*sigh*

[louisedennis]

Well it seems LJ has changed all its login options which means among other things that

• I can't cross-post from DreamWidth, nor set up my account there so it can crosspost
  
• I can't export my journal with my preferred backup tool
  
• I can't use ljlogin on Firefox to switch between accounts
  

Notifications of comments on my blog posts on louisedennis have also stopped

Comments

[bunn]

Just noticed someone else on my flist crossposting from Dreamwidth - might be worth checking if they have fixed that already?

Although it's not the thing that has got people howling most, breaking ljlogin (etc) strikes me as a particularly bad oversight from the commercial viewpoint as it seems liable to annoy active users who are contributing lots of valuable public content that draws in traffic and keeps the userbase growing, thus going direct to the bottom line.

I know Wordpress updates all the time without any regard to plugin authors, but then Wordpress has thousands and thousands of plugins and is just a different sort of beast.

[bunn]

Re comment notification, apologies if this is stupidly obvious, but are both accounts sending to the same email address? It seems so odd that one would be dropping messages in that way and not the other one: I get people reporting this sort of thing a lot, and usually I find that although whatever script it is is triggering an email send, it's amazingly common for mailservers to just eat or bounce emails that admit they are from a script rather than from a local email client.

[louisedennis]

Notifications are back. It is very odd. Both accounts go to the same address, last time I was getting notifications when someone replied to a comment I left on someone else's post but getting no notifications for anything that happened on my own posts. Yesterday I was getting no notifications on anything.

Meanwhile my other account was fine.

I suppose there's an outside chance there's a dotty spam filter somewhere between LJ and my inbox, but I have a feeling the notifications weren't showing up in my LJ inbox either last time around. I'll confess I haven't checked this time.

[louisedennis]

It must be said I was comparing a bit to Firefox which does advertise in advance what is going to be changing - but then the plugins are one of Firefox's selling points and it has a lot more resources than LJ. Even so I think most of my irritation is that no warning was given to the various third party developers