I’m on an iPad with up to date IOS (also iPhone)

^ apostrophe above is garbled

my view of the website. The strange characters in posts is making them almost unreadable. I am on my Apple laptop.

I see the ads. The problem is that they show in the middle of the page, obscuring posts, and there’s no apparent way to close them.

Leaving DU for now.....just too frustrating right now. Everytime I click on a DU post I get a screen at the bottom of my laptop screen that blocks out portions of posts. Have to cliick x to get rid of dang screen. Also I don't see any ads.....what I have instead is blank boxes wiith circles in the middle of blank boxes.

Smart quotes are coming through as gobbledygook, and ads are practically filling the screen when they aren't covering significant portions of the content. Updates are always such a pain. Hang in there.

They’re gone today.

Apple OS 13.5.1 on iPhone 6s

-Laelth

They cause lags, page format problems, twitter threads to not appear and other odds and ends.

I had to disable mine and decided to donate to get rid of ads.

I suggest not using them. I know some people don't like ads, but I have been a long time IT person and noticed some errors are related to ad blockers or browser extensions that modify page code on the fly while loading.

This is not related to the problem of ads showing up oddly for people without a star or an ad blocker, only for people running ad blockers.

strange characters like question marks where they don’t belong. I am using an IPad and use safari browser.

substituted for apostophes.

All good today.

TYVM!

I too am seeing weird almost cute looking squirrly characters.....

or was it .)" became a smilie.

On mobile and using Firefox. Multiple weird characters where apostrophes would be.

Before the update if a second/double of the same comment was attempted the system would prevent the double and notify with a yellow page notice that the double post was automatically blocked.

The system since the update now allows the double post to the same thread.

*****

See link below for sample:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213831569

Note comments 7 & 8

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Mobile/cell
Android - OS
Google - browser service
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Attempted to notify Elad 7/30 - but no response.
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I think it's still technically possible to get in an accidental double post even with the software attempting to catch such a problem, so I'm not sure that's related to the current issue, but we'll check it out.

The first time I just removed the double comment thinking you folks were in the middle of your reset/update. Once completed it would resort to the auto no double post feature block - yellow page notice that the system prevented the dual post of the same comment.

Once your reset was done, and the system allowed the double comment, I then notified Elad.

That auto block is a nice feature because it prevents the page from getting cluttered up. If you are busy multi tasking, on DU making comments, are pulled away, then come back to continue, but can not remember if you posted the comment yet, that yellow page notice the double was blocked serves notice that it was previously already posted.

If one is sorta/kinda (scatterbrained) that is a helpful feature.

Also too, on the other end, when one makes a new thread, it would be nice if the auto system block feature jumped in there to prevent a side by side posting of the exact same thread by the same person who made the initial thread posting.

Your system has never allowed a back to back double comment post by me ever. It has always caught the double post, then notified that the double post was blocked via the yellow page notice.

This goes back years of blocking any inadvertent double comment posting by me... ever.

Just until this recent update.

(Is it against the law to give you folks a Valentine ? I just love DU !)

I saw your double up, mc and it was one of 4.
I can't remember the topics so I tried to look for read threads.
But, I couldn't find them.

This happened along with pages just not loading which was happening earlier today.

We were able to catch and fix that one very quickly -- it's no longer a problem.

See my other post as some "post my reply" issues are happening. I'm om Firefox with ghostery and Avast protections. (WIN7).

HTH

It doesn't go away?????

I was getting ads, but that seems to have corrected. But I access on my iPhone and suddenly the subject lines turn bright red when I touch them. I can make it go back to the usual “this has been looked at” color but it’s certainly odd!

It appeared to be a cosmetic issue, so not a top priority, but I did notice it. Will add it to the list

Sometimes when I respond to an OP, when I hit "post my reply" it just hangs there frozen. If I hit the button again I get the "you've already posted your reply" screen. So if I go back to the OP before I replied, my comment is already there and when I close the page and go back to it.

Hangs for a few seconds. Not seeing this with other websites. Android 11 phone.

I am using Safari 13.1.1 on the laptop.

And I'm still using Chrome 76 on Android 6.0.1.
(Yeah, I'm not diligent about updates)

when I click on them using my I-Phone.
Also happens to the titles in each forum.

Threads and hit the < button from one post to go page to the Latest Threads it now updates automatically. Just a change. i liked the old system better where you had to hit the Tab at top to refresh and get the Latest Post., but am recognizing my habits - sometimes it is best to get use to the new.

Thankis for all your work.

Upeate - This am it seems to be back to normal.

green arrow that goes non-stop around in a circle never producing that part of the site. The section where you read the articles is cut off at the bottom with another non-stop green circling arrow. My browser is Firefox. None of this was occurring before the Friday "fix." Thanks.

Thanks.

I appreciate it.

Can you please tell me what device/operating system/browser you are using?

Thanks.

And the ads are on the top, side, and bottom of the screen.