Please solve the multi-post bug

Please solve the multi-post bug

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audidoody

Original Poster:

8,597 posts

256 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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Submit post. Back page to revisit forum thread - voila a second or even third auto post. Seems prevalent with Safari and latest OSX.

ETA: Oh look -It's just happened. I now have two threads with the same topic running.

audidoody

Original Poster:

8,597 posts

256 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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Submit post. Back page to revisit forum thread - voila a second or even third auto post. Seems prevalent with Safari and latest OSX.

ETA: Oh look -It's just happened. I now have two threads with the same topic running.

S1_RS

782 posts

199 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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You're hitting the back button and your browser is resubmitting your post. Use the return to topic option instead.

audidoody

Original Poster:

8,597 posts

256 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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Agreed. But out of the 50 sites I visit regularly PH is the only one on which it happens. It seems to be a Safari problem.

sixspeed

2,060 posts

272 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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Most forums have a mechanism to stop you posting in succession (normally a 30-60s delay between posts). Maybe PH could implement something similar to prevent this issue?


FiF

44,061 posts

251 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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It's a problem on more than Safari. Most phones do it and not just immediately after you have posted.

The key really is not to hit page back button until you've been back to the thread via return to topic or other means.

ManFromDelmonte

2,742 posts

180 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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I don't see why it doesn't just redirect you straight back to your post.

It's like the screen you're taken to after you log-in, you have to click 'Continue' to be taken to anywhere useful, completely pointless, who doesn't want to continue at this point?

LordGrover

33,539 posts

212 months

Monday 14th April 2014
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yes

Colonial

13,553 posts

205 months

Tuesday 15th April 2014
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FiF said:
It's a problem on more than Safari. Most phones do it and not just immediately after you have posted.

The key really is not to hit page back button until you've been back to the thread via return to topic or other means.
I had two of my posts reposted yesterday. As in two different posts. One after the other.

Android phone using standard browser.