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UPDATE THE NEXT MORNING: They made good on the blogscramble -- saved me from untold hours trying to revive and fix the broken code, put their best guy on it, and I am happy. I think they might end up with a nice stable and smoothly functioning comment system... and I hope they have changed their minds about some of their goals to turn it into a social networking thing, but what do I know? Perhaps they will end up with the best thing on the net someday soon.
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As you may or may not be able to notice, the agony of getting the JS-Kit guys to yank their heavily misfiring beta commenting system off my blog for me -- since there was literally NO way for me to do it -- has ruined some special formatting code done for me years ago by a friend who is no longer with us. I don't know if I can figure out how to rectify that, and this whole process has brought up so many memories of so much travail and almost everything I hate about this world that I truly feel as though I have been beaten to within an inch of my life.
I'm going to try to pull myself together and put on my ultra-powerful drugstore cheaters, the ones I had to get contact lenses in order to find, and spend quantum hours looking for what might put the situation right in my blog template.
So if I don't seem anything like my usual self for a day or two or week, and if you click in to find the place looking extremely strange, for however long, please, bear with me.
I know I left my Zen around here somewhere. Maybe the drugstore cheaters will help me with that.
No, really, it's around here somewhere because I distinctly recall swearing off swearing until I turn back into a person who even realizes she's swearing when she swears, a person who swears when she intends to swear. I don't know when I became one of those people who can't hear her own foul mouth, but it seems I did. I just instated this clean language thing a couple days ago, and almost immediately found a comment, where I'd been certain of 100% clean usage, with a big blaring "fucking" right in the middle of it, big as heck. So the problem is not trivial. Luckily, I had the edit function, and could rip that sucker out the moment I realized it was there, but, well, it had taken a few hours to realize it was there! So it is the Zen made me swear off swearing until I only swear intentionally, and this is how I'm certain it's around.
Believe me, I have to find it. My laser brain has turned into a firefly brain behind this.
No kidding. And do please see the update on my commenting policy.
19 March 2009
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99, again I'm very sorry you've had such a bad experience. We work hard every day to increase stability and reduce bugs and your feedback has been very helpful for this process.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason your particular site has experienced a strange series of unfortunate blogs that rarely if ever happen.
We will continue to work each day to find a way to restore your faith in us!
Well, the gift certificate was a nice gesture, shows yer not completely heartless, but I don't know how you can restore my faith in you when the JS-Kit comments are off my blog.
ReplyDeleteI guess I will find out though.
I tried so hard to endure it all because I thought it might spare others if I stuck it out, but I think the sudden, completely unexplained disappearance of visitors who loved to come over and comment, AND WHOSE EMAILS I DON'T HAVE BECAUSE YOU HIDE THEM FROM ME, have gone away thinking I was deleting their comments. I just thought the comments were weirdly slow all that time, but it turns out people's comments were being dumped and never getting to me, dropping off the threads before their very eyes.
A friend who knows enough that I wouldn't delete his stuff or ban him finally started griping about so many of his comments disappearing or I might still have been in the dark.
I've worked so damn hard on this blog for so long, every, every, every day. I wanted HaloScan to begin with so I could make the comments match the template and manage them as best as was available for free. It was perfect. Aside from some outages that freaked everyone across Blogistan from time to time, HaloScan had become perfect... perfect for blogs... small blogs. All you had to do was provide more reliable servers and the whole world would have been happy. I don't know what in the heck is wrong with letting people who want the old Haloscan just keep it.
I don't know what in the heck you guys did with all the code that should have been on my template to very easily remove. I spent all day going over every single thing to rectify the special formatting code you guys lost me when taking out the JK-Kit system I should have been able to just disable myself all along. I have only managed to cheat the template into approximating what I had going before, having to substitute in all kinds of malarky on the post editor to compensate.
WHAT A SERIOUS, SERIOUS BUMMER.
A friend just told me that now comments went down on the native Blogger platform AND HaloScan. I'm only hoping this comment will take since yours did. If it doesn't, I can't face it. I'm too fried. I'm going to have a drink, even though that is a no no on my diet.
Ваше здоровье --99
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ReplyDeleteSo why do I have to have third party cookies on?
ReplyDeleteIt isn't as if I don't have enough crumbs in my computer already!
Heck, neufneuf already has five cookies in the box!
And what? Did you finally land that Russian aristocrat or something?
ReplyDeleteBed time - nite nite
ReplyDeleteIf you want to elude the perfidies of Google's obsessive need to know, you have to find a millionaire in Russia to set you up with your own server and your own gorgeously-rendered page, with all the most perfect features. I am stuck because I want a socialist millionaire instead of an oligarch billionaire. Or maybe I could help Putin by taking one of those pesky oligarchs off his hands, whip him into shape, turn him into the philanthropist of all time.... So. Thusly I proceed... in undying hope, and dwindling control over my "appearance", here, so to speak.
