I wish that we could edit posts of ours that are more than a few days old. What is the statute of limitations for our edits?

It may be becasue I am an administrator, but I can edit any posts, regardless of how old they are. How about anyone else?

Meredith, to the left of where you post, do you see the Options? IF so, is the one checked that says Preview Reply? If so, every time you post, you should be able to edit before it appears live.

Yes but once you have posted and maybe edited that post thats IT!!! No more can you change or even delete it like we could before. The word edit disappears and Reply is in its place and you can do nothing at all but Reply, or not.

Dotsie, do your techies know why the "Active Topics" is sometimes not available? I like to use that as my launching pad so that I don't miss any of the older posts (which don't show up on the Main Index if someone has posted a new topic overtop of the old one).

Some days I can go back and forth between the new posts and the "Active Topics" page as often as I want to. Other days, like this morning, I can't...it becomes unavailable after I've read just 2-3 posts. Would you be able to find out from your techies if there is some technical reason for that? Does it have something to do with how many people are online, or how often new posts are being added?

Thanks Dotsie!

Not sure of the cause but when this has happened to me in here, I just click on it several more times and it will work but it can be a pain and time consuming.

I'm no techie but I have figured this much out through trial and error....my only way of learning it seems(ha ha)

This always works:
(top of page) If 'search results" is available, click on that. If not click on 'active topics'. If you click on 'active topics' when 'search results' is available, you will get the message "not available". I know...clear as mud....
luv,
chick

Oh my. I'm totally confused. I don't know if it's becasue I'm an administrator, but Active Topics is always available for me. Does this happen daily, weekly? Give me some idea so I can reference that in my question to them. Thanks.

Well, Dotsie, so far I haven't been able to figure out any particular rhyme or reason - and cannot reproduce the problem (your techies may want to know that last bit). I cannot MAKE the Active Topics not work.

Sometimes I can flip back and forth [between Active Topics and the various posts] as often as I want to - for hours at a time. Other times, I only flip back and forth a couple of times and then get that message about it being unavailable. I've tried Chick's solution (clicking on Search Results instead (when the Active Topics is unavailable), but that doesn't work for me.

Earlier this afternoon, I had problems with Active Topics after being on for only five minutes. Tonight I don't (so far) and I've already been browsing various threads here for about 30 minutes.

It's not that it's inconvenient (although it's frustrating when there are dozens of new posts I'm trying to read and I keep getting locked out of the Active Topics page), it's the inconsistency that's baffling for me. As a former techie, that inconsistency alone would make it something I'd want to troubleshoot.

What I've noticed is that if I check out an active topic and I just quickly scan for the latest post then when I try to go back to the active topic list it times me out for about a minute. Then I can get back in. Is this how it is supposed to work?

I thought it was to make me take the time to post and not just scan!

I'm having problems with this too. After I've clicked on active topics once, it won't let me back, says I can't search again at this time. It's annoying. I haven't found a rhyme or reason for it either but it does happen most of the time that I try to do it.