39 posts tagged “bug”
While I can now compose on Vox (not, incidentally, something I could consistently do from Christchurch, either, so we can now conclude the problems were not ISP-specific), is anyone else having problems with the YouTube conduit? I know at least one other user is.
It gets me a bit worried how things fall down here regularly. But I don’t think we can blame Vox exclusively. I am sure the other site, in this case YouTube, is to blame in part, for perhaps changing its specifications.
Still, YouTube clips are going to be fewer in number for a while, I expect.
Vox was dead again for the last couple of days. Daisy has been very good and has replied to my messages, though it’s a bit annoying that no one else at Six Apart has. It still seems this problem is unique to me, but it can’t be if I can’t compose messages on Vox on any one of three different computers. (I’ll be trying from another office shortly, too, and we are both on the same ISP.)
Complaining about Vox interrupts the flow of these posts a bit, especially when I just wanted to share these Wellington images with you. Christchurch seemed to have better weather when I visited.
Finally. The compose screen has taken two days of refreshes to load.
So if any of you are wondering why I haven’t blogged, that’s why. I can’t. And waiting two days for the screen to appear is a little longer than the two seconds that it should take.
After I click ‘Compose’, Vox just loads a blank screen. On viewing the source, there’s nothing there. Yet the browser reports ‘Done’.
I filed a complaint with Vox today so hopefully they can fix it. However, so far I notice I am alone with this glitch as many of you are able to compose normally.
Last time this happened, other antipodeans were affected as well, but I see Snowy, Ninja and Robin have been able to post to their Vox blogs lately.
I think it could be my ISP, but yesterday and today I tried proxy servers and the compose screen still failed to come up. I’ve also tried Firefox and IE8, and Windows XP and Vista, all to no avail. I’ve also cleared the cookies.
Until then, I am blogging a little at jackyan.com/blog and, for my mayoral campaign, at yourwellington.org.
In case my Firefox 3.5.3 woes were due to Google Toolbar not being up to date, I installed a new one. Bad mistake.
The new one is difficult to edit in 3.5.3, and each update took 20 to 60 seconds for the menu bar to stop being greyed out. During this editing process—and, in fact, through no intervention of my own—the Google Toolbar spanner icon disappeared.
So how does one get it back? Ask Google?
Wow, I guess no one uses the Twitter application on Facebook any more. I know I had signed up, but given that it stopped working today, then this does not surprise me. Facebook must be peeved off if it reports that the plug-in has a grand total of zero users:
I have written to the creator of the WP-Cufón plug-in for Wordpress about this bug, which caused some missing characters at the Lucire website today:
At least when we have bugs, I act on them (hello, Facebook?).
But the above video is a great one. Click here to have a view of it—and watch it right to the end, if you don’t know how it finishes. I also put it here on Vox.
Facebook has stopped accusing me of piracy on a daily basis, but it still does not display properly if you are running Firefox on Vista. There is no Facebook logo, as you can see above.
If I were to use the Facebook secure server, it all comes back, which makes me wonder why Facebook doesn’t use the secure server’s stylesheets. Then all the Vista Firefox people will go away happy. Or happier, since we have come to expect that Facebook will mess up somewhere else.
After dinner, this ad on Autocade still made me hungry. Since I have never heard of this brand Down Under, I thought the Dove soap people had diversified, but it turns out it’s part of the Mars company.
I think this is as nice as I can make my latest gripe with Facebook. I sent this to info@facebook.com, in the vain hope that someone there might read it.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
For the last few weeks, Facebook has wrongly accused me of uploading copyrighted videos. According to your own policy as published on your help pages, videos do not get taken down unless the copyright owner has complained. In the case of two videos I uploaded on August 3, Facebook removed them automatically, then put up a notice warning me of my ‘Alleged Copyright Infringement’. No complaints were ever filed by the owners.
The most pressing bug, as far as my everyday use of your website is concerned, is that your notice has remained on my home page, even though (a) I have filed a counter-notification (on at least 40 occasions) and (b) Facebook has actually restored the video it accuses me of uploading illegally on August 3, at 6.26 a.m.!
To humour you, I have continued to fill out the counter-notification in the hope that it will clear the false accusation, to no avail. Facebook reports that there was an error with the filing each time.
Occasionally, the error message comes with an extra link, which takes me to yet another form, which I diligently fill out. On pressing ‘Send’, all this does is take me back to the home page—complete with the notice again. I can only presume that you never received the counter-notifications.
I can only imagine that one of the filings worked if you have restored the video.
Strangely, there is no notice about the first video I uploaded earlier on August 3, one which you have not restored. On that video I have written permission from the copyright owner, so there is no way he would have complained about its uploading. But this is not the one that your notice refers to.
I respectfully request that your notice is removed and the remaining video restored. I do not know what URL the first video resided at, given that it was immediately and automatically deleted the moment it was uploaded. However, I am happy to provide to you the message from the copyright owner which authorizes me to upload it to your servers.
Sincerely,
If you plan on asking Twitter for support, you can’t. The helpful section that was there has now gone, and you are stuck, as with Facebook, with known issues.
The only resolution I had was to go to this forum link on Twitter. In the lower right-hand corner of the page, you should see a box where you can ask a question. Fill it in, and you should be taken to another website called Get Satisfaction, which is monitored by Twitter. You will need to sign in using Open ID or Windows Live.
I am not sure what good this will do, but if you need to vent and hope there’s some remote chance someone from Twitter will hear you, it’s the best thing.
It has been impossible to Tweet here all day, and Twitter has made no announcement on whether its site is down—it certainly isn’t a ‘known issue’.
Hopefully the above will help some Tweeters out there who cannot post, add or block on the site.
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