By the way

[farla]

My laptop cord was starting to get a bit weird yesterday so I figured I'd order a new one now and avoid the usual miserable period when it isn't working. So today I wake up and it isn't working. Will go back to fussing with it shortly.

I'd complain about why now when I had giant Wither chapters to read, but honestly it'd have been worse last month.

Speaking of such. The comments on the blog seem to be acting weirdly, and since it seems counterproductive to ask there if people can't post, is anyone having trouble posting?

Comments

[niesse.livejournal.com]

I can post, but I can't see any comments except my own. I can see them in the "recent comments" box, but not below the post, even when I follow a link from the box.

My boyfriend can also only see my comment. Our working hypothesis is that Disqus has suddenly decided to segregate Australia.

[farla.livejournal.com]

You're actually right, but it's Blogger's doing. They're doing this thing where a regional domain copy of the blog page shows up if you're from a different region, the better to comply with different laws they say. So you're seeing http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com.au/ when most of the comments are at http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/ And Disqus comments don't understand they're the same page.

I've put in a support request for Disqus and I'll try to navigate the stupid Blogger forums to see if there's some hack to make it go away.

[niesse.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's annoying. Thanks for trying to fix it, though.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I think I found the problem. Try going to the page now. Your comment seems to be invisible for good now but at least the rest should show and any future comments should be free of the ghetto.

[niesse.livejournal.com]

Fixed! I think. I have yet to try commenting again, but I can at least see everyone else's. Thank you.

[maimh.livejournal.com]

Several times, when I try to post a comment, I get a "You need to write a comment to post" message. Refreshing the page does the trick most of the time.

Also, half the time I cannot see whenever there are any comments on the posts.

[farla.livejournal.com]

There seems to be something really weird going on with the code in general. My side of things is a complete mess, but I'm on an old operating system so I figured that was the issue. Is anything else on the page failing to load, like the polls or recent comments block? And which browser are you using?

[maimh.livejournal.com]

Well, I use IE (I prefer the bookmark system it has), but beyond the comments, I have not seen anything odd.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Ah, the hellbrowser. It doesn't seem to like disqus and it's been doing a lot of weird stuff, but I have no idea why since it fixes itself when I refresh the page too. Maybe it's a timeout issue or something.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, commenting from my phone caused problems similar to what Niesse is describing.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Hm. Do you see the same url or a different one? And can you see your comment after posting?

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

I could see my posts from the phone, but not anywhere else. An hm, looks like there's a /?m=1 tacked onto the end of the url.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Can you still see your post and can you see anyone else's post now? It might be that the mobile format isn't covered by specifying canonical url, in which case I'd have to disable mobile format so it loads the regular page.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

I can see other people's comments, but tbh I don't even remember which posts I tried commenting on from my phone. It was earlier this week.

Okay, I guess I can try again...

No, when I post with my phone, it still doesn't show up when I look on my laptop.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I disabled the mobile version so it's desktop viewing for all. If your phone can load that, then it should see comments.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Success!

[farla.livejournal.com]

And all it took was disabling a feature meant to make things easier! I suddenly feel like going through and opting out of everything. It'll probably end with free kittens or something.

[farla.livejournal.com]

No, wait, I think I see the problem. The mobile version is avoiding disqus completely. Comments left in disqus are copied to the blog but not the other way around.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Wow...