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Contact Form failing to Send

Unfortunately, a bug was causing contact form messages from people with e-mail addresses @aol.com and @yahoo.com.(something) to not be sent.

I'm really sorry. This should now be fixed, and if contact form messages aren't being sent out in the future, I'll receive a notification about that.
posted by frimble on Mar 20, 2019 - 25 comments


iPhone and the back button

Occasionally, when I use the "back" arrow on my iPhone 4s to return to the main page of one of the subsites, it brings me to a much older version of that page, rather than the version I was just visiting. Why? How do I stop this from happening?
posted by Night_owl on Jan 4, 2012 - 38 comments

Can't delete tags

Can't delete tags on my most recent post.... [more inside]
posted by zarq on Apr 13, 2010 - 14 comments

Favorites... from the past!

Being vain, of course, I noticed this morning that someone favorited my song. The details show two favorites, though, one of which is from 2006. Which I am fairly certain is not the case, unless somebody's got a sweet time machine. [more inside]
posted by uncleozzy on Mar 19, 2008 - 57 comments

WSJ address bar icon?

Is there a MetaFilter-related reason I am seeing a WSJ icon in my address bar when I visit ask.metafilter.com? [more inside]
posted by peep on Dec 6, 2007 - 46 comments

Nearby users error!

Wolof has seven Nearby users. Of the seven, two (naturesgreatestmiracle and twirlypen) have error! instead of Nearby users. [more inside]
posted by tellurian on Nov 19, 2007 - 30 comments

bug: can't submit an AskMe question

bug: can't submit an AskMe question. The final "post" button just reloads the page, like the "preview" button. Firefox 2.0.0.1.
posted by scarabic on Feb 9, 2007 - 1 comment

Links from favorites (Music) to song broken

When checking any given user's favorites page, and if it's a song from MeFi Music that the person has favorited, going to the date/time stamp for that song post results not in arriving at the post, but rather with the message: "Error: File not found". Now, I see there was a thread concerning a problem with favorited comments from MeFi Music, so maybe this problem is just something still awaiting the necessary laying on of hands from # 1?
posted by flapjax at midnite on Feb 4, 2007 - 2 comments

Backwards comments page

Everyone who has posted in this thread has a backwards comments page, in most browsers anyway.
posted by Mwongozi on Dec 11, 2006 - 35 comments

Error messages beget post

I posted this and got a timeout error message. So I tried again and got a different error message. But on the third try, I got the message telling me the link had already been posted. So one of the two attempts that generated an error message actually worked.
posted by GuyZero on Oct 18, 2006 - 17 comments

Looks like the time zone code is broke.

Looks like the time zone code is broke. Everything is showing up PST for me, even though I've got Eastern set.
posted by intermod on Aug 31, 2006 - 81 comments

DNS weirdness.

Metafilter's DNS is broken. (More inside.)
posted by mendel on Aug 2, 2006 - 18 comments

When comments are marked as favorites, the return to post link goes to the wrong place.

When comments are marked as favorites, the return to post link goes to the wrong place.
posted by bigmusic on Jul 21, 2006 - 5 comments

Cold Fusion error on MeFi and AskMe.

Ask and main Mefi both reporting " Invalid CFML construct found on line 55 at column 35." on every page I try which is interfering with my late night mefi fix!
posted by prentiz on Jul 17, 2006 - 2 comments

MuFi Madness

I too have been taken with MuFi Madness™. I excitedly went to showcase my band's work, and- Oh! the horror! I was presented with an error on upload:
 The MIME type of the uploaded file "audio/x-mpeg" was not accepted by the server.
I use Audacity for my mp3 encoding, and am at my wits' end. Is there a way to rebrand a file's MIME type, or convert it? I'm quite eager to get in on the action, but need your help. Thanks, fellow citizens.
posted by potch on Jul 1, 2006 - 10 comments

Is there a problem with the AskMe RSS Feed?

Is it just me, or is the AskMe RSS Feed reported to be broken on BlogLines more often than not?

