KBtalKing bugs/moderation?

Daniel Beardsmore · 22 Jan 2014, 00:53

I posted a message to alps.tw in this topic at KBtalKing a few days ago:

http://kbtalking.cool3c.com/article/18452

I got a message by e-mail (well, three duplicate messages) when alps.tw replied, but my post, and his reply, didn't show up until I logged into the forum. Some hours later, or maybe due to my having logged in, the messages became visible when not logged in.

Thereafter, e-mail notification died completely and has never resumed working, although no more posts went missing.

I came back the topic tonight to quote some text into a PM here, and since the night before, the whole of page 4 of the topic has just vanished. I've logged out and back in, and tried from another browser, and it's definitely all gone. I still have everything I wrote in my browser history (because Google Translate creates a new history entry for every update to a translation), and I have alps.tw's final reply preserved in an e-mail to Sandy.

I have proof that I'm not going mad; my question is: as there seems to be no clear sign of moderation, is their forum software just completely hosed? Are they the Chinese equivalent to Geekhack?

Daemon Raccoon · 22 Jan 2014, 02:43

A link to the fourth page shows up but only on page 2. Weird.

Daniel Beardsmore · 22 Jan 2014, 23:03

What the???

So it does.

Funny thing is, I thought I'd looked at page 2 while trying to find page 4. Sometimes I guess we should even be thankful for phpBB ......

Daemon Raccoon · 23 Jan 2014, 19:37

I think the SKCMAF is the cream switch I have on the Alps typewriter keyboard with the double action switches. As it is tactile, the colour's about right, and (mostly) without sound. (Which also reminds me that I still need to take better pictures of it for the wiki.)

Daniel Beardsmore · 23 Jan 2014, 23:57

Oo. Got a year on that typewriter?

Does the slider have recesses for dampers? Sandy's also reminded me of cream linear for space bars, so that's three different cream Alps switches.

Daemon Raccoon · 24 Jan 2014, 04:20

It's either late 85 or 86 (no definite date on the case), and no recesses on the slider.

Daniel Beardsmore · 24 Jan 2014, 22:37

MouseFan tentatively dated blue Alps as being 1985—1988 (based on observed keyboards) so that fits in pretty nicely and Sandy's found a similar product from the same era (AP210, which was produced from August 1985 to July 19897).

We're going off-topic here, so I've created a new topic that's easier for people to remember/find/spot etc:

http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/alp ... t7318.html