Unable to Send "Thanks"

[scrabbler1]

I have not been able to send any "Thanks" to another poster for making a post I liked.

When I click "Thanks" at the bottom of a post, I get a small window with the radio button already checked. The "add comments" box is clear, but there is no "send" button to actually send the thanks. Hitting Enter does nothing. If I click on the original Thanks button, the Thanks window disappears.

How do I send Thanks to someone?

[Meadbh]

Did you just get the Thanks I sent you? Here's what I did.
1. Click on Thanks.
2. Look at dialog box, which looks like what you described. I wrote in a brief message.
3. Press Return.
4. See panel that says "Your Thanks has been sent."
5. Close panel. Note that you will not be able to see any confirmation that your Thanks has been sent, let alone received.

If you send me a Thanks for this post, I will let you know what I see at my end.
Does that help?

[scrabbler1]

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Originally Posted by Meadbh Did you just get the Thanks I sent you? Here's what I did. 1. Click on Thanks. 2. Look at dialog box, which looks like what you described. I wrote in a brief message. 3. Press Return. 4. See panel that says "Your Thanks has been sent." 5. Close panel. Note that you will not be able to see any confirmation that your Thanks has been sent, let alone received. If you send me a Thanks for this post, I will let you know what I see at my end. Does that help?

I have sent out Thanks successfully over the years and I recall seeing the panel you described in Step 4. I do not see that panel any more. Nothing happens. I tried sending you a Thanks as best as I could given how nothing really happens after I open the initial window after clicking on the Thanks button.

[FIREmenow]

I would try clearing all your history, cookies, etc. from your browser. Maybe a JAVA or Flash script is hung up on something.

[scrabbler1]

It must be a browser issue. When I tried using Google Chrome instead of Internet Explorer, the complete Giving Thanks window appeared and I sent one to Meadbh. So, if I want to send any Thanks going forward, I'll have to switch to Chrome. Why IE 11 eliminates part of the small window now I do not know.

[Meadbh]

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Originally Posted by scrabbler1 I have sent out Thanks successfully over the years and I recall seeing the panel you described in Step 4. I do not see that panel any more. Nothing happens. I tried sending you a Thanks as best as I could given how nothing really happens after I open the initial window after clicking on the Thanks button.

Scrabbler1, I received the Thanks you sent me from Chrome.

[RunningBum]

I have the same problem in IE. I can type in a message in Thanks, but there is not "Send Message" button and just hitting enter does not send the message.

[MichaelB]

Just wondering, could this be a font issue? Perhaps the send button is not visible because of a text size or font setting.

[Meadbh]

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Originally Posted by RunningBum I have the same problem in IE. I can type in a message in Thanks, but there is not "Send Message" button and just hitting enter does not send the message.

Sometimes a software update comes with glitches. I had a problem with another forum. It simply would not open in Safari, but worked fine in Chrome. Subsequently, another update corrected the glitch, and I could open it in Safari.

[redduck]

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Originally Posted by scrabbler1 I have not been able to send any "Thanks" to another poster for making a post I liked. When I click "Thanks" at the bottom of a post, I get a small window with the radio button already checked. The "add comments" box is clear, but there is no "send" button to actually send the thanks. Hitting Enter does nothing. If I click on the original Thanks button, the Thanks window disappears. How do I send Thanks to someone?

I've had this problem for months at a time (on several different occasions). However, in the last two weeks, my "thanks" display suddenly started working (the "send" button spontaneously reappeared). I use internet explorer.

[ERD50]

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Originally Posted by scrabbler1 It must be a browser issue. When I tried using Google Chrome instead of Internet Explorer, the complete Giving Thanks window appeared and I sent one to Meadbh. So, if I want to send any Thanks going forward, I'll have to switch to Chrome. Why IE 11 eliminates part of the small window now I do not know.

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Originally Posted by RunningBum I have the same problem in IE. I can type in a message in Thanks, but there is not "Send Message" button and just hitting enter does not send the message.

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Originally Posted by redduck I've had this problem for months at a time (on several different occasions). However, in the last two weeks, my "thanks" display suddenly started working (the "send" button spontaneously reappeared). I use internet explorer.

Why, of why, would you use IE?

(unless absolutely required for some odd site that sticks to some MS proprietary garbage instead of standards, then use it for that only and switch back to something else for everything else)

-ERD50

[RunningBum]

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Originally Posted by ERD50 Why, of why, would you use IE? (unless absolutely required for some odd site that sticks to some MS proprietary garbage instead of standards, then use it for that only and switch back to something else for everything else) -ERD50

For me, it's because I have an unresolved problem with this forum on Firefox. http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...fox-78180.html I can't live with that so I don't use FF for this forum. I could try Chrome, but for some dumb reason I don't.

I've started using Pale Moon because Firefox has gotten really slow at time with gmail and gmaps. I like some of the add-ons I've got for Firefox like NoScript and Ghostery, but maybe they are causing problems too. Pale Moon, as I understand it, is a lightweight browser that doesn't do everything, so it won't work with every page, but it does do most of the standard things. I'm slowly branching out from using maps and mail with it and may just go with that.

[scrabbler1]

I found Chrome rather user-unfriendly compared to IE. I tried Edge, too, after W10 got loaded and that was even worse. I'll put up with using Chrome for the few things that won't work with IE. Another forum I am in had some problems with IE a while ago, akin to this one, but that forum's owner fixed those problems rather than letting them languish and inconvenience us IE users more than necessary.