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[Request] Tame the post eating forum monster
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Orisa Medeem
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2011-12-18 20:45:43 UTC
If you are one of the regulars here you know what I mean. The more time you spend elaborating a post the more likely you are to get ganked.

I understand there are some technical reasons behind this, like session timers and load balancing between servers, but knowing this doeasn't make this any less annoying!

If all comes to worst and this cannot be fully solved, what is really important to us is to retrieve whatever we have typed already, that is, when a server error occurs and the page reloads, just put back in the text box whatever was typed.

(BTW, I almost lost this post and was saved only by Ctrl+A Ctrl+C it before hitting Post).

:sand:  over  :awesome:
Goose99
#2 - 2011-12-18 21:16:17 UTC
tl;dr

Countermeasure against walls of text, working as intended.Cool
Orisa Medeem
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2011-12-18 21:53:45 UTC
You see, if people start to CCM this by splitting their ideas into multiple posts this would increase the absolute number of bad posts in the forums.

That would be, frankly, catastrophic, considering how many of those we already have. Ugh

:sand:  over  :awesome:
Gerrick Palivorn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-12-19 06:23:06 UTC
The forum monster needs to be contained I don't know what causes it but it's very annoying to always have to copy your post just incase the worst happens, even 1 line quick responses!

MMOs come and go, but Eve remains.  -Garresh-
Intar Medris
KarmaFleet University
#5 - 2011-12-19 10:04:22 UTC
Yeah the hiccups are starting to get on my nerves.

I try to be nice and mind my business just shooting lasers at rocks. There is just way too many asshats in New Eden for that to happen.
King Rothgar
Deadly Solutions
#6 - 2011-12-19 11:24:41 UTC
The sad thing is the "old outdated forums" worked perfectly fine. This "new and improved" one gives endless error messages and devours posts. CTRL C and CTRL V are two things I hit before clicking post every time, even on ones as short as this. The old forums didn't have this problem, it is inexcusable for the new ones to have it.

[u]Fireworks and snowballs are great, but what I really want is a corpse launcher.[/u]
Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-12-19 14:17:05 UTC
Don't get me wrong...I love the new forums but the "We've been ganked!" page is not only annoying to look at but irritating in how often it occurs. It is bad enough that I have had to get into the habit of copying every post I make just in case.

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#8 - 2011-12-19 15:12:19 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
Just FYI, with Google Chrome I'm able to click "back" when a post gets ganked, and the previous page has the text of my post in it. Firefox and IE have not given the same results.

But yes, this is the only forum I know of that suffers from this problem. I don't understand why CCP felt the need to come up with something new and bad when so many existing forum systems are so reliable.

edit: and the redirect for the "we've been ganked" page is stupid. If I open a link in a new tab and get "we've been ganked!" that's it....I have to close the tab and reopen it. I can't refresh, I can't click back, it's a dead end. Other sites don't do this.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Aineko Macx
#9 - 2011-12-21 07:58:52 UTC