEDS ADMIN

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Lol, I know a few mods but they're definitely sleeping right now
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oh no. please tag every thread monitorer please. I LIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD COMPARED TO MOST OF YOU. IM JUST A YOUNG GUY ON HIS LAPTOP WHO PRESSED SAVE AND REFRESH COZ I THOUGHT MY INTERNET WAS LAGGING
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1616743
I EVEN LOOKED UP HOW TO DELETE A XDA THREAD

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oh no. please tag every thread monitorer please. I LIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD COMPARED TO MOST OF YOU. IM JUST A YOUNG GUY ON HIS LAPTOP WHO PRESSED SAVE AND REFRESH COZ I THOUGHT MY INTERNET WAS LAGGING
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1616743
I EVEN LOOKED UP HOW TO DELETE A XDA THREAD
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Don't worry, sh"it" happens. Mod's will be able to understand this and they will delete the threads. Thanks for the AEX build and Good Luck

Raaj52 said:
Don't worry, sh"it" happens. Mod's will be able to understand this and they will delete the threads. Thanks for the AEX build and Good Luck
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Certainly brightened up my morning, lol. Worse things have happened!

The sheer panic it's far far from a natural disaster, but credit where it's due, he made an extreme effort to correct :good:
Well done bro :good:

In the future, use the report button on the upper right-hand side of the post (
) rather than starting a thread to get the mods' attention.
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My browser Is glitchung. So sorry. NOO IT LOOKS SO BAD. PLEASE FIX THIS
THATS HOW MANY TIMES I PRESSED REFRESH COZ I THOUGHT MY INTERNET WAS LAGGING. HELP
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