Problems with Home page, and moving around in Talk

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Problems with Home page, and moving around in Talk

1ScarletBea
mei 8, 2021, 5:08 pm

In the last few days I can't get my Home page to load about 90% of the time. Also, my default view on Talk is "Groups and Posts" and when I try to move to "All topics", nothing happens: there's a little circle of loading (not the blue round of doom, though) but then it remains on the initial "Groups and Posts" page.

2JanWillemNoldus
Bewerkt: mei 8, 2021, 6:26 pm

Same thing here! If I sign out and sign in again, things are back to normal - until the next time(day) I come back to LT. Normally I stay signed in between sessions.
I'm on Windows 10 and Chrome, latest versions.

3lemontwist
mei 8, 2021, 6:39 pm

Same. I get a little blue "loading" error and nothing else.

4timspalding
mei 8, 2021, 11:13 pm

Are you still having this problem?

5Helenliz
mei 9, 2021, 4:07 am

I am. Talk seems to be stuck on my Starred topics and won't show any of the other list options.
For me it seems to be browser dependent, works in Edge, is stuck in Firefox.

6ScarletBea
mei 9, 2021, 9:12 am

Yes, problem still ongoing :(
I'm also on Windows 10 and Chrome, all updated to latest versions.

And this time I couldn't even post this, I had to sign out and then back in, for things to go back to normal, but I fear that next time I return it'll be the same...

7dara85
mei 9, 2021, 9:36 pm

I have not had my home page load for the last three days. I, too had to sign out and sign back in.

8humouress
Bewerkt: mei 10, 2021, 2:50 am

My issue is sort of reversed; I always click on 'Your Posts' to get back to the Talk page from a thread but in the past week or so I've suddenly sometimes found myself on my Home page instead. I updated my OS yesterday and it happened again just now.

Safari, iMac, mac OS Big Sur 11.3.1

10JanWillemNoldus
mei 10, 2021, 4:24 pm

Still having the same problem!

11kristilabrie
mei 18, 2021, 11:06 am

12humouress
mei 21, 2021, 9:25 am

>8 humouress: It's still happening to me i.e. sometimes when I click on 'Your Posts' from a thread I suddenly find myself on my Home page. It happens maybe once or twice a week.

13kristilabrie
mei 21, 2021, 10:22 am

Hmm okay, thanks! Reopening to investigate.

14kristilabrie
mei 24, 2021, 9:24 am

>12 humouress: Haven't been able to spot this yet, but if you see it happen can you post the thread you were on before clicking "Your Posts" and being brought to your Homepage?

(Testing notes for me: Safari, iMac, mac OS Big Sur 11.3.1.)

15humouress
Bewerkt: jun 2, 2021, 1:17 am

>14 kristilabrie: Okay, will do.

Off the top of my head, it's happened a few times from my own thread in the 75 Challenge, I think.

ETA: link https://www.librarything.com/topic/331103#

27/5
Just now from my own thread in ROOTs https://www.librarything.com/topic/331968#n7516069

When I went back to copy the link and then clicked on 'Your Posts', it took me back to the Home page again (ie it happened twice in succession). Hmm, I've changed it now, but the link I first copied from the header bar of my thread was https://www.librarything.com/talk

I grabbed it from the address bar as per usual, so I'm guessing that maybe it's linked to the issue?

2/6
Just now, from my own thread in 75 Book Challenge
https://www.librarything.com/talk

16humouress
Bewerkt: jun 3, 2021, 11:49 am

Dit bericht is door zijn auteur gewist.

17kristilabrie
Bewerkt: jun 3, 2021, 11:51 am

Okay, can you give me a numbered set of steps where this is happening for you, so I can try to reproduce it? I've been bouncing around myself and also not seeing anything on your account. I need to see if a specific set of steps is happening or not. Something like "1. go to this link 2. click on this link 3. click the browser's back button", etc. If you don't mind walking back the next time this happens for you, I appreciate the help!

ETA: I'm sorry I accidentally posted #16 above while testing in your account!

18humouress
jun 4, 2021, 1:11 am

>17 kristilabrie: (Eek, you can do that?)

If I read a thread, I use the browser back button or swipe the trackpad/ screen back to the 'Your posts' list; that works perfectly well.

If I post on a thread, I usually click on the 'Your Posts' link in the left bar to get back to the list and refresh it. That's the one that sometimes goes squiffy. The times I've noted it above, it's happened on my iMac.

19kristilabrie
jun 4, 2021, 12:47 pm

Okay, this is very good to know! I'm going to try testing this out periodically to see if I can reproduce it. Thanks.

20humouress
Bewerkt: jun 7, 2021, 1:20 am

Hmm. Well, I just posted a reply on this thread https://www.librarything.com/talk https://www.librarything.com/topic/328177#n7524702 and then answered a WhatsApp post before coming back to it and clicking on 'Your Posts' which took me to the LT Home page. When I went back to copy the link and clicked on 'Your Posts' again, it took me to the Home page again.

21kristilabrie
Bewerkt: jun 7, 2021, 9:07 am

Well I finally reproduced your issue! I think I found a reliable way to reproduce this.

For developers:
1. Using Safari on www, log into LibraryThing and go to Talk (/talk).
2. Click specifically to any of the five side-menu options under "Your World" (e.g. Your Groups, Your Posts, Starred Topics, etc.)
3. Click to a thread within that page.
4. Click again to the page you clicked on at Step 2.
5. Click your browser's back button to go back to the thread at Step 3.
6. Click again to the page you clicked at Step 2.

Bug(?): You are redirected to /home instead of the page you clicked at Step 2.

NB: on our dev server, I get the following error after the above steps, instead of getting redirected to /home (keeping full LT URL out of the message here): "Warning blocked The page at librarything.com/undefined was not allowed to run insecure content from http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js. (x2)"

It seems that something about clicking the browser's back button on Safari in Talk and navigating between the same two pages gets you an undefined page?

22humouress
Bewerkt: jun 29, 2021, 2:03 pm

Well, it just happened again after a long while of behaving properly. I opened my computer (not booted up - I had put it into sleep mode) where it was on my thread and clicked on 'your posts' but it took me to the homepage instead.

Going backwards, this was the address in the address bar: https://www.librarything.com/talk although my thread is: https://www.librarything.com/topic/331103#

23kristilabrie
jun 29, 2021, 3:41 pm

This bug hasn't been fixed yet, but I'll ping developers about it again! Sorry for the trouble.

24humouress
jul 17, 2021, 3:51 am

(still happening)

25knerd.knitter
mrt 2, 2023, 9:38 am

Closing since home page has been updated since this.

26humouress
mrt 3, 2023, 1:18 am

Just to note, it has happened in the past week or so but is random so I tend to ignore it.

27kristilabrie
mrt 3, 2023, 3:12 pm

>25 knerd.knitter: Still happening with steps to reproduce at >21 kristilabrie:

28knerd.knitter
mrt 6, 2023, 10:31 am

This issue, while reproducible, is so minor, and we believe it has to do with the way the browser works, so it's not really something we even have control over.