PROBLEMS WITH THIS (NAS) FORUM - February 2018

Well I replied with a lengthy report on what I have found wrong, I then tried adding a picture which I have posted before on here only for it to all vanish?

getting a bit fed up now.

I will post this and then try a picture post after it.

Hi DC thank you for finding all those threads with missing pictures, 

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More Links to Picture-Heavy Threads. And an Error Report.

This is A "Random Topics" Thread, which has a lot of Pictures, Some are there, some have gone:

community.autism.org.uk/.../community-forums-miscellaneous-and-chat-general-chat-random-topics-est-january-11th-2018

...And, I assume that this is the "Pet Photos" Thread to which California refers...? :

community.autism.org.uk/.../

... Message, upon clicking a picture-Icon, and opening it as a New Tab (Example from a User named "Palbus", of a "Patterdale Terrier"):

Unfortunately, the page you've requested no longer exists. Please use the search form above to locate the information you're interested in.

( community.autism.org.uk/.../IMG_5F00_0459.JPG )

...The first (Starter, "Deleted User"'s) Picture I can still see (a Tabby named Daisy), yet the rest are gone. By way of experiment, I tapped upon one of my own pictures in the Random Thread and another in the Aspie Quiz Thread... and after more than One-And-One-Half Hour of waiting for the Pictures to "Load"... they still did not Load. (!)

I also have noticed missing photos in the past few months.  

But unfortunately cannot find a post this minute that has a missing image.

In place of the photo there is an image indicator.  I once pressed and held that indicator and the original photo reappeared.

I have also noticed missing photos. Photos in the Pet Photos thread are missing.

Um... right, Thank You Kindly... I only saw this last from yourself, because I forgot to write how to Post Links, sort of, and so I logged back in to extended one of my many Posts just now...

I really have to sign off now however. Thank You again, of course.

You are a real person who has just been nice to me,

thank you,

I am glad you feel able to say as much.

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To Mr.Webster...

I have written a number of other things below, which you may peruse at your leisure. To yourself, that you ask such things, is quite frankly a thing deserving of a great astonishment. I suggest that you do not "Log On" as yourself, yet rather investigate what is happening to others (Users, Visitors) as we must do, as with less authority than your good self.

When Pictures Disappear, they sometimes leave a little Icon... that is all I can say.

I also said that it is likely that not many shall read this Thread and so I cannot do much about that. In any case... It is getting late now, and so I can think of not much more to write apart from Good Fortune to you... and to this Forum!

...With regards to *this* Thread... now it is requesting not only persons to Private Message the WEBPM with instances of "Missing Posts", but now also with instances of "Missing Pictures"...! 

I am not good at writing "rousing" Posts... but - This is YOUR Forum, people, and anyone reading who sincerely cares...! Please heed what WebPM says and support WebPM...

...And I freely admit that someone else could write a more "rousing" Post than this one! 

(*sigh* Here we go...)

To anyone who does not know how to "Search" this Forum, please Copy&Paste this into any Browser:

http://community.autism.org.uk/search?

...This should take you to a "blank" search result, and you then use the "Magnifying Glass" (Search) in order to enter a Search.

Type in a quote or a Thread Title, and all results should show up for that. Or something.

.....If you want to Post a LINK, then find that Thread or WebSite, and copy the Main "WWW/HTTP" Address as given in your Browser, and then Paste it into your Reply/Message. This is easier to do if you have a separate "Notepad/Jotter" Program, and write your entire message into that before Posting here... or if skilled, open two different Tabs/Pages in your Browser.

2 of 2, maybe & now. To WebPM, certainly.

WebPM wrote:

"Regarding pictures disappearing, I'm not sure what you mean. This is not intended to happen. I've just checked a picture in an old thread, and it's still there. Could you explain what is happening?"

...I honestly cannot believe how this Thread is turning out.

NOT knowing about either disappearing replies or about Picures disappearing?

Why am *I* having to (attempt to) organise or to prove this? 

1 of 2, maybe. This is Me, replying to myself, as I do not want Posts disappearing too much upon this Thread, which tends to - now - happen, when a Thread is long AND when the Posts are "nested" too deeply.

This first is at WebPM  concerning Sounds, which I shall dismiss as suggested due to deeper problems with this Forum, currently. Okay, Mr.WebPM, I understand what you say, and so am not all that concerned about it. Sounds introduce even more complicated issues. At my time of asking, I was simply curious, since Pictures could be Posted. This is all alright by myself... considering what I am next about to address concerning Pictures...! 

Okay! Thank you, we have done this before, which was why I typed in haste, there! I wanted to say that you yourself made no mistake, and that NAS could have "Locked" the Thread, yet they deleted it instead...!

Um...Er... after that...I have forgotten what else I wanted to say directly at you, Mr.LoneWarrior-Sir! Um... nice to talk to real people or something... 

I was going to Post again at WebPm. But... well, Thanks so very much. That is it, I think. I need to write my answer to WebPM next/first, and that shall take some time. Great Fortune to yourself... (a real person... is nice to me... I can never get over it...)

Yes that’s the one, thank you DC, much appreciated, webpm wanted proof well there are many missing aspie quiz score graphics missing.I think another thread with cats etc lost most of it’s pictures but cannot find it to be certain.

