Yes, I do frequently hijack a prompt to twist and spindle it towards my goal of the moment. But this morning I was browsing some posts by other bloggers and found that one, Piper’s Adventures ( Debbie Pierce), had written a particularly lovely piece dedicated to a friend who had just passed. I really wanted to let her know how lovely it was, so I wrote a comment and hit send. And then I descended into the WordPress Purgatorio. A prompt ( most of you have seen it) told me that I was not logged in and prompted me to fill in my data. Being too lazy just to back out and go into the reader, I went ahead and typed in my password.
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here…
I was told it was wrong, and I found out that the Greater Gods of WordPress deemed me wanting and forcefully demanded that I log in. But now my credentials don’t work. Click, click, click, one after another I tried. I dug through the little pile of password notes I keep for emergencies. After each attempt, I was told that the password was not correct.
My wife peeked to see where the steam was coming from. Well, after I finish this, I’ll have to go on bended knees to apologize for my hollers. The situation was now getting delusional. I reviewed the material provided by our Lords of the Blogoverse. Some actually instructed me to log in to recover my login. Others asked for arcane proof of ownership I had never heard of.
At last, I logged in through my Apple ID, and here I am. When I calm down, I’ll write a logically phrased, polite (but sarcastic) document pointing out that their instructions were circular and confusing. Yes, the instructions were there off to one side about logging in from other sources, but no, first I figured that the WordPress instructions might be most direct…Until I found out that they were circular, and demanded that I log in before they would send me a login link.
Repent!
So next time you try to post on a colleague’s post, and WordPress snotilly informs you that you are not logged in, DON’T DO IT, just calmly count to ten and leave without comment, and go about your day.
So how does this apply to the meaning of life? Well, we’re bloggers, right? We comment on the weather, sports, Life, mortality, innuendo, cooking, pets, and our neighbor’s dog peeing and pooping on our lawn. We discuss that young whipper-snapper on the street who comes home drunk every night, the sainted woman who helps everyone in the subdivision, and the cooking odors emanating from the downstairs neighbor. To one extent or another, this all bears on the meaning of life.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!
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When I’ve had enough coffee in my system to remember, I now make sure I copy the text in my comment box before I hit the “comment” box, before WP throws me into the purgatory you described. (Although you seem to have hit a particularly virulent version of it, in that description.) Routinely copying my comment text indicates how many effing times this has happened to me, including when Gawdeffingdemmital I *AM* already logged in. Logged in so hard I just made a post of my own that published 24 seconds ago! Etc. (The yelling, it does get loud in New England…)
Heavens forbid I not add a 45-page comment to a post. It must be saved!
the 45 page answer to a post???? Well our friends at WP have started giving out awards again. Someone responded to a post of mine with a comment longer than the original post and got a WP award.
They sent me a message about all the ones I had been granted.Whoppee?
Well, not *quite* 45 pages, that was a tad hyperbolic. 😀 I noticed the idiotic WP awards (whhhhhhy?). I’ve gotten some head scratchers.
The note said we could make them public in our profile…some of them would be outright embarrassing to show in public.
WP no longer allows me to comment on your post through the reader. I have to come to your actual blog, log in — but only through Facebook, WP doesn’t recognize me even after 14 years. WP is doing a lot of weird stuff right now — last night after I edited today’s post I got an award, “Perfectionist.” with the note that I had edited my blog post a LOT. Somehow it felt snarky. I got another award last week when I made a long comment on your Kerouac post saying I’d written a comment longer than your post. It felt snarky, too. I don’t want to “hear” WP’s “opinions” about what I do, and yeah, I’m a writer. I’m going to revise (take that you stupid electronic AI driven MOFOS, not you Lou)
And the podcast option? That’s just sinister. I think if any of us want to make a podcast, we know how. I don’t know what its schtick is, but it could lose participants this way.
Some of the stuff, like the podcast thing, sounds like they are trying to stay ahead of the competition, but who is the competition? And that idiot stuff about logging in is totally because their code has gotten so cluttered it’s beginning to crap out. It’s a sign to me that they are trying to cram too much into a schema that really worked best when it was simple.
Awards? I want one for Snarkiest Site. That one I’d put on the profile.
Wiser words never written, Lou
You’re the second of the people I follow who in the last few days reported login funnies.
I somehow thought that we were in permanently logged in? What’s the likelihood of someone else logging into my account? And what are they gonna do: post things on my account? 🤣🤣🤣
I thought they made you log in from time to time for security. Drives me nuts because I can’t ever remember the password
I logged in via Apple. They are getting really messed up these days.