A quick housekeeping question for all y’all:
Anyone having trouble commenting on the site?
I realize this may be a tough one to answer if you’re having trouble commenting on the site. But a couple of readers have mentioned issues recently and I’ve noticed a subtle alteration of the CMS that may indicate that the WordPress peoples have moved some of the furniture around and the rest of us are barking our shins on it in the dark.
Anyway, comment if you can, email if you can’t. Let me know how you comment — right here at some individual post, via Facebook, by subscribing to posts, whatevs. I’ll take my troubles to the WordPress gods in prayer.
Mad Blog Media 
The sign in process to comment seems to change with the phases of the moon. Sometimes you just sign in with the WordPress user name and password. Other times another WordPress window opens, you sign in, and then back here to hit reply. That’s when my name shows up as psobrien, like in the previous post.
And this one.
testing testing 123
“I rarely comment but when I do it’s…”
(NOT the most interesting man in the world)
NO problems but I am not using the latest iteration of Windows. a comment box appears and my few gray cells attempt to fill it. oh shit it changed now to login
Ok, now I am at work and when I start to type, it lets me log in by showing the little icons below. That was not happening at home. I’ll check again when I get home.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot over . . .
Read ya lickety chicken
I think the air in here can get a little stuffy sometimes. Do you turn on the fan in your bathroom after you use it?
Oh, sorry. technical comments. I thought you meant room for improvement comments.
But, since I don’t initially log into WP ( after a comment I click on the little envelope and then enter my email and name) to leave a comment, I haven’t been having problems.
Thanks, all. The WordPress Chat-O-Bot 9000™ seems to be offline at the moment, so I emailed their “Happiness Engineers” to get the 411 on the WTF, as those crazy kids today probably don’t say. More as I hear it. Meanwhile, keep those cards and letters coming, and don’t touch that dial.
Ok, from home, Firefox doesn’t work but Microsoft Edge works
Weird with a beard. Hal was having trouble with Safari, and he’s rocking a fairly new MacBook Air with (what should be, anyway) the latest iteration of the macOS and browser.
Then again, it is Hal, so he might have installed Netscape Navigator v1.1, left the MBA out in the rain, and then bounced the sumbitch out of his truck and off the stock trailer into the borrow ditch.
/* MadDogMedia.java
*/
public class CommentsFromThePeanutGallery
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Seems to work on Mosaic and ViolaWWW. I’ll keep trying other browsers. Stand by.”);
}
}
Navigator 1.1 eh? Maybe even the floppy disk version.
Did a refresh of Firefox. Bingo!
Well, I use a cheeseball Chromebook with a pretty up-to-date version of Chrome. I don’t comment a lot, and I notice a change from last time, in that there’s a “Log in to leave a reply” under what I’m typing right now. I’ve never seen that before. In the past it just asked me for an email address and a name to slap on top of my comment. Annnnndddd, of the three options given (a “W” in a circle, which I presume is some wordpress thing, the Facebooky logo, and an envelope) the envelope does the same thing. Posting now to see what happens.
Thanks, Jon. The Three Heads of Social Media popup seemed new to me, too. I always comment using the CMS, in the WordPress “Comments” tab, and when I first saw this tripartite arrangement it felt as though it had snuck up on me from somewhere. I don’t recall it being there until recently.
About a week ago, went to the comments, and there was a slicker-looking WordPress sign in interface. I thought, cool, cuz WordPress never remembers that I signed in five minutes ago, maybe this will help.
Was back to normal the next day.
Other than that, haven’t noticed anything.
Aha. New paintjob on the door, same ol’ rusty knob, hey? I thought that sign-in looked newish, but the acid flashbacks have fooled me before.
And now it’s back again!
Wonder if the iOS update was responsible?
It looks like you have Tour Divide rider rolling around just north of you as of 8PM MST 9/8/23. Lachlan Morton just pulled into what appears to be Safeway in Cuba. He’s moving along pretty well. He rolled out of Banff on I think the 30th of August.
https://efprocycling.com/culture/the-great-divide-mountain-bike-route/
Oof. That’s a rough ride. My friend and colleague Nick Legan’s had a few goes at it. Me, I feel like checking into a hospital for an extended stay just reading about it.
Maybe I’ll try it. Somebody out there needs to demonstrate that it can still be on 26″ wheels and rim brakes. Of course my event will not be socially shared because I don’t want folks to see me crying by the side of the road or trail and wondering what is wrong now, and they’d get board and go back to watching metube videos of Bob Ross because it will take me 7 months to complete.
Testing, again. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…
When I first tried to leave a comment it made me log in even though I had taken a break from posting to my own blog to leave a comment here. When I clicked on the login button I got 3 columns of “Here’s where you commented before and people replied to it” and that blocked the button to leave the comment. But this time I don’t have that…
Opus, what are you using for a computer, OS, and browser? Can you email me a screenshot of that three columns of StalkerBot 9000™ blocking the button? I heard back from the WP people and will post a short version of their musings here directly, after achieving proper caffeination.
Well I tried to leave another reply but it threw this up when I finished. and in response to the question I’m on an ASUS laptop running W11 and Chrome.
Text added to “Leave a Reply” box. Will try to log in with Envelope option (email?)
Yep, Randy, the Envelope icon should be an email prompt. The W wants your WordPress login and the Facebook logo is of course the Gateway to Hell. Thankee.
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Yup, it’s mess. This time it looks like I’ll email login again and be able to comment – but I’m using a different Mac than prior.
I couldn’t reply to my first comment, text box was operational but reply button greyed out.
Entered two messed up replies via WP email response.
They’ve made a mess of things, at least for those of us without WP of FB accounts.
This is a test of your DogBlog Commentary System. Had this been an actual comment, it would have been a damn sight more interesting.
OK, this was an unscientific test by Your Humble Narrator.
I switched Macs (from the 15-inch 2014 MacBook Pro to the 13-inch 2014 MacBook Pro); changed operating systems (from Mojave to Catalina); and selected another browser (from Safari 14.1.2 to Chrome 116.0.5845.179).
When I started writing my comment the three login options appeared: WordPress, Facebook, and email.
I selected the envelope icon (email) and was prompted to give an email address, a name, and a website (the last was optional). I also declined to have posts and comments emailed to that address.
The “Reply” button was then active, I punched it, and hey presto! My comment appeared on the site.
See the three images below.
Your mileage may vary, of course. … toward that end I have been in communication with the gods on Mount WordPress. More as I hear it.
I get the three options in Chrome but not Firefox or Edge. Just a blank box and it doesn’t activate the three little icons when I start typing.
I get the three options once I type a few characters in the “Reply” box using the Mac version of Firefox. ’Tis a poser, to be sure. Why do the Dark Lords of WordPress wish us to serve Them in this way?
I’m on win11 using the current version of Firefox and get the 3 log in options. Once email and name entered, reply is GTG.
Thanks, Roberto. Glad to hear you cracked the code!
There are an awful lot of days like this in an average year, no? Some years we get 365 of ’em.