Forum faults continued ... mods please assist ..

Please add any other affected threads you come across in a reply to this post: Forum display issues – central thread for updates and reports.

This thread has now been locked.

"BBCode" - Bulletin Board Code;

(used for formatting the layout of posts on portals such as our forum ...more secure than allowing people to use HTML to execute JavaScript object-oriented computer programming language to achieve interactive effects, such as animation, in their posts ...which may break the forum layout):

"BBCode is short for Bulletin Board Code.

It is used as a way for formatting posts made on message boards, blogs and more.

It is similar to HTML in the sense that in BBCode one does also use tags to format something specific (contained within the tag).

In BBCode tags are indicated by rectangular brackets surrounding a keyword, which is in turn transformed into HTML before being delivered to a web browser.

Since its creation, BBCode has been used in many different portals.

Any developer can implement it for free and anyone can use it.

Before BBCode forums sometimes allowed users to include HTML code in their posts, which had many security issues (i.e. the user could execute javascript code, break the layout of the site and so on).

With BBCode being parsed by the forum scripts it is easier to control what the user can do and cannot do (allowing or not allowing specific BBCode tags)."

Myself, and hundreds of other (more usefulful) artists have been driven away [or have chosen to drift away] from this place ... because NO ONE LISTENS to fair, honest, kindly, well-meaning, reasonable and empirical evidence of failures here.

Perhaps now is a good time to try to reiterate the need for a "management" refocus on the needs of actual autistic people?

Hi B , thank you for highlighting this issue. I’ve passed it on to the Community Manager.

Best wishes,

Anna Mod

 Sharon Mod Suzanne Mod 

The Creative Space thread is no longer working - you can post on it but it doesn't come back up to the top of the 'home' page.

As this is the second iteration of this thread (the original having been deleted in a software update) it would be/is a great shame to lose it.

 RE: The new Forum Creative Space 

I'm thinking that it's related to images being uploaded to it although the way the fault manifests itself is different from most of the others which do come back up to the home page but then just hang.

Thanks Cinnabar_wing for pointing this out here:

 Forum broken? 

Much appreciated!

Thanks for the update.

I still can't get "the weather" thread either although it shows as being added too an hour ago.

I don't understand why this whole issue has yet to be sorted out, it's been going on for months, if it's known what causes it, then why are we not advised of what not to do?

To the mods, I sent a test message on The Weather, which I could see after I entered it, but when I returned it had gone. 

I wonder if anyone else has a comment regarding weather, if they would like to start a new thread where hopefully we can all see their comments.

Oh, I see so you can add to the original but can't see what anyone has added. 

Nah I think they’re facing the same problems, but just don’t know it. You can still reply on broken threads, but can’t see what is written on it

Maybe it is me as I had an IT issue no one else had at work this week. 

So now I am even more confused, because after getting a notification yesterday that someone added to the Weather thread and I couldn't see it due to the orange band, I have a notification that a different person added to the thread today, yet I am still getting the same issue. It therefore seems that this issue is not affecting everyone. 

Cinnabar_wing said:

I think it's if you quote and attach an image, that definitely breaks it then, I think. There maybe be other methods, but that one is guaranteed.

Yes. I remember your test:

community.autism.org.uk/.../test-images-post

Umm, I think it's if you quote and attach an image, that definitely breaks it then, I think. There maybe be other methods, but that one is guaranteed.

Images were assed to the cake thread without it breaking and a couple of other threads I've seen too, why only some and nt others?

Thank you. 

Thanks B for letting us know. I'm sorry about these forum errors. It's helpful to have this concise list of problem threads and I'll pass these on to the tech team now.

All the best,
Sharon Mod

I had the orange spot to say someone had posted, then the orange band and moving spots so no other posts are visible.