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"Spam filters" are questionable, IMO. One of my fellow Scout leaders said his mom called him so much that she was marked as spam automatically.

 

And be careful with hotlinking pics. I did one once and didn't check it. My preview looked good. The actual pic was... well... could have been NSFW.

 

If you're on your phone, press on the image and hold. A menu will come up. I believe it's the same menu as right-click. One of the options in that menu is "Open Image in a new Tab," or some such. From there, you can copy/paste that link into the dialog box. I see from that method your link is: https://c.tenor.com/NxNOjcpnL6oAAAAC/star-wars-exactly.gif.

 

I have two questions and I think they are related.

back in the day more so than now threads used to be closed around page 1,000 was there for no particular reason other than it being a nice round number or was this related to something technical.

also any idea what happened to this thread?

https://boards.theforce.net/threads...thread-image-and-gif-heavy.50038384/page-1019


As you can see most pages on this thread work and show posts fine but when you get above 1,000 things go wrong very quickly. Just something I have always been curious about

 

Going back to the email issue, an interesting development today: at 9:01 AM ET, I suddenly got a mass dump of 17 email notifications for posts made over the weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Since then, email notifications seem to have been working fine (with the caveat that, since I was offline all day until about an hour ago, the sample size so far is just three successes out of three cases in one thread right now).

I'll continue to monitor and report back, but perhaps this may have been solved?

 

I still can no longer use font colors, font types, and font sizes. But I’ve learned to live with it.

 

That’s weird it’s only an issue on your end. I can still totally change the size and color. Have you tried using a different browser

 

Perhaps so! I received an email notification from Post Technical etc. this morning, maybe from the post above this one? Gmail, latest Chrome browser, PDT 7 a.m. We live in hope. Yesterday evening I messed around with my alerts, removing them all and then reinputting this one.
EAD: Yes, upon checking the time sig, it was 6.11, the time of the above post.
EEAD: Eeee, it happened again with the post below, huzzah!
EEEAD: I am easily amused.

 

As far as the question about closing long threads (like social threads) and starting new ones we generally leave that decision up to the forum mods.

 

Yeah, I’ve tried all kinds of different browsers. Logged out, updated everything.

 

Sounds like it must be a PEBCAK (problem exists between chair and keyboard).

 

Oooohh... That's serious. I hear they have an antibiotic for that.

 

And follow up a day later: emails came in just fine all day, I kept opening threads from my phone at work (slow day ) and the next post would trigger an immediate email, etc. Came home this evening to check the watched threads page (as I've been doing for a few months now) and the only unread threads shown there are ones for which email is disabled. Hopefully it's not too early to say this, but I'm reasonably confident in concluding this issue is fixed, knock on wood. (I also noticed that the emails coming in today did NOT have the gray banner about "not sent to Spam because of a filter you created", which seems likely to be related.)

 

Perhaps it is. XD

 

I prefer PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer).

 

You guys need to fix the broken email verification system. It's ridiculous and led to me being locked out of my account for at least the last two weeks.

I changed my email and sent the verification email, but it never came through. No matter how many times I resent it would just not come through. I emailed jedicouncil@theforce.net multiple times, but I may as well have been speaking to a brick wall. Why is nobody actually manning that email?

I also tried the Contact Us button at the bottom of the forum page, which I'm assuming goes to the same email address - again, nothing.

Because my email then got 'unverified' as I'd changed it, I couldn't message any moderators or admins, post, or do anything on the forum to reach out for some support. Pretty dumb permission settings.

What finally worked was enabling two-step verification to the email I was trying to change to. That code worked and it finally allowed me to resend the confirmation email.

Admins - do something about this please, bit of a joke that I had to basically get lucky with the method above. Also, get somebody to actually man the emails so members aren't being ignored when they have an issue with account access maybe?

 

Our site owner monitors the http://www.theforce.net/contact.asp contact address for The Force.net Staff. I've gotten emails forwarded from him about issues before. If you have a problem like that again try using that address. Not sure if any of us admins have access to the Jedi Council contact email address. (I know I don't).