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27 August 2011 at 17:23 #74050
Steve Withnell
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@stevewithnell34426
Hi,

I’m struggling to post PM’s. The text box comes up fine, but I cannot get text to appear in the text box. I’ve tried tricks like using the “paste from Word” function but no success, I can’t even cheat text into the box. I have sent PM’s but cannot “reply”.

I’ve also sent PM’s with no text

My OS is Windows7

Anyonme else encountered this?

Steve
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27 August 2011 at 17:23 #39179
Steve Withnell
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@stevewithnell34426
27 August 2011 at 17:25 #74051
John Coates
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@johncoates48577
No

Not with Macbook using Leopard, Linux Debian or Windows XP (work)

John
27 August 2011 at 17:33 #74053
NJH
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@njh
Steve I’ve posted a message to you – seemed to go OK

Norman
27 August 2011 at 17:39 #74056
David Southwell ARPS
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@davidsouthwellarps
Posted by Steve Withnell on 27/08/2011 17:23:36:

Hi,

I’m struggling to post PM’s. The text box comes up fine, but I cannot get text to appear in the text box. I’ve tried tricks like using the “paste from Word” function but no success, I can’t even cheat text into the box. I have sent PM’s but cannot “reply”.

I’ve also sent PM’s with no text

My OS is Windows7

Anyonme else encountered this?

Steve

Yes I had it earlier today. Same symptoms using google’s chrome browser but now seems to be no problem.
27 August 2011 at 19:34 #74062
John Coates
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@johncoates48577
Well stuff me it’s just happened to me on the Macbook when trying to reply to a PM from another member

Just cannot put the cursor in the text box to write anything. Can put it in the “Message To:” and “Subject:” boxes and type but nowhere else

Bizarre!!
27 August 2011 at 19:58 #74063
Steve Withnell
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@stevewithnell34426
It is bizarre. I could reply to Norman but not David.

I’ll try IE see if that’s any better, currently using Chrome.

Steve
27 August 2011 at 21:21 #74065
ady
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@ady
I reckon that some of the adverts conflict with the site software.

Shut down the page and try it all over again right from a clean start homepage kinda thing.

Software loads up in a different order each time you move to a page, so the same page which was fine 60 seconds ago can go tits up 2nd time around.

I tend to disable shockwave flash in my tools/addons bit in firefox unless I go to youtube.

Flash is a pain in the neck and adverts consume a huge amount of bandwidth.

The text messages load in a blink, it’s all the other advertising bloatware crud which demands to be processed and displayed which holds things up when you move from page to page.

Wikipedia for example has no adverts, so never has these issues.
27 August 2011 at 21:40 #74068
David Southwell ARPS
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@davidsouthwellarps
I have had a look at some of the code for this site. It is not that easy to qualify to work on a ranch in Texas
28 August 2011 at 08:21 #74075
Steve Withnell
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@stevewithnell34426
31 December 2017 at 19:02 #334662
Jss
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@jss
I've just had to restrain myself form throwing my IPad out of the window. Having spent over half an hour composing a reply to a private message and pressing the send button nothing happened. I pressed it again and still nothing. I've checked the sent box and only the blank message, that I sent in error at the start of the process, is there. Having navigated away the message is now lost. Grrrrrr.

What doesn't help is that as soon as I start typing the window drops down to the original message and I can't see what I'm typing. What am I doing wrong? Is there a maximum length of message? After a bit of a struggle I did manage to attach a picture.

Going to the pub soon, John.

PS sorry I forgot, Happy New Year everybody.

PPS if you read this , not done it yet, I'll have another go tomorrow.

Edited By Jss on 31/12/2017 19:16:25

Edited By Jss on 31/12/2017 19:23:23
31 December 2017 at 19:16 #334663
Jeff Dayman
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@jeffdayman43397
A workaround technique to avoid the frustration you just experienced is to make a copy/paste of the written text of the message just after writing and save it to Notepad or Word. Then if the ME site loses it (it has happened MANY times to me, especially in the early days of the site) you can copy paste from your saved file to the PM message centre if need be.

We should not have to do this, or go through the rigmarole needed to put jpegs in albums then messages either, but the powers that be who run the web content here will not change it. It's by far the oddest commercial (run by publishing firm) hobby forum site I've come across. Most other commercial sites have done major improvements over the years and the user experience is much better. Not this site. There are worse – Yahoo for example has de-improved their group site functions steadily to the point that few people bother with it anymore.
31 December 2017 at 19:26 #334664
Malc
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@malc
I had trouble with this the other day. The curser seems to have a mind of its own. I ended up typing the message with out being able to see it until I moved the message up. As soon as I started to type again the lower message box came up and I was typing blind again. I finished the message by having to scroll back up to my typing window and send it. I am still not sure whether it went or not but it was shown in my “sent” box.
31 December 2017 at 19:27 #334665
Jss
Participant
@jss
Thanks for that Jeff, I'll try that next time.

Regards, John.
31 December 2017 at 20:09 #334669
John Rudd
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@johnrudd16576
Posted by Jeff Dayman on 31/12/2017 19:16:44:

Most other commercial sites have done major improvements over the years and the user experience is much better. Not this site. There are worse – Yahoo for example has de-improved their group site functions steadily to the point that few people bother with it anymore.

Yup, I have deleted my membership from two of their groups as a result…..and no great loss…
1 January 2018 at 07:13 #334710
Thor 🇳🇴
Participant
@thor
Hi Steve,

Never come across this problem here. I just tried to send you a PM, seemed to work.

Thor
1 January 2018 at 07:17 #334712
JasonB
Moderator
@jasonb
Please don't send Steve anymore test messages, the thread dates from 2011!!
2 January 2018 at 18:36 #334969
Steve Withnell
Participant
@stevewithnell34426
Mystery solved! I thought my account had been hacked when all these PM's started turning up…

Happy New Year!

Steve
2 January 2018 at 19:49 #334995
peak4
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@peak4
Oops, must have been tired, I normally spot that.

Bill
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