Regards from me.

Greetings, this is me, fast, are you still online, someone "liked" you yet I was busy with my reply below, and so that was not me - just then!

Just found the Thread which Mr. LoneWarrior mentions, I shall see how this LINK Posts, here: 

community.autism.org.uk/.../

Thank you DC, all ok now.

The people who run this valuable forum can be very elusive,

they sneak in do things and creep back out again. 

They could easily have deleted the link and information relating to the request but added a reason as to why it was removed,

As you say! Had I not replied on here directly to you then you would not have been aware of my mistake,

Pictures do vanish, not all but some, whole posts vanish then at times reappear, 

I wonder if this forum has a formal diagnosis of Disorder or wether it just seems like a Disorderly forum?

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To Mr. LoneWarrior...

Thank You for your Post here, for more reasons than just one:

- No Apology needed, yet it is reciprocated as well as humbly accepted, LoneWarrior-Sir... I myself am only the sort of person who is kind of "always on edge" - see my UserName(!) - and so your "Angry Rant!" worried me... yet I am now very glad to see this, and that you are quite alright after all of that...?

Upon the subject, I think that your Post raised a lot of good points, if I later understood it correctly: Masking, Pretending to be NT, Coping, and then being used to Informal Diagnosis "preventing" Formal Diagnosis...? ...And then, the business of being aged over 40 (I am 46)... All of those are good points... Yet I myself shy away from such discussions most of the time, because of "Society" and lack of Power/Influence. (The same as with discussions concerning Wars, Poverty, and Starvation...) (New Threads, *not here, Please*, to anyone else reading...!?)

Finally...
THAT OTHER THREAD HAS BEEN DELETED, UTTERLY.
...Mr LoneWarrior, Many times, this "deleting" occurs with no warning! I am glad of your Post here, and but for it, oneself might be driven a step closer towards madness! Had you not written this, I would not have known what had happened to that other Thread...! And, surely I cannot be alone in wondering that...?

(NAS should create a "NoticeBoard" Area, perhaps... as well as the "To Bottom/Top" Buttons which I ask for...)

This Post is long enough, now, & so, well, I must end it for the sake of doing a thing to an end I myself can best manage at the time... y'know. (!) Good Fortune and Glad Tidings to yourself, of course.

Apologies as I don’t know how to put a link to an individual thread, but pictures often vanish, There was a thread which contained an aspie quiz, people posted pictures of their results only for them to suddenly vanish? There are no pictures left now!

my original reply was to high light this and aske that members actually write the gigures down as without the image it didn’t make any sense, 

my reply!

Lonewarrior 4 months ago in reply to Jonesy
Well my pretty patterned score has vanished?

So

Neurodiverse=186.

neurotypical=34.

second time trying with my partner checking was.

Neurodiverse=187.

Neurotypical=41.

might be worth typing the actual result numbers if our pretty pictures are deleted, doesn’t make much sense otherwise.

Finding these fascinating by the way,yes I know it isn’t a clinical test and can with thought be manipulated by if true honesty is applied then truth will out.

I wasn’t shocked really as I have been researching aspie traits and had a bit of a shock,not overly happy but then again it really is me so who am I to complain.

As one forum for partners living or dating an aspie man says on it’s main page “ run,run fast and don’t look back”. That comment hurt me very much even before I thought I was aspie.even more now.

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As a side note can I say thank you for deleting the entire thread asking members if they would like to take part in a survey. It had no permission from the NAS,

But I need to apologise to Disallowed Cynosure as my reply was not to her, I meant my rant to be aimed at the original person who had requested the information.

sorry DC please accept my apology.

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Hi

Regarding pictures disappearing, I'm not sure what you mean. This is not intended to happen. I've just checked a picture in an old thread, and it's still there. Could you explain what is happening?

Also regarding sounds, could you perhaps give an example somewhere else of what you'd like to happen? If you mean sounds playing automatically, that would happen whenever the thread was loaded, so it could be quite annoying. If we consider videos, for example, mobile devices now stop those playing automatically, and insist that the user must start them - which is what happens with sounds if you click on a link. Or is it simply that you don't have an alternative place to upload the sounds, so you can't make a link? We could allow it, but we'd have to be sure that it would be useful to everyone and that we wouldn't get people registering to abuse it - the content of sound files is more difficult for our moderators to check than is text.

Regards

WebPM said:

I've asked other users of this software if they have seen anything similar to this. Unfortunately it's difficult to investigate something unless we can work out how to make it happen.

Greetings. Sorry to bother you Mr.Webster, I am just Posting this in attempt to bring this Thread back to the 'fore, as it were....

I did say that insufficient people may read the original request of yours, and that I myself cannot muster the "Community Spirit" which is perhaps needed...

Here is a change of subject which may do so, however: Is it possible/allowed to Post SOUNDS in this Forum? Not via Links, but as mp3, mp4, m4a (ringtones), or something? The specifications for PICTURES are <> jpeg, under 1 MegaByte... yet what might it be for Sounds...?

Also... is there a way to re-see Pictures after they disappear? Please and Thank You Very Much for Posting thus far and at all!