Igenlode Wordsmith

Six months since Prince Philip died. It's odd how often very-much-married couples do die within a short space of one another (I think we were all expecting the Queen to go on to over a hundred, as her mother did) -- but when people reach extreme old age, I don't think one can really draw any specific conclusions from that.

I decided to mark the Queen's passing (and apologies to anyone else who is shocked to learn of it here, as I did, via a casual aside on someone else's Internet blog) by finally completing the upload of my old MySpace blog entries, a task which had been hanging over me for years -- and which had, in fact, originally been undertaken as an import into my old LiveJournal blog, created in August 2010. I'm not quite sure why this labour struck me as an appropriate act (intimations of mortality, reinforcing the warning of erimia's recent blog disaster?), but somehow it did.
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Well, I managed to create a Dreamwidth account, and even to import my LiveJournal posts to it.

But I seem to have more or less the same problem with this codebase that I had with LiveJournal; every time I navigate away from the account-configuring pages (i.e. every time I view any journal, even my own) the browser registers me as logged out. I can still comment on other users' pages by logging in locally on the comments page, but the log-in doesn't 'stick'. So I'm constantly a guest, can't view any private material, etc.

Grr.

[Edit]Oh, and I can't edit entries once I've posted them... except I can at least do so by logging in yet again to display my account settings and using Edit Entries from the sidebar...

Since the LiveJournal update of 13th March, I have found it quite impossible to stay logged-in -- every time I navigate to a new page the site logs me out again. This means that any friends-only journal entries (including my own!) are effectively invisible to me, as are locked entries in communities.

I can just about post comments and public journal entries by dint of repeatedly using the local log-in options on those pages -- everything else is disabled, and doing even this much is a colossal pain. So unless LJ somehow fix the issue, it looks as if I'm going to end up migrating to another site like everyone else...

My only consolation is that apparently I'm not the only one affected, so there is at least a chance that they will address whatever the bug is that they've introduced this time... (They have also effectively removed all the navigation links on the site by rolling them into a supposedly drop-down menu which doesn't; but I can work around that with a sigh and a groan for non-accessible website design. That 'feature' was at least intentional -- its apparent side-effects cannot possibly have been intended and are of a fairly terminal nature.)

Livejournal accidentally rendered all comments invisible without the use of JavaScript last week: I complained, but without much hope. Much to my surprise I find that a 'nojs' option is appearing this week. All kudos to Livejournal!