Anyone else having trouble replying????

Well, I have tried for a couple of days to answer some Q's, but there is no "Reply" box below the other replies when I click on the post. I hit the "reply to this thread" link, but end up back at the log-in with my password screen, and it just keeps going round and round and round like that!!!

Great TT4!!!

Any suggestions on how to reply???

I just put my reply in the 'quick reply' box under the post and click on 'post message' under the box. This is the only way I have posted replies and so far-so good! I don't ever recall not seeing a 'quick reply' box under a post. Maybe someone else will have better answer for you.

I decided to try clicking on "reply to this thread" to see what happens. Hopefully when I hit 'Post message' it will work. If it does then maybe the system was out of wack when you were trying to use it.

Yes, that box does NOT show up half the time!!! and then I hit the "reply to this thread" link and the merry-go-round starts up!!

Well, this time the box showed up.

You sure your not getting senile on us Raro? I get a quick reply every time, maybe it's a browser thing, somebody call up Bill Gates!!!

Papa Mike
[http://www.mikehollywood.com]

I found that the site was logging me out every time I left the computer for half an hour until I ticked the "remember me" box. Then I would have to log in again to reply.

I just found the following on the OZ/NZ branch:

No real point having a big whinge here Captain - perhaps take it to Report a Bug. They could post a message if the Sign In is not working, but I expect the LP IT people said it was fixable in a couple of hours, as it has proved to be, so just wait for it to come back. As for the blackout yesterday (and Sunday) - no point posting a message because it wasn't loadable anyway.

They had quite a crash yesterday - Lonely Planet, not just Thorntree. Patience and understanding are fine virtues.

1. I can't even log in at any time with any browser other than MSIE. I always have exactly the problem you describe if I use Firefox.

2. Over the past couple of days there have been periods when I haven't even been able to open LP's web pages, let alone post anything. Perhaps a major crash while they continue to tinker with their system.

You'd think they'd have been able to work out most of the bugs of a new site design off-line, and then give us a new package all in one go.

The TT kept pestering me that I had "unanswered" Q's out there---it said I had 9 of them! I only had one. now hopefully I have none. and I'll never mark a Q as a Q, all it leads to is TT pertering me whenever I log in.

One would have thought the bugs would be gone by now.

Now, at the top, I choose list by " last replied", not "by recently posted", or whatever it is. Then I answer, hit the "back to thread list" or whatever, and it forgets that I want to go to recently replied, NOT recently posted, so it sends me to recently posted!!!

The people running this are truly incompetent for such a big project.

Don't know that they are incompetent but could just be the workload and numbers they have to fix teething probs. - TT is running extra slow for me now too.

Gee, thank you for the Green Star, Raro, though I think the original poster on the "other" Pacific branch deserves it.

If it were up to me I give a green star to anyone who even tried to answer a Q! [except for facetious/stupid answers].

To everyone reading this, you are hereby awarded the "Croix de Raro" whenever you sincerely try to answer any Q on this TT. Congratulations!!

But please try to NOT mark a query as a "question", it just makes us feel dumb/annoyed when we do answer it and you don't give us that green star. Let's share info, but not play this new TT4 green star game.

Well, that's my suggestion.....

Well, in m y above reply I put the phrase "except for facetious/stupid answers" in brackets, and the TT crossed it out instead of bracketing it!!! Now they are starting their own grammar/symbolism as well!!!

yes, not enough programmers. It's the bosses who are idiots.

Interesting - I wondered how things got crossed out like that.