Comcast sux, part 1,534,298.3
Comcast has apparently changed how their 'personal web pages' are set up. The good news: they increased the storage limit per account from 25 megabytes to a whopping one gigabyte, to be rolled out in the next couple weeks. Bad news: apparently they've also changed some of the low-level server underpinnings regarding cookies. Any content being hosted on Comcast servers now has to be accompanied with cookies when Comcast is the third party host. In my case, I use the space to host my photos and other content as part of LJ postings, forum discussions, etc. The changes have caused some people to be unable to see pictures in my posts. This comes from security settings on the viewer's PC not allowing third-party cookies to be placed on their systems. No cookie, no piccie.
I have to figure out something else as far as content hosting. I have a Flickr account, but I cannot access it at work. LJ has a big space for photos as part of my permanent account, but it drops the picture sizes to clickable preview sizes requiring people to embiggen each photo to see them as well as messing up any attempts at tasteful page layouts. I prefer an ftp uploading setup. The increase in Comcast online storage has been made useless by the changes, and also has borkded all my previous stuff. I have not come up with hosting for my own domain yet, and that seems to be the best solution.
In the meantime, I will forgo any extra content in my posts till I figure things out. I'm not in the frame of mind to think about this too deeply. Today has me in a pissy mood for multiple reasons and the rest of the week does not appear to have any relief.
I have to figure out something else as far as content hosting. I have a Flickr account, but I cannot access it at work. LJ has a big space for photos as part of my permanent account, but it drops the picture sizes to clickable preview sizes requiring people to embiggen each photo to see them as well as messing up any attempts at tasteful page layouts. I prefer an ftp uploading setup. The increase in Comcast online storage has been made useless by the changes, and also has borkded all my previous stuff. I have not come up with hosting for my own domain yet, and that seems to be the best solution.
In the meantime, I will forgo any extra content in my posts till I figure things out. I'm not in the frame of mind to think about this too deeply. Today has me in a pissy mood for multiple reasons and the rest of the week does not appear to have any relief.