In the last few days I am having issues with forum features not being available. When this happens, I am having the following issues: - No option to Like a post (three dot menu only has the Flag option). - No option to quote from a post (nothing appears when selecting text). - No option to Reply to a post (nothing where the option is usually displayed). - No option to add photos to a post (instead of a few options in the menu, only the option Add an image appears, but instead of working as normal, selecting it brings this code: ![](https://)). - No option to Preview a message in the bottom menu bar. - Notifications only showing the name of the thread, but no specific information that is usually there. - Possibly other things that I forgot. Then, after a while, everything is back to normal. And then it happens again. I assume the problems are on the forum side, but maybe it's just me?

I was having some as well and I noticed they restarted the hosting servers a few times yesterday. At the same time I was experimenting with some extensions and found one that was causing a problem. I removed them, but the changes can take time to ripple through the database. I think because the Cron jobs (unix) have quite a low resource allocation. This is why, pms have to be done with a good long gap in between, because they use a real time push command…but with low resource allocation, if you try and do another when the first isn't finished (error error..X). if I change, add or remove and extension, this can often make things weird for a bit until that change has rippled through…**especially with the likes system**. Yesterday I disabled it and then re-enabled it and it was strange for a while until it had gone through the database. I am actually removing some unnecessary modules and ones that don;t work as they should…this flipping approval of posts. Nightmare, because I don't know why it's flagging so for approval incorrectly, so I just disabled it and will deal with the spammers manually as we did on CFUK. I think of people have not added us as an exception to their ad blockers and pop up blockers, that may not be helpful. Lastly, when I make a change, if you are logged on, sometimes you might need to close the tab/refresh the window, for it to work properly….The good news is, I'm pretty much finished making changes by adding/removing extensions/functions. It's been a complex environment to learn in a short time, made harder by some extensions with small bugs which show themselves when pushing them to the limit of what they are supposed to do.

Thanks for your efforts, Dave. This might explain why I got an email at 21.27 last night telling me that a post I had made had been removed for having something in it that we might not want to see, or words to that effect. However having checked the very small number of posts I have made they are all still there!

@"Dumnorix"#p1187 I just disabled all the anti spam, were small enough they won't bother us much and if they do…I will take measures then. I have a few simple measures that I can perhaps take. So hopefully you won't see those messages again. My thoughts to reduce spam might be to allow users to register and until a mod elevates them to full user, their posts have to be approved. in this way a spammer usually discloses their intentions on the first post…not knowing it's going to go to approval. We shall see.

Occasionally I need to log out and log back in to restore the ‘like’ and ‘reply’ buttons. I thought it was just my phone acting up.

I disabled the big purple people eater header as well, I was suspicious of it, and achieved the same thing through dropdown menu items on Flarums own top bar. I didn't know I could do dropdowns. so one more possibly troublesome and to be honest, unattractive extension gone.

Currently having the problems again. Yesterday I thought it was because I had another tab opened with an active message box opened, but today it's happening without that. Behaviour is the same: No Like/Quote/Reply to and the bottom menu has less options. Can't add a photo as there is only one button, and pressing it brings up this code: ![](https://). I also don't see Likes on any messages, though I know they are there. Surely it will sort itself out later, but it has been happening quite often on my side. (ah, no option for emoji either).

There is a way I can almost always induce that error. If when looking at the lists of new posts and **I right-click a post to open it in a new tab**, the "like" option is not there. If I then close that tab and click to go to the post, or use the left-hand menu to go to the post…the like option reappears. As you can see I pin the pop out side menu, which you can make appear when viewing a thread by moving the cursor to the left. I can then go from new post to new post just by clicking on the list and not needed to open new tabs. Hope it helps. The pop out side menu is just the list of posts that appear on the home page…and speeds things up, rather than going backwards and forwards from the home page. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/XkZ0WOX.png][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/XkZ0WOX.png[/IMG]

@"DavecUK"#p1231 Yep, I can confirm I have also noticed the issue is usually (not always - sometimes it doesn't happen, I think) is induced when opening messages in new tabs. This is how I am used to browse forums: I go over the main list, open all the threads I want to read, each in a new tab, then go over them. I will try to avoid that here, because it doesn't work well. However, if that can be fixed it would be good, because I am not the only one who uses the browser like this. I saw another message from a person who said they got a code instead of a photo (can't say in which thread, because it's not opened in another tab, :)) - I bet it's the same issue. When you have the issue - you can't drag and drop a photo to the post - it doesn't work.

If you can use the pop out menu, it's really good and much better than CFUK

@"DavecUK"#p1281 how do you use a pop-out menu?

Random issues on forum (no Like/Quote/Reply/photos) - is it just me?

Grif

Yup…better now!

Rob1

What was the work around for a lack of PMs? Or was it just decided there wasn’t one?

DavecUK

Rob1 What was the work around for a lack of PMs? Or was it just decided there wasn’t one?

