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Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10241 posts
See below - awesome! :)

I know this drives some others as mad as it does me. I have stupid gumby fingers from brain rot and it can take a few edits to make a post from me sane. Every now and then the edit button disappears though and I make the FFFUUUUUUUUUU face.

Those with high post limiters would feel the pain a lot more!

This is how to get around it while we wait for a bugfix.

Find the post ID
Every post on QGL has an ID. You can get this from the Permalink on the bottom left under your post count. It will look something like:

http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/thread.php/3091189?post=96#post3092053

The post ID is 3092053 in the example above.

Append it to the edit URL
The post edit URL uses this ID at the end. To edit that post, you would use:

http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/editpost.php/3092053

Too easy! Some superhero may be able to come up with a greasemonkey script or something to automate it.
03:53pm 28/07/11 Permalink
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Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
3680 posts
http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/editpost.php/3092053 you mean?

Fix'd. (This post space now for rent)
03:59pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10243 posts
Oops! Thanks Dazhel ><

I knew Id fuck that up sigh. This is why I needddds mah edit button!
03:59pm 28/07/11 Permalink
ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
13089 posts
no edit button? i use qgl and i can still edit my posts.
04:01pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
10668 posts
Good thinkin', Lincoln.

Yeah ravn0s there is a bug - sometimes the Edit button doesn't show.

This morning I misspelt 'separable' in the grammar Nazi thread and had no edit button :(
04:02pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10244 posts
no edit button? i use qgl and i can still edit my posts.

I try to keep trog and the boys happy and use the AGN forums as requested.
04:07pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Fixah
Brisbane, Queensland
6170 posts
When I can't find the edit button on my posts I go to the person who has my edit button and click it.

*Access denied - Sorry, you're not Paveway*

"I don't give a shit! paveway has my edit button and i want it back, bitch!".

Then i actually think to myself i better not get into the same argument with her again and so I just close the browser, immediately.
04:09pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
3576 posts
Personally I'm all about the hero who posted it 9 minutes before, mostly because he used less words but also because he has amazing hair. :P
04:10pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10246 posts
You haven't see my awesome hair.

It takes me at LEAST ten minutes to put together a post like this, proof positive that I didn't steal your idea.
04:12pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
10670 posts
but also because he has amazing hair. :P

Pics or lying
04:13pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10247 posts
Pics or lying
Haha you first.

I posted a pic once and Matchy almost came. True story.
04:13pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
3578 posts
You did use bold, bold adds complexity to the message formulation. I'd be more impressed by italics though, I can never remember how to do them.
04:13pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Fixah
Brisbane, Queensland
6172 posts
I posted a pic once and Matchy almost came. True story.
Holy shit, you actually remember that moment hoggy? that's so sweet, and i think my pants are starting to feel tighter as a result.

(no homo).
04:18pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10248 posts
Holy shit, you actually remember that moment hoggy? that's so sweet, and i think my pants are starting to feel tighter as a result.

(no homo).

I do! It was definitely a cockle-warmer.
04:19pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Fixah
Brisbane, Queensland
6174 posts
It does look like you're ageing quite well. I'd love to look as good as you at your age when i'm 106.

/(0)-(o)\
04:26pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Mordecai
Victoria
955 posts
You did use bold, bold adds complexity to the message formulation. I'd be more impressed by italics though, I can never remember how to do them.

Italics .. I am sure they are easy to do
05:18pm 28/07/11 Permalink
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
34066 posts
I forgot about this - the edit button just randomly vanishes from your posts yeh? Does it vanish from /all/ your posts in the one thread?

I'll take a look as I am poking around in murky guts at the moment.
05:23pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
10679 posts
Does it vanish from /all/ your posts in the one thread?

Hmm, good question. I will check next time it happens. It happens quite often, by the way.
05:29pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
3590 posts
Italics .. I am sure they are easy to do

I have stolen your power from the quote. :D I think.

