Dear Robert: A gnat in the machine

[arbilab]

First, hats off.  You run a VERY tight ship here.  Then the gnat:

 

I get timed-out in composition so seldom, it has taken this long to correlate that it is not something I'm doing different, and that it happens every time.  I hit 'preview' and get the timeout/login message.   I follow those steps and choose to return to where I was.  All paragraphification is removed and I have to manually restore it.  I have no (clear) memory record of other formatting being disturbed, just the PGH marks.

 

Knowing it's coming, I now go "BACK" and copy the entire entry, then PVW again and forward from there as directed.  Then either reinsert the PGHs (if a few) or paste the whole entry.  So it's solved at the user end, no action "necessary", unless you just want to.

 

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Unimatic1140]

Thanks Rick for letting me know that. I'll have to test that out and see if I can reproduce what you are saying so I can try to fix it.

 

[frigilux]

I often edit a post several times and occasionally, as Rick mentioned, it comes up as a huge block of text with all the paragraph <> symbols within the text. I haven't been able to find a pattern as to the circumstances when it happens. Sometimes only the first couple of paragraphs get jammed into a block; the rest of the post looks normal.

It does not change back to the original/correct paragraphs. And of course it always seems to happen in a long, detailed, multi-paragraph post. Because...why wouldn't it, right, LOL?

I use a 2018 iPad and a 2018 MacBook Pro and Safari as the search engine.

 

[ea56]

I've on occasion when composing a long post had it disappear too when I hit preview. Once or twice I was able to recoverer the text by hitting the back arrow, but this isn't always successful. I use an iPad air 2 with Safari.

Eddie

 

[DADoES]

 
Maybe it's related to "Switch Advanced Editing Bar ON?"

I have it switched Off and have not experienced the stated issue.

 

[lowefficiency]

Robert, while you're looking into things, one small quirk I've noticed recently is that the forum software has some strange handling of the capitalization of usernames.
It's as if it is case insensitive for logging in, yet it saves (and preserves) the most recent login capitalization to use for the rest of the user interface, including your forum posts made during that login session until you log out and back in.

I'm not sure if this is a recent bug, I only noticed it when I goofed my login a little while ago and the forum software kept it.

 

[lowefficiency]

(See for example my post above, purposely logged in with wonky capitalization, and then this post here with my "Normal" username capitalization.)

 

[mattl]

The caps this is a "feature" been discussed before and a number of people like it and play with their log in names on occasion.  A non issue for me, I actually like it and notice when someone does it and get a chuckle.

 

[DADoES]

 
That has long been a thing on username entry for logging-in.  GusHerb some while ago corrected a member who had interpreted his username incorrectly (as GusherB).  I advised GusHerb that while the system does not require/recognize username capitalization for logging-in, it does pick-up capitalization for displaying the name in posts, so that can be done to clarify how it should be "pronounced" or interpreted.

 

[arbilab]

left out detail

Forgot to say, WXP and the latest Firefox that will work with it.  I'd guess that doesn't matter but my software guesses plus a dollar will get you a free coffee refill at Denny's.