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I've go una stubbs [1] on the front page saying 18 mins last entry was 5 days ago, clicking on the the freshness takes you to a random place in the thread.
bounce!
If I don't even see this thread unless i go specifically to the chat forum
But if you pay for it...
I was getting this yesterday but it's fine for me now.
It has been having some updates, this has caused some issues for some users. They seem to be correcting themselves now, but if there are still some you can report them to tech.
DNS changes to make ads work better apparently. I get a working site on my home PC, but if I use my remote desktop in the office it doesn;t work
I've had a few issues over the last couple of weeks (but that's not important right now) where both "bike" and "off-topic" forums just have a single page of posts rather than the "page one of x" with links to pages of older posts. An hour or so later and things are back to normal.
Also get threads listed out of order after posting but that's probably a caching issue and really hard to fix and probably not by STW themselves.
Whenever I load threads that I know I've posted on, all my witty and insightful posts have been replaced with those of some argumentative crank. What's that about?
Been unusable for me for the last couple of days. Can't log in and have been caught in the Una Stubbs time warp.
But if you pay for it…
I paid for it for over 10 years, it was shite lots of times.
I’ve go una stubbs [1] on the front page saying 18 mins last entry was 5 days ago, clicking on the the freshness takes you to a random place in the thread.
It's a feature
For ****'s sake. If it's not working then please turn the ****in site off. I've tried posting about 5 times and can't see shit.
Ahem
For *’s sake. If it’s not working then please turn the * site off. I’ve tried posting about 5 times and can’t see shit.
That's because your post contained so many image links the system marked it for our attention as possible spam. I've manually approved it now.
Damn, was two seconds to late to remove my rant.
Got rid of the pics though.
Thought I was going mad.
Sorry for the game of whackamole Mark
Can someone sort my ****ing PM notification Mark? It’s ridiculous.
That’s because your post contained so many image links the system marked it for our attention as possible spam. I’ve manually approved it now.
@Mark - how many image links causes this behaviour? Might be a good idea if it was documented somewhere so folk could post without requiring intervention.
Security through obscurity.
Mark: "anything with ten links in it will be flagged for review"
Spammer: "fantastic" creates a thread with nine links
What happened to dark mode?
On my desktop and phone the screen is black. When I log in it turns white.
It's like staring at a light bulb and it's harder to hide at work!
Darkmode settings are in your account preferences.. https://singletrackworld.com/account/preferences/
@Mark - so if posting on here, posting in the Members forum and emailing tech doesn't get my issue resolved (or even acknowledged), please can you advise how to go about it? Thanks.
Why do you need to post so many images in one post that it trips the spam filter? Is there no better way of doing what you're trying to achieve?
Trip/ride reports would be the obvious answer....of which @scotroutes posts some absolute belters!
Thanks Tom. Yep, that's the reason and it has worked fine in the past, for me and for many others, so something changed fairly recently. I guess the spam filter can't (currently) differentiate between links to images and pages full of links to hooky medicines, counterfeit documents etc. Seems like a bit of a blunt tool. Even knowing what the limit is would help so I'll do my testing as planned.
It’s possible something has ‘reset’ during the latest patch. Members and certainly past regular posters shouldn’t be caught by the spam filter.
@Drac - yeah, quite possibly. I did send an email to Tech but I'm not expecting a 24 hour turnaround 😉
Edit: are the Mods now getting alerts to review posts and, if so, is it just new threads or also replies?
Ta.
Security through obscurity.
Mark: “anything with ten links in it will be flagged for review”
Spammer: “fantastic” creates a thread with nine links
Good point. I think we should make it really secure... howabout you change it so that whatever the user types in, the backend dumps that and just refreshes the page. Then whatever evil stuff someone might have typed in will be nullified and they'll be none the wiser what happened. Especially if you don't have any messages telling them.
Security through obscurity.🙄
It would also have the side benefit that the STW front page threads ( still a bit disappointed that I've still not received a congratulations for that idea😘) wouldn't be cluttered up with user forum posts. 😉
I think the "massive number of links" refers to those spam posts that offered fake passports for every country on earth and the like.
Writing checks that differentiate between spam links and genuine ones is very difficult, especially ones that don't rely on white or black lists and so need constant management. As far as a computer is concerned what's the difference between ten links to flikr.com and ten links to evilcorp.com? While we see images from one and spam from the other, automated content analysis is hard which is why many people rely on Google, etc. to do it.
Logged in ( paying member) ...page full of adverts..😕😕
Logged in ( paying member) …page full of adverts
Have you disabled Ads?
Let me know if you can still see them. We've been running a short test for the last 20 minutes that probably caused that.
Trip/ride reports would be the obvious answer….of which @scotroutes posts some absolute belters!
Sounds like what he needs there is a blog.
Security through obscurity.🙄
Yes yes, I didn't say it was great. Point was, white-boxing a black box isn't particularly smart.
Sounds like what he needs there is a blog.
So, in a choice of driving traffic to this site or to many alternatives you prefer the latter? I can see why you handed in your Mods badge.
Thanks for thinking of our traffic when posting on the forum. Appreciated.
So, in a choice of driving traffic to this site or to many alternatives you prefer the latter?
I have no preference either way, it makes no odds to me. I'm just offering a suggestion. If I were regularly posting image-heavy insights into my life, I'd start my own blog then everything was in one place for convenient perusal.
So everyone gets replies except me. I guess I'm no longer wanted as a subscriber 🤷
Ads gone now 👍👍. Was on Mobile.
Sorry you are feeling left out Dez. I'm currently in a drum lesson. Have you tried this?
https://singletrackworld.com/help/
It's an option in either your profile or your account settings page. Go switch it on.
Failing that, check your spam folder.
Thanks, feel better now I've been acknowledged, but still got the thing showing 1 unread message. I have filled in the error/bug report thing, yes. I'll try it again