Hi,
This problem has been ongoing for some weeks now.
When you post an answer to a discussion and try to go back, you receive a prompt asking if you want to resend the information or cancel, and there is no way you can ignore it as before: either you use other means to go where you want to go, or you resubmit your post.
The problem is browser-independent, I have computers under IE and others working with Mozilla, but the behavior remains the same.
And considering the number of duplicate posts, I'm certainly not alone in this case.
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I tried to navigate back from this message and it *£#{ did it again
This problem has been ongoing for some weeks now.
When you post an answer to a discussion and try to go back, you receive a prompt asking if you want to resend the information or cancel, and there is no way you can ignore it as before: either you use other means to go where you want to go, or you resubmit your post.
The problem is browser-independent, I have computers under IE and others working with Mozilla, but the behavior remains the same.
And considering the number of duplicate posts, I'm certainly not alone in this case.
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I tried to navigate back from this message and it *£#{ did it again
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The mistake is going back -Instead of going back, go to home located in top the far left hand side in the blue headings.
If indeed you need to edit your post use the edit function, so don't use back go home first and think of ET ... home
If indeed you need to edit your post use the edit function, so don't use back go home first and think of ET ... home
Click and hold the back button. You will get a list of the recently viewed pages. Select the one named after the thread, which should appear before/below the one called "diyAudio - Reply to Topic"...
This works in IE and FireFox.
This works in IE and FireFox.
Going back after posting is the problem. You would be going back to the form where you posted your answer. Of course your browser thinks that's a bit hinky.
You should be taken back to the thread by the forum server after you post. That is normal procedure. Is that not happening for you? Is that why you are suing the back button?
You should be taken back to the thread by the forum server after you post. That is normal procedure. Is that not happening for you? Is that why you are suing the back button?
Yeah I know, but I instinctively hit the back button, and it used to work, maybe with a message, but another click on back, and that was it.
Now I have to get used to this on DIYaudio, on other sites it still works the old, normal way.
That's a minor annoyance, but if it could be fixed, it would be nice.
After you make a post the normal forum behaviour is to land you back into the discussion you posted in, looking at the post you just made. The software goes thru a couple redirects to get you back, perhaps you are just not patient enuff, or if it takes forever perhaps some time for some computer maintenance.
dave
dave
That's what it does, no problems with that.
But then, I remain stuck, and I cannot use the back button.
When you submitted the post, you pushed a submit button... if you click the back button, you are effectively cliking that submit button again. Since you have already submitted the form, it asks you if you want to do it again. All forms behave this way. TO use the back button, you have to clik & hold till the menu pops down and then select a page before the submit button.
Everything is working exactly as it should, you have to adjust your behaviour.
dave
Everything is working exactly as it should, you have to adjust your behaviour.
dave
OK, but why did it work sometimes ago on DIY, and why does it continue to work on other Vbulletin forums?
Websites all have their own way of doing things ... when you click on a link, does it go to a new window or replace the content you were viewing? Just one example. Every site has it's own way of doing things, some are for innocent reasons, some not so innocent, but the short answer is there's no consistency.
If you want complete control of your web experience, get used to right-clicking links and open in a new window or tab (whichever you prefer to use). Close the window or tab, the old page is still there, or you can move through open windows to find the one you want if its behind the current window.
With DIY audio, you would right-click the 'reply' button, choose 'open in new window' (or 'open in new tab'; I don't like tabbed browsing) which opens a new window to make your reply. Close it and your original is right there. Refresh the forum page if you want to see your new post.
It's a working method that doesn't require any website to do what you want. YOU do what you want instead. That makes the differences in web sites, like this versus other forums, irrelevant.
When I'm intensively researching something I might have 40 windows open. Nothing is ever buried in a list or can't be re-referred to later. You can minimize some or keep them layered underneath each other. It doesn't slow down modern computers with adequate RAM, in fact it's faster. No page loading, no page re-loading, no fetching from the browser cache.
You could also spend some time learning your browser's keyboard shortcuts. Much faster than mouse clicking in many instances, but especially when navigating multiple pages / tabs.
Maybe more specific to your issue, and doesn't require you think about what I said above, when you answer a post, just double-click the back button. That will move the current window two pages back, skipping the form.
If you want complete control of your web experience, get used to right-clicking links and open in a new window or tab (whichever you prefer to use). Close the window or tab, the old page is still there, or you can move through open windows to find the one you want if its behind the current window.
With DIY audio, you would right-click the 'reply' button, choose 'open in new window' (or 'open in new tab'; I don't like tabbed browsing) which opens a new window to make your reply. Close it and your original is right there. Refresh the forum page if you want to see your new post.
It's a working method that doesn't require any website to do what you want. YOU do what you want instead. That makes the differences in web sites, like this versus other forums, irrelevant.
When I'm intensively researching something I might have 40 windows open. Nothing is ever buried in a list or can't be re-referred to later. You can minimize some or keep them layered underneath each other. It doesn't slow down modern computers with adequate RAM, in fact it's faster. No page loading, no page re-loading, no fetching from the browser cache.
You could also spend some time learning your browser's keyboard shortcuts. Much faster than mouse clicking in many instances, but especially when navigating multiple pages / tabs.
Maybe more specific to your issue, and doesn't require you think about what I said above, when you answer a post, just double-click the back button. That will move the current window two pages back, skipping the form.
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It's meant to work this way, and the reason is to avoid people double posting. Once you've posted, the page you'd like to go back to doesn't exist anyway, so you have to move forward.
Not ideal, but it's one way of doing things, and until we migrate to a new forum platform, I don't think it will change.
If it used to work but our performance implementation of Google's mod_pagespeed has stymied things, I'm not sure, and do apologize if that is the case, but nevertheless you should always "move forward" once you've posted, as the past has "changed" and now exists in a new state.
Not ideal, but it's one way of doing things, and until we migrate to a new forum platform, I don't think it will change.
If it used to work but our performance implementation of Google's mod_pagespeed has stymied things, I'm not sure, and do apologize if that is the case, but nevertheless you should always "move forward" once you've posted, as the past has "changed" and now exists in a new state.
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