What's going on?!?!?!
So... today I just discovered that starting today, OUT OF NOWHERE, I am no longer able to view any of the following on my LiveJournal:
1) Most of my own userpics. I'm not talking about the being limited to only being able to use 15 of them since it'll never be possible to renew my paid account again - that's been a thing for a while, but starting today only six of those 15 actually are visible to me on entries I've used them on before or when I click on the box to select a userpic to use on an entry. The 15 userpics that weren't marked as inactive when my account reverted to basic are:
The ones I can still see are:
The above are the LJ-hosted copies of the userpics, regardless of whether you're reading the LJ or DW copy of this entry. The DW-hosted userpics show up fine no matter what, as far as I can tell. Again - everything was just fine until just now!
(EDIT: And on top of that, not only is LJ only allowing me to see six of them when embedded in a LJ entry, it only allowed these two to be embedded in the DW version of this entry for some reason:
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(EDIT: Further testing - tried refreshing the LJ entry page in Chrome and opening it on Edge and in both cases the LJ version of this entry is now doing what I just said the DW version was doing i.e. only two userpics showed up and not six. But then I looked at the entry on my phone and that time nine of the userpics showed up - including six that hadn't shown up before since I first noticed this issue. Weird. Still haven't gotten a video to show up at all in the LJ version of any entry on any device in any browser since this issue started though. I remember experiencing something similar before years ago, but it never said anything about my IP address being blocked.)
2) Any image that I've uploaded to my ScrapBook on LJ. I can't think of a good example of one to demonstrate with, though, because I'm not sure what the last entry I posted with an image from my ScrapBook was. Of course I have plenty of recent entries that have images, but those are avatars hosted on character.ai so those aren't affected by whatever's going on with LJ. My DW-hosted images aren't affected by this, either.
3) Any video in any of my entries. For instance, all the videos in this entry, even though they worked perfectly fine when I posted that entry and only stopped working now. And again, they work just fine in my DW entries.
The error I'm getting is that "Either you are trying to access a page you do no not have permission to view or your ip address is banned. If you feel this is in error, please email support at webmaster@livejournal.com with the bulleted information below." (And somehow the IP address ban isn't preventing me from using LJ entirely; it's just preventing me from seeing any of the videos in my entries or any of my ScrapBook images or the majority of my userpics.) For videos, this shows up in every place where an embedded video should be; for images, I just see a broken image unless I copy the image's URL into the address bar directly, in which case I get the IP address banned error.
WHY is my IP address banned? The only thing I've done differently from usual is I just got back from a trip to visit my sister, where LJ worked just fine at her place, but now today I'm back at my apartment and I'm suddenly getting all these errors. Is there ANYTHING I can do to fix it?! I tried logging out and back in. I've tried disconnecting and reconnecting from the Internet. I tried viewing it on my phone. No luck.
WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?! Is it just a temporary issue, or are all of my images and videos now permanently ruined?!?! I NEED TO KNOW!!!!!
1) Most of my own userpics. I'm not talking about the being limited to only being able to use 15 of them since it'll never be possible to renew my paid account again - that's been a thing for a while, but starting today only six of those 15 actually are visible to me on entries I've used them on before or when I click on the box to select a userpic to use on an entry. The 15 userpics that weren't marked as inactive when my account reverted to basic are:
The ones I can still see are:
The above are the LJ-hosted copies of the userpics, regardless of whether you're reading the LJ or DW copy of this entry. The DW-hosted userpics show up fine no matter what, as far as I can tell. Again - everything was just fine until just now!
(EDIT: And on top of that, not only is LJ only allowing me to see six of them when embedded in a LJ entry, it only allowed these two to be embedded in the DW version of this entry for some reason:
)
(EDIT: Further testing - tried refreshing the LJ entry page in Chrome and opening it on Edge and in both cases the LJ version of this entry is now doing what I just said the DW version was doing i.e. only two userpics showed up and not six. But then I looked at the entry on my phone and that time nine of the userpics showed up - including six that hadn't shown up before since I first noticed this issue. Weird. Still haven't gotten a video to show up at all in the LJ version of any entry on any device in any browser since this issue started though. I remember experiencing something similar before years ago, but it never said anything about my IP address being blocked.)
2) Any image that I've uploaded to my ScrapBook on LJ. I can't think of a good example of one to demonstrate with, though, because I'm not sure what the last entry I posted with an image from my ScrapBook was. Of course I have plenty of recent entries that have images, but those are avatars hosted on character.ai so those aren't affected by whatever's going on with LJ. My DW-hosted images aren't affected by this, either.
3) Any video in any of my entries. For instance, all the videos in this entry, even though they worked perfectly fine when I posted that entry and only stopped working now. And again, they work just fine in my DW entries.
The error I'm getting is that "Either you are trying to access a page you do no not have permission to view or your ip address is banned. If you feel this is in error, please email support at webmaster@livejournal.com with the bulleted information below." (And somehow the IP address ban isn't preventing me from using LJ entirely; it's just preventing me from seeing any of the videos in my entries or any of my ScrapBook images or the majority of my userpics.) For videos, this shows up in every place where an embedded video should be; for images, I just see a broken image unless I copy the image's URL into the address bar directly, in which case I get the IP address banned error.
WHY is my IP address banned? The only thing I've done differently from usual is I just got back from a trip to visit my sister, where LJ worked just fine at her place, but now today I'm back at my apartment and I'm suddenly getting all these errors. Is there ANYTHING I can do to fix it?! I tried logging out and back in. I've tried disconnecting and reconnecting from the Internet. I tried viewing it on my phone. No luck.
WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?! Is it just a temporary issue, or are all of my images and videos now permanently ruined?!?! I NEED TO KNOW!!!!!