Posting reply goes back to reply page with an empty reply
Since yesterday I have sometimes experienced that posting a reply just returns me to the reply page without actually posting the reply.
There is no clear path to reproduce this. I click to reply to a thread and start to write my reply. I usually look up some references in another tab and adds it to the reply. When I am done I click Post and I get returned to the page I got to when clicking Reply in the beginning.
After the first time I got this I have tried to copy my entire body of the reply before posting. When I remembered to do this and just pasted it into the reply box and clicked post again the post was successfully posted. No errors reported.
As some replies take time to write it might be timeout related but I do not feel that it has been an excessive amount of time between reply and post.
Apparantly I am not alone. I am actual able to post if I retry but I got an e-mail from another user today that have not been able to post to the forums at all.
If i push on post it is like it refreshes. It loads the same screen over and over.
I tried it in IE and in Firefox same effect.
I noticed today that if I press Cancel or No (I don't remember the specifc button) when I'm presented with the dialog that preceeds going to the login page after pressing Post, the post is cancelled and I can copy my message to the clipboard before posting to avoid losing my work.
I've also found that when this dialog occurs and I press No (or Cancel) the press Preview, instead of Post, I can preview then post without losing my work.
..don't know why this works around the problem; but, it would sure be nice to get this fixed.
Are you using multiple browsers/tabs?
I am using IE7 with multiple tabs. I suspect they share some cookies/sessions and if one times out others do too resulting in re-logons losing content.
I've also had this too, I think it's just maintainence and with the new software updated for the forums, that maybe causing the problem
Remember the Live Messenger has also been released so they are still probably working on the .NET passport features/functionality at the same time.
Andreas Johansson wrote: