Hello all, Been running discourse for a few years - love it. However, lately it started acting up, and I’m not able to figure out why. If I try to quote someone on the forum, then I get a message saying “drafts offline”, and then it fails to post with a popup saying 403 error. If I try to cancel, the discard drafts button fails to function. I went to check for updates, but the admin menu is gone for my user. Logout button does nothing. So, I have to clear my cookies, refresh, login, and then things seem to work fine again. Done a full update and restart - didn’t fix the issue. Anyone run into this before?

Sounds a little like some of the problems people have been having with Cloudflare’s auto minify feature, if you’re using it? [image] Resolving "SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier #..." caused by Cloudflare Auto Minify Sysadmins Cloudflare’s ‘Auto Minify’ feature will break recent versions of Discourse. In the browser console, you will see an error like: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier '#...' Cloudflare are aware of the issue, and have added this message to their dashboard: Note: Please note that this feature may not be fully compatible with certain newer CSS and JS language features, which could potentially affect the functionality of the site Unfortunately, despite this critical issue, the feature wi…

Could be. Just tried that. Quoting seems to work now - admin menu is still gone. Also when I go to an admin page, it says it doesn’t exist or is private. Pretty sure restarting the app fill fix it, but no idea why.

Actually, I just logged into to Cloudflare to see about excluding the forum and see if that helped.

That was it! No sure if it was Auto Minify exactly, but I wrote an exclusion to shut everything off and it’s working again. Thanks!

403 errors, unresponsive buttons and admin menu disappearing

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) July 22, 2024, 9:20pm 2

Have you tried Safe mode?

You may have themes and/or plugins that might be causing issues due to changes in core that are not updated with needed changes

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