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Again, the removal of the forum was done by the main admin (/user/1) account. Whether this was done by the forum owner or if their account was compromised remains to be seen; however, only the forum owner can receive assistance from PB on this issue, in the manner I previously outlined.

ProBoards cannot assist with identifying the motivation behind the action. A forum owner may remove the forum at any time and are not required to provide a reason for deletion.

Honestly, I've kind of hit the limit of my ability, time-wise, to assist here. This just requires a little more investigation than I have to spend due to work and other obligations. It's totally doable, but the way that the items are nested combined with your need to have it simultaneously apply to both versions is going to take time.

Sorry about that!

1. Answered in your other thread. This is intentional by PB, the flip display will always take on the height of what is needed to accommodate the longest message because otherwise the forum would constantly be jumping up and down as the feed resizes in height for every news item.

2. As mentioned in your other thread, I really recommend appending your changes to the bottom of your stylesheet instead of making the changes directly in the corresponding default PB styles. It will be far easier to diagnose what changes were made and how they impact the rest of the CSS — this is, as the name suggests, "cascading", so changes listed at the bottom will override the default PB style and show what specifically was changed instead of requiring folks to sit and compare context-less CSS. :P 

Have you checked your main & global header/footers? It is possible there may be a code there causing the issue.

Other troubleshooting thoughts:
- be sure to clear your cache & cookies now that the plugins are disabled; it's possible that you're loading a cached page.
- check to make sure any images (if this issue occurs globally, anything that appears globally, or on specific pages if the load issue is on specific pages) aren't hotlinked from anywhere that may be throttling access

If none of these help, I'll take another look in the morning!

gb9454 - I just wanted to pop in again and clarify what happened here; this is based on Chris's findings earlier in the thread, just hopefully distilled down in a way that makes more sense if you're unfamiliar with coding.


The above image shows the coding that's applied to your forum. Specifically, it seems this is installed in Admin > Structure > Headers and Footers (likely in "Global"); the code that is being pointed out in the red is what allowed you to copy/paste previously. Based on previous posts and how they are formatted in HTML on the page, Chris deduced that this particular code was responsible for allowing that functionality.

While we do not know for sure why this stopped working, it's possible that something changed — not the code specifically, but how what the code used to "talk" to handles things. Because the code can no longer communicate with the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, AKA the 'preview' editor) as it previously did, the functionality for pasting in an image disappeared.

This would not be a retroactive effect (which is why older posts did not disappear) but any posts created moving forward would not have the capability to parse these images.

You mentioned that you were previously copy/pasting from Google Drive, before you switched to One Drive. It's probably unnecessary to do that, since the problem wasn't with the method you were using, but rather that the script that allowed the functionality stopped working.

So to sum up: you were able to do it before due to, as I initially suggested, the presence of a script on your forum (plugins are just scripts with a user interface). The script broke, for some reason, and so the functionality disappeared.

I hope that helps explain why you were able to do it before, and why you can't now?

As an aside: truthfully, the method you've adopted now (uploading to a free host, and then using the generated image URL) is probably the best, most reliable method of getting pictures to appear on the forum.

I am... still not entirely sure what any of this means, I apologise. (I===4)( break) is not proper template syntax, so I'm not totally sure what this is referring to.  The only thing I can think of that involves 'loops' would be a foreach loop in the template, but it doesn't look like it'll be applicable here.

Sorry, to be more specific, can you answer the following questions:

- What does "loop" mean to you?
- What "UI" are you referring to, and where is it located?
- What is the purpose of the UI that you are displaying?
- What is the UI "asking"?