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Cheyenne Shadowborn
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Posted - 2007.08.06 10:36:00 -
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Just when I thought things work a bit better the last days the forums ate another long post of mine, and stupid me I didn't copy it into notepad.
So ... dear Community Relations folks: Any ETA on providing forums that actually work (as we were told in a dev blog half a year ago would be worked on)?
Thanks.
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Cheyenne Shadowborn
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Posted - 2007.08.06 12:00:00 -
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Edited by: Cheyenne Shadowborn on 06/08/2007 12:04:29
 Originally by: Death Kill
F.i.r.e.f.o.x
At home I use Opera which works better but at work I am at times limited to a Citrix'fied Softriciti'ed proxied iexplore.exe.
Yes, I know, this horrible (that and my use of apostrophes).
p.s. this is a very bad day it seems, forum wise. Another internal server error 500 when editing just happened.
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Cheyenne Shadowborn
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Posted - 2007.08.06 12:55:00 -
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Ah well, so no ETA but at least I had two(!) yellow responses and also an ISD guy in my thread. I'm going to get soooooo drunk tonight to celebrate.
(Expect posting tomorrow: CCP guilty of nerfing my liver  )
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Cheyenne Shadowborn
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Posted - 2007.08.07 12:21:00 -
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Edited by: Cheyenne Shadowborn on 07/08/2007 12:22:02
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Posts disappear because your forum session times out and when it logs you back in, it loses the post.
Firefox and Opera both save text in boxes from previous pages you visited, so if you hit back, its still there.
Edit: corrected spelling braindeadness on my part
If thats the case then I don't understand why CCP doesn't turn those timings up a notch. Easy fix.
Frankly, web apps with too short session timings are a major PITA (I know, I have to use plenty for work). Assuming that memory consumption for holding server-side session info really can't be the problem the only reason to do this is security (session hijacking) and c'mon folks this is a forum about internet spaceships, give it a session time of two hours or something 
Its the exact same thing btw for the Eve character generation. Take more than about 10 minutes for creating your character portrait and it kicks you out and you can start over - equally pointless session limitation 
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Cheyenne Shadowborn
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Posted - 2007.08.07 12:38:00 -
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Originally by: FireFoxx80
Originally by: Death Kill
F.i.r.e.f.o.x
Hello!
We're talking Firefox 2.0 here. You are Firefoxx80. Wait your turn 
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Cheyenne Shadowborn
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Posted - 2007.08.07 14:09:00 -
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Originally by: Callthetruth
forums are good
Beer good. Forum not good.
Btw, @ DS: This isn't only a session time problem. Disregarding the gazillion "internal server errors" I got today (which does not normally happen that often) I also usually have to click "reply" like three times, the first two times taking me back to the thread page and the third, sometimes fourth time opening the form to post. Also, half of the time I get "This thread does not exist" after editing
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Cheyenne Shadowborn
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Posted - 2007.08.08 09:15:00 -
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Lets answer several things at once.
On using Opera/FF:
I am the first to drop IE on any machine I control (as I said) but sometimes (i.e. at work) people don't have a choice. I would LOVE if IE (and MS as a whole) would pass the ACID test and follow all relevant RFCs just like other browsers but I don't see that happening any time soon.
On session timers:
I see your point. But my philosophy on good web design is as follows: Make session timers long enough to NOT annoy people. Then ENCOURAGE people to use a logout button. If they don't, the next time they login present a reminder page reminding them to use the logout button. This is how some major freemailers handle it and its recommended on some web design guru page, maybe Nielsen's useit.com, can't remember.
On everything:
Its just not session timers. Scroll up for more issues with the forums, there is a LOT more wrong with them (recap: "thread does not exist" after posting, repeatedly hitting "reply" required) etc.
On Thor's posts failing only when they're constructive:
That explains
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