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Try clearing your cookies and logging back in again DrJ. Just worked for me. 


 
Posted : 12/10/2025 7:38 am
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Still lots of delays, there's been 3 posts in the DH discussion from MSA that haven't shown up in the last 15 minutes.


 
Posted : 13/10/2025 12:58 pm
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I see you've still not fixed the full names displaying in the classifieds yet...

I've changed my name to stop this happening.


 
Posted : 13/10/2025 1:01 pm
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Photo uploading. Are admin aware there’s an issue with this? I’ve not seen any update on this, just lots of folk flagging out as an issue.

MacOS, iOS - trying both the built in uploader and also my usual way of copy and pasting photos from my device.


 
Posted : 13/10/2025 1:01 pm
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Posted by: weeksy

Still lots of delays, there's been 3 posts in the DH discussion from MSA that haven't shown up in the last 15 minutes.

5 replies in the last 30 mins now not showing up.

 


 
Posted : 13/10/2025 1:08 pm
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Can't add pictures any more  and it's still diabolical trying to navigate it on a mobile.


 
Posted : 13/10/2025 3:33 pm
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Testing adding pictures.

 

Edit. Seems to be working again for me.

 

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Posted : 13/10/2025 7:00 pm
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Deleting cookies fixed the dark mode issue for me. Couldn't find the option either... 


 
Posted : 13/10/2025 7:08 pm
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Deleting cookies fixed the dark mode issue for me. Couldn't find the option either... 

 

 

and this would have been relevant if the posting had caught up 😉 

 


 
Posted : 13/10/2025 7:17 pm
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The threads listy forum overview page format seems to have changed recently (at least on my phone). It's more compact and neat now - I like it. Thanks!


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 7:24 am
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Posted by: gray

The threads listy forum overview page format seems to have changed recently (at least on my phone). It's more compact and neat now - I like it. Thanks!

Agreed, I couldn't tell you what's changed, but I noticed it being better.

Pictures not working for me either. Would upload but "insert in to post" did nothing.

 


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 7:49 am
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Back to dark mode this am, despite fixing it the other day by deleting cookies. This is getting rather tedious… 


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 7:49 am
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Also, while I'm here, why is the like button so glacially slow?


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 7:51 am
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And the stickies have regained their stickiness!


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 8:05 am
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We seem to have lost the All Topics Read button and the highlighting of unread topics in bold. 

Android/Chrome


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 8:39 am
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It now doesn't sit within the landscape view on my phone automatically, if opened in landscape, but needs sliding to the right so that you can see the sub-forum icons and thread title

It's fine in portrait and rotates from portrait to landscape accurately


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 8:46 am
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Ah. The threads are no longer being sorted by "last post" order either. 

 

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Posted : 14/10/2025 10:09 am
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That's because the 3 at the top are sticky. All posts below the stickies are in last post order. 


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 10:17 am
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😂 I should have paid attention to the "stickies are sticky again" bit.


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 10:20 am
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Posted by: scotroutes

I should have paid attention to the "stickies are sticky again" bit.

Before I posted that I was about to post exactly what you did but I noticed the sticky icons just in time 😁


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 1:40 pm
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is members discounts broken, or do I just need to do what it says and email them? 


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 1:45 pm
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Posted by: scotroutes

We seem to have lost the All Topics Read button and the highlighting of unread topics in bold. 

Android/Chrome

 

Moi aussi. Here we go again. The inevitable 'it was changed for your benefit tho it worked before and now doesn't. Stop mythering/can't see what the fuss is about etc'...🙄

 


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 3:35 pm
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Is it working ok on Dracs tablet?


 
Posted : 14/10/2025 5:29 pm
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Have done the daily morning thing of deleting cookies on the iPad to get it out of dark mode.

Is this going to get sorted ? 


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 8:07 am
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Hurrah! On the plus side I can post photos again, my cup runneth over with joy… It doesn’t take much.

Thank you.


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 9:01 am
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Posted by: monkeycmonkeydo

Is it working ok on Dracs tablet?

I use dark mode.

 


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 9:43 am
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drak mode?


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 10:00 am
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Drac................. Dark Destroyer of Dreams & Desires


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 10:11 am
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Posted by: somafunk

Drac................. Dark Destroyer of Dreams & Desires

Only my own. 

 


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 10:15 am
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All seems to have gone a bit rubbish again - got logged out, no mark all as read (STILL havent got a response on why we cant follow posts and get icon when on forum rather than having to subscribe and be inundated with emails).

Not great when trying to encourage people to invest - unless plan is to waste more time and money developing site to just make it worse!


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 11:22 am
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Have you emailed tech or just posted on here? Not many responses on here.


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 12:58 pm
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Is it just me, or does clicking on a Title automatically taken you to the most recent post? I thought it would take me to the first post - it does, but then automatically jumps to Most Recent after a very short delay. 


