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Yeah just had it happen to me; tried multiple times to quote a post with an image in it, but when I hit submit it just deleted the post.



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Update: deleting the image seems to have fixed the issue and allowed the post to go through.



With images having caused issues at least twice now, I'd be really tempted to guess that someone should check whether there's enough free disk space or not, if that hasn't happened yet. That may or may not have bitten us in the butt a few times where I work... Anyway, I imagine this is pretty basic stuff for sysadmins, but in case it's not (I'm no sysadmin, so I wouldn't know), I'm just saying this anyway in case it helps.



Zkuq said:

With images having caused issues at least twice now, I'd be really tempted to guess that someone should check whether there's enough free disk space or not, if that hasn't happened yet. That may or may not have bitten us in the butt a few times where I work... Anyway, I imagine this is pretty basic stuff for sysadmins, but in case it's not (I'm no sysadmin, so I wouldn't know), I'm just saying this anyway in case it helps.

That partially might be the issue. I'm not an expert but reading the chat between our coder (Bandorr) and sysadmin (jlauro) it looks like there is a temporary folder/directory that is used when uploading images and other things to the site. Bots scraping the site might be creating a bunch of temp files (or logs?) somehow, which causes that to fill up. The temp folder/directory appears to empty itself after a certain amount of time.

I believe the sysadmin has worked on a fix for this or is working on one.

The sysadmin is also going to lower the rate limit to the site. One bot was doing hundreds per limit. The new limit will be 60 per minute, so a regular user will hopefully not have issues with this. If you do hit it you might get a 429 error for doing too many requests in a short period of time or loading pages might slow down for a tiny bit.

If anyone still comes across these issues be sure to let us know and I will pass it along to the coder and sysadmin.



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trunkswd said:
Zkuq said:

With images having caused issues at least twice now, I'd be really tempted to guess that someone should check whether there's enough free disk space or not, if that hasn't happened yet. That may or may not have bitten us in the butt a few times where I work... Anyway, I imagine this is pretty basic stuff for sysadmins, but in case it's not (I'm no sysadmin, so I wouldn't know), I'm just saying this anyway in case it helps.

That partially might be the issue. I'm not an expert but reading the chat between our coder (Bandorr) and sysadmin (jlauro) it looks like there is a temporary folder/directory that is used when uploading images and other things to the site. Bots scraping the site might be creating a bunch of temp files (or logs?) somehow, which causes that to fill up. The temp folder/directory appears to empty itself after a certain amount of time.

I believe the sysadmin has worked on a fix for this or is working on one.

The sysadmin is also going to lower the rate limit to the site. One bot was doing hundreds per limit. The new limit will be 60 per minute, so a regular user will hopefully not have issues with this. If you do hit it you might get a 429 error for doing too many requests in a short period of time or loading pages might slow down for a tiny bit.

If anyone still comes across these issues be sure to let us know and I will pass it along to the coder and sysadmin.

Thanks for the update! Nothing groundbreaking here, I guess, but it's interesting to hear about stuff like this nonetheless.



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Too small an issue to create a thread for, I guess, but this one's been bugging me for a while now, so I guess this thread will have to do? I haven't tested this properly to verify how to reproduce the bug, but sometimes you end up with posts where the indentation is wrong. I think it's when you quote a post, then add text above the quote section (i.e. the table) - then the text you added above the quote is indented more than whatever comes after the table. The issue is caused by the indented part being a div element, whereas paragraphs (such as what follows after the quote itself) are usually p elements. It can be fixed trivially by replacing the div element with a p element in the source editor, but it's annoying, and the post editor doesn't really show the issue. Instead, you see it only after posting.

I've seen posts from others also have this issue, so it doesn't seem to be just me. As far as I remember, it's always related to a quote, but don't quote me on that - and like I said, I'm not sure if all quotes result in this issue, but I think they do.



Zkuq said:

Too small an issue to create a thread for, I guess, but this one's been bugging me for a while now, so I guess this thread will have to do? I haven't tested this properly to verify how to reproduce the bug, but sometimes you end up with posts where the indentation is wrong. I think it's when you quote a post, then add text above the quote section (i.e. the table) - then the text you added above the quote is indented more than whatever comes after the table. The issue is caused by the indented part being a div element, whereas paragraphs (such as what follows after the quote itself) are usually p elements. It can be fixed trivially by replacing the div element with a p element in the source editor, but it's annoying, and the post editor doesn't really show the issue. Instead, you see it only after posting.

Hmm I'm struggling to recreate this bug (I know what you're talking about), but there is a work around in the "View > Source Code". If you delete a line of code, that fixes the issue though I cannot remember what line.



firebush03 said:
Zkuq said:

Too small an issue to create a thread for, I guess, but this one's been bugging me for a while now, so I guess this thread will have to do? I haven't tested this properly to verify how to reproduce the bug, but sometimes you end up with posts where the indentation is wrong. I think it's when you quote a post, then add text above the quote section (i.e. the table) - then the text you added above the quote is indented more than whatever comes after the table. The issue is caused by the indented part being a div element, whereas paragraphs (such as what follows after the quote itself) are usually p elements. It can be fixed trivially by replacing the div element with a p element in the source editor, but it's annoying, and the post editor doesn't really show the issue. Instead, you see it only after posting.

Hmm I'm struggling to recreate this bug (I know what you're talking about), but there is a work around in the "View > Source Code". If you delete a line of code, that fixes the issue though I cannot remember what line.

Just quoting this post of yours seems to be enough to reproduce the bug. As soon as the post is quoted, there's empty space above the quote, and if you look at the source, there's up there. I tried to post the exact fix here too, but I guess the forum software doesn't like that too well... You can see the botched attempt from the edit history, it's not very useful though.

Last edited by Zkuq - on 17 September 2026