Q: Why am I not allowed to post here?

Robert - strange things are going on in the forum and particularly this thread - so much so that I am weary of trying to keep track of it all.

Your post, of which I received notice and which appeared benign in all respects is nowhere to be found here - except that it says (the Latest reply link is dead)

     " 93 Views     14 Replies Latest reply: Oct 7, 2014 2:17 PM by rccharles  [ notice there is no "Branched to a new discussion" ]

your DropBox link from the email notice is EXACTLY what I saw when I used the link that you posted (substitute your AppleID for mine = exactly the same where it counts)

Where did you come by this unusual-not-before-seen-by-me URL?

    " It's a weird link.  I do not understand it.

          https://discussions.apple.com/people/rccharles?view=discussions "

What I said before... It is a wonder that this URL did not get one a 404 Not Found result.

Alice said ... "curioser and curioser"

CCC

Where did you come by this unusual-not-before-seen-by-me URL?

Here is how I recall getting weird web address.  If you have linked to the login page and the complete page does not appear and you press reload, I am taken to this page.   ( Didn't happen for me tonight when I tried it. )

Jive mis-codes things.  If you want something work the same way, you code it once in a function and call the function as needed.  Of course, Jive doesn't implement good coding practices.  Thus, we have random behavior.

Your post, of which I received notice and which appeared benign in all respects is nowhere to be found here -

It is there now.   There are still navigation problems with forums.  Had a problem with last going to the wrong place today. Only one post on last page.  Jive went to last post on prior page. Click on next page to get to actual last page.

robert

If you have linked to the login page and the complete page does not appear and you press reload, I am taken to this page.

OK..... When you say "linked to the login page" you mean a browser bookmark? The login page has code in the URL that tells the browser who where to go back to after a successful login ( a PATH string ). Sooo, where were you when you clicked Login as a Guest?

It is there now.   There are still navigation problems with forums.

See my followup post positing some sort of lag-time occurring.

If all these anomalies were there all along in the code - Jive Software is a software product that is USER Customizable! - then we would have experienced them from day one = not the case. Because all the customization is done by the fruit shaped man behind the curtain - and mean serious customization - it is probable that the wizard is still trying to fix something that he didn't invent. Would be like us trying to fix a broken installed version of Quicktime.

What do we regularly recommend to folks? Restore from original disks!!

this is likely to be a long and arduous journey.

CCC

If you have linked to the login page

I mis-typed.  I should have written get to the login page.  I'll have to try to recreate this sometime. 

I'm using Jive and Apple to mean whoever programmed these forums.  There are a lot of bugs in this forum implementation.  More than there should be.  I know that even a moderate level of code modification is problematic.  However who ever is to blame for all the bugs, not enough testing was done.  UX was not well thought out nor tested.  Beta tests comments were ignored.

Go over to the adbobe forums:

https://forums.adobe.com/community/general/forum_comments/content

you are going to see a lot of the same complaints as we find with ASC.

Robert

Robert

OK about the link

RE: the rest... we're beating a dead horse - I agree in principle, if not in details. Fact remains that however it got this way, the efforts by one or the other or both in collaboration is causing more problems as they go forward with fixing existing ones. If they would go by Apple dogma, they would re-install a Clean OS (SiteWare - unaltered by human hands) from original disks. = not gonna happen. Too much time, effort and pride involved in the bodywork and paint job to worry about the fact that the car still won't start much less drive to the supermarket.

CCC

I Have the same issue

rccharles wrote:

 

https://discussions.apple.com/people/rccharles?view=discussions

 

What is this all about = view=discussions

Looks like a very outdated filtering parameter. This would be the correct URL for that view:

https://discussions.apple.com/people/rccharles/content?filterID=following~object type~objecttype%5Bthread%5D

Filtering parameters that cannot be parsed can either be ignored or used to raise an error. In this case it would seem they are ignored.

tt2

Tell us the details of your actions and results - the "not allowed to post" has a few variants

A sledge hammer approach...

How to improve your experience with Apple Support Communities ( ASC )

R