Posting new topic

[perkin5]

I am trying to post a new topic, click the button and I get the form BUT this message:

The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.

What is going wrong?

[Mod edit: Moved from 'Ask for Help (v2)'.]

[gregster]

Afaik, it's a forum quirk or a bug, probably related to the special checks for users with low post count.
If you get this before you even tried to submit your post, just ignore it. Like you can see, you were actually creating topics.

[perkin5]

OK Got that - thanks

[tank]

that message is not a bug. it happens when the period of time since the form was opened till it is posted exceeds a time limit for the session. it is intentional

[gregster]

No, sorry, that's not it. I just tried it again with my 'new user' account greg_test on Edge. I logged in, and immediately clicked 'New topic' in 'Ask for Help (v2)' and then this appeared before I did anything else - I never even pressed 'Submit' and no 'period of time' passed:

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I tried it again in 'Scripts and Functions (v2)', 'Tutorials (v2)', 'Forum Issues' and 'Ich brauche Hilfe'. Same result. I get this error message before I submit or do anything else - immediately when the form opens - after I press 'New topic', the form already opens with this error message. There seems to be no way to get around this. This confirms my previous tests.

If this is a timing/timeout thing, it clearly doesn't work as intended - it seems to be broken for a large subset of users. But if I write something, and press 'Submit', it works anyway. So it's not a huge problem.

That said, I never see this message with my actual account (not new user obviously), only with the low post account. I can understand that this is irritating for new forum users - it has also irritated me before, when I used my new user account for various tests.

I'd recommend to test this with a 'new user' low-post account, beause afaics this will make a difference; with a regular account, this can't be reproduced, afaik.

[tank]

Oh wow So strange

[tank]

just shows a meaningless error?