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Just now when I crafted an answer then clicked Post Reply the button dimmed and it's just sitting there. Gave it a few minutes but there it sits.

While I've found I can copy out what I wrote, tap F5 then try again it's not something others may bother with.

How can I help narrow down what this annoying doesn't happen often is?

The reply was to https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/523158/mastermind-game-in-java but I doubt it has to do with that thread. My only thought here is it's almost always when I've just opened the browser (Opera, Firefox and Chrome) to https://www.daniweb.com/articles/latest , clicked on a thread then attempted a reply.

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The best thing you could do is provide the full HTTP responses for all xhr requests. I'm not sure how to do that if I don't already have DevTools open when I make the request.

The second best thing you could do is log the exact UNIX epoch time that the issue happened so that I can see if I can find something going on in the logs.

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Will keep the time information as best I can the next time but it's not very repeatable. I know these kind of bugs are the hardest to track down so with that I'll write I understand that.

Wishing you the best as always.

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That being said, there is something that could be causing all of the issues you're experiencing, and that's not being logged in.

Is it possible you had multiple DaniWeb tabs open in your browser, and then logged out in one of the tabs? The other tabs still look like they're logged in because the page hasn't been refreshed yet. If you try to submit a post on one of the tabs that looks like it's logged in, but really cookies have been deleted, it will fail on the server side and never go through.

See what I'm saying?

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Sorry no. At the top right is my icon as if I'm logged in. The only repeatable action sequence is:

  1. Open browser to https://www.daniweb.com/articles/latest
  2. Click on an interesting discussion.
  3. Craft reply.
  4. Click Post reply.
    Then the Post Reply dims and game over.

To get out I copy out my content, tap F5 and it then works.

Don't worry too much about this for my sake. I report it since new users may not be as adept.

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