Two major issues: pingback and full names

[cleolinda]

Well, this is fantastic.

To recap: I cross-posted test comments to both Twitter and Facebook; screencaps and discussion are over here.You do have to opt in to cross-post, because if you don't connect your LJ to either of those services, it won't know where to post. People have been seeing banners at the top of their journals mentioning this--but

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[lea724]

I really appreciate your keeping up with this; it's getting a bit confusing for me and I've been following your updates since the issue began, so I can only imagine random LJ'er John Doe coming in and trying to figure the whole thing out.

A reassurance at this point (for me) is that lately I've been posting so infrequently and about topics only applicable/interesting to me that I'm low enough on the radar of people who'd be taking my posts/comments/etc. to post them elsewhere. (I hope)

Still, I want to reiterate that I'm really glad you're keeping everyone updated about this newest LJ feature.

[jadesfire55]

Seconded. I really appreciate the tests you've conducted!

[bizarreoptimism]

Thirded. There is so much about this I don't understand and this has really helped me to get a grasp on it. Thank you!

[azurelunatic]

So far, most of the locked-entry pingbacks I am hearing about are when someone posts public at first but then locks the entry later.

helens78 has done an asston of testing: http://helens78.dreamwidth.org/860769.html

[rabidrainbow]

What the actual fuck.

I didn't really care about having the Pingback feature enabled (I'm low key enough that I never get linked anywhere and I really only post icons to my journal so there's never really an opportunity to link to someone's specific post) but after reading the results of all that testing I'm going to disable it on principle.

I really don't want to have to move to Dreamwidth, LJ. Stop giving me reasons to do so.

[anatsuno]

Did you see Hels' more recent post? In which we discover that accounts who have Pingbacks DISABLED are actually ALSO triggering pingbacks? (but of course, they don't RECEIVE them, so you don't even realize it's happening... DUNDUNDUN).

Post here: http://helens78.dreamwidth.org/861767.html

I wonder if the code is being fiddled with a LOT and that is why some things have happened once and can't be duplicated. If that is the case, I really wish a few people have the wherewithal to do an extensive round of testing again in a few, say, weeks... ://

[cleolinda]

Oh, FFS. I thought it said you wouldn't send OR receive if you disabled!

I hope they really are fiddling with it. That would be an explanation for why LJ hasn't come out and said anything yet--they're trying to see what they can come up with first.

[sideofzen]

Oh, good.

Thank you for your constant vigilance on this.

[sucrelefey]

I looked and Pingback was not automagically on for me since I disabled and overrode a bunch of stuff years ago. But always double check when changes roll out. Then again I use the old discontinued style sheets which don't support half of the new features.

[aka_paloma]

This is making my brain all hurty.