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 1:47 pm
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Only if I've visited the thread in the last couple of days...otherwise it just loads first post.


 
Posted : 15/10/2025 2:54 pm
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I normally access the site through my phone. 

 

At best then finding posting history or starting a new thread is not that intuitive, but how the hell do I do it on a PC? 

 

Is the idea to make it as hard as possible to reduce posts?


 
Posted : 16/10/2025 1:13 pm
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Posted by: FunkyDunc

but how the hell do I do it on a PC? 

You can only start a thread from either the bike forum or the chat forum, not the Latest page (which is what I usually default to). Bit weird.


 
Posted : 16/10/2025 2:32 pm
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Cheers thank you I did eventually find it after multiple clicks and head scratching.

 

Is there still a womens forum ? 


 
Posted : 17/10/2025 9:30 am
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You can only start a thread from either the bike forum or the chat forum, not the Latest page (which is what I usually default to). Bit weird.

I don't think that's particularly new, hasn't it been like it for months (probably longer?)

 


 
Posted : 17/10/2025 10:55 am
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It indeed has been like that since the main update.

I now have light mode forced on my ipad but not on my iPhone. 🙂 


 
Posted : 17/10/2025 11:00 am
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Light mode forced on my Linux/Firefox Desktop.


 
Posted : 17/10/2025 2:57 pm
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....is even slower and laggier than ever.

At least it keeps me logged in most of the time, but when I open the site on my android phone there's about a 30-40 second delay before I can scroll down, and opening a post takes about 20 seconds.


 
Posted : 18/10/2025 11:11 am
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Holy moley, its unusably slow.and laggy for me. Coming here from anywhere else on the internet it's like going back to dial-up. Seriously it's bad enough that I don't bother to check in often these days. I suspect I'm not alone so if this isn't resolved soon and things get back to being reasonably snappy I think the forum is in serious trouble.


 
Posted : 19/10/2025 6:38 pm
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Same for me, painfully slow and even when it looks like it's loaded, it hasn't as you go to open a thread and it opens something further up the page. I almost ration what I read because it's too slow to look at all the topics I might usually have browsed.


 
Posted : 19/10/2025 9:02 pm
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Speed is fine for me - on both Windows and Android - but I've almost given up on the place due to the constant re-introduction of faults and the lack of acknowledgment of them when reported. It's like bloody amateur hour and any "investor" should be considering how this team could handle anything beyond what they currently have to work with. TBH, if I was to write down what I really think I'd likely get a ban so I'm thinking I'll just not bother renewing my subscription and sack the whole thing off.


 
Posted : 19/10/2025 9:20 pm
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Oh my word this is so poor. I'm not having the problems re:dark mode but on my laptop I hav eto log in every time I try to access the site. On my android phone I stay logged in but seem to get the desktop version. It's so small I hav eto pinch/ zoom to use it. And I am paying for this. I'm a patient guy but someone is taking the Mick.

But hey, if I visit STW HQ I get a free coffee.

Mark and Co. This is REALLY frustrating and definitely not worth my subscription.


 
Posted : 19/10/2025 10:29 pm
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On your phone, have you somehow selected 'desktop site'?

Tap the 3 dots top right and scroll to the bottom of that list and make sure the option for desktop site isn't selected.


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 6:09 am
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Heads up. Amazon Web Services is currently down this morning. We use AWS for some services like email from the site. This will likely cause issues for anyone resetting their passwords or for other things that involve an email notification from us. Hopefully it won’t be down for long. 


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 9:56 am
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Posted by: ajantom

....is even slower and laggier than ever.

At least it keeps me logged in most of the time, but when I open the site on my android phone there's about a 30-40 second delay before I can scroll down, and opening a post takes about 20 seconds.

+1 on this.  I frequently give up waiting for forum pages to load these days.  And posting, while better than it was, is still painful.

At least on the upside sticky posts now work on the main view.  Good to see the PSA thread sitting at the top on the main forum page

 

 


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 10:46 am
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How come the mobile index for the forum counts in 'replies', while everything else, including the desktop index counts in 'posts'?

A further side effect of stating 'replies' is it makes all the counts wrong because the OP isn't being subtracted.  e.g. stating 'Replies: 1' when it is actually just the OP with zero replies.


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 11:32 am
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I don't even bother looking at this site on a mobile. It just doesn't work.


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 3:19 pm
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Boom, we have a winner! 🏆 Thanks DickBarton 👍🏻

I have no recollection of selecting desktop mode but at least that's one less thing to moan about.

Now, is it possible to post pics anymore?


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 6:14 pm
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Posted by: Ambrose

Now, is it possible to post pics anymore?

That was fixed last week. 


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 6:21 pm
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Pictures work but the eternal darkness, well, it’s eternal..


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 6:30 pm
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Have you cleared your stw cookies? Apparently it takes your system settings. So assuming you have light mode active on your device, then clearing the cookies on this site and logging back in should sort it.

