sharin'Sharon

Today is the first time in probably 'months' that I have been able to 'log in'. I know I used the correct login name and pw. Hmmmm

patricej

i did the same advanced search and encountered no problems.

nooooo .... i am neither stating nor implying that the problem you encountered was your fault.
i just can't replicate it so also can't explain it.

i will need some specific links to examples, please.

IceLeopard

My settings in Advanced Search:
Searching Multiple Content Types, but with nothing checked
Keyword search washing "cotton batting",
user name and tag search blank
Find posts Any Date and Newer
Sort results by Relevance in Descending order

Doing that particular search, on the very first page there are at least 3:
#1. Hobbs 100% cotton batting
started by aborning 01-21-2013

#3. This wrinkled 100% cotton batting thing
Started by Robinhood 03-13-2014

#8. Pellon "Natures Touch" 100% cotton batting?
Started by mea12, 07-19-2015 01:16 AM

All of them give me the same error message: "400 Bad Request" and under that in tiny lettering it says "cloudflare."

I am using an Android tablet and Chrome.

Searching only Single Content Type under Posts gave me an entirely different list of threads. Perhaps that's why you got different results than I did.

IceLeopard

Hm...the software won't let me edit the thread now. Just wanted to add that with the same search parameters, on a laptop running Windows7 and Firefox, I got the same results.

nuevaquilter

This is good info. I do rely on the digests (thank you, morning email). I'll go directly to What's New from now on.

nativetexan

I get in the Home page every time. read Main, Pictures and other sections. the invalid post i read was by Zinda. cannot find it now or remember what it was about. I thought she might be new but she's been around awhile. I have no idea what they happened.

patricej

there was a duplicate posted. the extra was deleted.

NJ Quilter

Patrice, thanks for that explanation. In my case the other day there were about 3-4 different threads that came up 'invalid thread' - not just the one. I, too, do not remember by whom or what the subject was at the time but it was multiple posts.

OurWorkbench

Interesting topic, I do understand about why some of them show up as invalid per another thread about this subject I found -


"An Invalid Thread is one that has either been:
-moved and the redirect has expired;
-merged and the redirect has expired; or
-deleted because it did not comply with policy

A closed thread is one that remains visible but can’t have new comments added. "

I found one thread just this morning that was completely deleted even though the thread was started at least 4 1/2 years ago. It had at least two posts from 2015, one in 2016, one in 2017 and then one this morning. I do understand why the one in 2017 would be deleted, but why not then? and why now and the whole thread?



Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

cashs_mom

Interesting. . . I always log on to the main page and use "What's New". I haven't had "Invalid Thread" show up yet.