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I have unmarked your thread. Not sure why you can't see the button... I guess it doesn't like it when it's threads.

It just takes time for our spam filter to realize that text is spam. So, means manually doing it for now. How fun.

I suggest poking mods on Discord if it happens again, because that sends a notification better than posting a thread here for something "urgent".

It's an "option" we do have, but it also isn't by default done, so we have to remember to do it, and then set a duration.

And they used to be... slightly broken in the past. Not sure if they still are or not.

So, more-so just a preference for mods.

Merging section is basically a huge, drastic change, and is something that's untestable except in prod.

And there won't be a way to revert.

SEO is the biggest problem with this. Even if we handled all the redirects, there is no telling what Google and all the SEO engines will do with the changes, and it's very likely they just decide to unlist a lot of our content. Which... is not good.

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Actually the problem even extends to changing my avatar. Out of habit I view my own profile to see how it looks to other people when I come online, so I can change details as needed and then reference them in my posts if I want. If I don't view my or anyone's profile, I can't change my avatar.

Can you please clear your site data (cookies and all that), and let us know if that helps?

Poof. It's now unpinned.

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HTTP Code: 403
Status Text: error
Address: https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/seeds/3181359-endless-plains-in-my-minecraft-survival-world
Date: Fri Jun 30 2023 07:48:58 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Request: POST /comments/create-14-3181359

- I had to do the trick with checking someone's profile in order to activate the cloudflare security check thing or whatnot. Almost as if we get silently logged out upon not being online.

Passed this on.

Youtube does that by JS stuff and cookies I believes, it's "dynamically" loading the data

The way MCF works is that once the post is "made", it just updates the HTML directly, there is no real-time "feed" for it to know there was actually a change.

Are you using your browser's "undo my closing of a tab"? I believe that just uses your cache, and it's easily possible that it's not tracking additional calls that are made. Comments are just calls back to the server, and then the UI adding to it. It's not "refreshing" on your end. But, what browser?

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I'm still unable to post images whatsover, also.

They have made rule changes so you should be able to post them now.

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I'm still unable to post images whatsover, also.

Same for you, can you start with clearing cookies? I will pass this on to the sysadmins to review as well.

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I'm surprised nobody has reported any further issues because I'm getting really pissed off at having to constantly deal with forbidden messages and open up a profile almost every time I try to post, or just preview something, as I usually do several times to make sure the formatting is correct (maybe the issue is a rate limit?). Why even have whatever is causing this? Only if there is a blacklisted link should it happen and that is not the case (some don't even have links, and they always pass if I open a profile to trigger the security check).

Profiles are being a higher security setting, because they generate heavier calls. Visiting too many of them too fast results in some blocks.

Their suggestion is to start with clearing your cookies for the site and logging back in.

Let me pass that on to the sysadmins to review the settings for those actions.

A change has been made to try to fix this. Please let me know if you continue to see it.

What it sounds like is happening is that your post is triggering Cloudflare's security (which looks at the contents and would stop posts if it thinks it's bad). It's... not a great system, and is just trial and error to find what triggers it.