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What's going on with this forum (and I don't mean the content)?

Several times recently I've tried to post photographs and each time I get the error message "Failed to create Comment" followed by the suggestion to contact Neighbourhood Net, something that invariably produces no response. But the odd thing is that a blank post does appear on the PutneySW15 version but one **with** the text and the image(s) on the New.putneySW15 version. What on earth is going on?

Richard Carter ● 2501d3 Comments

Richard, I see what you mean. I generally use the "new" interface and hadn't noticed at least one of my images couldn't be seen on the old one. I think I've only had failed posting messages recently when I've been trying to post on the tube. Facebook uploads can generally cope with the WiFi discontinuity between stations but the SW15 forum seems to use more basic software ... I suspect other network frailties may cause lost postings. The other times I've had failed postings appear to be when someone else has been posting to a thread at the same time, so the software's concurrency control may be a bit basic as well!  

Michael Ixer ● 2501d

Ah I wondered about the blank posts.  I thought it might be Putney's version of a bumped thread

Philippa Bond ● 2500d

I noticed for a period around 7pm yesterday the sites were unavailable. Perhaps they shutdown and restarted them to clear some issues?

Michael Ixer ● 2500d