AlanCrowe comments on Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlanCrowe 16 April 2009 08:02:10PM 0 points [-]

When I try to create a new article, I type it in, click submit and "nothing happens"

That is I get a blank page, no held for moderation, no thank you for participating. Looking at the page source I see

<html><body></body></html>

Surely the server should never generate that, I should at least get an error message, malformed post or something.

Checking submitted nothing is found.

I'm running an old Firefox on FreeBSD 5.4, so I tried using Lynx instead, with the same result.

I have a static IP address 80.177.122.150 which might make issues easy to locate in the server log.

Comment author: wmoore 17 April 2009 01:03:31AM 2 points [-]

Unfortunately article submission requires Firefox 1.5 or newer. I was able to reproduce the problem you described in 1.0.7. However I was able to successfully submit an article using 1.5.0.7. This is due to the javascript based WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE being required, which would explain why Lynx didn't work either.

I have raised an issue to either make it work or make the behaviour more friendly.

Comment author: AlanCrowe 17 April 2009 11:17:29AM 0 points [-]

Thank you. I'm running Firefox 1.0.3.

I guess that the work round from my end is to upgrade. Upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0 stalled when my new CD-ROM drive proved just as incapable of blowing a bit perfect CD as the old one. However I can do a network install, and I'm greatful to you for checking that it will actually work when I get it done.