Tech issues on babble

Michelle, I clicked enable/disable rich text dozens of times, it makes no difference, both look exactly the same, except when enable rich text is on the response window is smaller. And no formatting capabilities are available eithewr way.

When

Actually, as of late yesterday, my formating bar was back, and still is,  and so to is my rich text,  so all is fine in my tech world.

Sorry should of posted that here, instead of just noting it in the thread where it started functioning again.

testing.

Not a tech issue exactly, but I want to go back to a couple earlier threads but theres no longer previous X posts from Y posters (nor any member profiles at all anymore, apparently) to use as a handy guide (previous thread is closed now and don't want to open up another just for that)  So.  Is there any quick way to find previous threads when youve been away awhile?    I'll check back later.

o na erik u gotta scroll to the bottom n press submit after u press preview the 1st time

Recently, the HTML editor has failed to paste intermittently when I've hit update. It seems to be about 50/50 as to whether it's going to accept my HTML input. Makes it kind of frustrating trying to provide links.

Yup, looks like you were right, don't know how I missed it first time but thanks.  Back in business again. 

Ditto.

Me too. I assume it's an experiment to force us to feel like workers as we manually enter tags, putting us in touch more closely with our labour and production. A sort of creeping luddism. Bravo, rabble.ca! 

can you get pm's in your mail like before? If so how?

This isn't an issue unique to babble, but I'm posting out of frustration.

I don't know how widespread this problem is, but in Port Hope for the last two days we have some kind of "active pattern" roving malfunctions which mean that, for an hour or two, we can't log on to the internet, and then we can again. It's been driving me nuts for the last two days, because the bell techies couldn't figure it out, and kept trying different means to cure my computer or modem, which eventually worked, but not (I now know) because of what they had done. One time one of them put me through to the "line test" folks because I had been referred for a line test 24 hours ago and it hadn't happened due to the backlog, so he used his hotline and got me through. I got an instant line test, and at last, an answer. "Believe it or not, your line is perfect." He then told me a bunch of techie jargon which seemed to amount to this: "we have some kind of malfunction in the 905/705 area (!!!???) which we have been trying to diagnose for the last two days." I was not surprised: my daughter, three blocks away, had been having the same problem, and she had just told me that hers had been "escalated" to someone who told her they were working on a problem and it wasn't just her.

Anyone else heard of this?

No it doesn't - look how you just spelled "doesn`t". You've slipped into a French keyboard. Try holding down the Alt key and then tap the Left Shift key once and see what happens. Get back to me.

Wilf...I can confirm a router issue for ya but not much else.  rumour is a badly failed equipment install/upgrade was the root issue...but thats rumour.

Unionist is right BoomBoom, on your task bar you should see a lil keyboard that'll usually read EN but now will probably say FR.  Clicking on it should bring it up so you can change it.  On some of them tiny laptops, it's easy to accidentally switch it.

I`m back. I tried everything suggested, and the only thing that works is Shift-6. I can`t find anything anywhere (incuding in the Dell handbook) about changing back and forth between English and French keyboards. I`ll ask the local techie when he comes back from fishing later this week. Oh, here`s the result of Shift-6: ???????

I did as you suggested, and everything was in the default mode (English-Canada). However, when I press the Question Mark key, I get this: ÉÉÉÉÉÉ

Fortunately, Shift-6 gives me: ?????

You could have just stopped asking questions, Boom Boom. Much simpler solution.

I think this question has been answered earlier, but I'll ask again. Are old babble threads gone forever? I tried to access the old "property rights" thread I started about three years ago, and couldn't get to it. There's a lot of information in that thread IIRC.

The threads are all wonky today, first post of every thread shows up like it is a column posting, no name appears,  with a duplicate banner  title headline

Well I would have been worried about that  if there were green lfying skeletons! ;)

Now there are threads showing up that only have the last post in block format appearing.

Thanks for the heads up - I didn't have time to respond here, but I sent off a quick e-mail and they fixed it up - the problem was that they were installing something new elsewhere and it affected babble, but they corrected it.

