2025 technical issues (logon delays, Cloudflare, blanks, redirects; SEPTEMBER)

[Patrice]

A few hours ago, the Human verification all the time, repeated... and unable to get through. 

Then, now only once and I was given access. 

Also, what's a bit weird is that it appeared in French although I always interact in English with English-language forums
and my Firefox browser uses the Breton language pack, or English by default.

[carlos marighela]

I think that is laudable cultural sensitivity in the part of cloudflare.

[fred]

I've stopped seeing the 'verifying you are human' page - which is good. Suspect this means that either Cloudflare has seen enough of my device / IP interactions to put me in the safe pot, or / as well the overall level of bot activity has dropped off as they are being batted away by CF, so have gone to find something more interesting (too them).

Patrice - I suspect it is as mundane as you have an IP address in France, so get a localised page.

[Dean]

Uploading pictures now working again for me

[zemjw]

I'm still getting the "prove you're human" checkbox on my desktop first time I switch on and check the site 

I'm running Firefox on an Ubuntu machine, if that helps.

Work Windows laptop and android chrome are fine

Trying to prview this message threw the checkbox up again, and a longer than usual delay (maybe I'm more machine than usual tonight)

[HerbertTarkel]

Attachment of photos is now white screening failure for me, again. 

A thought:  posted a photo that was .jpg and it worked. But .jpeg is NOT working. 

SOLUTION : had to convert file to .jpg by exporting to Files and then converting. Weird.

[WargamesIllustrated]

Hi all,

The "Human verification" page is to safeguard the website from ongoing bot attacks. I know it's annoying, but it is a "necessary evil" at the moment.

Attachment of photos is now white screening failure for me, again. 

A thought:  posted a photo that was .jpg and it worked. But .jpeg is NOT working. 

SOLUTION : had to convert file to .jpg by exporting to Files and then converting. Weird.

As for JPEGs, I'll add them to the accepted file types for attachments.

Cheers!

[HerbertTarkel]

Hi all,

The "Human verification" page is to safeguard the website from ongoing bot attacks. I know it's annoying, but it is a "necessary evil" at the moment.

As for JPEGs, I'll add them to the accepted file types for attachments.

Cheers!

Awesome, thanks! Makes it about 5 minutes less work to convert files. So weird that .jpg and .jpeg are “different”.

[zemjw]

Awesome, thanks! Makes it about 5 minutes less work to convert files. So weird that .jpg and .jpeg are “different”.

They're the same, so just renaming from jpeg to jpg should be fine. All the conversion is doing is likely reducing the image quality further 

The different extension is because of the old dos extension limit of 3 characters, something unix has never cared about and windows finally got the memo about

[robh]

They're the same, so just renaming from jpeg to jpg should be fine......

It is absolutely fine to simply rename them. 
Also it helps to remove the "s" from the "https" part of the url when linking images. Seems to reduce the "pictures not showing" problem.

[HerbertTarkel]

[quote  :Dauthor=zemjw link=topic=149562.msg1922319#msg1922319 date=1750101055]
They're the same, so just renaming from jpeg to jpg should be fine. All the conversion is doing is likely reducing the image quality further 

The different extension is because of the old dos extension limit of 3 characters, something unix has never cared about and windows finally got the memo about
[/quote]

Yes, if I was on a laptop I could do that. On iOS I have to move the photo to Files and then convert it.

You’ll never take my Apple stuff until I’m long dead … I’ve been a Mac user since 1991 

[Lost Egg]

For some reason and LAF notification emails are going straight to my Junk folder which is odd as they've never done this before. It still happens despite me adding the email to my Safe Sender list.

Thanks for all your help.

[Spinal Tap]

For some reason and LAF notification emails are going straight to my Junk folder which is odd as they've never done this before. It still happens despite me adding the email to my Safe Sender list.

Thanks for all your help.

This may not be an LAF issue, emails from my bank amd royal mail deliveries are going to my junk despite being fine for years.

[Severian]

This may not be an LAF issue, emails from my bank amd royal mail deliveries are going to my junk despite being fine for years.

I'm only seeing this happen routinely with LAF emails, though an occasional email from elsewhere does sometimes end up in junk; but every email from LAF has gone there for a while now. I keep marking them as safe, and perhaps the message will get through eventually... It's a very minor problem, though. Otherwise things are pretty much back to normal, and many thanks again for fixing this.

[pixelgeek]

I'm only seeing this happen routinely with LAF emails, though an occasional email from elsewhere does sometimes end up in junk; but every email from LAF has gone there for a while now. I keep marking them as safe, and perhaps the message will get through eventually... It's a very minor problem, though. Otherwise things are pretty much back to normal, and many thanks again for fixing this.

Can you add a filter/rule to your email client to put the emails into a folder? That may help