Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-27234821-20151127225337/@comment-24668482-20151128112142

Sorry, I was out last night.

In terms of the red link - that is completely normal. If you create a new page here, it can take a little while (up to a half hour) for the effect to permeate across all red links on other pages as the cache needs to update. The link is working fine now on the different collections pages. There is a way to force it sooner, but I don't want to encourage people to do that as it involves spamming the site just to force link updates. I only do it for update release pages on the day of update since get a lot of traffic those days and need people to be able to get to the new pages from each other/homepage.

I am not sure about the missing message on my wall. It does not show up in your contributions, so is not in the sites records as ever being published. I do occassionally see people posting that they have problems losing messages on the wall or double posting as first didn't show on their side immediately. I think it is a local thing when it happens - i.e. a slight hiccup in your net connection or browser when submitting. I haven't experienced that before (I do get slow loading messages but refreshing the page after it disappears and usually it shows up okay so don't need to retype). The only time I have lost message wall messages have been my own fault (there is a rather embarassingly hilarious thread around here somewhere where I accidentally pressed F5 on a 3000 word post explaining something, refreshing the page and losing it all, and then after I wrote the 1000 word cliff notes and put a explanation at beginning about the cut down nature I actually pressed F5 when trying to type F5 in the explanation.... and had to type it all out a third time). On articles though I have lost large edits because net connection poor when trying to submit - in these cases I know it is happening and page takes ages to load and then times out, then all the edit is lost. I tend to break very large edits up into smaller blocks to avoid such loses now (and copy to clipboard before pressing publish if it is something that took time and I am worried I might get a time out). The only time it really happens though is on the really big pages (the collections lists, update pages) and when it took over an hour with the editor open when making the edit (either from wandering off to do something else in middle or because it is a big page that takes a lot of work). Again, I usually break things down into smaller chunks to avaoid when I can. Even in message walls and forum (I submit the first draft and then edit the hell out of it).