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?

MediumRoastSteam

DavecUK - problem returned.

But I’m happy to live with it if this is a nicer theme and benefits everybody. It’s a very localised/specific issue for this device, so let’s not worry about it.

DavecUK

yeah, it seems “eric the flat one” had a problem the moment I removed the theme. I also think things take a while to settle down when a theme changes and users who don’t completely refresh to get the new theme can have problems. I’d normally do this sort of stuff late at night.

I have neon chat to try, itching to give it a go now…but don’t know what might happen.

hornbyben

MediumRoastSteam I get this on my iPad too. I can live with it if the theme is better for others as the functionality is fine, but it definitely doesn’t look as nice.

If I change to day mode the grey boxes remain, but I can’t read any text other than the title.

My iPad is set to dark mode (i.e. in the iPad global settings) and if I change to light mode the page looks fine, so I guess it’s just a conflict between the system mode and the way the Oxo skin has been designed.

MediumRoastSteam

hornbyben - yep! You are right. I changed to “light” mode and man…. It’s too bright. Back to dark mode. 🤣🤣🤣

LMSC

MediumRoastSteam It’s too bright.

You may have also set your phone brightness at higher levels! Mine is set at 15%-20% brightness. 😊

MediumRoastSteam

Not a bug or issue, but a suggestion for improvement…

Would it be better to have the avatar of the member who last replied rather than the OP? I tend to focus highly on the avatar, and this confuses me a bit when I read the reply and then realise it was not from the member I thought it was. So, on that thread with the arrows, personally, it would be better if it had my avatar (because I replied last) and mention “started by Doram X days ago, MediumRoastSteam replied one hour ago” or something like that.

Just a suggestion.

DavecUK

MediumRoastSteam Would it be better to have the avatar of the member who last replied rather than the OP? I tend to focus highly on the avatar

I did it…it’s very tiny but it’s there. I found an extension which promised.

Last Post UserAvatar

0.1.4

Add Last Posted User Avatar to DiscussionList

It did, I fear the sizzle was better than the sausage, but it’s there.

DavecUK

MediumRoastSteam Would it be better to have the avatar of the member who last replied rather than the OP? I tend to focus highly on the avatar, and this confuses me a bit when I read the reply and then realise it was not from the member I thought it was. So, on that thread with the arrows, personally, it would be better if it had my avatar (because I replied last) and mention “started by Doram X days ago, MediumRoastSteam replied one hour ago” or something like that.

I had not forgotten this and loaded a new extension, now you can clearly see the Avatar of the last person who replied more clearly and I hope, a clearer post layout/demarcation.

DavecUK

If I’m honest I don’t know how to write the code required to make a custom extension, or control its inclusion on the server I would need a local flarum install to even begin learning how to code in it and I failed at that. So changing how avatars and themes display..if it’s not already been done….out of my capabilities.
I do think it sounds as if I should remove Oxo and go back to the standard theme.

MediumRoastSteam

DavecUK So changing how avatars and themes display..if it’s not already been done….off.

not to worry. In the grand scheme of things, all very minor detail. We are better placed worrying about coffee and helping our community out rather than worrying about writing and customising PHP extensions. 👍😊

MediumRoastSteam

I can see it. The last reply (Dave) has a small avatar. The OP (Doram) has the bigger avatar. Thank you.

DavecUK

MediumRoastSteam yeah, unfortunately there was no option to change the avatar size <lol>

Doram

MediumRoastSteam I can see it. The last reply (Dave) has a small avatar. The OP (Doram) has the bigger avatar. Thank you.

You know what they say about size - it doesn’t matter. ;-)

LMSC

A lot of times, I find the site is very slow on my mobile, even after purging the browser data and cache. This behaviour is not observed elsewhere. Does anyone face this problem?

DavecUK

LMSC A lot of times, I find the site is very slow on my mobile, even after purging the browser data and cache. This behaviour is not observed elsewhere. Does anyone face this problem?

No, in fact the site seems even snappier on a mobile. It does sometimes get slow when I suspect they are backing up the servers around Middayish…earlier today it was sluggish for about 40 minutes.

LMSC

DavecUK Yes! I did notice the sluggishness today for quite some time today.

dfk41

The site would not load for me this morning, but that in itself is not unusual for any website with maintenance etc always going on

pete10uk

dfk41

I had issues an hour or so ago, checked freeflarum.com under status and it reported server overloaded. Waited 20 min and all was OK

DavecUK

pete10uk I had issues an hour or so ago, checked freeflarum.com under status and it reported server overloaded. Waited 20 min and all was OK

Oohh, hope it wasn’t us, and it was overloaded due to a backup!

LMSC

DavecUK hope it wasn’t us

My first thought when I saw the sluggishness was exactly the same thing. I didn’t want to ask you, though. 😊

pete10uk

DavecUK

It said this is most likely due to site wide updates. It also said it shouldn’t take more than 5 hours and it didn’t, for me at least.

Just checked again and it’s saying all ok now.

DavecUK

LMSC i’m like super careful to not give you guys any extensions that might hammer the server. 🤣

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