That sounds to me like the issue is either something attached to your accounts, or to do with your PCs themselves.
I'm just guessing here, you understand? Have you got the latest versions of JavaScript and adobe flash player installed?
And no flashblockers or javascript blockers?
If the issue has something to do with that, then obviously we can't ask everyone to update all that and not have blockers… Some compromise will have to be reached. I don't know if that's the problem though.
It may be some setting on your accounts that causes them not to work too, I dunno.
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new DD comic update system........
Well I've gone onto Google Chrome.
It has solved some of my problems.
I no longer get logged off and my page now shows up on the favorites bar with a star next to it.
But it still won't upload onto the 'Just in' column.
I'll satisfy myself with this for now, but please try to solve the problem as I would rather not have to go this roundabout method to post my pages.
:)
The new updater system seems an absolute mess.
When I try to update my comic it only shows the first few lines of authors notes so I have to add them in against afterwards, which is just pointless and annoying.
Also, it is very unclear about when I have actually posted my page successfully. It used to give me a helpful message telling me when it was done. Now I get nothing which has caused me to double post because I am not sure if its worked.
The only person who has benefited from this change is the guy who writes Pewfell!
I'm having some problems with updating too, but I'm trying really hard to keep my cool :/ It's a little comforting to know others are having difficulties too, haha.
These are the main problems I've been experiencing. (I'm using the latest version of IE and my java is updated):
-When I update, I'm immediately logged out
-When I log back in, I notice that my page has uploaded, but some of my author comments are deleted. However, earlier this past week, there was one instance where *all* my comments were deleted @_@
-While my comic displays the big red "TODAY" for my updates, it's always after some delay
-Although I get the "TODAY", I've yet to see my comic under the "Just in" portion of the main page.
-(Maybe this is superficial, but) sometimes when I log in, I see other people's comics. Which has been going on since way before this bug, but I feel that maybe the programmers should look into that, too
I dunno, this just kind of sucks for me because I just came back from a break and I'm trying to get my readership back up XD. But I'm confident the problem will be solved soon (please…?).
I dont know if this helps but I found that this site is infested with spyware.
I just noticed this as well. Left my browser on DD for awhile, came back and now a Trojan is on my computer. Never got a virus from DD before now. Hate to say that I'm getting ready to loss it; it's a pretty nasty virus. =_=
As far as I know, DD can not infect your computer with a virus. You'd have to click some OK box and let install first, unless you don't have your OS up to date and the latest versions of your browsers and flash etc.
-You really should always keep up with updates-
I'm going to e-mail the programmer and the ad guy anyway, but it would really, REALLY HELP if you could tell me what kind of virus, what error message came up, what ads were n DD at the time, anything you can remember, because without that detail, there's almost nothing we can do.
We're basically pissing in the wind. … (us DD staff)
I thank you for the reports, but without the detail what happens is I report that stuff and they just can't do too much about it. Without the detail, they've no idea where to start.
Every computer setup is unique and not all of us are even able to have the same problems or see the same issues as everyone else.
-For myself I almost never see any ads on this site, let alone viruses, and the upload system works fine for me. All our systems handle things differently.
So please help us out a little more when reporting issues
Thanks for your time and patience. :)
I've assessed the problem as much as I can, and here's what I'm getting.
Everything on my computer is updated, so that isn't the issue. And I didn't click a thing to load any virus (my dad works in IT, I know better than that, lol). I simply had my computer on my stats page and left my computer for a time. And, according to my Norton antivirus history, around the time I was gone I got a series of virus FROM my DD stats page (I would show you a screen cap of my Norton history, and all the viruses that came from DD, but I can't do that at the moment because the viruses hav disabled almost everything on my computer, including the Internet. I'm painstakingly typing this on my iPod touch =_=).
So all in all, yes, DD has viruses. Later if you'd like I can post the names of the suspect files. But here are the symptoms:
-that nasty AV "antivirus progam" shows up, and shuts down Norton's files and Window's files
-Viagra and porn sites repeatedly pop up, but I cannot access the Internet
-add/remove program is disabled
let me repeat, I did not click anything suspect and these viruses are 100 percent from DD, so I think it's something DD needs to really look into because even though not everyone is getting viruses like me, I think that's what's crushing the system. :/
Hrm. Last week or so, I was getting some bizarre pop-ups from Drunkduck all of the sudden which were very small, and said something to the effect of 'Please don't close… survey'. I shut it down anyway.
Haven't seen it this week, though.
forgot to mention that I've seen that one too, when adding a page
I usually pre-upload, and that has continued to go smoothly, no difference at all.
However, today, I tried to upload a page mid-day to update immediately. The page shows up but the update doesn't register in "my favorites" nor doe it show up under the recently updated on the front page. I deleted it and set it to update tomorrow instead. We'll see if that works.
I use Firefox 3.6.4 and Windows XP.
let me repeat, I did not click anything suspect and these viruses are 100 percent from DD, so I think it's something DD needs to really look into because even though not everyone is getting viruses like me, I think that's what's crushing the system. :/That is extremely weird.
I reported the issue to the programmer last night.
There may be a virus on the sever. Virus activity could explain the bloat on our image server that causes us to run out of memory every few days at the moment, I've come across a similar issue before with my own work website. -but even there it was simple to avoid viruses actually getting on your own machine.
Anyway, I've reported the possibility of that to the programmer as well. Still waiting to hear back.
Any idea when these problems might be fixed, ozone? I just bought a new computer so I don't really want to risk any viruses…I'll probably have to leave for a while until someone sorts that out. :(
Edit: Isn't it a bit ridiculous that wowio has caused all these problems and yet we haven't heard a word from them? They've just sent poor ozoneocean out to deal with the angry mob. Way to be hands-on, wowio!
Any idea when these problems might be fixed, ozone? I just bought a new computer so I don't really want to risk any viruses…I'll probably have to leave for a while until someone sorts that out. :(I doubt you'd get any viruses.
I can't explain the problem Nicotine is having, but I haven't experienced even a twinge in that respect. -I check the site frequently on three different PCs here. two XP machines running AVG and one Vista machine running Norton. No viruses detected, and no problems with the comps, unexplained or otherwise.
I have no info from our programmer on progress. Last time I talked to him was last night when we had a return of the image bug. No info on anything outside of the bug.
I'm going to e-mail the programmer and the ad guy anyway, but it would really, REALLY HELP if you could tell me what kind of virus, what error message came up, what ads were n DD at the time, anything you can remember, because without that detail, there's almost nothing we can do.
We're basically pissing in the wind. … (us DD staff)
My anti-spyware program didn't like ads.addynamix.com and blocked it, if that helps.
I think trouble struck when the virus disabled my Norton, but, becaus Norton is very fast with their updates, Im sure they've already come up with a patch for the particular virus I got, so I don't know if anyone would get it; I think I was just unlucky, plus I was idle on the site for awhile. I'm already in the process of redoing my computer, so I can no longer give you a list of the bad programs loaded on my PC.
I dunno, I appreciate your help ozone, must be a headache for you ^^;. Honestly, I'd like to see everything fixed becaus I love this site and I really, really don't wanna move. But I am paranoid after yesterday. I think most issues are coming from the suspect ads.
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