newold_m (Forum Supporter)
newold_m (Forum Supporter) Reader
4/7/22 2:02 a.m.

I'm trying to post a reply to one of my threads with updates on NC rollbar but when I click post I am getting this error

"something went wrong, go back down the road you came from" or something along those lines. 

Any ideas what is causing this? I was able to reply to another one of threads w/o issues 

John Welsh
John Welsh Mod Squad
4/7/22 5:58 a.m.

I posted there successfully. 

I've had the same happen before. When I get that "something wrong" message,  I hit refresh (maybe even hit refresh a few times.)  That refresh seems to make additional attempts to make the posting.  Eventually,  the posting succeeds.

Stampie
Stampie MegaDork
4/7/22 6:33 a.m.

Clear your cookies.

newold_m (Forum Supporter)
newold_m (Forum Supporter) Reader
4/7/22 7:29 a.m.

Thanks guys but still not having much luck. I was able to post a test reply as well but when I try to post a slightly longer version I'm still getting the "something wrong" errors. Anything beyond that paragraph I posted in that thread triggers that error message.

Stampie: this is using Safari on iPad, no idea how to clear cookies :) but this is the only forum that I've seen issues like this. 

Edit: I think I figured out what's triggering that error. I was copying and pasting from an existing note typed on my iPAd and in one of the sentences there was an emoji smiling character from iOS. If I take that one out I can post successfully but if it's in then you get that error. Weird..

Edit2: Was able to recreate the same error on this thread as well by only trying to reply with only that pasted emoji character 

A 401 CJ
A 401 CJ SuperDork
4/7/22 8:11 a.m.
Stampie said:

Clear your cookies.

Buy a canoe.  They never have problems posting.

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter)
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
4/7/22 12:34 p.m.

Sometimes the intarwebs just has hiccups.  I usually surf something else for a couple minutes and try later.

newold_m (Forum Supporter)
newold_m (Forum Supporter) Reader
4/7/22 2:07 p.m.

In this case I think it's pretty clear <insert iOS lol character > is an considered an invalid character and forum software throws an exception.. nothing to do with cookies. 

pointofdeparture
pointofdeparture UltimaDork
4/7/22 2:19 p.m.

In reply to newold_m (Forum Supporter) :

This forum is powered by Salesforce and emojis cause Salesforce to freak the hell out for some reason.

Normally when I get that error it's because I have an emoji somewhere or some kind of string that Salesforce interprets as markup.

Overall it's kind of an odd forum solution but it works...most of the time.

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