LOL I should have taken a screen shot, but I got an "error giving thanks" on that last post by bitseeker. Never seen that error before.
Tried a second time and it worked.
Yes i have that sometimes too, but mostly on my iPad, on pc no problem.
it is a weird message like.. '' error thanking your thank you" or something.'
The strains of forum software written in PHP all have these reliability issues. A lot of it comes down to PHP being so deceptively easy to parse for people that should not be let near an IDE, that they all of a sudden start writing add-ons. And since these add-ons clearly scratch an itch for a lot of forum users, if not admins, they get installed. A lot.
Now, testing every possible combination of this
maquis of add-ons is nigh impossible, so people are left to their own figuring out what breaks what (in obvious ways and in not so obvious ways, 34221 posts later).
Stack on top of that a few other assumption-breakers, like caching, time-outs, load balancers, and there's a race to the bottom.
BD139 wrote a couple posts back something to the effect of "all forums suck". I agree. They are at best "tantalizing UI enhancements" to communication problems that Usenet manages better.
I really should get my own Usenet server running. I do however think that a 2-way gate between Usenet and Simple Machines in every way would fulfill all elements of suck detailed above.