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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: wc on June 18, 2011, 03:46 pm

Title: Forum bugs
Post by: wc on June 18, 2011, 03:46 pm
- I tried signing up as "William Clark." Got an error. I can log in as William Clark, but can't post. Creating this account (wc). It seems to have worked.
- I can't log out. In fact, deleting cookies doesn't even log me out. The only way that's been successful is to close and restart my tor browser. When I click log out, it shows me as logged out or gives me an invalid session id, but as soon as I click into the forums (i.e. click on Silk Road discussion), it recognizes me.
- I can't view my posts when I make them.
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: phubaiblues on June 18, 2011, 04:23 pm
I had that problem yesterday, and finally just tried to sign up with a totally new username, and the site froze, and then when I tried to sign up under my original name again, 'phubaiblues' it said someone else was using that, which worried me, but it seems I'd actually signed up somehow...but anyway, today it seems to be working much better!
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: Reece on June 18, 2011, 04:50 pm
I'm having trouble viewing my own posts too.
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: Dread Pirate Roberts on June 18, 2011, 05:00 pm
it's definitely a little screwy.  We think it has something to do with the fact that everyone's ip address appears to be the local machine because of tor.  forum software tries to control things via ip address tracking, which is obviously impossible.  If it's acting buggy, try restarting tor or changing your identity.  that seems to help.
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: rake on June 18, 2011, 10:48 pm
If you can login but not post, try going to your profile page and deleting the account.  You should then be able to register the account again.
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: budz on June 19, 2011, 12:22 am
just a test
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: DigitalAsh on June 19, 2011, 01:52 am
I  can only post in certain threads lol

It shows me logged out on one page, then I go to the next and I'm logged in, and then back again
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: phubaiblues on June 19, 2011, 02:50 am
I  can only post in certain threads lol

It shows me logged out on one page, then I go to the next and I'm logged in, and then back again

Now that is strange: I had the same thing happening just now, on another onion forum: OVDB ... here I seem alright...I figured it was something to do with cookie settings...beats me
Title: Re: Forum bugs
Post by: ogre86 on June 19, 2011, 05:42 am
I'm getting something like this too... I think it's a caching problem. Don't know if it's caused by something on the forum server or the Tor proxies.

Keep an eye on the time displayed at the top of the page. If it doesn't change when you reload the page, you're seeing an old version. Try Ctrl+F5 to bypass the cache.