My lj is broken - waaaah! I would reply to comments if I could...

[byslantedlight]

I have lost all ability to reply to comments in my own lj - there's just no reply button anymore. I shall cross my fingers and hold my thumbs it comes back soon, because I wanted to reply to comments!

Also, my style has gone... gappy. I use an old theme, XColibur, because when they changed it I didn't like how much bigger and more like a child writing in crayon they made the menus - and I didn't want the drop-downs, I liked having everything in two neat horizontal lines in the menu bar. But now my menu bar is all gappy. I the links are still there, but they've gone invisible and seem to have been shrunk... it may be that my old-fangled days are catching up with me. If you see how that might work... *headdesk*

I'm going to have to work instead... with my fingers crossed and my thumbs held. Typing may be tricky. Also there is no incentive to comment to this post if I'm saying that I can't write back - well, if that ever was an incentive... it's all about my sparkling conversation, I know... *g*

Here, better have some lads in lieu of... well, anything really.Eeep - that was bracing! My image posting pop-up has gone all awry too, and was missing the post button. I took a blind leap of faith that I wasn't about to delete the internet, and pressed the spot that it looked like a button had once been...

Is anyone else having odd things, or is it just me...?

Comments

[murphybabe]

If it helps at all, it all looks like it normally does from here. I know sometimes when I'm posting and I add a photo or two, the top line (with the B I U ABC hyperlink buttons etc) goes completely loopy and overlays itself on everything, spills out over the text box, runs off the edge of the screen and generally makes a right show of itself. But I have come to consider that as normal.

I hope you get things back as you want them. I hope you're able to reply and let us know that all is well again... or not.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I've never had any problems with my navigation bar before, it's always been just as it was when I first joined lj - nearly 9 years ago now (wow!).

I have foiled the glitch by hitting "reply at website" from my email notification, which clearly works just fine, but I also opened a tab for "view thread for this post", and there's still no reply button that way. Well at least now I know I can dive into my recycling bin and reply via my email notifications - thanks for commenting so that I could find that out!

Lj has glitches now and then, and they usually right themselves - I just hope this one does too. I've always felt that my lovely Xcolibur was probably on borrow time as a workable layout... *sighs sadly*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

How incredibly annoying! I haven't seen anything myself, but I have to confess that things are a bit on the hectic side again (Zoic#2 paperwork for starting uni! And OMFSM, the student loan ... have I ever mentioned how much I hate the charming suave rich bastards who all went to uni for free themselves and who decided students should now start getting into debt? And yet there are a quite number of countries that still have uni for free or a really nominal fee. If Argentina can keep uni free of fees, why can't we?) so I haven't really been around as much as usual. Just a bit longer, and everything will be sorted ... (famous last words if ever there were any).

Hope lj behaves itself properly for you! (oh, and that shirt on Bodie ... :-) That shirt appears in fics, doesn't it!?)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

That shirt certainly does appear in fic - so does the lovely stripey one on Doyle, with the crossed arms and the... *g* Oh, that reminds me - I forgot to mention that whilst I was volunteering yesterday I had a conversation about Martin Shaw being attractive - not at all started by me! I was talking to a visitor about the James Gilray prints in the room, and we verged into talking about the way we see things so much differently now from many years ago, and I said even tv shows seemed so much different - I used Blake's 7 as an example, because I remembered how slow it now seemed when I rewatched, whereas I once thought it action-packed (well, you know... *g*), and he said "Yes - and things like The Sweeney, do you remember The Sweeney?" and I of course said, "Oh yes, and The Professionals..." and he said - "Ah, Martin Shaw - yes, well, Martin Shaw - you women all still like him...". And his partner gave me a significant (but slightly embarrassed) look, and began to wander towards the next room... *vbg* Meanwhile chappy continued to mumble about the attractiveness of Martin Shaw even now, and followed her!

Oh, and gods, yes - the world is so much better with free education, including university! How on earth does the government expect a country to jump up on its feet and be innovative and creative and make them more money when the vast majority can't afford to go and learn about the things they need to know in order to innovate and create, is beyond me... Trouble is, they're still stuck at the if-we-educate-them-they'll-realise-what-bastards-we're-being-to-them-and-take-our-money-and-privilege-away... As if it takes a university education to see what bastards they're being... Mind you, people seem to be pretty well distracted by cake and reality shows, so... oh, just argh! You have all my sympathy and fingers crossed for getting through it...

