Fanrestore - Fan Restoration Forum - Bug reports and suggestions

Issue with mega links and new forum update

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:35:30 +0200

So it looks like there was a new forum update that auto embeds links that are posted. But I've ran into an issue with mega where the auto-embed link removes the decryption key part, so if someone clicks on it then the link doesn't work.
I don't know if there's a way to configure things on the back end to not remove the rest of the link after the # to fix this, but I can see it being an annoying issue to deal with. I'd bet other file hosters also have issue but this is the only one I've noticed.

Here's an example (non-copyright infringing txt file):
https://mega.nz/file/bxhU0aBK#jcobt_xp1L...xnf7q9lYgM

Bug on the homepage on my PC

Thu, 28 May 2026 09:54:47 +0200

Hey, guys.

Am I the only one who have this bug on the homepage on my PC? It's been like that for about a week now. It's fine on my phone.

Typo in one of the forums descriptions

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:57:15 +0100

Audio Projects -> Requests has a typo

"commentray" instead of "commentary"

messaging technical issues

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:49:03 +0200

Hello
I have just registered here and i get following message while trying to write messages

Fanrestore - Fan Restoration Forum
You do not have permission to access this page. This could be because of one of the following reasons:

Your account has either been suspended or you have been banned from accessing this resource.
You do not have permission to access this page. Are you trying to access administrative pages or a resource that you shouldn't be? Check in the forum rules that you are allowed to perform this action.
Your account may still be awaiting activation or moderation. (Resend Activation Code)
You have accessed this page directly rather than using appropriate forms or link.

And i cant even reach moderators throuch DMs so thats why i post this.

Thanx in advance

Had to make new account

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:54:29 +0100

For some reason, I was unable to log back into my account, onlysleeping23 and my attempts to change my password were unsuccessful, none of the random new passwords generated for me seem to be working. I don’t have privileges to do much on this new account, so any admin help is greatly appreciated!

Important banners on login

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:46:33 +0100

Hello,

Two issues

the banner for guests still points to fanres
I still see the banner from sporv about the repository. And I do click X everytime.

Add formatting options to quick reply

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:07:35 +0100

I always have to go into preview to be able to use all formatting option when I post a reply. Please add formatting options to quick reply.

Thanks

Re-sharing question

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:17:47 +0100

There doesn't seem to be a specific rule about re-sharing projects and I often see requests popping up for them, either because they're no longer available from the original creator or are hosted on hard to join sites, so I thought I'd ask what the general etiquette was in these cases.

Thanks.

Project List?

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:03:57 +0100

I think it would be great to have a project list section on the site, where members can list all the projects they have done so far and have links to each of them. From what I can see the only way to do this currently is to have an external site and put a link to it in your signature?

Last Post button on Chrome mobile

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:02:40 +0100

small bug that I should make you aware of

using google chrome on my android device and whenever I press last post to see the final page of the thread i'm reading (this is either form the forum index or the thread itself), it only goes to halfway through the thread an di have to keep pressing last post to forward through the pages

Suggestion: Automatically add image sizes to image tags

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 20:50:57 +0200

When you load a forum page that has a lot of image posts on it, the site will jump all over the place while the images load, and you don't end up at the post you actually clicked on.

My suggestion: Make the website automatically fetch the dimensions of each image in a post and automatically add them to the generated tags so that the images will occupy their full size even before they are loaded.

This could be done via Javascript when the image is inserted in the editor or server-side once a post is sent. Would only have to be once for every image too.

It's not a huge issue, but a bit of an annoyance.

Preview problem & Vimeo Embeds

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:40:54 +0200

Hello,

since the site moved to the new server I've been running into these bugs:

If I try to insert a video from Vimeo, the BBCode that gets inserted misspells "Vimeo" (I think it appears as "Vemio" or something similar, clearly just a typo) but obviously it doesn't work. No big deal, I just edit it to correct the spelling and then it works, but it's should be a bug that is very easy to fix

Secondly, and I don't know if this is a related issue or a separate one, but when I go to preview my post (usually with videos and images in it), the initial preview works as it should. However, if I make edits and click preview again, all my text disappears from the edit text box. If I click post, it still posts correctly, but I can't edit it at all after that without posting first and then clicking Edit again.

I'm using the Chrome on Windows 10.

(solved) Auto-Embed for Imgur albums broken

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 23:33:43 +0200

It's been awhile since I've been on here; It looks like a recent update now automatically embeds certain supported media links.
Unfortunately it doesn't seems to work with Imgur albums, and has broken every link to galleries that I have posted:

(I think the gallery that embeds is auto-selected by Imgur for broken links)

Also, even if you can get this working, I think it should be possible to disable per link. Right now it adds a bunch of vertical space that I wanted to avoid by linking to an external site:

If possible, I also think it shouldn't retroactively apply to old posts for the same reason (and to hopefully avoid any broken link situation in the future).
Viewing the site in the latest version of Firefox. Get the same bug in Chrome. Thanks as always for running things around here!

Long time posters & lurkers avatars

Sun, 14 Apr 2019 13:43:09 +0200

Hey guys,

So I see from time to time old timers who were away for a while, posting again.

I know one can make out you're an old timer by the numbers of post & thanks.

But those newbies avatars you still have visually send the info that you're a newbie.

How about spending some time to personalize your Avatar?

I mean we're all unique. By default avatars make you look anonymous and a newbie.

Just sayin'.

Weird bug on this website

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:05:49 +0100

Somehow the films on ebay thread (the AMPS one) never appears for me in the "View Unread Posts", even when there is an unread post in it. But I always get the email notification.

This is the one I mean: https://fanrestore.com/thread-619-post-48649.html

Any idea why?