*whams LJ*

[liz_marcs]

I have locked posts on my FList appearing and disappearing at will.

I keep getting signed out every time I navigate away from LJ.

I was able to make a couple of replies to comments, before I started getting constantly signed out and let's not forget the "Bad Input: URL Does Not Match Journal Owner" preventing me from unscreening comments or doing anything in comments.

I would just like to say something right now {*takes a deep breath*}:

WELL NO DUH MY USER NAME DOES NOT MATCH MY URL BECAUSE YOU ASSHATS CHANGED MY URL TO LIZ-MARCS INSTEAD OF LIZ_MARCS NOW TELL ME HOW TO FIX IT!

*wham wham wham wham*

At least I got today's part for Facing the Heart In Darkness, Part 7 up, but only because I posted it right after midnight, but until my support ticket gets an answer, I'm going to hold off on the next part.

Mostly because, like I said, I have zero control over what's happening in comments to my own LJ.

Here's hoping I get a response, but judging by the numbers of open tickets, and the numbers of people with underscored user names having the same problem over on lj_maintenance, I'm not holding out hope that it'll be fixed by midnight.

Also, why the hell have I slowed down in my navigation of LJ? It seems to me that it was faster when I had a free account.

*stomps back to work now*


ETA: So, according to some of the fixarounds I've seen, I can manually change my URL to match my user name so I can do at least some basic tasks. However,, the second I accomplish the task and navigate elsewhere, the URL reverts to the "liz-marcs" URL, thereby making me manually change the URL again so I can accomplish something.

Excuse me.

I need to fetch a baseball bat.

*WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM*

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't stay signed on at all, nor enter my user name from comments.

It's enormously frustrating.

According to the PTB, filing a report with computer, browser, and IP info may halp them solve this mess earlier.

Julia, (lj user=julia_here) security holes and those who exploit them should be sent straight to hell

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Personally? I'm having a blast changing my URL each and every time I try to do something. *grrrrrrr*

I'm on Firefox 1.5 and supposedly there's no problems with Firefox users with underscored names.

*whams*

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's an internet explorer compatibility problem apparently, not happening with other browsers.

I know that doesn't actually help if Internet Explorer is what you use, but I use Opera (which is now free) and have had no problems, and I gather that Firefox is OK.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I use Firefox exclusively, so, no. Not so much on Firefox being okay. :-(

It might be an issue with people who've got Firefox 1.5, as it turns out that Firefox 1.5 has the security hole that got LJ in trouble.

Now, considering it was LJ that crawled on the Firefox bandwaggon and started recommending it all over the place because it was "more secure than IE" (which it kind is), I find this highly amusing.

[(Anonymous)]

I just had the same log-in problem using aol.

I do not want to move the good chair to the G-5 (I have exclusive use of the old iMac and the good chair; the other residents here share a G-5 Dual and a terrible chair older than either offspring) or I'd check Safari.

julia_here, sincerely unamused with having to take the damned Turing tests all the time.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

d00d, I failed one of the stupid tests 3 times. Does that mean I am an artificial intelligence?

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

I had the same problem a couple days ago, I use Firefox on my laptop 99% of the time. Once I changed my cookie setting to allow cookies from the new URL, everything seemed to be fine. That might not be your problem but it fixed mine.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Tried that and it hasn't helped. :-(

So far, they're just telling us to "work around" until the programmers can fix it. *snort*

Me not happy right now.

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. There must be something really odd going wrong with yours then. *pets*

totally tragically OT

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

d00d, that's the cat from Alice McGee! I love that version of the Cheshire.

Re: totally tragically OT

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

Yup. :) I thought it was fitting embodiment of my Muse. With the cryptic and the never being there when you need it...

[nemo-gravis.livejournal.com]

Odd. I've had no problems at all and my URL went from nemo_gravis to nemo-gravis *scratches head*

No idea what the problem is. I'm running the latest Firefox and logged in in my usual way (logged in but disconnected from the 'Net for most of the time, the reconnecting periodically to check the LJ without need to re-log in). Could it be a firewall/security thing specific to people trying to connect from the office?

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Have the problem at home, too.

[ad-kay.livejournal.com]

WELL NO DUH MY USER NAME DOES NOT MATCH MY URL BECAUSE YOU ASSHATS CHANGED MY URL TO LIZ-MARCS INSTEAD OF LIZ_MARCS NOW TELL ME HOW TO FIX IT!
Yeah, really! I want my underscore back, dammit!

[jpublic.livejournal.com]

Liz...

I'm sorry to say, but you're SOL on this. You're going to have to change your nick to something w/out an underscore in it, for find a way to accept liz-marcs.

Why? The DNS rules specifically state the only special character allowed in a domain name is a dash. Underscores are not allowed.

[willowmina.livejournal.com]

It's been signing me out all over the place as well. Which is annoying - especially as I've specifically ticked the keep me logged in on this machine box both here and at work.

One thought though - if people with underscores in their journal names are having problems - maybe that's why lj_maintenance isn't responding so quickly - hoist by their own petard, anyone?

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Here's the thing that truly annoys me:

LJ is offering free rename tokens to people who's names begin with an underscore or end with an understore. People who have an underscore in the middle? Fuhgettit.

Anyway, it seems LJ has finally hipped to the fact that their new cookie royally screwed a lot of people, especially people with the underscores in their names, so they are trying to fix it.

The only good thing is that I think whatever issue they were having with Firefox 1.5 has finally been straightened out because I haven't been kicked off recently. *fingers crossed*

[willowmina.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping so - I use Firefox at home and it's annoying having to relog on every time.

Hope they realise that the folks with mid-underscores are having problems as well (although as some of LJ's own journals do... *rolls eyes*)

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

the "Bad Input: URL Does Not Match Journal Owner"

Wow, I jsut had this happen, and JESUS WAS IT ANNOYING. aghghghg.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

I just opened a support ticket too, so let's see what happens. They NEED to fix this.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I'm having simliar problems too. I can comment on whoseever journal I want, but when it comes to my own? Nothing. -_-O

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

I can't delete my comments either, and I don't have an underscore in my name. So whatever's causing the problem? The underscore ain't it.

[trish786.livejournal.com]

I get what you mean. I keep getting signed off even though I'm supposed to be logged on regardless of anything else.