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Another good title, or subtitle, might be "Never sure".
I mean, while I know there is a problem, I don't know if it is from his servers/services, mine, my computer, or... just a temporary glitch. Still, I know some of the things to do. The first thing I turn to is a little operation that clears stuff, and this very often is the problem. Then I have a handful of other things I begin exploring. However, this time, my first step in the process, usually a seemless easy *click and boom* thing... wouldn't work. Crashing FireFox with the failure. A couple of variations, just tinkering, because lets face it, reading tech stuff usually sucks cactus. No, I take that back. Cacti.
Dreading, but losing patients and having no luck tinkertraining to success, I decide to do a search. Rather than trying to hedge the question obtusely I stick a dagger right into the jugular. Nothing personal. Bam, right there, a link to the right people, looking legit, and a quick and easy landing and interface. Right there, within at most a single first page look and click, the question, and an answer opened by another click. But, will it work? Like a charm, it did. I updated FireFox while I was at it. They say they are auto-updating but I don't think so, unless I take their query as junk. Don't have pop-ups, that might be it, alternatively. So, after doing that kick off of processes to get my original intended process to work more fully, I get full circle to the original process. Done!
So, I go to check on why I decided to try the process. Nope. That wasn't the problem. Disqus is either down, not working with my servers/services, or not working at all. So, I can't read comments at Desert Cat's blog. I am not even sure if there is anything new to read, can't remember the comment numbers from my last visit. Not the point. Irritating. I'll try later. Damned machines. Sisyphus, indeed. But as any with recall may note, what is deserved is what is given and trickery (or techiness) only goes just so far. Bah!
Later.
Tech issues are annoying. I tried leaving a couple of comments over at Desert Cat's blog but I was having a bit of a hard time with disque myself. I'm sure it's because I'm not used to it.
ReplyDeleteI occasionally run into that problem with Disqus. It's not your fault, or anybodies fault. I think blogger just sometimes get's caught in some kind of a loop. Hmm, though it is by no means limited to Disqus. Might even just be them doing maintenance, or dropping a server, and trying to not have to put out the "slippery when wet" signs.
ReplyDeleteI did finally get through. Yep, new comments. When I'm all bottled up, comments and posts are my... human cat treats.
Blocking all third party cookies will make it impossible to comment via Disqus. You can selectively enable them for disqus.com
ReplyDeleteIt is also necessary to set up a Disqus username, etc. or have one of the other login services enabled. I had to do this to filter the commercial comment spammers.
It's the "deal with the devil" I have to get a commenting platform that is more suitable than the native Blogger platform.
It works, usually, and I like it. But sometimes it goes down/is unavailable for a time, and for some people with security settings ratcheted way up and limited knowledge of how to selectively enable sites, it doesn't work.
She might not know, but I do. Still, sometimes Disqus either has a problem with, or contacting, google. Like I said, probably maintenance, on one or both parties end.
ReplyDeleteI understand your work with trying to limit attacks. I have my own method that seems to work, at least along with blogger. Blogging, itself, is a deal with the devil, the rest is just details. :p
Nah, it wasn't the cookies. I checked. It was me. Turns out I had created an account ages and ages ago. I had just forgotten.
ReplyDeleteAnd I do understand avoiding comment spammers. I got rid of anonymous comments through blogger which works for now.