Two damn things...

[eregyrn]

Grrr, okay. I can ask about this here, on the off chance that anybody who has friended me has run into these problems and found out the solutions already. Or, I can write to LJ's customer service, if such a beast exists, because the online FAQs are not helping me.

Problem Number One - Hinky Friends List Behavior

I discovered this today. I have raqs friended. I filter my Friends list between two groups, one of which is displayed as the default; she is on both filtered lists, actually. Last night (I think), I saw that she had posted a very short update. When I checked my LJ flist this morning, I happened to notice that this short post from her wasn't showing up on either of my filtered flists. So I went to her LJ, where I found both that post, still there, *and* a subsequent longer post from her made the same evening.

To make it even weirder, though: her post before that, (August 9, 5:01pm), *does* show up on both of my filtered flists. Just, not either of her posts from August 10. (Except, the first post from August 10 did the last time I checked my LJ last night.)

Further data: the posts aren't locked in any way. She still has me friended. (Well, she'd BETTER; but yes, I checked.) I can see them when I look at her LJ entries page. I made sure she was still on my filtered lists. I tried completely deleting my filtered lists, and remaking them. I logged out of LJ and logged back in. I looked at the Friends page of someone else who I know has her friended (my_tallest), and discovered the same thing -- her August 9th post shows up in his flist, but not either of her posts from August 10th. So it's not just me. *BUT*, she has gotten comments to at least the first August 10th post from someone else. So somebody is seeing her posts on their flist.

About the only thing I haven't done (yet) is shut this damn computer down and rebooted. Off to try that. But seriously. THE HELL?


Problem Number Two - Hinky Comments Page Behaviors

Okay. I'm a paid member and all. I should have all the bells and whistles. Apparently (I gather) there are two different styles for LJ designs. And fewer people seem to be using Style 2. But every once in a while, I run across somebody who, when I go to their LJ and read their entry and click on their comments, I see the *entry* just fine, but the comments? No personal LJ icons, for one thing, but most strikingly,

Every
comment
looks
like
this
with
just
one
word
,
or
sometimes
punctuation
mark,
per
line.
And
obviously
it
is
really
REALLY
annoying
to
read
longer
comments
like
this.

Ugh. I used to notice it in tempe's LJ, until she switched layouts. Most recently, I noticed it in brighidestone's LJ. I mentioned it once in a thread at tempe's LJ, and others said it wasn't happening to them. (I assume it mustn't, or else the user would become aware of it and try to fix it.)

If I go check the option to display comments to entries on my flist in the style of my *own* LJ, then that's fine. But (picky, picky), I also find that boring. I *like* it that when I click on the comments to people's entries, it takes me to *their* layout. Because while I love my layout, I don't want to look at it to the exclusion of all others. Bring on the rich diversity of the LJ community, I say!

But the format above? Has got to go. Why can I not make it go? Why does it happen to me? *whine*

***

Okay, okojosan gets the prize for answering Problem Number One -- after speaking to raqs on the phone, have determined that she did, indeed, go back and BACKDATE both of those entries. Because, for some reason, her laptop had become convinced that it was August 20th, and accordingly, those two entries were originally from the future. She went back in and backdated them to the correct date, and voila -- they're gone! From everyone's flist, apparently?

I still think it's weird that backdating should cause this to happen, but at least it's happening for *a* reason.

Comments

[shoka.livejournal.com]

The last version of IE I know of for the Mac is 5.2. I'd not expect Netscape 4.anything to cope with most LJ styles. NS4 had really basic, bare bones CSS support, amid other issues.

If you have OSX at home and haven't tried it, definitely try Safari. It renders the problem LJs nicely.