Feedback Thread Access Problem

[Ursa major]

I tried to start a thread in Feedback. It told me that the post was a duplicate of an existing one.

But when I try to access the thread (in whatever state it was when it was put there), I'm told that "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" and that there may be a connection problem.


(By the way, I was trying to thank Brian for adding the "Go to First New Post" feature in thread lists/catalogues. And I can see some of the text in the first post of that thread when I hover over the title, so something is there.)

[pyan]

And when I tried to go to your thread, Ursa, I got an Opera redirect with a link to the thread, which flashes the page up for a fraction of a second then returns to the redirect page.

[The Judge]

I got:

The page isn't redirecting properly






Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.





This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.

Is it because there's an attachment/link to it? There's a paperclip icon next to it I see.

[Ursa major]

There was an attachment: the downward pointing arrow that's used as a button for accessing the first new post.

I had tried to copy the symbol into the post, but it didn't work (in the sense that I could still see the underlying URL and the IMG controls in the preview screen. I then started to delete the IMG text, but after deleting some of it, the whole lot disappeared before I could erase the rest.

[The Judge]

I clicked on the paperclip and it takes me to http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum...ost-firstnew** but there's nothing there



** followed by the letters gif -- I didn't want to cause mayhem by putting the link in full here, hence the separation


EDIT: possible oops here as it's linked anyway... (but there's still nothing!)

[Ursa major]

Attachment: I'd saved the symbol to my laptop then browsed it into Attachments (the way I usually do).

Paste attempt: Goodness only knows.

[Dave]

I suggest that I remove the post and you re-post it again. I have no idea why it doesn't work. I use Firefox and get the same message as as the Judge. (BTW posts are never deleted from Chronicles they just get moved to a more interesting forum.) Brian can look at it later in case it is a problem rather than a one-off glitch.

[Ursa major]

Go ahead, Dave.

(I'm not promising to re-post, though.)