Why does it take so long to edit posts?

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Why does it take so long to edit posts?

Post by Astar » Thu Apr 29, 2004 2:24 am

On every other forum ive ever used, post editing was just as quick as posting a new thread or reply, here it is never fast and often takes hideiously wrong.

Why?

Don't worry about giving an answer in straight up tech gibberish, If theres anything I don't understand I don't mind doing a bit of research to fill in the blanks.
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Post by Ime » Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:08 am

No, idea, but I've noticed it too.
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Post by Worthless » Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:17 pm

I thought it was just the computers I was using :-?

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Post by Laura » Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:18 pm

Yes I notice that. In fact often when I try to edit a big post, such as the Sourcebook contents or the Coping list of strategies, my browser crashes altogether :omad:
It's weird ;)
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Post by DeirYassin » Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:29 pm

Yeah, I noticed this too...
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Post by Jomomma » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:31 pm

Phew!!!!

I thought it was just me
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Post by Proximity » Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:30 am

often my browser will hit hte one minute limit thing that it has for trying at something, and the popup that it waited too long will come up .. then I click try again, and it usually goes immediately. but if I try clicking the button more than once, all chaos breaks loose, by which I mean, that the "this post or topic does not exist" things comes up ;)

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Post by silent_scream » Sat May 01, 2004 11:22 am

Normally when I edit a post, I just edit it, click submit, wait a second, then close the page, and open a new one, and my post is edited...... magic :o
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Post by Alex » Sat May 01, 2004 11:24 am

:o

Yes I've noticed that it actually does edit it even if it doesn't finish loading... weirdness abound! :blush:

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Post by eimas » Mon May 03, 2004 6:38 pm

wow, i always just assumed that it was my computer too...
but i've found that it edits even if it's not done as well

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Post by Proximity » Mon May 03, 2004 7:14 pm

I was just thinking, Astar, do you use any other boards that are the *size* of BUS ? maybe it has to do with this board being as large as it is.

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Post by pinkllama » Mon May 03, 2004 10:45 pm

thought it was just my puter as well...its been really bad last night, and again this afternoon....what's going on??? Did the RW forum fill up all the BUS memory?? :P
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Post by Alex » Mon May 03, 2004 11:12 pm

Nah it's been this way for years, I almost said :tongue: At least as long as I've been here, I think.

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Post by Proximity » Mon May 03, 2004 11:33 pm

yeah, Alex, ;) you're approaching the one year mark, aren't you?

how much of your life have we sucked?

lol.

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Post by Alex » Mon May 03, 2004 11:40 pm

I'll let you know when I make my huge 1 year anniversary post :wink:

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Post by Astar » Tue May 04, 2004 8:24 pm

prox yes larger and smaller ones.

One of the ones iis about the size of BUS and has pretty sketchy quality of a server computer, Really BUS is on the smaller side of forums.
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Post by Tiarin » Tue May 11, 2004 7:04 pm

and here i was thinking that it was some conspiracy to discourage perfectionism in those who find themselves compulsively going back to edit their typos. :roll:

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Post by Proximity » Tue May 11, 2004 7:09 pm

silverdragonfly wrote:and here i was thinking that it was some conspiracy to discourage perfectionism in those who find themselves compulsively going back to edit their typos. :roll:

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Post by Comanche Let Thru » Sun May 16, 2004 9:26 am

My solution:

I've grown tired of the time it takes to submit an edit also. I've remedied this by typing my orginal reply, hitting preview, oops I forgot to do spell check, hit preview again, opps I wanted that in a different color, hit preview, oops the spell check didn't catch that typo, hit preview . . . :D finally I am happy. Hit send, it's submitted for the first time, and no need to take forever editing it after I've posted.

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