Dreamwidth and LiveJournal
Mar. 16th, 2021 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've been keeping up my blog on LiveJournal. I moved over to Dreamwidth a few months ago because friends were here and I could crosspost to LiveJournal (to maintain a consistent history of my blog). Now crossposting to LJ is temporarily broken. Each attempt delivers the following error message to my inbox:
While at first glance the error message may look like a problem with my password— because it refers to "Client error" and login failure— it's actually something on the DW server side (the client that tries to login to LJ) that's screwed up and gotten itself on a denyList.
I filed a help request with DW two nights ago, noting the problem had already been happening for two days. I waited two days before opening a case thinking maybe the problem would clear up as getting denyList'ed would be temporary. But it's still happening. And DW staff have not responded to my ticket yet.
...Not that I expect much from DW at this point. My last ticket was "Feature X doesn't work as listed in the FAQ, how do I use it?" and took almost six weeks to be answered... with "It's actually not implemented at all." 🙄 And when I search for other tickets related to crossposting problems I find open tickets describing them same problem from as far back as 4 years ago that were never answered. 😨
I'm having serious second thoughts about sticking with this platform. It's got a feature set similar to LJ circa 2008 and volunteer maintainers who are mostly MIA.
Crosspost to canyonwalker@LiveJournal failed.
Failed to crosspost entry to canyonwalker@LiveJournal: Client error: Your IP address is temporarily banned for exceeding the login failure rate.
While at first glance the error message may look like a problem with my password— because it refers to "Client error" and login failure— it's actually something on the DW server side (the client that tries to login to LJ) that's screwed up and gotten itself on a denyList.
I filed a help request with DW two nights ago, noting the problem had already been happening for two days. I waited two days before opening a case thinking maybe the problem would clear up as getting denyList'ed would be temporary. But it's still happening. And DW staff have not responded to my ticket yet.
...Not that I expect much from DW at this point. My last ticket was "Feature X doesn't work as listed in the FAQ, how do I use it?" and took almost six weeks to be answered... with "It's actually not implemented at all." 🙄 And when I search for other tickets related to crossposting problems I find open tickets describing them same problem from as far back as 4 years ago that were never answered. 😨
I'm having serious second thoughts about sticking with this platform. It's got a feature set similar to LJ circa 2008 and volunteer maintainers who are mostly MIA.
