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Sol, I noticed this morning under my billing profile that I have an account balance of -2024. Is that an error, or just some quirk of how the billing profile is displayed onscreen?

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Dirk

Sol, when you have a moment, can you please make this thread and the minor enhancements thread sticky?

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Dirk

Barry, assume 1 point is needed to post every 320 words. Can you estimate it based on that?

It still looks wrong to me on paper.

I was trying to remember if Star Wars used rebel fleet or Rebel fleet. Turns out it's the latter, which makes sense since references to Rebel in Star Wars are short for Rebel Alliance. Based in that I took another look at whether they capitalize Imperial and ... they do, all over Wookieepedia and starwars.com, including the starwars.com database. So now I'm wondering how the hell I got that wrong because I remember researching that quite a bit, and only then did I switch to lowercase imperial. The CMOS style guide still says to use lowercase. Dictionary examples do too.

But, screw it, I might as well follow the Star Wars style since it's closer to what I'm doing. At least that eliminates the inconsistancy between Enduring and imperial.

I'm sure Jack will approve.

Sol, I'm seeing a few new bugs in the forums, some of which are serious because if the system times us out (it very often does), anything you were trying to post is lost, which sometimes take a long time to write up (e.g., for brainstorming with other members).

1.)
- prior to the crash, when I spent a little too much time in the forums writing a single post, the post would be accepted, but the site would log me out anyway
- now, if I take too long writing the post, I get an error message to the effect that I don't have permission to access that page (something like that) and my intended post is lost; if I log back in, I can post without the above error, although I then sometimes get error #2, below

2.)
- I'm getting a message when I post to the effect that the site couldn't access email. I'm guessing the site is trying to notify everyone who is following the thread to which I posted that there's a new post in the thread, although I'm just guessing about that

3.) I also sometimes get an error upon posting that "the link is incorrect" (words to that effect).

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Dirk

Chrome browser
Windows 11 PC

Alan, I'm so sorry for what you and Di are going through. I can't imagine the stress you both must be under.

All my best wishes for you and Di.
Dirk

Welcome back, Alan. The points math is definitely off in your case. Try deleting your browser's cookies. That cleared up weird behavior for me in Chrome. I'm not sure if your browser uses cookies, though. If you don't want to delete them all (it'll kick you out of many websites, so save your work), see if you can find where in settings you can pick which cookies to delete, and get rid of those related to this website, then restart your browser. It's a long shot, but it surprised me a few times that it worked.

Hi Sol.

The following items relate to my account:

- I need 500 more points to be able to repost both of my in-progress books (70 chapters) and short stories; I lost 300 points because of the crash, and you gave me 500 so far, which brings me to 1600 (200 more than I had); reposting everything requires about 700 points, so I need an additional 500 points to get everything posted and end with my original points total (1400)
- The web page you linked to at the top of home page says you won't charge for the next six months; did you intend to extend everyone's renewal date by a full six months, or merely not to charge anyone for the next six months? My renewal date was March 9, so my original subscription would have renewed in five months, netting me only one month free; I'm fine with whichever way you intended to go; if you're extending all subscriptions by a full six months, then my new renewal should be March 9 + 6 months = Sept. 9

FYI, the bug that was keeping me from posting to the forums was specific to Chrome and went away when I cleared all my browsing data

Thanks!
Dirk