Not allowed to react?

rickvigorous

I sometimes get this warning. It seems more often lately.

Back in the day ( 4, 5 years ago? I am getting old😬) you would occasionally get the message "post flooding" and if I remember correctly you only had a certain amount of "likes" per 24 hours. I think this still happens, but I could be wrong. It looks like this still the case, but again, just conjecture.

harrrrrry

rickvigorous

That's just a standard error message and seems not to apply to anything specific. As far as I can see, it's more likely that it comes up because the browser has temporarily lost contact with the server than for something that's "intentionally restricted". I think if it was, you would get a more explicit message.

bill48er

rickvigorous I think there are still a few glitches with the forum and the hosting servers.
I use Firefox on a PC with a fast broadband connection and get what I would call "occasional timeouts", which I would attribute to server imbalance/overload.

rickvigorous

harrrrrry
bill48er

Ok, thanks. So it's more likely a Flarum problem than anything else. I only started getting this now for a month.

mrjeeves

bill48er

It's likely an AWS pod crashing. The forum runs off of 7 'pods', each with their own Flarum install, all revolving around one central database.

An issue like this could be an unstable connection, a pod crashing, increased usage on a pod causing load balancing, or any number of things.

Trying again or refreshing usually sorts it out.

bill48er

mrjeeves I'm old school and data was not hosted on "pods" and Amazon where only selling books not hosting data - but load balancing is not new 😉
Nice bit of "nerdy" background there though thanks 😁

dtuxcomp

bill48er I find swearing at those red error boxes helps 😉 🙂 Doesn't make them go away but I do feel better afterwards 😉 🙂 I just tend to ignore them TBH, they are far less prevalent than they were in the initial preview site. If you see one when you've typed out a long reply it's well worth copying it to the clipboard just in case, unless you have an addon that does the job for you 🙂

bill48er

dtuxcomp At the first sign of any hiccoughs I grab a copy to the clipboard - I learned this the hard way on the old forum 😆

dtuxcomp

bill48er I use Textarea Cache it's a Firefox addon that someone on the community recommended, can't remember who, but it usually saves a copy of any text input done within the browser.