Problem With Projects

June 2, 2011 6:28 PM

When I try to post something directly from Projects it doesn't work. I click on the 'Preview' or 'Post' buttons the page loads, it says 'Waiting for Metafilter' and 'Waiting for Google Analytics' on the bottom, and than nothing happens. I'm using the latest version of Firefox.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn to Bugs at 6:28 PM (7 comments total)

Seems to work okay for me (though I only went as far as previewing the post)--are you using any Firefox extensions?
posted by box at 7:24 PM on June 2, 2011

It's checking out fine for me too. Have you run through these steps? That's a good starting place.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:49 PM on June 2, 2011

Are you using a javascript blocker of some kind? If so, try disabling it.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:53 PM on June 2, 2011

Have you tried turning it off and on again?
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 10:41 PM on June 2, 2011

Oh, yeah, sorry about that — posting to projects now costs another $5.
posted by klangklangston at 11:05 PM on June 2, 2011

Were you trying to make a post directly from Projects near the time you posted this MeTa thread? Or is this a long-time wondering you're just getting around to asking?

If the former, the problem may be that at the time of this post it had been less than 24 hours since your last post to the blue. Posts sourced from Projects aren't exempted from the 1/24 rule. I reckon the Projects auto-posting function just doesn't fail properly when confronted with a user trying to make their second MeFi post in 24 hours.
posted by carsonb at 8:04 AM on June 3, 2011

Good point, carsonb. Posting to MeFi via Projects does bypass our initial check to make sure you can post. I just cleaned that up so that folks will get a clear error message if they're posting to MetaFilter from Projects and aren't eligible to post.
posted by pb (staff) at 8:59 AM on June 3, 2011