Discussion forum behaviour

[Nick James]

Does anyone know why the comet image stacking discussion here (https://britastro.org/forums/topic/comet-image-stacking) has been banished from the front page? Is it something I said?

[Callum Potter]

A bit of a strange bug – will add to the issue list – there were a couple of deleted replies at the end of the thread which I think must have confused the front page widget. The thread is now shown now that I have deleted those replies.

Callum

[Dr Paul Leyland]

Mea culpa.

I was trying to find out what may be attached to a post in line with Nick’s earlier attempt.

Pleased to discover a bug, regret having uncovered unfortunate consequences.

[Dr Paul Leyland]

This raises a general point: should we have a playpen sub-forum where would-be posters can check and edit their proposed postings before subsequently copying the final product to its intended place? This facility is quite common on sites which encourage user-generated content.

Such a place would carry a guarantee that nothing placed there would be permanent (admins or a script could periodically flush everything over a certain age, for instance). It would allow people to learn and it would confine (most) uncovered bugs to a harmless place of quarantine.

[Nick Quinn]

I got this error message when trying to post a reply to the ‘Northern Lights’ topic.
Any ideas?

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[Callum Potter]

Thanks Nick – not sure why you got this error message, but we will look into that.

Your message was actually held for moderation because it had 4 links, but I have approved it now. I’ve also increased the number of links limit to 6.

All the best,
Callum

[Nick Quinn]

Thanks Callum! Fair enough, I didn’t know about the ‘moderation’ process.

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