Anyone else experiencing this?  Being able to read PM's but not being able to reply to them due to "Cath Info Exiting" error message?   I was able to send -- not reply --- to a new PM I sent Matthew regarding this issue, but I can't reply to my own received messages.

Also, I apologize for putting this in General Discussion.  I searched for a Tech Issues forum, didn't see it.

I see.  Well, I will try again later to reply to PM's.   Thank you.

I keep getting an "Error" message whenever I try to access the "Fighting Errors in the Modern World" subforum. The other subforums seem to be working fine.

I assure you, it's a coincidence. You might as well keep trying the same forum -- when the site comes back up, you'll be able to get into any of them.

It also could be your Internet connection going in and out. I haven't had any problems with the site lately.

I'll tell you what it ISN'T though -- each sub-forum having a mind/soul/personality/program of its own, with each needing to be hit a different way to get those old gears moving. Temperamental old stinker, you old Millennium Falcon you! Like an old car (or spaceship) with a lot of quirks and personality...

Uh...no. The same exact PHP programming script runs all subforums, and they all access the same database. Like I said -- either they all work, or they all don't work. It would be physically impossible for it to be otherwise.

You'll have to trust me on this one.

Thank you Matthew and Mater for your replies. I tried hitting the F5 as Mater suggested when the error message came up, the page then loaded properly. Thanks, it worked!

Ah, that solves the mystery!

So the browser (on your end) was caching the error page instead of trying to load the latest page from the server.

The server was perfectly ready to serve up the page (I was right about that) but from your perspective, you were also correct that only one subforum was apparently staying in an error state, due to the browser caching.

Sorry if I sounded like I was dismissing your issue; I was only stating facts from my side here. I can't really diagnose individual computer/browser problems; I don't have enough resources to give out personal tech support. All I can do is keep the forum itself operational.

So it's the browser that was at fault. F5 will explicitly reload or ask the server for the latest page -- that should always work.

I didn't think that you were dismissing my issue at all. I must admit that I really didn't understand much of what you wrote, since I'm quite technologically impaired and don't know much about computers. I understand that it's my computer that's the problem (it's an old laptop).  Glad it's working now!  :smile: