LOL..... Thanks Lori..... do I get a badge  Talk about Murphy's Law..... But seriously, I have not really had many probs.... the odd slow period, etc..... but on the whole, mine seems to be working OK... which is a bit

Once you've had a sustained history of issues, we'll discuss the badge.   In the meantime, you just get better service than everyone else.

Apart from the revolving door.....posting is taking ages, I'm getting really fond of those cogs,
I use FF, but have tried with Chrome and IE and it's the same for all of them

LOL... Ok.... I'll settle for that  I did wonder if it was because I am on a Mac and not on Windows....

You'll have to talk to Marguerita about that.

The social networking part of LC seems to be working well......but the forum part is a nightmare. Posts are taking forever to go through....and the latest blip....is telling me that I haven't made a comment when I try to reply

I do have an apple mac and use safari and I dont usually get many problems on here last week and this week have been the worse me, I have been having the same problems as the majority on here and have been getting locked out a lot,and I do appreciate Lori and all the other mods for trying to put it right for us Thank You

We are continuing to look at the performance issues.

Kaytee:  that's a random problem that has been around since...since...since forever.  If you just hit submit again, it should go through.

Sorry Lori, but it doesn't...it throws me off the site instead.....previously, if I refreshed the page, then submitted again, it would work, but not any more

Hi peeps - how do I put my 'time' right? It's 12.22pm  as I write but my displayed time is all over the place!

Plus, where's my 'ticker' where I find peeps birthdays etc? The black line has gone!

GMA, if you go into "manage", then "settings", you can alter your time setting.
The ticker is at the top of the page (left-hand side) next to the little Livecloud sign (above the large Gagajoyjoy sign). You need to run the mouse over it, for it to show.

Kaytee, which version of Firefox are you using? Mine is v 3.5.7 but v 3.6 is now available. When I post comments, the comment is posted OK. However if I try to subsequently edit it, the comment is apparently rejected and I just get the cogs. However I find that if I close the cogs screen (click on little cross on the top right corner of the cog screen), then close the edit reply screen again by clicking the little cross,  I return to the ordinary forum screen apparently showing my unchanged comment. But if I then refresh the screen (click on blue circular arrow near the beginning of the Firefox row of icons) my edited comment is shown.

I have just edited this posting and followed the above method to get this sentence appearing. Hope this is of help.

Thank you....I'm on FF 3.5 at the moment......and the 'edit' hasn't been much of a problem for me. It's just posting on the forum part of LC that is a nightmare. The rest of the site works perfectly. I have tried IE, Chrome and FF and the problem is still there to greater or lesser degree. I have no problems at all with any other sites....but thanks for the advice anywayxx

I don't know whether this is going to help at all, but have you tried exploring from the Firefox - Tools - Error Console option. What I suggest is before you try any further postings on Livecloud, you go to the Post Reply screen, then you go to this option. Select Clear when in the All tab to clear the listed error messages so you have a clear screen, then come out of the Error Console. Now try posting a comment on Livecloud, then return to the Error Console to see what has appeared.

On my Error Console, a whole list of Warning messages appear every time any page on Livecloud is accessed. I am guessing that you will also have these warning messages but presumably you will also have actual Error messages which I don't get. I suggest you post these Error messages (from the Error tab) in a posting to the Livecloud gurus in case this shows what is going on. By the way if you select any of these messages you get a further screen which shows a whole load of coding which means nothing to me but might to the gurus.

Hope this helps but it may just confuse matters.

Thanks El Loro....I'm a bit of a numpty technically, but I'll give that a go

Done that bit so...here's the trial reply

Kaytee, can you explain this?  Where exactly are you trying to post that you can't?

Sorry Lori.....I just saw your post. The problem seems to be solely with the forum part of the LC site, everywhere else works like clockwork. There is some slowness generally, that can usually be sorted out if I refresh, but trying to post in the larger threads, the Darnies for example, is virtually impossible.  I noticed that another FM...Maggie P is experiencing much the same thing. I don't know why this is happening, because most other FMs don't seem to be having this problem, which has lasted for quite some time now. Sorry to be such a nuisance, but it tends to spoil my enjoyment of the forum part of an otherwise  good site.x

Hi, Kaytee:

You aren't a nuisance!
So, I just posted in the Darnies thread to see if it was slow, and it was just a touch slow, but it's almost 2400 pages, so that's not unexpected.  However, you should STILL be able to post.
So, you have trouble in the big forum threads, and you've used 3 different browsers, and you are on a PC, huh?  You said you have a varying experience with those 3:  can you rank them, worst to best?  Also, do you know what Maggie P is using for a browser?

Hi Lorix
The worst is IE then Chrome and the best is FF...for everything on the PC.
I managed to get into the darnies to ask about Marge, but it took 10 mins....and a lot of button bashing(lol)...after that it just wouldn't let me in again. The rest of LC has been very slow, but I have been able to post. I'll try and contact Maggie and ask her what she's using and get back to youx

I've left Maggie a message on her FB page......hope she gets back to me or posts in here herself...thanksxxxxxxx

Kaytee: I think we should try to eliminate some suspects.

1. Your computer: Have you tried posting on another computer? Try logging into a friend's computer, and see if you have the same experience.

2. Your connection: Try posting on another connection. E.g. go someplace else and try posting. I'm not sure what you have for a service, but try not to pick something slower than your connection (like dialup. )

Maggie has replied Lori and she says she's using IE and Chrome and both are very slow.

I shall use my daughter's next time I visit and she has a different ISP to me......so if it works there then it's something my end.

Thanks a lot Lori, I'll try that and see how I get on

Lori... I just tried to reply to a proper blog tonight (today for you!) It was Caspian's '1b: Mystery'... I got a message 'You are not permitted to post comments on this personal site'. Is this the same as a private profile message? In which case, why does it appear on the blogs site? Not a moan, just confused!

