Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

He really is that stupid.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

“They all knew.”

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Giving up is unforgivable.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Consistently wrong since 2002

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Folks,
The updates are all done, and there’s still some customizations to apply and some font/design tweaks. Mostly stuff you won’t notice.

So, this post is here for you to report issues. I’ll make another post tomorrow morning to get the day crew’s answers as well.

I have addressed many of the issues reported in the previous posts, but many are not yet addressed. Some will remain unaddressed at this time.

Most importantly, due to the great help of the Hosting Matters team, we’ve now fixed the update mechanism to take care of some pesky file permission issues and built a failsafe so future updates will result in at most a 5 minute permission limbo.

Tonight/tomorrow, I hope to go back in and retro-add Adam’s National Security posts to the new Silverman on Security Quicklink category, and I hope to convert many past recipes into the new widget.

I may or may not respond tonight to comments in this post, but they will most assuredly be read and considered tomorrow!

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  3. 3.

    Schlemazel

    THIS BETTER NOT GO WELL! What the hell are all the whiners gonna bitch about & insult you for? You need to screw stuff up or the community will never be happy!

  5. 5.

    Alain the site fixer

    @Roger Moore: I’ll look at that in the morning, when I’m fresh. Not sure why what I did didn’t re-apply the override but I’ll get ‘er done.

  8. 8.

    Alain the site fixer

    Yeah. But this time it failed so now it won’t. Kinda like NASA, gotta plan for failure.

  10. 10.

    henqiguai

    Really diggin’ that scroll to the bottom button. Now, about that not-quite-as-useful[sic] SCROLL TO THE TOP button…

  17. 17.

    germy

    Anyone else seeing these stupid “roadkill” shirt ads that say “Deplorables For Trump”
    and
    “Hillary For Prison” ?

  18. 18.

    singfoom

    @germy: I live in the Chicagoland suburbs, and I’ve seen multiple “Hillary for Prison 2016” signs in various suburbs. Even one giant homemade sign that was wooden and permanent. Shit makes me so mad. I want to vandalize it. I hate that this shit has been normalized to this point.

    I won’t vandalize them because that would be a crime. You want to support a candidate fine, but calling for the imprisionment of your opponent is kind of beyond the pale if you ask me.

  19. 19.

    FlyingToaster

    Mac El Capitan Firefox 48.0.2
    I’m missing:
    Format buttons (I have Basic HTML Tips, inactive)
    Edit button on my comment.

  20. 20.

    henqiguai

    @henqiguai(#10):

    Really diggin’ that scroll to the bottom button. Now, about that not-quite-as-useful[sic] SCROLL TO THE TOP button…

    Ah ha! A complete reboot and there it is, fading in-and-out, but there. Never mind.

  25. 25.

    John Revolta

    OMG WTF and various other acronyms…………………the site is working way way better…………………shit loads like 4 or 5 times faster for me even with my Jurassic version of Firefox. Somebody pinch me!

  27. 27.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    Ok I’ve been afraid to edit because editing would throw me into moderation. But I’ll sacrifice this post to the evil deity FYWP in the interests of experimental science.

    Edit: and here’s the edit.

    Edit 2: Nope. Moderation.

  29. 29.

    FlyingToaster

    Mac El Capitan Safari 9.1.3
    Basic HTML Tips, inactive.

    everything else seems to be working that’s working.

    I’ll try a reboot when I return from settling WarriorGirl.

  31. 31.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    Alas, we still have the bug that editing a post that was perfectly fine causes it to go into moderation.

  32. 32.

    humboldtblue

    @Roger Moore:

    Sorry, man, I take it back.

    Goddammit, Cole!

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If it’s worth anything because this coding shit is just another in the nearly universal subjects I am wholly ignorant of, I am using Windows 10

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Alain, I’m still getting strange formatting changes every time I refresh a page. Sometimes the formatting changes kill scrolling the page up and down. Strange boxes show up. Firefox with Win 10.

    Haven’t had a page not found problem though since your update. Fingers crossed!

  36. 36.

    Keith P.

    This is just me, but I would not have used a button style on the recipe headings…makes “Share” look like something I can click, which is a bit confusing on a smartphone given that they sometimes don’t register button clicks anyway.

  37. 37.

    MattF

    Just testing this.

    ETA: So far, so good.

    ETAETA: How about a choice of ‘comic sans’ font? Is there a ‘Pay attention to me!’ font? (Trump Sans, I guess.)

  39. 39.

    FlyingToaster

    Okay, post-reboot. No change.

    So:
    Mac El Capitan
    Firefox 48.0.2
    Empty Gray bar, non-responsive, above / semi-attached to comment box with resizable lower right-hand corner.

    test.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @M. Bouffant:
    @henqiguai:

    Does every Balloon Juice reader have a different set of problems? I’ve had the scroll up/scroll down buttons since, what? last December or January or whenever Alain first showed up to fix things. I use them constantly, they’re great, but it sounds as though they’re brand new for M. Bouffant and henqiguai.

  44. 44.

    FlyingToaster

    @FlyingToaster: And edit not available.

    Cookies are ON, Noscript is only blocking Facebook, BlockSite is blocking Facebook and Ora.TV (because it crashes my browser); I suspect I’ll have to load each of the stylesheets manually in order to do a force-reload of the styles. And even then Firefox is flaky about styles.

    I’ll probably go back to commenting from Chrome for the time being. Firefox is for work, after all :)

  46. 46.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Hmmm. I still can’t edit. This is just as of today; I’ve rarely had problems previously — or at least I sometimes try to edit and get a big notice telling me I’m not allowed to edit — but this is twice in the last hour or so where I’ve gone back into one of my posts to edit and when I hit “save” the original post appears but without my additions or changes, and with no warning or notice. Really hope this is a temporary hiccup.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Does every Balloon Juice reader have a different set of problems?

    Probably not everyone different, but people are using at least 3-4 different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, maybe even IE) on multiple different platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, GNU/Linux), with different versions of both browser and platform. Plus people are using different plug-ins that can change the behavior of the site beyond those differences. It doesn’t add up to everyone having different problems, but it does probably mean that no two people are seeing the site with exactly the same setup. That heterogeneity is part of the reason people like Alain have jobs.

    ETA: And I can ETA!

  57. 57.

    Miss Bianca

    Hmmm…now all of a sudden I’m seeing masses of either HTML or JavaScript up top and on the sides. But that could be because I’m using Knoppix and Iceweasel instead of my usual Safari. Onward!

  58. 58.

    Ruckus

    Alan
    Now after the fix, the back button doesn’t take you back to where you were inside a post. So if I click on someone’s name and then the back button I leave the post and return to the main page. Being able to stay in a post makes i very handy to follow different bits of a thread. This was the way it had been just before the fix, which was fixed the last fix.
    Can that be fixed?

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    Haven’t read this thread yet, but the back-button functionality is broken for me (desktop site, Firefox, Win10).

  61. 61.

    henqiguai

    @SiubhanDuinne(#43):

    I use them constantly, they’re great, but it sounds as though they’re brand new for M. Bouffant and henqiguai.

    Nope, the scroll buttons are not new to me; just that until I restarted things the scroll-to-the-top button was not present. Restart/reboot brought it back.

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