I have no trouble posting a 'post', but what is happening it appears that the page gets 'hung' at the point after I click "post new thread (or post)". I have to stop the page from loading and do a 'reload' . Then the post is there.

It looks as it's getting hung, but it's not probably from/to the ad server. Out of 40 or so forums I visit I have seen this once or twice before .

I use a W3C complaint browser Opera V8.5 (no Idiot Exploiter here!)

Input?

Sorry, no idea... it's working fine here in IE and Firefox. The code is just doing a simple redirect, so there should be nothing to mess up.

I've had that happen too. I do a reload and the thread is posted. Kinda strange but it's workin so I ain't bitchin

I,ve noticed that too.

Click on the address bar and it 'fixes' the problem.

I thought it was my computer!

It doesn't happen all that often so its not a huge deal.

O.K., now its happening all the time!

I'm running internet explorer.

Any ideas?

never happened to me?
Latest Firefox here.

Hasn't happened to me, and I've tried IE, Firefox and Opera (mainly use IE).

No problem here either . . . (IE).

Ity appears the browser doesn't see the 'update' command and doesn't load the updated p[age.
Another reason I use Opera is in the address bar (or wher ever you put it) it tells you what;s happening. Sending data to..... or receiving data from....... etc.

I validate the home page and it returned:
"Failed validation, 363 errors", "This page is not Valid (no Doctype found)!"

See for yourself;
http://validator.w3.org/
and,
[Link: htmlhelp.com]

First off, the validatation has nothing to do with your particular problem. If the page had completely invalid code, it would not even display anything. As it is, it is valid if not "strict" hand-coded HTML that displays correctly across all popular browsers - even the Sony PSP's dinky browser works perfectly. When I bothered looking at validators almost all of the errors were conformaty annoyances - such as adding ALT text on every single image (even ones that shouldn't have any alt text because they aren't functional). So, as long as the page looks exactly as intended in a wide range of browsers, I'm happy.

When you make a post you send information to the server, then the server sends back only one bit of text, a Location: redirection to either the forum index or thread, depending on your preference. Then the browser simply goes to that page.

I tried turning off the automatic redirects in Opera and I saw the redirect notice, properly formatted, as intended. Otherwise, with redirects on, it works perfectly for me 100% of the time... and I can't troubleshoot a problem that I can't see myself... :-(

You lost me after "first off" but it still works ok for me here.
It is irratating when people have faults on equipment that you cant reproduce when looking to fix the problem.
The amount of times i have given a customer a piece of electronics that didnt have a fault in our service dept.
The customer would look at me like i was calling them a liar! but if after a weeks soak test of heating the thing up, cooling it down,hitting it,etc and still no fault (i had no doubt that there was a fault) but sometimes it has to completely fail before we could fix it.

enough of my ramblings save to say that i empathise with everyones fustration

I can feel for you. I worked in a large company and our department was responsible for about 100 photocopiers in several buildings. We would have a couple of departments that constantly complained about their photocopier. Said it never worked properly, had constant paper jams and poor copies. "Why do we have to live with this POS while your (the one in our department) copier works all the time and everytime."

So one night, we had our staff remove their copier (they were all the same brand and model) from the complaining department and replace it with the one from our department.

Next day the phone call started again, "The rotten copier in our department has quit again, we had to go to your department to make copies which were perfect. It is not right the way you treat our department, we are compaining to upper management".

We all smugly smiled to ourselves, knowing that they had just trashed the "perfect machine" from our department, and praised the "junk" machine we had removed from their department. Of course, they did not believe us when they were told about the switch, and continued to complain about the machine and maintenance.