h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A bit rusty around the diodes, perhaps?

A brief query: is it common for a Researcher to need to re-assert their 'settings' frequently before they can post? (I continue to use Brunel skin, and FireFox as a browser)

Not for me. But then I never sign out

I'm occasionally told that I can't post a reply because I'm not logged in (when I am logged in - my name's on the screen). Logging in seems to fix this, but it's a pain - I need to save my posting somewhere as using back buttons tends to wipe out the posting I made, as well as log me out again.

In this situation I hit the back button, copy/paste the posting (if it's still there), then log in, then open another session and renavigate to the conversation, then reply.

Simples.

To both - no, I don't ever log out as there are concerns often about getting back in. And yes to the other - the "you must finish registration" is sent to another window, met, and then a back-step to my post.

It's just somewhat of a nuisance, but good to know it isn't just my own configs. Thanks.

I get what Icy just described, but don't bother with logging out and in again, just a couple of times on the back and forwards buttons and I'm sailing again.

I just had it again and now I've remembered that refreshing with F5 is quite adequate.

I'll try the single back-step with a refresh (Ctrl-F5) the next time, thanks for that suggestion.

You mean I don't have to pick up the PC, chuck it out the window and then go down to the shop and buy a new one each time that happens?

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This is such a common occurrence that anytime you have a long post it is a darn good idea to copy your text before hitting either the post or preview buttons.

But yeah, I'm very used to it and I typically just hit refresh (F5) and that usually clears up the sign in problem.


Also, has anyone else noticed an increase of connection drops resulting in "Website currently offline" pages? I'm running Brunel with My Convo pop-up refreshing every few minutes and it certainly seems that I see that page more often lately.

I ran into "site gone" replies for a couple of very early Canadian mornings. I assumed automatic maintenance that had servers briefly gone. So didn't worry ... I had my towel at-hand.

(Heh... Just got "logged off" again.)


I assume the normal maintenance is early Monday Mornings, but I'm just going on when I expect to see that same error. (It also mentions that the site might be down for maintenance.) About 21:00 on Sunday evenings, Central Daylight Time, would be 03:00 GMT so that would make sense. But I've been seeing it during GMT daylight hours more often recently. It could be on my end of course, but that's why I was asking.

Twice during this session (20 minutes) I've had to "Click here to complete your registration".

I never log out.

Deb

Yeah... you don't need to do that, just refresh, that should bring you back.

i been logging all morning and only to run out of bog paper

Ewww!

Ah! There it is again. I saved a screen shot of it so I can describe it properly.

At the top is a green rectangle you can click to
"Retry for a live version"
, followed by the notification that "Website is offline: no cached version of this page is available".

Then below that:
------------
Error 521
Ray ID: 2b5f1f914bd41ee3 * 2016-06-20 12:11:39 UTC
Web Server is down

You
Browser Working [check]
San Jose
CloudFlare Working [check]
[icon of some computer box with a red x on it]
www.h2g2.com
Host
Error
---------

And then there is some Q&A style explanation that the web server isn't returning a connection and that you should try again in a few minutes or if you're the owner of the websie that you should contact your hosting provider with a link to additional troubleshooting info.



I wonder if this page is generated by Chrome?

That means the h2g2 server wan't available at the time you tried. Cloudflare sits on a security layer above it and povides DDoS protection, etc.

Not sure what registers as a DDoS attack in h2g2 terms - 10 simultaneous login requests?

Ditto all the above, last 17 posts.

Even post 75!?