Caching problem at the host
About a year or two ago there was a caching problem here with the comments. Lately there’s been another cache problem connected with comments. This time the autofill for comments wasn’t working—a fact which some of you have noticed and complained about, because it’s rather annoying, I know.
I just talked to the host, they fiddled with their cache, and now autofill works—only problem is that it’s working in a screwy manner. At least for me, it seems to be filling in other commenters’ information in some random fashion.
That’s exactly what happened last time (a year ago? two years ago?) They fixed it then, and they should be able to fix it now, but it won’t happen immediately.
My apologies. They’ve opened a ticket and sent it to the bigger, supposedly more knowledgeable, team. So we’ll see.
In the meantime, you can try filling in a random fake email address if you feel a bit nervous about it all. I think that should work. Let me know if you’re experiencing the problem or not.
By the way, I’m still planning to make the move to thenewneo.com, but there’s been a delay due to the schedule of the kindly web developer I finally located.
But I soldier on.
ADDENDUM 5:30 PM: All of a sudden, the comment edit function wasn’t working, either. So I deactivated that plug-in. Lo and behold, when I did that, although the basic comment autofill problem wasn’t solved, the “preview” plugin (which hadn’t worked for a long time) started working again.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Please let me know what you’re experiencing on your end.
seemed to work for me that time…
Interesting, when I put in name required the window starts pulling up very old random names from my email list, names many years old and five are dead people I have not removed from my email address book. I think maybe this is kind of haunted or one of those left wing spy things. Other than that everything is A-OK.
Name and addres are blank but a p and an i is all I have to type. NBD, I am retired and its too hot to work in the garden beds.
When I enter “M” from “M J R”, a pull-down list offers me a choice between “M J R” and a totally different name, beginning with an “M”, that I use to comment on my wife’s blog.
When I enter an e-mail address, something similar happens. I get a pull-down list of two choices, each choice being an e-mail address that I use.
It would be nice if “M J R” and my e-mail address were already filled in and waiting for me, but this is no biggie. It’s what some of us will term a first-world problem, for sure.
M J R:
Well, that’s better, I think, than having to fill it in from scratch each time.
Testing and tasting.
This time, at least, I found that the “name” and “email” boxes were properly autofilled with the right info for me, and with no other mysterious visitors.
Mine is pre-filled and correct.
Had to refill mine but the ghosties are gone. No autofill for me. Maybe out in the Texas Hill Country we are too far off the map and we believe in Jesus mostly and have guns, so there’s that.
I’m a touch typist, not an issue either way.
Btw, what’s up with the NEW format?
Hold on, this cache here is awry.
No auto fill… edit is working… and this comment didn’t get zapped into the ether as one did last week! For the best probably:-D
The cache for saved comment information has been blank for a few weeks now for me.
Neo, what hosting service do you use?
What I’m experiencing on my end is nothing but respect.
Neo:
A while back in discussing your switchover problems, I asked if there was a way to include a forwarding/sending gizmo on your site. You asked to be reminded later – so, just to add to your pile of issues, here’s a reminder!
I love your posts (and Comments) and would love to able to forward the best to some friends who would appreciate (even though they’re not smart enough to follow you!)