"The feed URL returns a page that does not look like an RSS feed. This can be caused by the feed URL being incorrect, or it can be caused by a configuration issue with the server hosting the feed. If this error continues, you should check the feed URL and, if it is wrong, subscribe to the correct URL."
posted by AmbroseChapel on Jun 29, 2006 - 20 comments

robots.txt gives "500 Internal Server Error" on all subdomains

robots.txt gives "500 Internal Server Error" on all subdomains
posted by Sharcho on Mar 19, 2006 - 2 comments

My Comments page is missing all of the carriage returns.

Linefeeds/Carriage returns in My Comments missing? Same in both Firefox 1.5.0.1 and IE 6. I'm not talking about breaks between comments, but within comments.
posted by poppo on Mar 15, 2006 - 5 comments

Why is Metafilter "taking a massage" in Firefox?

Why is Metafilter "taking a massage" when I try to view the page on Firefox, but works perfectly fine when I view it in Internet Explorer? I should add that before this morning, Metafilter always worked fine in Firefox. And, despite MeFi's problems, AskMe and MeTa are working fine in Firefox right now.
posted by Effigy2000 on Feb 14, 2006 - 8 comments

Bug when posting an FPP

Unable to post a FPP, I had to try several times. Firefox 1.5, Windows 2000. Error message inside.
posted by matteo on Feb 7, 2006 - 11 comments

Errors from style sheets

Firefox 1.5 is throwing up a list of errors from the Metafilter style sheets, mainly (but not solely) about 'font-color'.

Just thought you'd like to know.
posted by twine42 on Jan 28, 2006 - 12 comments

AskMe isn't displaying 'My Posts' correctly.

On AxeMe, if I click "My Posts" (should be "My Questions"), and choose a 1 month time frame, it shows me one 6-month-old quesiton I asked, but not the 7 more recent quesitons (including one I just asked today.) In any other view, no quesitons are displayed at all.
posted by knave on Jan 24, 2006 - 5 comments

ColdFusion error

Bugreport: projects.metafilter is throwing a CF error (Element USER_ID is undefined in COOKIE) and dying when clicking "X votes" beneath any listed project when a user is not logged in. Tested on IE and Firefox, cache cleared, etc.

Logging in fixes the issue, but I thought I'd point it out.
posted by bhance on Jan 23, 2006 - 1 comment

This post breaks the RSS code.

The MeFi RSS code escapes the ampersand in this post. It shouldn't.
posted by cillit bang on Jan 4, 2006 - 6 comments

I'm not able to add latitude and longitude on my profile.

I cannot add latitude/longitude to my userpage. More inside.
posted by matteo on Dec 28, 2005 - 5 comments

Error message while trying to comment.

When trying to post a comment from XP/IE7.0b I get an error message. [MI]
posted by yeoz on Nov 10, 2005 - 8 comments

Document contains no data

"Document contains no data". I know this has been mentioned recently but I couldn't find the link. It's happening pretty frequently. Is is just me? Should I just shut up and be patient?
posted by snsranch on Nov 1, 2005 - 4 comments

unexpected error

Clicking on the number of comments in my profile brings up this (and I doubt I'm the only one):

The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error.
Please contact the website administrator.

Consider yourself contacted!
posted by Eideteker on Oct 22, 2005 - 2 comments

My profile seems to think my zipcode doesn't exist.

For some reason in my profile, where it is supposed to say "xx MetaFilter users near this user:" I get "no zip found in the db". I found that strange, as I live in a suburb of DC, but shrugged it off as everyone else living in the cooler parts of town. However, when I got bored and looked into it, I'm 26.87 miles from darksquirrel. Yet darksquirrel is 29.78 miles from jenny18 and they show up in each other's zipcode list. Is this a bug, or have I uncovered the fact that my neighborhood has been blackballed by MeFi?
posted by forforf on Oct 17, 2005 - 18 comments

Server is still starting up

Ask MetaFilter post message has spazzed out and I keep getting server errors ("Server is still starting up"??).

I just thought I'd impart this thrilling news for your edification and reading pleasure.

