I have a few questions for people having issues posting…

and erasing formatting, post just sits at the bottom, in an OP.

Reply tos vanish into thin air

Finally just put the stupid tin in a word doc screenshot it and posted the image~!!!!!!

$%^&$%#$%^!!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

I hit ‘submit’ and after a few seconds I scroll down and my post is still there, awaiting disposition. I’ve tried to ‘submit’ again and again – esp if it’s what I consider an important contribution – but once it fails, it never seems to revive. I close my browser in anger and go away. Come back later and the dangling conversation is gone.

What have I done – tried to edit the post – works sometimes and not others.

There is also another problem where a third level post will not go through such as

• my post
• — a reply to my post
• —– am unable to reply to the reply of my original post

In this case, no attempts to post have ever worked.

Are you making sure you have two rows of icons in the text box tool bar before you post? I have noticed that if I forget to expand it, and usually it stays expanded after I do it just once, my replies usually take.

It would go through the usual hamster-permission cycle, and then nothing.

It’s working more reliably the last couple of days, though. But I write everything in notepad and then cut and paste. Pictures still don’t work, of course, but that’s for another day…. 🙂

To answer question 2: I haven’t had the problem since I started writing in notepad. I can edit directly into the JPR text box; but it does seem trying to post original text here doesn’t work reliably.

Also, usually when reply to a particular comment, my reply ends up at the end and not as a reply to the particular comment.

Also, is there a way to reply to the last (most recent comment) rather than replying to the OP?

Also, site issue – I have not found away to see any recent post other than the first page – is there a way to get additional pages – earlier posts?

1. As noted by Ohio Barbarian, whether the toolbar is expanded in above the text box makes a difference.  If it is, I can enter title and text without doing anything between.  If not:
   1. I fill in the title, the text box is not editable
   2. I hit the Submit pushbutton
   3. The post is still at the bottom of the page, with the text box now editable
2. In Internet Explorer:
   1. There was an OP to which someone had replied
   2. I tried to reply to that reply
   3. My reply post did not appear under the OP reply, but instead is shown as a reply to the OP

If I hit backspace, the text in the body box would reappear but when I tried to post it again the same thing would happen over and over.

site makes a topic, for example:

Jackpineradicals / General Discussion / My Topic’s Title

But then there is nothing to see, only a blank slate for the comment.

And when I try to repost the whole thing, it returns to the blank slate.

And when I click on the topic’s title, site says no and returns me to the forum, where my topic is noticeably absent.

:fistbump:

it is probably some word. In the past it was something else, but now my posts are going through every time I hit reply.

:hug:

and I have tried pasting in the box and erasing formatting. Both work fine sometimes, and both sometimes end up as described above.

Oddity: step# 1. If i hit respond directly below OP, i can only reply in subject but not in body. I found that if i hit the post tab at this point, the ‘awaiting hamster approval’ appears but my ‘headline only reply’ disappears only to reappear at the bottom of all of the other replys, unposted!

Step# 2. At this point i am able to add my thoughts to the body of my reply as well. Only after jumping through those hoops am i able to post in full to the OP.

If i stop at step# 1, my post does not get posted but by finding my unposted headline at the bottom of the entire thread i am able to completely respond and post a reply to the OP.

Another Oddity: If I scroll down through any entire thread, i find a normal reply (to OP) set up. I find that if i wish to do so, i can reply to OP there normally without dancing through steps 1 and 2. of that first oddity. I am not sure why that feature is even there but it fully works as a method to respond to the OP regardless of the number of posts above it and regardless of my hitting the respond tab directly under the OP.

Last oddity: I am unable to respond to anyone who responds to me in a thread.

All of these oddities conspire against my so called “smart phone” which is where i spend most of my time at JPR.

I can not report on any oddities from my laptop at this time.

Good luck with your data gathering, may it help provide us with the solutions we need.

My response in another thread just evaporated when I clicked on submit.

Mine just sat there & wouldn’t go through.. I copied & pated a couple times changing things slightly every time.. but it never took – & then I copied something else that I was working on & lost it..

Frustrating, haven’t posted much since – hell, not sure this one will go through.. lol

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, who says he is still considering a second presidential run in 2020, is teaming up with Democratic leaders in the House to put forward a series of bills that address one of the most talked about issues among voters: the rising cost of prescription drugs.

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#3,  Unless I add an emoji from under the text box :yes: , my texting messages will not post at all.

#4.  There is rarely a cancel button beside the Submit button.

#5.  My old fashioned cut-copy-paste ends up being a non-viable link or if a title brings over its own long internet address, I just go in and edit out the title(s).

I have decided that a lot less of me is needed at this site so a short reply is what the Progressive PTB are aiming for.  There are so many bright young learners out there that will come here.  Out with the old, in with the new-over the years I have given much and now I have a lot to learn.  Thank you JPR.

My experience is exactly the same as OCMI’s post 9467.  I’ve found workarounds for most of it, but its still hit or miss whether it posts as apparent response to OP, or to the post I thought I was replying to.

On edit:  this time it posted at the bottom of the stack, as (apparently) response to OP.

Just spent 1/2 hour trying to post this

Tulsi Gabbard is our friend

https://medium.com/@na_rup/tulsi-gabbard-is-our-friend-2c46617c6ba3

Wouldn’t post, no explanation, no instructions. Maybe someone else can post it as it is an excellent article that rebuts the lies that are being spread about Tulsi.

Really too bad this is the software you’re trying to make work. It’s very frustrating to spend time composing a post and have it disappear with no idea of what is wrong. Who really cares about nested replies, the quote from the OP is enough. Good luck, maybe I’ll check back to see if there’s any difference.