They’re a tease. There on my iPhone before I “Slide to Open.” Responses to all the incredibly clever comments I’ve made since Friday.
But when I turn on the phone – I got nothin’.
When I turn on the computer – I got nothin’.
When I try to post this little piece to bitch at Word Press — I got nothin’
Word Press? What the fuck are you doing?
FiftyFourandAHalf 
I think this was happening because they changed the way comments display. Hopefully it’s working now (I’m not staff), but I’ve just started using the RSS feed for comments again – haven’t done that in ages, but am fed up of the glitches here. It’s an easy alternative (especially if you have Firefox as there’s an add on that you can put in your URL bar).
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there is something odd going on. even trying to update images in my many sidebar clumps is not working correctly
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They seem to be coming back. Sort of. Let me know if you get this. Because if you don’t I am wrong again.
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Wow! It sounds like there are lots of problems going on. I have been caught up in my continuing move and hadn’t been on line so I thought the lack of communication was because of this. I will have to pay more attention. Thanks for the Louis.
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Isn’t he great? I just love his music.
Welcome back — hope you have some tales to tell about your move!
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Well, the move isn’t complete yet. We moved our stuff from storage into our new place on Feb 28th in Pickering, ON. I spent one day unpacking and stayed overnight and then came back to Niagara Falls where I am to stay until March 18. Crazy! I will have quite the mess waiting to be sorted when I get back to Pickering. I’m insane.
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Matches. My moving solution.
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You are very wise. This is me bowing to your wisdom.
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Sadly, I don’t use it either. We’ve had movers, paid for by someone else for our 6 moves in the last 20 years. What that means is they pack up all our crap and it often remains, unused, in boxes until we discover it at the next new house.
The next one we will have to pay for ourselves. So I finally figure it out!
Good luck with it Michelle. It is such a huge pain …
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Well brace yourself, if you use FaceBook, they are updating and changing the way we communicate…yet again. This will happen sometime this week.
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I don’t really do Facebook, fortunately. I think I would be completely kerfluffled if everything started going weird on me!
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I’ve noticed lately that even when I’m logged in, I have to log in again before I can leave a comment on another blog. And even on my own blog, I often have to log out then log back in when I want to reply to someone else’s comment. It’s been going on for several weeks. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.
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I have been having to log on more frequently, but not as frequently as you describe.
I hope they fix this. The commenting process is half the fun!
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I do not believe it is fixed as yet. But your sparkling wit, I just look for it.
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Well then Val, that make, ummmm, one of you 😉
And as of 8:15 EST, it doesn’t appear to be fixed.
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Every so often I start to regret moving my blog off wordpress.com. Thanks for making me feel better about it.
(I have mixed feelings. I’ve found it pretty easy to run my own wordpress.org site, but I miss some of the more “social” features of wp.com like “liking” and the potential for being Freshly Pressed).
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It has been a pain — like when you have a party and nobody shows up!
But we miss you on wordpress — I often have trouble commenting on your posts. It makes me re-register each time and then kicks back comments frequently.
There are pros and cons of everything, I guess!
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Oh — you mentioned that before, but I thought it just happened once or twice. Maybe I should consider coming back once this current set of problems is fixed. Or switching to another comment system. Blogging is so complicated.
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It happens about 50% of the time, I’d say. You might want to post and ask if other folks are having the same problem.
And blogging is so complicated. And such a time sucker!
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I’m so out of it I didn’t realize the problem. Thanks for the heads up. Reading the comments, it seems WP obviously knows of the problem.
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Now if they would just fix it!
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I’ve had loads of problems this week. And odd things happening to my blog. My ‘recent comments’ widget went missing all by itself. I don’t get notifications. My reader isn’t working at all and hasn’t for weeks. My fave was one day my stats said I had nine visits and 50 views. Bizarre.
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Moms above had the same mathematical challenge as you did, Darla. This is very strange — especially since it’s been going on for so very long. My reader holds blogs I don’t recall subscribing to — food ones that I never ever read. It is quite odd.
Melt down over at word press. Sad.
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I thought it was only me! I’m getting notifications, but then I can’t open them. I also see on my stats that I have 9 views, but 22 “likes”. I may not be a math genius, but this don’t make much sense to me!
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Perhaps those folks just “liked” the post a whole lot? Perhaps the laws of mathematics have finally changed so that my bank book will add up?
No? I thought not. Damn.
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Man, WP has been REALLY screwing up lately! Poor Rarasaur lost ALL her followers, and I’ve read several other people having posting problems. Man, I take a few weeks off for R&R, and the whole Internet goes to heck in a handbasket! 😉
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Well, see what happens John? We clearly need you!
Of course, you won’t get notification to that effect. Sigh.
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No worries. I can sense your need with my “Jedi mind meld”. 😉
(Will somebody PLEASE send Obama a copy of “Everything I Need To Know, I Learned From “Star Trek””?)
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I cringed at that one, too. Oy!
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Some good came on his mixup, since there’s a fun new hashtag on Twitter called #ObamaSciFiQuotes where people are combining classic lines from various sci-fi things. Like “Damn it, Luke– I’m a doctor, not your father” 😉 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23obamascifiquotes
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That’s hilarious. But if I join twitter I will never ever get any work done ….
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Luckily you can click that link and read all the tweets under that hashtag without joining. It’s the replying, and retweeting, and tweeting yourself that makes it a time vortex. 😀
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This one is my favorite:
“These are not the Tribbles you’re looking for.”
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It’s true, without John watching over WP,, they obviously decided to have a bit of fun with us. Though the notification thing is global, there are plenty other of glitches that seem to be from person to person… FishOfGold can’t see pics, MissFourEyes couldn’t like anything, TheMatticusKingdom’s comment box doesn’t scroll, it’s all so strange! They should let the bloggers who also write code help. I’d do some free tech work to get it all fixed up. 🙂
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I could help write code by messing it up even more. Think that would help?
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Haha, well, maybe they should interview us first. If we say we’re going to mess it up more, then we shouldn’t be hired for free services. 😉 Also, Alastair heard back from WP about this and says they’re looking into it: http://kattermonran.com/2013/03/03/update-on-wordpress/
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Thanks!
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Is it fixed? I don’t think I’m getting notification of comments to my sparkling, witty comments.
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I don’t think it is fixed.
We need the feedback from our brilliance!
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It’s a credit to WP that when I saw that problem last night, my first thought was “Oh, WP screwed up again”, as opposed to the usual “what’s wrong with my computer now?”
But they seem to have it sorted out this morning.
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I’m still only getting notifications of comments on my blog. Not on the ones I comment on…
They keep trying to “improve” and the improvements always mess stuff up!
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Same here. I’m just getting notifications to comments left on my blog, but I’m not getting notified of any responses to the comments I leave on other blogger’s posts. In fact, if I don’t check back here, I won’t know if you replied to this comment…
Very frustrating. I too emailed WordPress. Let’s hope they fix it.
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Don’t worry, Carrie. I won’t respond to your comment …
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Ha! I checked back anyway. God help my Type A-ness…
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We love you anyway.
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Having the same problem – except that I’m not seeing responses to comments I’ve made on other people’s blogs. I sent them an email. Minus the f-bombs (although I was thinking them, too!).
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I’ve had lots of problems with WordPress today, including when I was trying to post this piece. It wouldn’t come up in the “Preview” bar, the title alone came up when I first posted it.
Perhaps I should have left out the F-bombs, too!
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