tigertoy

If anyone is still reading this journal.. I am still reading LJ and I'm still posting my EFRC reports here. I'm keeping my account for now because I have so many pictures hosted in scrapbook, and still checking for new posts regularly. But I'm actually posting some stuff on DW, and I'm not crossposting. I'm tigertoy on DW. You're welcome to subscribe.

Same symptoms this morning as last night -- I was apparently logged in but no pages other than the login page itself recognized this.  Same behavior from my phone browser, so I don't think my computer is the problem, but I used the default Windows solution -- if it doesn't work and you don't know why, try rebooting.  I rebooted the computer and the phone and connected with my backup (dialup) connection, LJ was fine, so I connected through the phone and everything now seems to be working normally.  I sure hope this is a one-off, but if anyone could actually explain it, that would be helpful.

A few minutes ago, I followed a friend's referral to a discussion in a stranger's journal, and when I posted a comment, I got captchad -- a page that said "Error, please prove that you're a human, decode these words."  Even though I am logged in and it recognized my login.  What's up with that?  Is this new?  Am I being unreasonable to be annoyed?

(Yes, I know what spam is.  I know what captcha is.  I've dealt with this on other sites.  I'm just not used to seeing it on LiveJournal when I'm already logged in.)

Just a very quick note to let the world know that I have returned from my travels.  My pants are very bankrupt, so if it happened in the last two weeks in LJ land and I'm supposed to know, tell me.

Had my allergy shot today, and stopped at the automated BP machine.  It weighed me at 235, continuing the downward trend.  The BP reading was 141/78, which seemed awfully high (though I had just hurried down the stairs from the 5th floor), so I hit the button to retest, and the second reading was 116/74, less than a minute after the first one.  I begin to wonder if the machine actually works.

If having these posts on your friends page annoys you, yell; I don't feel that they need to be protected, but I'll put them behind a filter if people tell me I should.

My LJ has been wedged (I can't post to it) for a day and a half. The help suggests I try posting something shorter, so I'm trying that.

Once again I've found myself feeling annoyed with LiveJournal's limit of 49 comments on an entry before it flips from allowing you to actually read all the comments -- both direct comments on the entry and comments on the comments -- to thread mode where only the comments on the main entry are posted and you have to load another page for each thread.  This is such a pain that I almost never read all of the comments on any entry that's crossed the magic threshold.  Of course I never get that many comments on my own journal, but I read other people who do, and I actually would like to read, or at least skim, the comments.

The LJ FAQ has this to say about the subject:

When there are at least 50 comments on a page, the comment threads
will collapse, so lower-level child comments display as a link rather
than the full comment. This automatic behavior can neither be prevented
nor triggered sooner.

I'd like to post this to a community where users discuss what they want to see improved in future LJ development, but I don't know of such a community.  I could file a support request, but I don't actually want support -- I know there is no solution to my problem short of changing how LJ works.  And I have filed a support request on this in the past; the interface to do so was a pain and the response I got was less than satisfying.  I don't want to talk to the LJ staff directly, I want to talk to other users in the hope of getting a groundswell of customers saying that this needs to be changed, because while it's clear that they won't listen to me alone, they would listen to a large enough mob.

So, if you read cadhla, filkertom, or any other pages that get lots of attention and comments, and you read the comments, and you don't like how you suddenly can't see the comments on comments when the 50th one gets posted, speak up.  Post about it on your own journal.

I'm now part of the elite cool people on LJ -- I have a Debbie Ohi icon!

I still love my default icon, so I plan to use this one when I'm writing about photography.

Thank you ohiblather!

I've just downloaded the Semagic client and I'm now trying it out.
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Seems to work for simple stuff.

Over the last couple of days, the LJ site has been almost unusable. A very high percentage of the time I try to load any page (logging in, friends page, look at a specific post, respond to a post) IE comes up with the "Cannot find server or DNS error" page.

(1) Does this page actually mean that my DNS can't figure out what "www.livejournal.com" means (even though it knew what it meant 10 seconds before and it certainly hasn't changed), or is IE giving a misleading error message?

(2) Does this point to something wrong at my end that I might be able to fix somehow? I seem to be having the same level of trouble at home and at work.

(3) Is it just me, or are other people having this trouble?