Inaccessible forum page

jrtfan

Most likely it will be a small bit of coding somewhere on p29 of that thread which is causing problems for some people's systems but identifying what's different on that page, compared to all of the other pages on that thread, would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Then, even if it was identified, there'd be the question of why some computers couldn't process it - differences between the set up of browsers, what else particular users had installed/had running etc etc. That's my guess, anyway. Not very helpful, I'm afraid :sad:

amibovvered

I just tried the link - went to page 28 then 'next' and got the same error message.

However, looking at fermi's screenshot, I then remembered my settings are for 40 posts to a page, so I was actually trying to access page 29 of 31, not 62!

I'm on Chrome as well, perhaps it just doesn't like the number 29?

Rahven

Thanks for looking everyone, and for trying to solve the mystery

In answer to the question as to whether or not it works on a different browser (I was using Chrome when I posted this, should have mentioned), nope. This is what I get in IE:



It's no big deal, just one page (so far, anyway) and doesn't really matter I just thought it worth recording this so the the forum team can see it if they wish.

Rahven

amibovvered wrote: »

I just tried the link - went to page 28 then 'next' and got the same error message.

However, looking at fermi's screenshot, I then remembered my settings are for 40 posts to a page, so I was actually trying to access page 29 of 31, not 62!

I'm on Chrome as well, perhaps it just doesn't like the number 29?

Yep same here (40 posts to a page). Odd!

Mandelbrot

Rahven wrote: »

Yep same here (40 posts to a page). Odd!

Yep same here (40 posts to a page).
<goes off to change it, and retry>

ETA: Well, that's interesting ...
I changed the 'posts per page' to the default setting and guess what?
Yep, I can now get 'page 29'.
(I'm using Chrome at the moment.)

<goes off to do a bit more testing ...>
Well ... I can access 'page 29' with every other setting other than the '40 posts per page' setting.
Somewhat strange, since page 29 is not the last page or anything, even on the '40' setting (there are pages 30 and 31).

What is also strange is that I think I saw this sort of problem before at a time when I still used the default setting for posts/page. But I can't be sure of that now ... it was some while ago.

jrtfan

Mandelbrot wrote: »

Yep same here (40 posts to a page).
<goes off to change it, and retry>

ETA: Well, that's interesting ...
I changed the 'posts per page' to the default setting and guess what?
Yep, I can now get 'page 29'.
(I'm using Chrome at the moment.)

<goes off to do a bit more testing ...>
Well ... I can access 'page 29' with every other setting other than the '40 posts per page' setting.
Somewhat strange, since page 29 is not the last page or anything, even on the '40' setting (there are pages 30 and 31).

What is also strange is that I think I saw this sort of problem before at a time when I still used the default setting for posts/page. But I can't be sure of that now ... it was some while ago.

Well I never!! Let's hope you've found a solution that will also work for the OP, then - well done, for your success! (My posts per page is set to the default setting as well, I've just checked.)

Tigsteroonie

You're not alone, OP. I'm on the 40-posts-to-page setting, using Chrome (it's a chromebook) and I get the same error on p29 too!

So long as none of my regular threads reach p29, I should be safe ...

fermi

In that case, this link should produce the error if any will

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4870437

and for comparison, a different thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5285089

Rahven

fermi wrote: »

In that case, this link should produce the error if any will

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4870437

and for comparison, a different thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5285089

I get an error on the first and not on the second. This is weird!

jrtfan

I get an error on the first but can load the second...