Why are these forums so horribly broken?

[revmacian]

Ok, it appears that the forums just "forgot" my entire account? My profile needs to be edited and I have to wait for the appropriate number of posts in order to do that.. despite the fact that I've created dozens of posts already - several in the Common Sense thread. Oh, and I'm the creator of this thread too.

[revmacian]

Can someone please link me back to my account? The OP and I are the same person.

[revmacian]

When I get back to the house later this morning, I?ll take KFN offline and update index?s. Might fix these issues. Might not. The actual cause might be our current version of MySQL and issues it may be having with our version of PHP, which while we remain on vBulletin 4.2.5, can?t be upgraded. When we move over to vBulletin 5x this should all be resolved.

Thank you so much!

Another bug this morning:
I went to log in this morning and was told my password was invalid. I tried the "Forgot my password" function and was told that my normal email address wasn't recognized - yes, I made sure it was spelled correctly. I checked my email to make sure I wasn't banned or something, I wouldn't want to violate the "don't come back" suggestion if it was there. I then set up a completely new forums account with the exact same username and email and it succeeded.

All I can say is.. it shouldn't have been allowed to happen. I shouldn't have been able to create a completely new account (complete with email verification request) under the exact same username and email address. Something is wrong somewhere.

[Snowhog]

When I get back to the house later this morning, I?ll take KFN offline and update index?s. Might fix these issues. Might not. The actual cause might be our current version of MySQL and issues it may be having with our version of PHP, which while we remain on vBulletin 4.2.5, can?t be upgraded. When we move over to vBulletin 5x this should all be resolved.

[Goeroeboeroe]

I have the problem too, but only with the common sense thread, as far as I can see. So I guess maybe it's something in that thread. Some strange combination of emoticons or something like that, being interpreted like some command by the forum software? Just guessing...

[Bings]

On Firefox, it says there are 2 pages in the index. When I go to the thread, there are 3 pages but I can't go to page 3 and the posts don't go further than #20 (I know there are more posts, I just posted one)

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...on-Sense/page3

On Viper and Falkon browsers, this goes to page 2. Can only see up to #20 but there is no page 3 showing in the page selector.

[Bings]

I also have been having the problem with the common sense thread. It was just going back to page 1 every time i clicked for page 2. Then it was fixed but now it's not going to page 3.

I also just noticed that I can click on "Find latest started threads" in my profile page (4th link under my avatar), and this page that I'm posting in right now is not even listed in my "started threads". Is the forums database corrupt or something?

1. I get a "Database error" every time I make a post. The only way to see the post after it's made is to refresh the page.

2. I cannot access any page beyond the first page of any thread. I tried to add "/page2" at the end of a url and this makes the url end with "/page2" but I'm still looking at page one.

3. I was responding to the thread entitled "Common Sense", but I'm out of this conversation because I can't access page two of the conversation - everything I try keeps taking me back to page 1 while the url reads "page 2".

I hope someone can answer my question before it changes pages.. otherwise I won't be able to follow from page 2 onward.

I'm using Kubuntu 20.04 with all default software.