Give me back my icons!

[ainigma]

[Please pardon all the exclamation marks and italicizations.]

All right, LJ has played some weird games with me in the past, but this is the worst one by far --

How in the hell did two of my user pics get replaced?!

I dug up one of my posts from a while back, and practically flipped the fuck out when the icon for the post was one I'd never even

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[azrhiaz]

I *did* hear it was an LJ cockup-- it happened to Housemouse, too, and someone else on my friendslist mentioned it. LJ was doing something to the servers. I thought hers was fixed already, though.

*hugspets*

*uses cheese icon in solidarity*

[azrhiaz]

also, I just looked, and it appears yours are back.

*pets more*

*hands you some nice Gruyere*

Return of the Cheese Mouse

[ainigma]

Good, I'm glad you heard about it (though it's too bad other people suffered the same problem) because now that the icons are back, it might have been like "What are you talking about?!" ::snickers:: airlia_vega linked me to this post by someone who experienced the same thing. Notice the similar reaction in point number 4. I, too, had found that unhelpful statement in lj_maintenance. After the problem was fixed. Gee, LJ, thanks a lot for giving us some details. In a place the average user might actually see them! ::snorts::

Thank you for the nice Gruyere. ::puts rescued only slightly traumatized cheese mouse on top of it for a good meal::

[v_greyson]

hackthis had the same problem, and so did a lot of people in the comments over there. guess lj's just up to its evil evil tricks again.

[ainigma]

Thanks very much for that link. It's good to know I wasn't hallucinating just imagining it. ::snickers:: I'd found that same lj_maintenance statement -- after the problem was fixed. I think it would have helped if they'd put it in a place where more people might have found it, like the Known Issues on the Support page. Or the Status Report page. I'm trying not to think about what kind of "work that'll involve breaking userpics and other files for a bit" didn't just make the pics unavailable but actually substituted those of other users! And what other files are they talking about? Oh wait, I don't want to know ...

That was one of LJ's more evil evil tricks, as far as I'm concerned.

[ios_pillow_book]

*looks at Elijah!icon and frowns* Tsktsktsk, I don't think I can condone this language ...

Maybe you are on the Filetmignon cluster and all your icons have disappeared to a French bistro, who knows?

[ainigma]

Oh, that's right. I'd forgotten about you being on the Clean Language Patrol. ::grins:: That was actually tame language, for Elijah. ::snickers:: See my restored icon? He's being very unrepentant.

I actually am on the Filetmignon cluster! ::snorts:: Which is odd, since I used to be on a different one, I think it was Cartman. They must have moved people around when they got new servers. I'm not a free user, though, so my account hasn't randomly been in read-only mode, as far as I know. Ironically, that might have bothered me less since at least I wouldn't have found someone else's icons in my LJ and suspected that mine went elsewhere.

French bistro ... heh.

[ios_pillow_book]

*offers poor Elijah a hug* But you see, clean language + naughty behaviour is such an interesting combination ;-)

I have no idea how this latest icon!stunt could have come about, but your icons have safely returned.

From the French bistro.

Where they use to serve crème caramel

Just saying ...

*licks fingers*

[claudia603]

How utterly weird!! I hope you've gotten them back by now!

[ainigma]

I know! Yes, thanks, they're back now. ::relieved::

::points to restored icon:: Elijah is now saying, "I didn't do that last shot of Jägermeister, pass out and ... just take a freaky sidetrip somewhere ... did I?"

[claudia603]

That icon is adorable beyond adorable and fits BOTH scenarios mentioned just perfectly :-D

[ainigma]

::chuckles:: Thanks! It's not always easy to find a use for it, so it was fun having two ways to play with it. ;D ::tells it not to go roaming again::