Access Denied - New Game

Just wasted a good 5 minutes of my life typing a response to a post - assisting someone who needed some help - and when I submitted it

WHAM!! I get the message -

Access denied - you are not logged in you fool - try clicking back to get your message or refresh to send it again

Go on fool - I double dare you!!

Effin. Great. My post lost to the ether by the POS that is the Unity forums.

Well I can't be bothered to post it again, so the person who I was helping just lot out - sorry! - A crying shame too since this place really needs more input.

But whilst I'm here I might as well have a little whinge.

AJAX

It is supposed to enhance the user experience - not cause issues with it. There is such a thing as a little too much. This place (and Dolphin) seem a little too much like someone has just discovered how to use it and so everything has to be written using AJAX calls. This is great for sub page navigation functions (it's original intent), but COMPLETELY SUCKS for form submission as once submitted you lose the data into the ether. (see earlier reference to POS)

So, unless you intend to write a decent error handler that captures the submitted data and stores it for use in the event of an error - ie when you apparently get automatically logged out by the POS software - lets just revert to the time tested way of doing things and drop trying to handle form data with AJAX - you're only saving fractions of a second and it makes your software seem like it's permanently broken.

NEW GAME

So - considering that my last little game of posting to a thread every time there was an error with the forum spy seemed to jog someone into actually fixing the damn thing - I propose the same thing again...

If you get the Access Denied - you are not logged in type message - Just come to this thread and let Boonex know!!!!!!!

Last time we even managed to break the forums :)

Happy Gaming

/DM

This is a known issue and has been decided by the Grand Council to become a feature. Thank you for your continued understanding and support of Unity. We value all feedback and suggestions.

Regards,

Magnussoft

Community Suggestions Manager for Denials of Feature Requests and Bug Reports which are Features (CSMDFRBRF).

This is why I always copy my work before hitting the submit button. I also make sure to visit my account page, which seems to resolve these issues.

Yeah me too - but occasionally I forget, and murphys law states that these are the times when I will get the BSOD RSOD.

:(

/DM

Fun, isn't it? Especially when you have advanced membership.

It's pretty frustrating - especially when I lose a post I've been composing for 5-10 mins.

I'm now at the point where i cannot be bothered to jump through hoops to keep a copy of my post in the clipboard so that I can retrieve it - if it happens again - someone will be losing out... firstly the person whom I'm replying too, but ultimately Boonex.

Maybe I should add the usernames for the people who nearly received some help. That should help raise frustration with the issue and get some more people complaining about it.

I wasn't joking in my blog post when I said it makes you look like a bunch of amatuers.

I think MrFenix summed it up perfectly...

Its a fantastic piece of machinery as a whole. But then you look how the entire machine operates inside and you realise there loads of loose nuts and bolts.

C'mon Boonex. Fix this.

/DM