Error messages in LJ

[maewyn_2]

Has anyone else had a problem clicking on links in LJ?

More often than not over the last few days, when I click on a link to view a poster's comment, I get an error message at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen (and no connection).  If I click it again, it will connect...

This morning when I was posting a photo to snapshot_hunter , I clicked on "post" and

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[mechtild]

Not sure, Maewyn. I've heard complaints of people not getting notices of reply when people commented on their posts or comments, something that comes and goes. And Jan told me she could not see an image in a recent post hosted by Photobucket. I could see it, she couldn't. I reloaded it into Scrapbook and hosted it from there, just in case she wasn't the only one. Speaking of Scrapbook, when I was uploading my newest images, I noticed one of my images from a past post (in the gallery of thumbnails) was showing a red x. Odd, I thought. I went to the post the image appeared in (it was in three different posts), and they were there! Yet in the Scrapbook Gallery it showed that white box with a red x. I clicked it, curious, and voila, there was the image. For some reason, although it was available, in the Gallery of thumbnails (for people browsing to click open), it showed up as missing.

Mechtild

[maewyn_2]

So it seems that LJ is having several intermittent problems. At first I thought it was my computer acting up until I noticed it didn't happen on other sites. Then I had the same problem when I opened LJ on my work computer...

Was that your recent manip? I saw a notice that said the picture wasn't available, or something like that in the morning. Later that evening, the picture was there. (Good job, by the way!)

[mechtild]

It's very, very strange, all this.

Yes, I could see the image (it was the small image at the top of the post), but Jan couldn't and neither could you, apparently. When I looked in Photobucket it was there, just as were the other two images hosted from there (the Caravaggio painting and the screencap). I had hosted the images of the manip, the big ones, from Scrapbook from the start. When I stopped paying extra for Photobucket they stopped hosting my images at full size. So whenever I post something with a dimension that exceeds no-fee Photobucket's limits, I host it from Scrapbook. I used to use Scrapbook only for images Photobucket might consider racy (paintings with nude or semi-nude figures, men in naughty underwear, stuff they'd taken down before), so that I wouldn't have to deal with the Missing Image (after they'd decided to take it down). Now I use Scrapbook for larger images too.