I'm done now.
posted by bat on Aug 22, 2005 - 1 comment

unable to add gratefuldead as tag

Strange problem adding tags to a post in the blue.
posted by grateful on Aug 10, 2005 - 7 comments

Forbidden bug

Trying to comment here gets me:

Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /contribute/post_comment_preview.cfm on this server.
posted by mendel on Jul 28, 2005 - 1 comment

Bug: Cold Fusion Error in AskMe

Cold Fusion Error when accessing AskMetafilter. [more inside]
posted by karmaville on Jul 14, 2005 - 4 comments

I'm getting an error message

I'm not sure if it's been noticed already or how long its been going on, but when trying to access Metafilter I get this error message:

The ValueList() function has an invalid parameter: getLinks.link_id.
Parameter 1 of function ValueList which is now (getLinks.link_id) must be pointing to a valid query name.

Just makin' sure someone knows...
posted by clevershark on Jul 12, 2005 - 2 comments

I was posting while Matt was deleting

It looks like I was posting a comment at the exact moment Matt closed the thread. Here's the error message (inside)
posted by warbaby on Jun 6, 2005 - 10 comments

Link date error when posting to AskMe.

Variable LINK_DATE is undefined. [more]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Jun 3, 2005 - 8 comments

Cold Fusion busted again

Cold Fusion error on this thread.
posted by dobbs on Apr 22, 2005 - 2 comments

Should I report every error message I get from the site?

Metaquettefilter: When I see things like "Parameter 2 of function Right which is now 0 must be a positive integer" when I'm trying to get my nigh-hourly dose of ask.mefi, should I just assume a wizard did it, and it'll all get taken care of, or should I report it? I *hate* the idea of being the 3000th person to complain about something and thereby be part of what's keeping it from getting fixed....
posted by kimota on Mar 16, 2005 - 6 comments

Error executing database query

Trying to get to the blue ... my default view is 20 most recently commented threads... get Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid column name 'link_day'.
posted by crunchland on Feb 9, 2005 - 6 comments

The timezone slips occasionally.

PST slippage in the blue... Occasionally my time reference on MeFi gets whacked back to PST, though my preferences are EST. When I see the problem, I edit my profile (changing nothing), submit and ta-da, EST. Don't need no pony, just bringing it up. Happens ~ once a month.
posted by nj_subgenius on Feb 5, 2005 - 7 comments

I messed up some html with a single quote.

I inserted a single quote in a post on accident and the MeFi code that normally would be the rest of the page (i.e. all the buttons and such) showed up in my preview textbox.
posted by taumeson on Jan 31, 2005 - 4 comments

Adding tags to my old thread caused a mess.

I made my old thread unhappy when adding tags. Not sure how that happened.
posted by falconred on Jan 24, 2005 - 1 comment

CFML error while processing request in AskMe

Anyone else having problems with AskMe right now? [+]
posted by aberrant on Jan 8, 2005 - 12 comments

I've been getting this error

I've been getting this error:
The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: CFQUERY
posted by Pretty_Generic on Dec 9, 2004 - 14 comments

error in database when trying to post comment

Whenever I try to make a post to a thread in the Blue, I get " Error Executing Database Query.
Invalid data contribute,post_comment_preview.cfm for CFSQLTYPE CF_SQL_INTEGER." and c.
Other people make posts, so I suppose there's some prob with my account, perhaps?
posted by signal on Nov 22, 2004 - 8 comments

Am I the only one getting this error?

Does anyone else get a "No Harddisk in Drive" error in Mozilla when you try to follow the main link in this thread? I don't get that error on the other link in the post, or any of the other links on the blue.
posted by headspace on Oct 2, 2004 - 2 comments

Open tag.

Open tag.
posted by eddydamascene on Aug 6, 2004 - 9 comments

Mefi coldfusion error

When I try to get onto mefi or any of its subsidiaries I get this coldfusion error.

This only happens in Firefox. I'm posting this with IE.
posted by Evstar on Aug 2, 2004 - 5 comments

ColdFusion error in this old thread.

ColdFusion error in this old thread.
posted by gleuschk on Mar 2, 2004 - 1 comment

High ascii causes problems on posting

I don't know if this question is acceptable for this section, but I really am curious - what I am doing wrong ?

I have prepared a post for Metafilter (my first), and while it displays perfectly on preview, when I post it a not-so-nice error appears. Could anyone help, please ?
posted by Masi on Dec 9, 2003 - 10 comments

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