Bug: Sending PM that crashes preview pane is preserved - crashing profile page
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RE: finding from earlier about the internal server error 500 crashing the preview pane for discourse, I wanted to send a copy over to error for him to look at. Which crashed the preview pane for the private message. (Not really a big surprise there, but meh.)
However: Once I reloaded the browser, and went back to my profile to view other stuff, the create new message box still contains the data from the crash, re-crashing the profile each time I load my user profile.
(I don't think that it's being preserved by my browser, but feel free to correct me, and I'll delete this topic)
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Is there a Darwin award for excellence in bug reporting?
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On the bright side, I was eventually able to fix it by just telling it to continue waiting for ~ 25 minutes, ctrl+a, del
But yeah, it looks like it's supposed to be helpful 'unsent draft' functionality to me.
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Not unless it's a sufficiently bad bug that it prevents you from using the software again.
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That's actually a feature, not a bug.
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Depends on the software. For this software it might be a feature. Doubleplusgood points if user == 'Nagesh'?
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Time and a half maximum daddyo
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For this software it might be a feature.
For this software it would be a feature.
Doubleplusgood points if user == 'Nagesh'
+MAX_UINT because, um, well, I think my button may be working again, but I can't it MAX_UINT times.
Edit: No, another 43 minutes before I can like anything.
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It's only a feature if it stops someone that you don't want to hear from, from being able to say something. If it stops you from saying things, that's not necessarily a good thing ;)
I'm 21 minutes from liking.
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it stops someone that you don't want to hear from, from being able to say something.
Doubleplusgood points if user == 'Nagesh'
Doubleplusgood
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What is the actual repro of error text that crashes the preview pane?
Just indent it by 4 spaces in your editor of choice, then paste it into a reply.
Cannot do much without repro.
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The irony asking for a post for repro.
I'll bite. I'll make a new one in a bit and link to it. Shouldn't take long, but the example isn't going to be optimized for crash, just to force one.
When you get it, post it into your private message and let it sit for a bit and enjoy your profile freezing any time you go to the page.
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Knowing these forums, somebody probably figured out a way to persist a logout bomb that checks if the user is Nagesh.
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This will prompt the 'kill page' in chrome, a server error 500 if trying to post, freezing the profile page if used in a PM, a server 500 error if you try to post the PM, and profile page freezing every time you load it (FOREVER) if you let the app save it as unsent draft (or whatever you call the feature)
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The "all periods" and "1000 lines of periods" cases were fixed. Sorry about that.
(better to treat these as "what is the text that is causing problems" issue rather than a "why were drafts saved" problem.)
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