Problems with forum

SynapticBytes

So I'm on my PC and trying to PM Joe as suggested in the Rosetta competition thread. Mouse hovering over the username does not show any ellipsis or any other option to PM. This is using Chrome. So I thought I'd tried Internet Explorer (11). IT will not even load up a forum thread. I can see the topics list, but when I click a thread, I get some right side menus, but the middle where the posts should be is all just blank.

I don't have FireFox to try and would rather not install it, as I have enough bloatware on my machine already. Am I missing something or is there issues here?

Russell.

SynapticBytes

IE screenshot for reference

and Chrome when hovering over Joe's name

jstrout

Could it be you were not logged in? That's what it looks like for me when I'm not logged in, too.

(Not very obvious, I know, but... 🤷‍♂️ )

EDIT: Just tried Chrome on macOS, and it's working OK here (once logged in; and I had to explicitly put "https:" in the URL, as it seems Chrome isn't quite bright enough to figure that out). Will try on Windows when I get a chance.

SynapticBytes

No, definitely logged in. Tried the same steps on work computer, both chrome and IE, both logged in to the forum, and both produced the same result - blank IE windows, and no ability to PM in Chrome. Only other thing I can try is booting up iMac or MacBook when I get home tonight and see if either of those show something different. What version of MacOS are you running? I can't upgrade past El Capitan due to the age of my hardware, and it also runs like a dog (even on my i7 iMac with 12Gb RAM), which is why I moved back to Windows a couple years ago.

Oh, and yes I'm using https

jstrout

Huh. I'm on macOS 10.13. Tomorrow I'll boot up my PC and give it a try there.

The forum software here is Flarum. That's a pretty big project — it's hard for me to imagine they're all Mac users. It's also weird that Chrome would behave differently on Mac than on Windows. What is going on, I wonder?

(At any rate, I already sent you a PM so all you have to do at this point is reply. Or you can just email me using the support address on the MiniScript home page, or any other email address you might have for me.)

SynapticBytes

No luck on the iMac. I hate an unsolved mystery. Maybe it's a permissions issue? You might be the only one who can do it 🙂 Did any of the other winners PM? Be nice if someone else said it works for them, then we know it's just me for some reason.

jstrout

@hilbert, any thoughts on this?

hilbert

Seems like this wasn't enabled by default. 😅 I've changed the setting and confirmed PMing is now possible by regular users.

@jstrout You may want to double check through Permissions in the admin panel to ensure things are now to your liking.

Unless any further problems emerge, I suspect we can lock this thread.

SynapticBytes

Only on iPad at the moment, but confirming I can go into a user profile and have an option to PM now.

hilbert

SynapticBytes Only on iPad at the moment, but confirming I can go into a user profile and have an option to PM now.