# 500 errors when posting on meta.discourse.org

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-errors-when-posting-on-meta-discourse-org/24054
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 15, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-errors-when-posting-on-meta-discourse-org/24054 "2015-01-15T20:07:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-errors-when-posting-on-meta-discourse-org/24054/1 "2015-01-15T20:07:58Z")

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I’ve been seeing `500` errors when posting to `meta.discourse.org` over the past few days (probably 4 errors over 5 days - but that’s guessing)

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2e8eb42d4fa429f6c7a162c7aa9034490feb3704.png)

When selecting Repy:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/6/0695a5df197320f2c4d528be1032f8920f5b6741.png)

It pops up with a message indicating `500` error. However the post actually successfully posts.

Here is an example occurrence of this kind of error post that this occurred for - matching the console errors above:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/index-user-visits-on-user-id-and-visited-at-duplicate-key/24053/2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/index-user-visits-on-user-id-and-visited-at-duplicate-key/24053/2)

Hopefully there should be something in your logs

The current version of discourse at this time on meta is:  
`Discourse 1.2.0.beta5 - https://github.com/discourse/discourse version 20d2908c505c506c96e5621d89f341ea163515ca`

###Possible similar topic  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-internal-sever-error-when-creating-post-topic-help/23744](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-internal-sever-error-when-creating-post-topic-help/23744)

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-errors-when-posting-on-meta-discourse-org/24054/2 "2015-01-15T20:32:37Z")

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I think it’s unrelated to the other topic. The errors here were related to custom field use on the experimental tagging plugin. I have a fix here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/505fa9f1cf80dba5cabf1c9dbc30266cce4326c6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/505fa9f1cf80dba5cabf1c9dbc30266cce4326c6)

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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-errors-when-posting-on-meta-discourse-org/24054/3 "2015-01-15T20:58:40Z")

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Glad you caught it. Nice one.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-errors-when-posting-on-meta-discourse-org/24054/4 "2015-01-16T06:56:12Z")

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