Can't post on a thread - keeps defaulting to topic page

[Feenie]

Am trying to post on this thread - have posted on it before. But pressing post just takes me to the topics page. What is going on? Have tried in IE and Firefox

[HelenMumsnet]

How odd, Feenie.

I've just managed to post on that thread

Is it happening just on that thread? Or can't you post on any threads at all?

[Feenie]

I can see your test post, Helen, but it still sends me to topics when I try

[Feenie]

No, can post on this and others. It's just that one, and I really want to post on it! Thanks for the prompt attention though

[YetMoreTech]

Testing (from a second rate Japanese restaurant)

[Feenie]

It's now let me do a different post, but not the one I want to make

[YetMoreTech]

Again

[5inthebed]

It's not letting me post anything longer than one line

[mylifewithstrangers]

Do you have any odd characters in your post, like the pound sign for example

[Feenie]

I was trying to cut and paste from an government document (the Assessment and Reporting Arrangements 2011) but it wouldn't let me! Worked when I retyped - very sinister

[OracleInaCoracle]

ive been having problems too when i try to c&p links.

[5inthebed]

Oh actually, I was trying to link to something. maybe that is the problem?

[mylifewithstrangers]

It wouldn't let me post earlier until I removed the pund sign and substituted 'quid' !! Because is such a subversive sign

I just tried to post this with an actual pound sign and it still won't let me.

[DebiTheScot]

I had that too earlier. I'd written a big long post and it did the same thing. I'd copied it (dodgy internet connection so I usually do that so I don't lose it) and then when I tried it again it still wouldn't work. But eventually let me post it in small sections.

[mumto2andnomore]

Ive had that problem too, didnt know it was the pound sign !

[DebiTheScot]

ah I had pound signs too.

[smokinaces]

aaah, I just wrote a long post and lost it - and it had a pound sign in it!

Gutted as really cant be asked to retype it all now!

[mylifewithstrangers]

smokin, if you'd just hit the button it would have gone back to the page where you typed it all!!!

[nameymcnamechange]

Helen: this is what was happening to me earlier.

Strangers: which back button do you mean ? [ignorant emoticon].

[smokinaces]

I did, but sadly it had deleted everything I had typed and was just a blank box

[Joolyjoolyjoo]

Ah! this has just happened to me, and yes, there were pound signs in my post

[mylifewithstrangers]

LOL namey, THE back button, you know, the one which you use to return to a previous page.

There should be an icon top left of your browser, or press Alt+Left Arrow, or right-click and choose back etc etc etc

[nameymcnamechange]

Ah right now, to be sure, on my browser, not my keyboard! I'm with ya.

[wigglesrock]

I'm having same problem on antenatal clubs, won't let me do long posts. Also bringing me back to topic page randomly. Can also not access antenatal clubs through topics page. I am having to go through the search request.

[Feenie]

Back button deletes my posts, both at home and at work

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello. And sorry - we're not ignoring you.

We can see that lots of people are having problems but it's not immediately apparent what's up.

We are on it, though...