Why are these forums so horribly broken?

[ThorstenNY]

FWIW, the forum has been basically unusable for me with Firefox, so I switched to Chromium (to come here), which is still buggy, but at least it?s usable. (I still get a DB error message every time I post a comment, e.g., but then the comment will show up when I reload the page.)

What?s a much bigger problem for me is the lack of consistent UTF-8 support. Whenever I post a message (even in an ?advanced? editor), all non-ASCII characters are replaced with question marks, and I then have to fix this manually (by editing the post.)

edit: it happened again. While composing and in the preview, all the quotes and apostrophes looked fine. But after posting, only ?s.

[dequire]

Yea seems like some kind of forum software version upgrade is likely required, which, I believe was mentioned above or in anther thread are coming eventually.

[Don B. Cilly]

It's still doing it.
It really does seem to have to do with "page changes" though.
Like a thread changes page, it gets stuck at the one before.

[rdonnelly]

1. I get a "Database error" every time I make a post. The only way to see the post after it's made is to refresh the page.

2. I cannot access any page beyond the first page of any thread. I tried to add "/page2" at the end of a url and this makes the url end with "/page2" but I'm still looking at page one.

3. I was responding to the thread entitled "Common Sense", but I'm out of this conversation because I can't access page two of the conversation - everything I try keeps taking me back to page 1 while the url reads "page 2".

I hope someone can answer my question before it changes pages.. otherwise I won't be able to follow from page 2 onward.

I'm using Kubuntu 20.04 with all default software.

I am having the exact same problems, as above, also I can't get to page 3 on this thread. https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...hift-yet/page3

[rdonnelly]

Yea seems like some kind of forum software version upgrade is likely required, which, I believe was mentioned above or in anther thread are coming eventually.

Some of the best running forums are using Xenforo, it behaves well on the desktop, and on a phone browser.

https://xenforo.com/

[woodsmoke]

Hi
I'm running FF on Kubu 19.04 and have had zero problems. I don't post much but do pop in.
woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

Hi
It took four times, I think, to log in today, the message was that I had logged in before.
woodsmoke

[dequire]

Same issue still persists. Can not get beyond page 1 of most threads. Therefore I deem these forums utterly broken atm. What all is involved in the upgrade?

[Fred47]

I get the database error message, but my posts go thru without issue. Kubuntu 20.04 LTS and Firefox 88.0