DavecUK I have removed the whisper private messaging system (as it’s problematic) and intend to suggest to members the use of https://simplelogin.io/ or similar service., as I am doing…check my signature.

There extension for pms was never going to work, because it used a free pusher account to support. As a few forums probably installed it this account was rapidly depleted and hence most of the time it threw up errors. I didn’t know what pusher was and when I finally set up my own free pusher account…I realised it was just nagware, as you got 2 to 3 emails per day telling you to upgrade because you had reached the limits of the free account. The next crappy tier was 48 usd per month!!!

The work around and rationale is in the announcement https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com/d/229-private-messaging-important

Pompeyexile

JahLaza Hi, for the past two or three days I am constantly getting the red error saying I ‘don’t have permission to do that’.

The only time that happens to me is if I come off the website and do other things and later when I come back on that message pops up. It seems that once I come off the webpage or I’m not active in it for a while, it times out and I have to log back on and all is well.

DavecUK

JahLaza It does that to me if I am logged on using another device, which logs me out when I close it. Then the PC session comes up with the same errors, even though it looks like I am logged in…when I refresh it will then show me as logged out.

Something is logging you out…

JahLaza

Oh,ok, I have been logged in both on iPad and my iPhone simultaneously (love that word!!) I’ll log out of the iPad as it’s normally the phone I pick up throughout the day. Thanks, it’s been happening all the time so pretty annoying. It also doesn’t update posts I’ve read as in they are still in bold to indicate there are new unread posts after I have read all posts, maybe this will help that too

DavecUK

JahLaza There is a major update of forum software from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0 on Saturday, this might fix many bugs and issues. Apparently it fixed one bug around editing time and should fix a few others.

JahLaza

DavecUK

DavecUK JahLaza There is a major update of forum software from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0 on Saturday, this might fix many bugs and issues. Apparently it fixed one bug around editing time and should fix a few others

Appears to be resolved now Dave cheers

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Doram Same thing happened to me yesterday - logged out and back in and buttons reappeared.

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Hi - Just noticed that preview is not enabled for listing in the Classifieds but shows up on all the other threads - not sure if this is deliberate or just me. I’m also have problems uploading an avatar image - the ‘Save Changes’ wheel just keeps on turning….. Is there a specific size and format for these - I’ve tried at 100X100 .jpg and .png but still no luck.

Pompeyexile

Just noticed the ‘editing’ function has disappeared from my recent post.

DavecUK

Pompeyexile Just noticed the ‘editing’ function has disappeared from my recent post.

For technical reasons (the other 2 options simply didn’t work at all and gave admin editing rights). I have had to choose the 10 minut edit time option, which does work correctly.

What’s mind boggling is that there are 3 options and the only time based one is 10 minutes…that’s it. To my mind, if you were going to have a fixed time editing option (non-configurable) and for it to be the only timed editing option…..you would make it 24 hours…not 10 minutes!

Fortunately this is fixed in the Flarum 1.2 upgrade coming tomorrow…where we may be a down for a lot of the day. I suspect there may be the faint sound of cheers from certain quarters…until we pop back up again 🤣

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I['m sorta hoping Freeflarum put an upgrade message up rather than just a 404

Doram

DavecUK What’s mind boggling is that there are 3 options and the only time based one is 10 minutes…that’s it. To my mind, if you were going to have a fixed time editing option (non-configurable) and for it to be the only timed editing option…..you would make it 24 hours…not 10 minutes!

I liked the option to Edit without a time limit. I understand that it can create problems and that some might take advantage so the bottom line is we can’t have it, but for me personally that’s a shame.

DavecUK

Doram I liked the option to Edit without a time limit. I understand that it can create problems and that some might take advantage so the bottom line is we can’t have it, but for me personally that’s a shame.

The only problem is it allows delete without time limit (which I can)….If the time becomes configurable, then I would like to set a few days. The other option was until next post….

I’ll be honest I could set it with no time limit, it would mean that someone could, for whatever reason delete all their posts I suppose..but it doesn’t really matter if they want to do that I guess. It’s not like I am worried about the monetary value of the forum…would just be a shame if the information became really disjointed. I’ll set it back to unlimited until we see what the update brings.

dndrich

I have not been able to upload a photo avatar. It just does not work.

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dndrich I have not been able to upload a photo avatar. It just does not work

Well at least we know it’s not us - unless we’re both doing something stupid….

DavecUK

JahLaza Well it wasn’t down to the upgrade fixing it?…I suspect they tried upgrading the forums and had problems. It was down for a while this morning and when it came back up, I checked the version number and were still on 1.1.1

I could be wrong, I just checked and we are now on Flarum version 1.2…hopefully loads of bugs have been squashed.

JahLaza

DavecUK so, maybe I spoke too soon earlier! It was still happening afterwards and I logged out and back in again just now and it appears to be fixed but will see over the next while

dndrich

Everything seems to be working better for me

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