I forgot about this - the edit button just randomly vanishes from your posts yeh?

From what I've seen, it appears on other people's posts (redirects to the post ID for the post it's on still, says you do not have permission to edit this post, etc).
05:30pm 28/07/11 Permalink
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
34067 posts
I think I can see what is causing the problem - the page cache stuff doesn't know to not cache pages if there are differences in the edit button stuff (short version).

I can fix that but it will basically mean we're caching different versions of the forum page for each logged-in person, which sounds sort of dumb to me. So the easy fix is to just make the edit button show up for everyone. I'm just testing that now and will roll out in a few mins if I can't see anything wrong with it.
05:44pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
3595 posts
I'm just testing that now and will roll out in a few mins if I can't see anything wrong with it.

You can't roll out changes to live that quickly :O, I expect half of Australia's network infrastructure go down!

Nah please do, it might mean that I get to be part of a live debugging process. :D
05:47pm 28/07/11 Permalink
jmr
Brisbane, Queensland
7266 posts
Man this ausgamers interface is ugggggggggleeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Can you not make it fit the whole screen ?
05:49pm 28/07/11 Permalink
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
34068 posts
Man this ausgamers interface is ugggggggggleeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Can you not make it fit the whole screen ?
https://www.ausgamers.com/account/options.php

welcome to many months ago
05:54pm 28/07/11 Permalink
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
34069 posts
OK that change is done. If someone can confirm they're seeing it right I'll close it off my end
05:57pm 28/07/11 Permalink
jmr
Brisbane, Queensland
7267 posts
Oh sweet, I had no expectation you would have added that option which is why I never went looking for it
06:00pm 28/07/11 Permalink
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
34070 posts
You must've missed this epic thread!
06:01pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10249 posts
Sweet trog, nice one.
06:19pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
3606 posts
Yeah there's edit buttons for all.

edit: Fuck my awesome technique just became useless, the day I finally decided to unleash my benevolent genius.
06:22pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Trauma
Melbourne, Victoria
1587 posts
Sorry this is my fault, I just can't get enough edit buttons I have to steal them all.



Firefox 5.0.
06:38pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
18891 posts
now make it so we can upload our own css to have the forum whatever colour we want, but only we can see our own colours!

ps did you delete my other post? dirty pool old man *hovers over the undelete button* :p
06:39pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
10251 posts
Can't you do that with a browser extension?
06:40pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
18892 posts
I don't know, can you? I know you can mess with it using grease monkey but I'm no ninja so I dunno how to do it. It'd be easier if the different boxes/text fields/etc were all just user changeable. I swear I saw a forum once where you could do that, unless that was the forum colour editor or something for people who were setting up the forum & it wasn't visible to users.
06:42pm 28/07/11 Permalink
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
34071 posts
Can't you do that with a browser extension?
yep, check out Stylish, I think it's called
06:45pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
18893 posts
great, yet another browser extension to install & slow down my already crawling firefox.
06:47pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
3683 posts
It's an Edit-o-rama!
07:23pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Mordecai
Victoria
956 posts
Sorry this is my fault, I just can't get enough edit buttons I have to steal them all.



Firefox 5.0.

I seem to have stolen them all as well ... or is this how it is meant to be?

I think I can see what is causing the problem - the page cache stuff doesn't know to not cache pages if there are differences in the edit button stuff (short version).

I can fix that but it will basically mean we're caching different versions of the forum page for each logged-in person, which sounds sort of dumb to me. So the easy fix is to just make the edit button show up for everyone. I'm just testing that now and will roll out in a few mins if I can't see anything wrong with it.
11:03pm 28/07/11 Permalink
Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
10682 posts
I have no problem with an edit button on every post. Simple solution, good stuff.
11:45pm 28/07/11 Permalink
skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
4169 posts
^I'll like what he said.
11:57pm 28/07/11 Permalink
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