can't find my posts (buglet)

Are you using an old bookmark to try to get to your posts?

Try clicking on "Your Stuff" above the search box on this page. Choose "Discussions" from the drop-down menu, and it should take you there.

Still curious what happens when you click this link.

This is what I see:

If you don't see that page, then you should log out of ASC, delete all of your Apple cookies, log back in and try the Discussions link again.

For what it's worth, when I click on your link, I get the same result as hotwheels #22.

However, I can get to the OP's Discussions by clicking on his profile, his Your Stuff tab, and then Discussions in the right sidebar.

This is the link that I get when doing that:

https://discussions.apple.com/profile/hotwheels%20%2322?view=discussions

This is the link I get when clicking on your link, Tuttle:

https://discussions.apple.com/profile/hotwheels%20#22?view=discussions

I think the "#" in the alias hotwheels #22 may be causing the problem. It's sometimes an element-part of the site's URL structures, and so may not get translated to the "%23" form needed for that 'special' character (I assume that's the case, since "%20" is used for a space).

No idea how that happened. I was obviously on the page (see screenshot), and I tested the copied link several times in my post.

and so may not get translated to the "%23" form needed for that 'special' character (I assume that's the case, since "%20" is used for a space).

Yeah, that looks spot-on, Don. "%23" is the percent encoding for "#":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Percent-encoding_in_a_URI

I was obviously on the page (see screenshot), and I tested the copied link several times in my post.

Yeah, it looks to be a nasty wee trap. I just tried some testing of the https://discussions.apple.com/profile/hotwheels%20%2322?view=discussions url.

If you insert that url into text in a post, prior to posting (while still composing), the link is fine and would take you to the correct page. The second that you actually click "Add reply" the url for the link-inserted in text is converted to https://discussions.apple.com/profile/hotwheels%20#22?view=discussions and everything turns to custard.

It doesn't happen to a "naked" copy of the url in a post. It only happens to copies inserted into text, and it only happens after you press "Add reply". So it's not something you could have seen coming, no matter how much testing you did while still composing the reply.

I thought it might be something like that, which is why I posted the raw links so I could see that they came out as intended.

It's hard to count on anything with this software. I'll never trust another image directly uploaded from my hard drive after one went missing after a couple of days.

Thanks for doing that legwork, b!

To the point of, hotwheels #22's OP though, he says that he is unable to reach the Discussions page through direct links, as well, as described in an earlier topic in another community (to incorporate the rubric!), where a "naked" copy of the link was used.

Not sure that has anything to do with the ascii in the link because we've all been able to reach that page, so I'm back to suggesting a complete Apple cookie toss to Jon... 😉

Hi, Jon - Have you tried trashing all of your Apple cookies yet?

Sign out, quit your browser, trash the cookies, log back in.

(Also, no one seems to have asked you whether you're having the same experience in multiple browsers...)

They're getting even with you now, Jon. 😉