Technical issue with post-editing.

The Rock Doctor · October 28, 2020, 06:35:25 PM

I'm finding sometimes - not always, but frequently - if I edit a post and then hit "save", I get a "The message body was left empty" notification and the update fails. The message body itself, meanwhile, is not empty, because I'm adding or removing a bit of content from a much larger post.

Any ideas as to why this happens?nn

The Rock Doctor · November 01, 2020, 06:51:54 PM

Apparently this is not strictly a matter of my laptop; the issue also arises when trying to edit from my phone.

The Rock Doctor · November 06, 2020, 05:53:52 AM

It seems I can successfully edit some of my recent posts, but get the same error for older ones; perhaps there is some time-limit on editing I don't know about?

Does anybody else have this issue? I'd like to know if it's just me or not.

TacCovert4 · November 06, 2020, 07:25:28 AM

I haven't had the issue. But then I haven't had a case where I needed to do a late edit yet.

The Rock Doctor · November 06, 2020, 07:40:22 AM

Can I ask you to attempt an otherwise pointless edit to one of your posts from July or so?

TacCovert4 · November 06, 2020, 08:52:22 AM

Sure

Guinness · November 07, 2020, 11:15:22 AM

Please send me the specific posts you've had a problem with and I'll investigate.

The Rock Doctor · November 07, 2020, 11:37:16 AM

Thanks, i will do so when I'm back at the laptop.

The Rock Doctor · November 07, 2020, 01:35:33 PM

I can only edit my most recent post in the Union ship thread, not anything older: https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,7201.90.html

I can edit all posts in the Technology thread in my encyclopedia: https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,7162.msg95754.html#new

But I can't edit anything in my encyclopedia's torpedo-boat thread, even the post I made yesterday: https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,7157.msg95776.html#new

Guinness · November 09, 2020, 08:54:20 AM

I think this is related to the db changes I made to resolve the issue that was causing the site to go offline. I'm looking at solutions now.

The Rock Doctor · November 09, 2020, 08:58:56 AM

Much appreciated, thanks.

Guinness · November 09, 2020, 09:11:18 AM

Ok, actually I think this is a problem with the new "Ant's Mutant Curve" theme :(

Can you try switching back to the Curve Theme (which is still the forum default) and see if the problem goes away?

The Rock Doctor · November 09, 2020, 09:19:48 AM

Quote from: Guinness on November 09, 2020, 09:11:18 AM
Ok, actually I think this is a problem with the new "Ant's Mutant Curve" theme :(

Can you try switching back to the Curve Theme (which is still the forum default) and see if the problem goes away?

I was able to edit the three aforementioned threads, so I'd say that the problem has gone away.

Thanks for sorting this out.