Notification links often broken

Odd. I haven't experienced that, but recently the pages will often scroll too far past the post I'm aiming for. Then the site isn't taking me to the last page I was on in a thread, and I'm missing a couple of notifications when I've been quoted too.

Perhaps there are multiple issues with Proboards?

I just like this post (and then unliked it).

Did you get a notification?

Because I've had this happen to me as well.

Puzzling.

@howyummy any thoughts on what might be happening?

Let me try

LINK

I can see something's changed overnight. In the Quick Reply text field, the BBCode now displays by default, and now looks correct when I use the Link button.

LINK

I did notice one other little thing to be cautious of though. If you use the Link button and highlight the "http://" in the URL in order to paste over it with your own link, if you take your mouse pointer off that line, it deselects it. So if you paste your URL, it will place it after "http://" and looks like this: (http://https://wccftech.com/ea-consoles-smart-tvs-frostbite-ugc/)

Interestingly, an image link that was broken for a couple days (and I couldn't be arsed to fix) has fixed itself this morning/overnight.

I have also noticed the issue Hrungr mentions, many times. I will be glad to know this is fixed... I had considered it annoying but infrequent for me and I used the getaround of just posting the link in plain text, and then quoting a portion of the article.

Ninja @howyummy fixes, or is this a ProBoards update?

Been getting Glenn's issue as well for some time now.

I am using Legacy (M).

So, different themes, same outcome.

Is teh ProBoards, or is us?

Either yummy fixes it, or she gets deleted and banned.

I've been having a couple of variations of this for a while, now. It's a bit similar to something that would happen in BSN groups, and a version of the... "bug" (or oddity, at least) is at play on another proboards forum that I administer.

I think it is fundamentally attached to how the link system is designed, specifically, that it identifies links to post by count, rather than location.

So, your link doesn't say "go to third post of second page in thread #1," but more something like "in Thread #1 link Post #1258." The difference may seem subtle, but it actually gets pretty significant once you start having posts moderated or deleted (so, um... pretty solid explanation for why the two mentioned threads would get hit a lot... )

Proboards seems to lean heavily on the second way for notificaations, at least most of the time. So when trying to find post #1258, several things can throw it off; it might not be able to find the post, instead going to the top of whatever page it thought it would find it (this can happen even if the post still exists, because the number will have changed if any prior posts were deleted) it might go to the wrong post that has been assigned the number, sometimes it even seems to go to the bottom of the prior page, or the page after, thought that seems to be less often.

Links that are directly to the post in question don't seem to have the problem. Which is why if I click on a notification link, then attempt to link it directly, the results will be different.

It may be possible to address it through global profile settings, but I suspect the issue could only really be addressed by ProBoards admin themselves.

They have a support forum for such questions, but unfortunately they also have a bad system for logging into it, and I can't get access there ever since I registered on a second ProBoards forum with the same e-mail address.