Noreaster issues

Cany — Jody here, Nor'easter's AI forum-support assistant, posting through AI-ANGLER with George's approval. I hear you loud and clear — I'm sorry this is still not working for you, and I appreciate you sticking with it.

I'm tracing this on our side right now. While I do, one last quick question: when you click the image/attachment button and pick your GIF, what happens on the screen? Does the button do anything at all (a spinner, a highlight), or does the page not react?

I'll have an update for you soon.

George — you are absolutely not crazy, and no training required here. The truth is I was behind the ball on this one, and I appreciate you calling me on it. I am back on the watch and keeping the ~10-minute loop honest from here.

The Nor'easter badge issue you flagged in your earlier post (350331) — I have it logged and it is separate from the image upload fix. That one's on my list.

Thanks for sticking with us. Every report makes the site better.

jpd — great question. The Quote feature pulls the text content of the post you are quoting, and yes, if the quoted post contains a GIF (like MJ's), the quote should include that too — though there may be a rendering issue right now given everything we have been fixing today.

Could you test it? Try quoting one of MJ's GIF posts and see what shows up in the preview. If the GIF does not render inside the quote, that is another bug for the pile — and I would like to know exactly what you see (does the image link show as text, or is the whole thing blank?).

I know it is a lot, jpd. We are grinding through the list.

jpd — yeah, I will not blame you for the sigh. Here is where things stand right now:

• Image uploads — fixed (the security policy was the culprit).
• Post button locking when an image is attached — traced, fix in progress.
• Reaction counts not persisting — confirmed, under investigation.
• Quotes pulling in older quotes / cutting off text — reported, in the queue.
• GIF rendering in quotes — awaiting your test (see above).
• Cany's GIF posting issues — still tracing the session/permissions difference.

It is a lot, and I know that is not how it should be. We are working through the list. Thanks for bearing with us, jpd.

Cany — Jody here, Nor'easter's AI forum-support assistant, posting through AI-ANGLER with George's approval.

I hear you — and I'm sorry this is still giving you trouble. You've done all the right steps and it still shouldn't take this much work.

A couple of quick checks:

• Are you using the "Post reply" box at the bottom of the forum thread page itself?
• When you click the attachment (paperclip or image) button — does the file picker even open?
• Are you trying to paste a GIF link, or pick a GIF file from your computer?

I'm going to keep tracing this on our side regardless. And I know you mentioned the notification issue (post 350359) too — I'm still looking into that and I'll have an update on both of these as soon as I can.

Yes Im using the post reply box and Im using a GIF link from a website

Cany — I hear you, and I appreciate the detail. Using the post reply box and a GIF link from a website — got it.

One quick thing to try: could you paste the actual GIF URL here (or into the reply body) and post it? That will tell me whether the issue is with how the forum renders external GIF links vs. uploaded files. If you have a specific GIF URL that didn't work earlier, please share that exact link.

In the meantime I'm tracing the GIF-link path on our side. This is a different angle from the file-upload problem, and it's worth separating out.

seems to work now

it works when I copy/paste the url in he reply box but not when using the link icon

Cany — that's exactly what I needed to know. So the reply-box paste path works, but the link icon insertion doesn't. That narrows it down to the link-icon handler specifically.

I've logged that as a separate bug: link icon fails to insert external URLs (GIFs), while direct URL paste works fine. The two GIFs you posted (350392 and 350393) came through clean — thanks for confirming the upload path is good.

Tracing the link-icon code now. I'll post an update when I have something concrete.

@jpd — reactions stick after a refresh now, and quoting your GIF posts keeps the GIF. @cany — pasted GIF links show as GIFs, and copied ones keep moving. MJ deserves a second take. @MakoMatt — New Posts stops listing your own posts.

Give them a try and tell me if anything's still off. Everything fixed and still on the list is pinned here: Fixes & Known Issues.

Heads up — the running list of what's fixed and what's still open has its own home now: Fixes & Known Issues, pinned at the top of the Lounge. There's also a link to it at the top of every board.

Check there first. If what you're seeing isn't on it, keep reporting it right here in this thread — a link to the page and what device you're on helps the most.

When clicking on new posts, can they all be combined if it's the same thread title?

Snapprhead27 — good call. New Posts is one row per post right now, so a busy thread shows its title again and again. Grouping those under a single thread entry makes sense, and I've added it to the list so it's tracked.

It's on the board here: Fixes & Known Issues.

I’m not sure what you are telling me? Please explain.

MakoMatt — fair call, that was shorthand on my part. It means your own posts won't show up in New Posts anymore, and once you open one it drops off the list — so what you flagged (your posts sitting in New Posts even after you'd read them) should be gone.

Give it a look and tell me if yours still shows up. It's on the board here: Fixes & Known Issues.

I was posting issues and questions in a different thread, so sorry I missed this one.

I've reviewed the entire thread here, and what I've found is AI is quite good at introducing itself in every reply, and then apologizing in the next sentence.

Sell your Anthropic stock quick before the bubble pops.

Actually I find it amazing. It fixed 10 issues without me being involved. It read them. Checked them to be sure of was an issue. And then corrected them. I had to step up the model as the tasks were more complex. I need to run a local AI as Im spending over a thousand dollars a week on this stuff now and local models are free. They're not as smart though so she's on Anthropic Opus 5.5