Merry Christmas to you, too, m'dear. :)

Merry xmas everybody!!

BTW, everything I'm hoping for and more is a lot to ask for one lifetime let alone one day!

Merry xmas everybody!!

BTW, everything I'm hoping for and more is a lot to ask for one lifetime let alone one day!

Damn, the comment wasn't showing up even after a refresh

It might be that although your browser had sent the text of your comment on to the server which hosts my site you were pressing refresh before my server had actually had a chance to update this page with your comment.

I haven't seen this problem myself, but just in case my server is running slowly once my site's logs for today have been generated tomorrow morning I'll take a look and see if I can see when your refresh requests were received compared to the date when the page was updated.

Well I waited a bit and tried several times.

I then tried to paste the text again and then I noticed it had been done before but it still didn't show up on the comments page

Having checked my server's logs I've realised that Movable Type apparently doesn't record details about comment postings, so I can't cross-check with my server logs as I'd hoped. It might be that there's a browser or proxy cacheing issue at work, or it might just have been that my server was taking longer than you'd expected to process your comment.

All I can suggest is that you assume that the server has accepted a comment unless you get an error message. Not that multiple copies of a comment do any harm, but I know it's irritating to see them all pop up at once like that.

I don't know. Hasn't happened on other sites and I can see the comments if I go back and click "preview". So you'd expect it to be on the main screen

All I can suggest is that instead of just clicking on the Refresh icon (or pressing F5) you press SHIFT-F5 (or hold down SHIFT as you left-click on the Refresh icon). That tells IE to ignore the cached copy of a page and send a fresh request. It's possible, depending upon the details of your ISP's setup, that they're forcing your request through a proxy server which will ignore the request and feed you a cached copy of the page anyway, but that would be naughty of them. (Cacheing proxy servers are fine, but they really should pass through forced refresh requests.)

As I say, all I can suggest if none of this works is that you post your comments once and assume that they went through OK. If they still aren't there after a couple of hours, email me and I'll look into whether Movable Type software has a record of the comment.

no I already tried the force refresh and got nothing. Like I say this is the only comment system that I've had this problem with. IIRC it didn't show up for hours, maybe even overnight.

Weird. In that case, all I can think is that there's some weird cacheing issue going on with your ISP.

Well it seems to be working okay now. My last BOTW article came up straight after I clicked "POST"