ReplyDeleteThey usually want the babes in their twenties if not their teens, and so us codger babes have to dazzle them with our blogs instead of our bods.
Ваше здоровье!
LOL!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
So, is this the blogger comments?
ReplyDeleteI go on your blog everyday. I went to comment from work, because I can't comment on haloscan from work, but I couldn't comment on these new comments, either.
ReplyDeleteYes, Danny, this is Blogger comments. You can do it in a popup window or in a special uglier than the popup window too. This is a newer, less inelegant option. But it is definitely not my idea of the ideal scene for commenting or dealing with commenting. Wordpress has the very best comment moderation thing, and least hassle making your comments too, but if you want your own customizable template on Wordpress, you have to pay for it. When my wealthy socialist gentleman sweeps me off my feet, I will set up a site that your work won't ban you from. Or, of course, if I get some of this bailout money....
ReplyDeleteThere's a few points:
ReplyDelete- Did you save a copy of your template before you changed it, so you could go back to that old code?
- Why is it only YOUR blog that had this trouble with JS-Kit? JS-Kit is avoiding this question.
Chris says above: "For some reason your particular site has experienced a strange series of unfortunate blogs that rarely if ever happen. "
A "series of unfortunate blogs", they write as well as they figure out why your comments weren't working.
If Chris doesn't know why this happened to your blog, it sounds to me like JS-Kit is inept and should never have bought Haloscan, if they don't know what they're doing, or know how to solve a problem
This has been going on for a long LONG time, Chris. When is it time to say you're doing a BAD JOB and you're inept and can't solve this problem?
I don't buy just "dropping by" and posting a "nicey" comment. Fix the damn problem instead of lip service! Or there's no other choice than to say you guys STINK!!!
Seriously, in this day and age, when people are paying particularly close attention to ineptness (see AIG), JS-Kit should go out of their way in this economic environment to do a good job fixing 99's problem, and that isn't happening!
ReplyDeleteChris: you should copy 99's template to your site and experiment with it and figure out, with your crew, how to fix the damn problem instead of dropping by and saying you're "trying". Trying isn't good enough, that's just saying something, and not doing something.
How exactly is Chris trying to fix this problem, besides posting a comment on your blog?
ReplyDeleteHe's put his head hotshot on it.
ReplyDeleteBut it's apt to be a long haul because I think his head hotshot is working while I am sleeping and so communication will be rough.
And I think I know how they managed to screw it up here so badly. They decided to treat me to their new product in beta BEFORE they started switching stuff off the old HaloScan servers, and somewhere in the transitioning and tweaking they managed to make the template code, with a chunk of special formatting code, go poof off onto some mega-server somewhere, and when they deleted my account, per my request, they deleted code that wasn't theirs. THAT'S what I think did THIS problem.
ReplyDeleteChris is very good at being nice. He's also very young, and doesn't grok quite how incredibly hard this stuff is for us old people. For us, and on us. So, he'll learn....
My last backup didn't have the code on it either, and I cannot find it for the life of me on any older ones either. I can't just slap the older ones in because I've done way too much modification of my template for that.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking maybe I can try it on another blog, and slowly try to get the modifications back to snuff, IF it wasn't some designer stuff that happens back at the Google servers and never shows on the template. I don't know! I looked a bunch of times and never saw it, and I asked, but was not told, and I've spent hours and hours and hours poring over old templates, looking for the THING that made the formatting work that special way. That wasn't the ONLY thing that got wrecked with the yank out, but it was the only thing I can't fix... except with some weird patches in the post editor. So now newer posts will look pretty much the same, but the entire archive will look like crap.
Well, "crap" technically isn't filthy language, only quasi-filthy, so I only partly blew it on my swearing off swearing thing.
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ReplyDelete"They decided to treat me to their new product in beta BEFORE they started switching stuff off the old HaloScan servers"
ReplyDeleteWhy did they just do that without asking you first?
I don't know, Danny. They're men, though, and they probably thought they were doing me a favor. :-P
ReplyDeleteThey really might have been doing me a favor if they hadn't taken so long, with so much hassle getting things functioning properly.
Their thought was to go with the "social networking" trend that's so popular, but don't seem to grok that such a thing is rarely welcome at blogs... that we have needs that don't exactly mesh with their idea of how to conduct such a project. I think blogs will be turning into more exclusive places now that way too many people have decided they can relax about the political criminals, the broken government, and it's just going to be people over 40 who want to keep doing them and visiting them... and, of course, those with the sense to want to keep a closer eye on our government and world affairs. That's just my feeling, but it looks to me as though that's the trend.