Bug Cannot comment on the Insight Blog

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Users are experiencing issues commenting on the Insight Blog, being redirected to a forum page despite being logged in. It appears that only Insights authors can comment directly on articles, leading to confusion among regular users. Some participants note that comments made in the forum thread are duplicated from the article, suggesting a workaround. The discussion highlights technical limitations related to the WordPress platform used for Insights. Overall, users are frustrated by the commenting restrictions and the navigation issues encountered.
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Every time that I click to comment on a Insight Blog article I get redirected to a new page that says:

You are already logged in. Please click here to return to the forum list.
But clicking there gets me to back to the forums and not to the Insight article. Is this a bug?
 
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I could be wrong, but I think you need to be an Insights author in order to post comments in those threads.
 
What trickery! You have commented after all...

pines-demon said:
Oh you beat me to it! It seems that you finally used my suggestion of using the displacement field! I have a similar solution that I might share later.
 
berkeman said:
What trickery! You have commented after all...
I went for the thread on the forum, I was not able to comment in the article page. Is it the same?
 
I seem to recall you can post in the thread, but there are some issues posting in the WordPress add on. If you do succeed it gets copied to the thread, so the full discussion is in the thread anyway.
 
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Unless you're an author, you have to post in the forum thread. It's a platform thing since we use Wordpress for Insights.
 
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