Its me, ShogunofYonkers, I'm unable to post on my Shogun account so I'm using a different device and started a new account. This issue started about three days ago, I can't figure out what went wrong. Can Mod 4 or 5 help me?
This is my favorite site, I hate being able to access my account but not able to post replies.
Wrong, Ive exchanged with Mod 5 and he has attempted to help me.
It's been pretty mellow here lately, I've done nothing wrong and things have been very peaceful.
It would truly suck if you lost the tens of thousands of posts you contributed here. Have you heard any progress from Mod 5 or this “Jim” who supposedly runs the site? Is there any way you could reset you computer back to the day before the snafu and try to log in from that re-set point?
Safari is slowly becoming obsolete and is gradually being replaced by Chrome. You may have to change your Browser. Maybe have a word with someone in your IT department at work.
Have you changed any settings on your phone? This happened to me a few months ago. I could private message people but I couldn't post on main pages. I had accidentally changed something on my internet settings. I cleared all cookies and put my settings back and it worked normally after that.
You may be onto something. Does either of these sound familiar?
1. Your phone has data saver activated
One reason you might not be able to post is because you have a data saver mode activated on your phone or tablet.
Data saving modes can be very aggressive and will often actively stop your phone from doing certain activities as a way to prevent excessive data consumption. This means restricting you from posting photos and videos on Instagram since uploading them can require quite a bit of data.
A lot of the times these data saving modes don’t communicate very well that they are stopping your phone from doing stuff. This leaves you wondering why you can no longer do things on your phone.
How to fix: Deactivate data saving mode or connect to Wi-Fi.
2. Your device has a battery saving mode activated
Similar to the data saving problem, in this situation your device is using an aggressive battery optimizing functionality that limits a lot of device functionality, including uploading photos and videos to Instagram.
Just as an example, some phones have battery saving features so aggressive, they even prevent screens from showing colors and limit the display to just black and white.
How to fix: Deactivate your battery saving mode.
3. I would also try different browsers, empty my cache and cookies, refresh and reload.
I can't remember what it was called. You know when you visit a site and you have to subscribe or pay to keep on reading? Well it turned that off so that you can just read the whole article. It worked for that but I didn't realise that it stopped other things working. Once I turned that back off(or on?) I could post here as usual 🤷🏻♀️