Xochi you can tailor the blogs so only your buddies can comment on them...though why you'd have them open to read but not for poople on comment on is beyond me...that'll be why you couldn't comment.

What she said.

No one else has mentioned this so it must be just me. Last night my time I couldn't read any of the threads, I clicked on every thread and they all had a very long error code. Earlier this afternoon I could read the threads so assumed there was a problem with the site malfunctioning last night. I came back here about 20 mins ago (it's evening now) and all the threads were showing the last time of posting as being this morning - even though I'd earlier read the afternoon ones.


Then I noticed I wasn't logged in and wondered if that made a difference for whatever unknown or new reason so signed in and now can see that all the threads are up to date timewise. I've never had this particular problem before, just wondered if you were aware of it or someone else has mentioned it to you, seems strange if it's just my pc all of a sudden.

But with people not poople!

Yellow Rose, I don't know what may have caused the error code issue, but as far as the time thing goes. This place defaults to Seattle time, and it's only when you are logged in that your personal settings (i.e. time zone) prevail.

Thanks for the info Fluffy but I'm pretty sure I've been able to read threads before  in real time without being logged in, which is why I'd wondered if the rules have changed and we now have to be logged in to see the latest posts, even though that didn't apply this afternoon, very confusing lol

Sorry, maybe I didn't explain properly what I meant.
When you visit this site, whether you are logged in or not, you will always see the most up to date posts. The only difference in what you see will be the displayed time.
If you are logged in you will see your own time zone timing on all the posts, but if you are not logged in the time displayed on the very same posts will be the relative time zone of Seattle, which is eight hours behind GMT.

Edit: I posted this post at 00:38 GMT (4th March), but if I were not logged in this very same post would be displaying the time as 4:38pm (3rd March - Seattle time)

Hi Fluffy, you probably know more about the workings of this site than me. I've just never noticed before that the times of the latest posts relate to if we're logged in or not. I've just assumed that what's posted is the latest addition regardless of the time zones just as I experience in other Forums where there are different time zones to where I live.

Yellow Rose, I can confirm that Fluffy's postings are exactly what I have found. Is it possible that you had recently ckeared your browser cache including cookies? If you had then when you revisited this forum it would default as if you were not logged in so would show the Seattle times. Once you logged in then it would show your set times.

I just want to say that I like the new site layout.  It is much neater and clearer, plus it seems to be posting much faster.... at least for me..

Sorry but I dont like the new layout it is awful it better the way it was before everything is now pushed to the right side we dont need all of that at the left side of the page ..do we

I could not edit  just wanted to say half of that stuff on the laft hand side does not even get used..please change it back to how it was..

Message for Lori

Liking the new layout and it's working very well for me now. The culling of the Darnies thread made it much better for me to post (thanks Darnies) and the entire forum is a lot faster...thanks for your help and time, but things are really 100% better than they were

XOCHI......Caspi has locked up his site for personal reasons

Marge, I think the forum's been getting performance tweeks throughout the day. The editing should work now.

Hi Fluffs!  
Can you explain to me the difference between New Topic and Quick New Topic?  
Ted tried to explain it in his blog but I'm still confused!

The problem with editing is still with us though....endlessly whirring cogs, but if you refresh you'll see your edit has actually posted.

I'm also still getting the problem with thpage not loading and therefore no working reply box until I refresh the page and get it to load fully.

Xochi, I'll go and see what I can find out. I'mm just in from work and haven't explored much yet.

It is taking me longer to post than it did before cogs turning forever trying to find out were everything is I give up to many changes and not for the best

I'm still getting that too Fluffs... I reckon it's a bit of a 'niche' problem at the moment though!  

Hope you don't get too lost... you may find you get around by the scenic route at first!

Xochi, I think the difference between New Topic and Quick New Topic is the Quick New Topic misses out the various formatting, images, graemlins and other icons, which is fine if you just want to create a plain text topic. Don't ask me why this new option is available for New Topics but not for Post Reply because I don't know.

If you decide you do want to use the icons then you can then click Continue Using Detailed Posting Form which will take you to the normal New Topics form but we are lead to believe retains the text that you have created to dateon the Quick New Topics form.

No trouble getting there and back, then went into one of the forums to get a look at what these two options gave me.

It's pretty much as El Loro says:-

QUICK NEW TOPIC opens a box that looks pretty much like a reply box, but it has a Small box for you to give your topic a title and not much else. This topic will be posted in the forum you are in when you pressed the 'QUICK NEW TOPIC' button.

NEW TOPIC however has a lot more options, you can post the topic to another forum you can add pics, tags, attachments, make it into a polletc.,

The QUICK option does have a button you can press that it opens it up into the expanded form without you having to re-enter all the info.

Thanks El Loro! That makes utter sense now!  

... I guess it's going to be a little used option on here then!

... and thanks Fluffs!

I've made a reply to a query raised by OneTwo on a different thread which may be of general interest to others as follows:

Is there a way to get back to the front page of the Lounge from the fred I'm in without scrolling up please does anyone know. I used to do that before didn't I ?

The simplest way is as follows. Go to the front page of the Lounge (or whichever page you want). Then from your browser (not Livecloud) menu select Bookmarks (I'm using Firefox) and then Bookmark This Page. If you are using IE, the equivalent is Favorites - Add to Favorites.

So in future, when you want to go straight to the Lounge, select it from the Bookmarks menu. Note that you need to be logged onto Livecloud first if you want to see the correct time settings and be able to make postings. I personally don't bother to log off when quitting Livecloud so I don't need to log on.

I have created a new topic in the Tips and Tricks forum where I have repeated this so that it doesn't get lost.