Unable to post in the forums? Anyone having issues posting in the genral electronics forum?

 

Hello,

It sometimes happens on this forum.
Unfortunately I can not do anything about it.
Try posting a thread with a short title (less than 20 characters), It helps for me.

Bertus

 

Are you trying to create a new thread? If so, try to keep the title length below 20 characters.

Tell us how it went.

 

I'm having tons of trouble right now. This is a test to see if I can reply. I certainly can't post a new one.

edit: ok, that worked. I spent 20 minutes typing my topic and then it hung when I tried to post it. Figuring it was a weird site glitch, I spent another 15 minutes re-typing it... same thing! At least the 2nd time I was smart enough to copy/paste it into notepad first.

 

Just tried again. Error 500.

 

S-mack refer to posts 2 & 3. Invisible requirement is that title is <20 characters. It's a glitch that gives you 500 error.

 

Is it a recent glitch?

 

I first encountered it months ago. I don't know how long it has been there but I suspect since the last upgrade. The guys who run the site don't have time to fix it I guess, but it's a very minor thing, totally eclipsed by the fact that the site is totally free with no ads. Not worth raising a stink about, considering the owners pay for the site out of their own pockets.

 

No stink... just surprised I hadn't noticed. 20 chars is pretty low... I'm sure I would have exceeded that limit before now. So I wondered if it was just recent.

I imagine it would be extremely simple to fix. It is likely a matter that the SQL field was declared with a very low limit without the PHP code making sure that limit isn't exceeded. The easiest thing would be to modify the SQL table (super easy and I could give instructions if admin wants). More difficult, but only a little, would be to find the php file that processes posts and set it to truncate to 20 (or whatever it is) chars. A little more difficult still would be to throw in some Javascript for the users' benefit so they are aware when they've "broken the rules".

Cheers.

- Steven

 

Give it a shot with less than 20 characters to see if you can create a new thread. Then try to extend the thread title by editing the title of your first post. If nothing else works, ask a mod to edit the title of the thread directly.

It might be a simple fix, but there's no one around with the authority to perform it. Admins are on stealth lately.

 

Yes, it worked with a short title. Sorry, I neglected to say that I was able to make my post

MIA admin is perfectly understandable when they aren't getting paid. It'd just be nice if they would hand the keys over to someone when they were gone.

- Steven