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[META] Forum returning lots of errors today (e.g. parens, links and images cause problems)

FlowState
25 days ago

Sorry, don't really know where to post this, but I've been seeing a lot of weird errors in the forum today.

"An error occurred. Please try again or contact your administrator" is returned when:

- parens are used in certain ways (it's hard to pin exactly what causes the error, but I've seen errors caused by open paren followed by closed paren, as well as parens surrounding multiple paragraphs)

- you post any kind of code (unless it doesn't have parens lol)

- you post any kind of link at all. Plain text URLs are fine - they will be converted to links after the post is submitted. But if you edit a post that has a link, you have to replace it with a plain text URL before submitting the edit

- you use the forum quote feature, bc it generates a link to the quoted post. text can be manually styled with the blockquote format, though

The weirdest thing is it doesn't seem to happen consistently on every thread. For example, I think this thread will be mostly fine (I've already made and deleted test threads.) (I can't use the quote feature in this thread tho)

But I think the following thread have the problems I described above:

[https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/389883/calling-srand-multiple-times]

[https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-web/389792/measurement-units]

It's pretty easy to recreate - just reply with a link or edit an existing comment with a link, and the forum will return the same error as described above.

I'm not sure if the forum is applying some sort of "enhanced security" to certain threads?

EDIT: Also, I just tried to paste an image into this very post and I got the same error. Pasting an image in a reply also fails. Same with using an image URL.

So it seems that the problem with images is more widespread than the problems with links and parens.

  • 21 days ago

    ItIs getting crazy APOSTROPHE 

    IAm trying to answer in the desktop browser but it fails. So I need to send the comment to myself from the laptop to my phone. But it fails there too.

    Then I need to replace apostrophes, double quotes, brackets, numbers... And still sometimes it failsAPOSTROPHE

  • 21 days ago

    I just discovered a workaround, at least for one case where I was unable to post a simple sentence like "I just logged into the store and I can see plenty of apps that are not installable to my account ".

    I selected Tools > Source Code, pasted my text into the source code dialog, and pressed Ok. After that, my comment was magically postable (and I was able to subsequently edit it.)

    (upvoting my own post for visibility)

    EDIT: I’m gonna remove the upvote

  • 21 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

    Dang sorry to hear that. I guess it was just a one-off fluke fix in my case. (To be clear, I removed the p tags from the source - I’m not sure if that was part of the fix or not)

  • 20 days ago

    Successful "test" . Well It's still (not) working! Or does it?

    I reinstalled my mac (actually a new mac) and now it almost works again. But I couldn't post still when I first tried here, even though then editing it I could use all the special characters.

  • 20 days ago

    The forum is still rejecting:

    - certain uses of parens

    - links (plain text urls are ok and will automatically be converted to links)

    - images

    - certain uses of digits (e.g. "3rd" or "4th")

    This makes it very hard to post any kind of code or technical information. It's also very annoying to edit any post which contains links, as all of the links have to be re-done as plain text URLs or the edit will be rejected.

  • 19 days ago in reply to FlowState

    Forums are still broken. Maybe this is a sign to finally move to a modern forum platform like nodebb (*) which has *fast* infinite scroll while still supporting the ability to jump to any point in a long discussion (even in a thread with thousands of replies), looks good, and works well on mobile?

    (* it's already like 10 years old at this point)

  • 19 days ago in reply to FlowState

    Or maybe we (users) should move the forum to somewehere else....

  • 19 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

    It's been tried a few times without success tho.

    - The Connect IQ "section" of stackoverflow is a ghost town

    - same with CIQ discussion on reddit

    - ppl tried to make discords (maybe even irc channels) for CIQ and also failed

    - more recently (and more generally), someone made a 3rd party site for posting Garmin feature requests, with the ability to vote and comment on them. (Basically what I've always wanted for an official Garmin Ideas page, similar to what Spotify and other companies have). When they tried to promote their site on the Garmin forums, everyone told them it was pointless (and they're right, bc no one will use an unofficial feature request side, as they have zero expectation that Garmin will visit that site.)