Interesting fact! (To me, anyway)

[algeh]

There are 7 user accounts that list Dana Lyons as an interest. Of those 7, 3 also list Gordon Lightfoot. There are at least 2 other people in the world that like the same music I do! Hah! I am going to pretend that this means that my tastes are not abnormal in the least and that The Man is simply keeping decent music off of mainstream radio for his own nefarious purposes, rather than reaching the more obvious conclusion that somewhere on the internet, there is at least one other person into pretty much everything. It's much more fun this way.

So anyway, hello new people. You're under no obligation to friend me back or anything (as if I had some way to obligate you to do that anyway), but I figured my friends list could do with a little new blood anyway.

In other LiveJournal news, I am highly annoyed that they have not yet fixed the bug that causes all userpics and shit to be broken in S1 custom styles. You'd think that if a bug affected paid-users only, and specifically a feature that is the reason many people buy paid accounts, they'd revert whatever change it was that broke it until they had time to fix the bug. I wish that consumer-level services like this would have better levels of service. I spend way more than most other people I know for web hosting just to get a decent uptime guarantee, phone based support, and all those goodies, but there really isn't a suitable alternative for LiveJournal since it's the community that keeps me here. Bah.

Comments

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

I am highly annoyed that they have not yet fixed the bug that causes all userpics and shit to be broken in S1 custom styles.

For some reason, they aren't broken in my custom S1 style. I can see they are broken in yours, though.

I have no idea why, except that your usericon's URL is given as <http://http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/2525188/106288>.

Have you tried removing the http:// from your style.

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

it's nothing to do with her style...and they should be fixing it shortly.

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

Do have any idea what is causing it? I am curious why it affects her and not me.

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

How is your LASTN_USERPIC variable (in your lastn style) set? Mine is set to:

<img src="%%src%%" width="%%width%%" height="%%height%%" alt="userpic" />

My guess is that yours has src="http://%%src%%", and at some point they stopped serving relative URLs and started serving absolute URLs.

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

It's becoming increasing clear to me that I am full of crap.

I am going to shut up now.

[algeh]

My LASTN_USERPIC is set to:

<IMG ALIGN=MIDDLE HSPACE=2 VSPACE=2 SRC="%%src%%" WIDTH=%%width%% HEIGHT=%%height%% BORDER="0">

My FRIENDS_FRIENDPIC is:

<BR><IMG SRC="%%src%%" WIDTH=%%width%% HEIGHT=%%height%% BORDER=0 VSPACE=2>

and my FRIENDS_EVENT_PROTECTED is:

<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0">
<TR><TD VALIGN=TOP ALIGN="MIDDLE" BGCOLOR="%%bgcolor%%" WIDTH=100>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" SIZE="2" COLOR=%%fgcolor%%>
<A HREF="%%cons:siteroot%%/users/%%user%%/"><FONT COLOR=%%fgcolor%%><B>%%user%%</B></FONT></A><BR><A HREF="%%cons:siteroot%%/users/%%user%%/">%%altposter%%%%friendpic%%</A>
</FONT>
</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" SIZE="2">
<B>%%datetime%%</B>%%subject%%  <IMG ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE SRC="%%cons:img%%/icon_protected.gif" WIDTH=14 HEIGHT=15 VSPACE=2 HSPACE=2 ALT="Protected">
</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" SIZE="2">
%%event%%
<BR>
%%currents%%
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
<p align="right">%%talklinks%% </p>

so I see nothing in there to cause it offhand. (Note: I know the code is ugly, it came that way from the system style and I've never bothered to fix it all up.)

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

I'm insanely curious.

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

Mark sais it should be fixed really soon. The fix is already part of the code, we just need to wait until the web servers are restarted

[algeh]

Cool. It's not that big of a deal, I just tend to keep track of people partially by their usericons so it was getting a little old once I realized it was a bug and not due to server load like I assumed yesterday.