404 - Page Not Found

[clutchc]

I have been getting private messages from Tom's that say I received best answer on one or more of the posts. But when I go to the link they provide, I get the above error message. This has happened for the last several days and several messages.

I don't care about the best answer, but I thought you might want to know in case there is something that needs fixing.

 

[inzone]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1696793/phenom-cpu-unlocking.html#10937169

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1697830/asrock-970-extreme3-windows.html#10937245

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1697890/intel-drivers-influencing-radeon-drivers.html#10937299

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1697188/cpu-cooler-fitting-z11.html#10936968

From what I can see these are your last four best answers and you can try clicking on these links to see if they work. The links in the PM may have a glitch and if these links check out then that glitch did not affect the best answers that you received. Since the new forum there have been isolated glitches and bugs here and there and they for the most part get worked out.

 

[Apanzee]

Do the links in your PM fully match the links inzone gave you? Right click, copy the link location then paste it into a word doc or text file for direct comparison, one over the other.

There was a problem a few days ago with the HTML in messages being displayed as text and not actually being rendered as part of the web page.

 

[clutchc]

Yeah, the links are slightly different. Here is an example of the first one...

Link in my Private Messages:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1696793/phenom-cpu-unlocking.html%3C

Same Link in this post:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1696793/phenom-cpu-unlocking.html#10937169

 

[Apanzee]

Can you use the Windows snipping tool to show me a screen shot of one of the messages?

 

[clutchc]

You mean the message from Tom's telling me I have a best answer, or do you mean the 404 error message I get when I click on the embedded link?

 

[Apanzee]

The BA alert message.

 

[manofchalk]

I'v been having the same issue, something is wrong with the automatted messages and its messed up the text.

@ Clutchc
You will find there is a "<" at the end of the the URL, remove that and it will work.

@ Apanzee
This is what I have been getting, its the same situation for new badge alerts as well.

 

[clutchc]

The BA alert message.

Mine's the same as manofchalk's

 

[Apanzee]

@Manofchalk, I was going to point out the < symbol, but I wanted to see the message text to confirm whether or not the HTML glitch is still occurring.

@Clutchc, Use the workaround pointed out by manofchalk, and simply remove the symbol at the end of the URL until this gets fixed. In the meantime, I'll try and get a hold of one of the devs to see if this can't be sorted out.

What's happening, as I mentioned above, is that the HTML isn't being rendered properly and is showing as plain text instead of part of the web page.

 

[clutchc]

OK. Good enough.

 

[Apanzee]

I kind of want to test something.

I'm going to select you as BA in this thread - when you get the message, can you confirm for me 100% whether or not it's still occurring?

 

[clutchc]

I had 2 messages pertaining to that. Both time stamped the same: June 9, 2013 1:36 PM
The first one: "Best Answer Selected for 404 - Page Not Found" was still going to error 404
The 2nd one: "Question solved! "404 - Page Not Found" worked perfectly.

 

[Apanzee]

Hmm. Okay, well I reversed the BA, and I've sent a message to a couple devs with a link to this thread. Whether they chime in with their two cents or not, I'm sure they'll give it a look and try to figure out what the issue is. Hopefully it can be fixed quickly.

 

[jpishgar]

Thanks for the heads-up on this! Will pass it along to the dev team. Looks like a simple error in the private message itself.

 

[Apanzee]

I messaged Lourson and Guibod, Joe; they should be already looking into it.

 

[jpishgar]

Rightyo! At first glance, it looks like a simple rendering issue with some HTML.

 

[prit87]

I am getting the same 404 pg not found error when ever i make any post.

 

[Karsten75]

404 here on answering a question as well

 

[Karsten75]

and now 500 errors

 

[BluePriest]

Im getting 404 errors on pretty much everything. I cant message people or anything.

 

[Karsten75]

I've given up. No point in composing answers just to be kicked to the curb.

 

[MasterDell]

404 here too

 

[clutchc]

Major problems. The forum is unusable. But they'll fix it. Have patience.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Usually trying to post about 5 times finallly works.