Dreams Of Noise

LJ has released Patch 88.2. They seem to have a whole bunch of well-placed tech tickets to deal with, and who knows? Perhaps they'll deal with them. Apparently they will, on some level, restore the subject lines.

We'll see.

I'll have a couple of threads tomorrow which should be fun, including one for Top Chef (which I've finally downloaded tonight).

If you're reading this on LiveJournal, you know that things have gone just a bit worng.

This morning, our LJ Overlords, in their infinite wisdom, rolled out new functionality for the comments. In doing so, they have pretty much broken comments instead.

No subject lines. No preview (remember that the preview includes spellcheck and HTML check). No selecting icons by drop-down -- you have to pick them from a window where they're loaded in order of the dates they were uploaded. No "thread" option.

I'm already crossposting at DreamWidth. It will take no effort to migrate. I would rather not, but this is silly.

ETA: Okay, I've changed the header color so that user names are legible in comments. Yeesh.

First time since early yesterday afternoon that I have access to my LJ... and now DreamWidth isn't taking my calls.

That's it. I'm switching to WordPress. Dunno exactly when, but if I get a DDoS on my site, at least I know BlueHost will kick somebody's ass over it.

And how's your internet week going?

Wowzah. (You may not recognize the woman, Candy -- Randy's crossing over with Girls With Slingshots.)

I just got five comments within the past hour that were obviously completely unrelated to... well, to anything, actually. Users I'd never heard of, with new accounts whose sole posts looked suspiciously like the product of random-word generators. How did Duv Galeni describe Illyan's breakdown...? Twenty perfectly grammatical sentences that made no sense. Yeah.

Anyway, I nuked 'em. And I'll keep nuking 'em, labeling them as spam, and banning the "users". If I accidentally ban a real person, please let me know by e-mail, mmkay? And I'd seriously recommend checking your own recent comments for anything bizarre.

Spurring off from the previous post, who are some of our LJ friends whose stuff we should all be reading? First ones I thought of right away were andpuff, maticoquala, sazettel, jimhines, and, soon, seanan_mcguire (cadhla).

Anne turned me on to the group iconzicons, which, among many other talented folks, features the work of mrbnatural. In specific, an ongoing series of Choose Your Own Adventure icons. Not particularly safe for work.

What would you like to see as a Choose Your Own Adventure?

This is my very first posting to InsaneJournal, and my very first cross-posting with LJ. I'd been thinking that I hadn't heard from some of my LJ friends in a long time, and it also seems like a good idea to check in with everyone who might be on IJ.

So, if you're seeing this message, either on LJ or IJ, give me a shout out, okay? So I know who's all right here on LJ, and so I know who's with me on IJ.

ETA: I also have an account on JournalFen. All "filkertom".

LJ/SixApart finally responds.

There are some problems, pointed out most succinctly in this comment.