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Yep, mine's all buggered up too. I've decided to drink wine and deal with LJ tomorrow. Cheers!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - I have discovered that I can access replies by doing it from my email notifications. Yeay! Odd that you're also buggered up, we're usually buggered up at completely different times, which I figured was due to being on different servers. Hmmn! I like your current solution. I just need to finish the other half of today's work, and then I'm right with you! Only, you know, on the other side of the country. *g*

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

LJ has been surprisingly well-behaved for me of late - I'd got used to it being a pita and now it's not. How strange, and not at all useful to you, I know.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Okay, just to say: thank you for the MS story! *g*

And, hey, it does pay to read comments...

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Arrgh about LJ. MIne is fine, but I bet it's based on a newer design. (Yes, someone else did it for me. I am hopeless with design. *g*)

On the other hand, yay for photos of the lads! Plus, that reminds me that I must thank you for talking about the clarity of the new DVDs and Stake Out in particular, because that made me go and watch it. *g* Yes, yes, yes to all you said. Although I still missed the Christmas trimmings. Well, I was distracted by the clarity with which I was seeing the lads!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay, I have my comments back! And yes! Its totally worth reading other comments - I always do. I always thought that was half the point of lj - the conversations. It was fun to hear someone else bring up MS. Even on lj that doesn't seem to have happened much lately!

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I lost all connection to LJ and everything kept spinning and no connection in the world was bringing me on LJ , so I ended up rebooting my tablet and then it came back on . hope yours works itself out and thanks for the image .

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I have my comments back! And all my posting buttons, and edit-post buttons! Yeay! I saw some people saying it'd gone weird on them about a week ago, and figured it'd be my turn soon, but then someone who I usually think is on a different server to me, cos we glitch at different times, is also having issues, so... it's all rather confusing really. Except that my lj is back! *hugs lj*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

My lovely old design seems to be working again - I didn't need to do anything fancy to get it, I think it was the default when I signed up with lj, and I just never wanted to change it. And it looks like I still don't have to - yeay! *g* My design was also done by someone else, and even though I've probably learned enough by now to tweak it myself - I do wonder now and then about a new banner (incorporating my old one, though) and a lighter (as in less sombre) colour scheme, but... I don't know if I'll ever quite manage to do it. *g*

And yes - yeay for the lads! And yeay for Stakeout! It's true that the clarity of seeing the lads was distracting - but my eyes will focus for purple tinsel! *vbg*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I have my lj back this morning! I guess they were making general changes on my server, which is fine by me - as long as I get to keep my XColibur layout, and my custom pages. Yeay!

Couldn't resist posting that pic when it came up in my folder, especially after watching Stakeout the other day... *g*

[(Anonymous)]

Hi my name is Kiashi and I'm a huge fan of your writing!! You must really love the boys and create them as I would imagine them too - raw and passionate and authentic and with so much detail. I appreciate that you're busy with other commitments but I hope you never stop writing about them. It has actually helped me through a very dark time and cheered me up no end!!! I've just escaped a domestic violence situation a year ago and after being abandoned by family and friends - the only thing I had to look to forward to was stories like yours. They helped distract me during the long hours/days/weeks/months of loneliness and reminded me of the power of love and resilience and the steamy sex scenes didn't hurt either [lol]. Many thanks!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hi Kiashi - thank you so much for dropping into my lj, and what an amazing comment to receive! It makes me happy whenever I hear that someone's enjoyed my stories, but the idea that they've helped someone through bad times as well is just... well, if nothing else did, then it would make every story I've ever written more worthwhile. People can be so awful to each other that I can barely believe it, but knowing that we can help each other through it, even when we don't know that we're helping each other, is such encouragement for life, I think. And a reminder that there are reasons for doing everything that we do with love and passion, even when they don't seem to be clear at all. So thank you for reminding me what writing, and writing Pros, is all about. *g*

I think we've communicated over at A03 a bit as well - I'm always a bit thrown by A03, because I think of it as a story archive rather than somewhere for discussions, but really there's no reason it can't be both when needed. And your comments there are always much appreciated, even when I haven't replied... *g* June/July are always my months of heavy work commitments, but things are lightening up again now (though I've also just arranged to move house at the end of August!) so I shall try to carry on posting my old stories to A03 now. And hopefully - hopefully get back to writing some new ones... *g*

I hope things are much better for you now, and that you're finding new friends in your world - it's never easy to do, but I shall have faith that they're out there for us all. Thank you...