As for old threads - sigh.  And sob.  I can't even go there.  They're still around.  When they'll be public?  I'm not even going to venture a guess - I've done it before and been wrong, so now I'm just going to wait and hope, and perhaps someday I'll be pleasantly surprised by the old thread fairy. :(

Thanks for answering my question though.  My timing at least maybe impriving slightly.

My signature appears at the end of my posts in about half of all forums (although I usually manually delete it every time I post). I have no way to edit the sig to make it vanish. I see Sven's signature also appear. Since sigs are disliked here, I'd remove mine, but can't since I can't find any "edit signature" option.

OK, Roger; out.

I have a tech issue regarding logging in and my password. I can only log-in by requesting a new password.

I got logged out, and when I could not log-in using my existing password. I requested a new password, which allows me to login once. I then went to the edit tab on my profile, and changed my password back to what it was before I requested a new password. To confirm whether or not I could use this password, I logged out, and tried to log back in using the again current password. Again I was not able to log-in using the current password. I once again had to request a new password, which is once again single use only.

I have once again changed my password back to what it was before this incident, but I am sure the software will not allow me to use it to log-in if I get logged out again.

I should not have to request a new password every time I want to log-in to rabble.

[edited to add]

I've now been able to successfully log-in to my rabble account using the password I gave myself. Hopefully this works when I get logged out in the future. Though why I ever got logged out in the first place is a mystery, since the "remember me" button should ensure I remain logged-in in perpetuity unless I hit the log out button, which I did not before this incident.

Hm. I've had to log-in a few times over the last day or two, which is unusual, but I thought it was just something to do with recently switching computers. I'll let you both know if I hear anything more regarding a "glitch".

Ok, there are still some fundamental bugs and usability problems that were pointed out immediately after the changeover and still we've seen no progress or mention of progress. Is there still a tech team working on babble or are we stuck like this until the next 'upgrade'? I'm talking mainly about the cut/paste function (cf for example, post #1 in this thread by jas on 17 May), which is so essential to babble, and yet it remains a nightmare. Other simple changes like adding a quote function button and fixing that strange formatting problem that shrinks text after a quoted passage have become stagnant. What gives?

Also, and I don't mean to target Sven, but how the h does he still have a tagline?

Thank you! I've become used to editing and re-editing, and watching entire blocks of text change after I delete a single whitespace, etc.

On a scale of Yes to No, will this be fixed? Soon??

LOL, M. Spector.

Often what I find when people's formatting goes wonky is incorrect quote tags, and I fix them by deleting or adding an open or close quote tag.  For instance, there might be an extra open or close quote tag, and that screws up the formatting.  Used to screw things up on the old software too, but not to the same extent it does on this one.

Oh, that's a drag!  I hate taglines!  I'll find out how to deal with that.  I've been noticing them lately, too.

Babble would not accept my password. I re did the whole thing and am in BUT I have a feeling it is not going to last. I have always had the same password.???????

That's weird about the passwords!  I don't know why that would happen. :(  So clersal, does that mean you can't

Yeah, the cutting and pasting is a pain.  Sorry about that.

Regarding formatting issues - I've found that a great number of formatting issues (where the shape of the posts goes screwy) is due to people's quote tags.  Almost always there's a open quote tag without a corresponding close quote tag, or vice versa.

I fix it wherever I see it by simply editing people's posts and removing the extra tag, or adding the missing tag.  But it's handy to always remember - if you have an open quote tag that looks like this: [ quote], then you also need to have a close quote tag, which looks like this: [/ quote]

You can disable that annoying pop-up. How-to instructions here. (I'm just not very security conscious very much at all and most of the time.

Warning: But you should also remember not to leave sensitive personal information in clipboard, like: passwords, personal banking info, credit card information etc in clipboard's memory buffer. You can't see what's in clipboard's memory buffer without some extra work)

It seems to work better for me now, and especially if I click on disable rich-text as Michelle said to do before.

And then any words and sentences surrounded with "p" tags is going to force a new line after it. Just remove them to make it all one, if that's what we intend to do.