Although, apparently dark mode uses less power than light mode, so if you are worried about the environment and climate change - dark mode can help a wee bit (apparently).


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 6:36 pm
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Thank you, I’ll try that again. I’m all for trying to protect the environment but not sure me staying in dark mode is going to help - taking account of the growing appetite among STW and it’s members for driving and flying to cycle!


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 6:52 pm
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Very true...every little bit helps and all that but suspect we need a huge effort given how much power and resources are needed for the likes of AI nowadays.


 
Posted : 20/10/2025 8:10 pm
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Posted by: Drac

That was fixed last week

I tried to post a picture today on Android. It said "picture attached" but no picture.

Can someone post a definitive way of posting pictures? F1AE947C-D738-473E-9520-E52CBB429B80.png 

 


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 9:11 pm
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That was only MacBook.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 9:11 pm
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Phone attempt.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 9:15 pm
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Nope.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 9:18 pm
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This thread was supposed to collate all the problems into one thread. That’s only of any use if anyone is listening!!!


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 9:22 pm
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Posted by: zippykona

Can someone post a definitive way of posting pictures?

You can use the my media link or copy and paste.

Try both see how you get on. 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 5:50 am
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I'm well jealous of you lot stuck in dark mode, I'm stuck in light mode (Firefox/Linux/Desktop) and my eyes hate it.

Logged out. Deleted cookies. Logged in. Nah. SEE THE LIGHT 😭 

It's fine on my mobile, dark there, just mobile..


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 8:15 am
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Still no update on loss of mark posts read button?


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 9:49 am
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Posted by: sirromj

I'm well jealous of you lot stuck in dark mode, I'm stuck in light mode

Yup me too. 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 10:06 am
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Is your pc set to show dark mode? If not, then you'll be seeing the site in light mode.


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 10:48 am
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Cross your fingures


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 11:22 am
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Posted by: zippykona

Cross your fingers.
Edit followed media link . It said attach some numbers then attach. I ticked the box and pressed insert into post.
No joy.


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 11:25 am
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image.png

Make sure the box is ticked as above and then click Add To Post. 219634CF-DCB5-465B-8C66-D56513C0A392.jpeg 

Image should appear in preview. Then hit Add Reply 


 
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Posted : 22/10/2025 2:02 pm
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DSC_1164.JPG

Seems to work. Have to wait quite a long time for the Cancel button to change to a checkbox though.

<edit> Although clicking on the image takes me to a random selection of three images from elsewhere in the thread. And the image is a bit smaller than I would have expected.</edit>

<another edit>Actually it's not a random selection, it's all the images on this page of the thread, except this one.</another edit>

 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 2:03 pm
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I've followed the instructions. The forum won't let you do an empty post so my picture should be there.


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 2:05 pm
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It’s a beautiful picture, where was it taken?


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 2:10 pm
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Posted by: zippykona

I've followed the instructions. The forum won't let you do an empty post so my picture should be there.

Cheers. That is an odd one as no code shows when I edit your post. 

Although clicking on the image takes me to a random selection of three images from elsewhere in the thread. And the image is a bit smaller than I would have expected

Yeah that’s an anomaly that appears for some reason. 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 3:25 pm
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Posted by: wheelsonfire1


It’s a beautiful picture, where was it taken?

In a bar somewhere, I guess. 

Oh, you mean mine? Sorry. It's the view from the car park at Nant yr Arian, on the day that it was sunny.

 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 4:14 pm
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Is your pc set to show dark mode? If not, then you'll be seeing the site in light mode.

Yes. Another website updates in real time as themes are switched, and has three settings auto, light, and dark, however it is also marked beta.


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 5:24 pm
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There are still some problems with this forum for which there appears to be little enthusiasm for fixing!

I’m still in dark mode on iPad and iPhone,

Picture posting for some users is still not possible,

The layout is still odd, is it stuck in mobile mode, picture (hopefully) below?, IMG_0397.jpeg 

Personal details are still displayed on classified adverts. I tried deleting my paid for advert but no luck, if I was advertising something as expensive and desirable to thieves as, say, a VW camper van then I wouldn’t like my full name being displayed on the advert.


 
Posted : 23/10/2025 6:39 am
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Arghhhhhh, wtf is the glaring white text/black background when you open a thread doing?, It was black background with teal/green text. iPad /latest software. 

And why has my dark mode on iPhone suddenly went white?


 
Posted : 23/10/2025 1:20 pm
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Woohoo I've got dark mode back, my eyes are happy! 🤣 

Chicken banana.

 


 
Posted : 23/10/2025 1:22 pm
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Posted by: sirromj

Woohoo I've got dark mode back, my eyes are happy! 🤣 

Chicken banana.

 

how did you get dark mode back?,its glaring white pages on iPhone?

 


 
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