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Post by Kawaii as Fuck on Aug 24, 2017 19:43:10 GMT -5
I've decided I'm going to try to get used to Kinja.
I fucking hate it though and nothing will ever quite be the same again, but at the same time I just don't know if I could give up on The AV Club for good.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 24, 2017 19:46:44 GMT -5
For all the shit we give Ernie, I have to give him credit: he fixed my ungreying issues and then some: I'm now ungreyed on Deadspin and Lifehacker, which I don't think I've ever been ungreyed on before, in addition to Gizmodo and (soon to be; I had to make a post and send it to him) Jalopnik. I mean yay for you personally... ...yet for someone who's supposed to be a dev how sad is it that his only positive comment is re: a clerical task  Look, I'm not going to exactly be setting the bar for Kinja in "puppies and rainbows" territory. |
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Post by Incense on Aug 24, 2017 21:21:25 GMT -5
I was only describing the Taco Bell Bell to a friend yesterday and she cracked up right in front of me. It's probably one of my favorite-ever gimmicks aside from Cookie Monster. Horsefellow is (was, I suppose) the one whose gimmick I couldn't describe without cracking up. My other favorite gimmick account is already up and running and ungrayed over there. Oh, Reposted Avenged Sevenfold Fan, thank you for all the laughs too. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Aug 24, 2017 22:38:49 GMT -5
I got a reply from Ernie regarding a problem setting up a kinja account. I was in the process of replying to it with some more information, and while typing (I can't type) I hit a key (probably the wrong key) and the whole damn thing disappeared. My reply, and the original email I was replying to. I've never had anything like that ever happen before. It isn't in the junk mail or deleted folder, it isn't in the recycle bin, it didn't get moved to another email address, it's just gone.
I think I may be cursed.
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Post by Victoria Waterfield on Aug 24, 2017 23:02:48 GMT -5
I got a reply from Ernie regarding a problem setting up a kinja account. I was in the process of replying to it with some more information, and while typing (I can't type) I hit a key (probably the wrong key) and the whole damn thing disappeared. My reply, and the original email I was replying to. I've never had anything like that ever happen before. It isn't in the junk mail or deleted folder, it isn't in the recycle bin, it didn't get moved to another email address, it's just gone. I think I may be cursed. That's bad. |
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Post by Tea Rex on Aug 24, 2017 23:05:48 GMT -5
I got a reply from Ernie regarding a problem setting up a kinja account. I was in the process of replying to it with some more information, and while typing (I can't type) I hit a key (probably the wrong key) and the whole damn thing disappeared. My reply, and the original email I was replying to. I've never had anything like that ever happen before. It isn't in the junk mail or deleted folder, it isn't in the recycle bin, it didn't get moved to another email address, it's just gone. I think I may be cursed. That's bad. But he got a free frogurt! |
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Post by Nudeviking on Aug 24, 2017 23:10:29 GMT -5
I attempted to sign up for it today. I wanted to use twitter or something to verify my account but clicking twitter did nothing. I begrudgingly used Facebook, same lot of nothingness. I go with a work related Google thing I have, nada. I go with a "burner" it fails twice and each time I attempted to re-register the user name I'd attempted to register was "already taken" because apparently my registration had gone thought. Finally on take 3 I got it to work. All my posts are grey. Also I have to remember some bullshit string of characters to log into kinja now that there does not seem to be any way to replace with a passcode that I can easily remember. Fuck Kinja. I'm legit done with AVC.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 24, 2017 23:21:18 GMT -5
Click Profile and then the Groups tab. Forever I've been wondering how many comments I had to make to go from TI Forumite to something else like "Prolific Poster". I thought it was a set number that was kept secret and then one day I'd be approached by two gentlemen in suits and asked to put on a blindfold and yada yada yada, I'd move to the next degree. Little did I know it was just a matter of clicking and requesting. I am now officially an AV Clubber. Uh, I think. I don't feel like I have enough comments to yet request entry to one of the others. Unrelated inquiry: Why am I so skilled at wasting the fuck out of a day, and why is that not the type of thing people are willing to pay me big bucks to do? .... me too. That's embarrassing. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 24, 2017 23:21:55 GMT -5
I got a reply from Ernie regarding a problem setting up a kinja account. I was in the process of replying to it with some more information, and while typing (I can't type) I hit a key (probably the wrong key) and the whole damn thing disappeared. My reply, and the original email I was replying to. I've never had anything like that ever happen before. It isn't in the junk mail or deleted folder, it isn't in the recycle bin, it didn't get moved to another email address, it's just gone. I think I may be cursed. Is it archived? Check your All Mail folder? |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Aug 25, 2017 1:17:29 GMT -5
I got a reply from Ernie regarding a problem setting up a kinja account. I was in the process of replying to it with some more information, and while typing (I can't type) I hit a key (probably the wrong key) and the whole damn thing disappeared. My reply, and the original email I was replying to. I've never had anything like that ever happen before. It isn't in the junk mail or deleted folder, it isn't in the recycle bin, it didn't get moved to another email address, it's just gone. I think I may be cursed. Is it archived? Check your All Mail folder? I have not found it in any folder so far. I've checked: all mail, archived, bulk, junk, deleted. Between my business, my other business which I sold 12 years ago but I still have email accounts for, the farm, my nighttime job as a masked crime fighter, my multiple personalities, and some web mail/throwaway accounts, I have a lot of email accounts, and a lot of folders.. I'll keep looking. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Aug 25, 2017 1:43:28 GMT -5
So I'm still a goober that requires approval, but I figured out that I could see messages pending approval by clicking some button. Apparently the Senior Writer for Gizmodo now posts at the AVC and is in the same boat that I am...because Kinja's a great commenting system that even people who are already in the system are fucked over.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Aug 25, 2017 2:38:58 GMT -5
So I'm still a goober that requires approval, but I figured out that I could see messages pending approval by clicking some button. Apparently the Senior Writer for Gizmodo now posts at the AVC and is in the same boat that I am...because Kinja's a great commenting system that even people who are already in the system are fucked over. THE IRONY THE DELICIOUS, DELICIOUS IRONY  |
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TI Pariah 
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Post by Tellyfier on Aug 25, 2017 3:06:52 GMT -5
So it's 24 hours after I merged. There has been some development. I can now log in to kinja again and it actually displays my disqus username and profile pic.
I thought I could finally make a comment now. Nope, as soon as I hit "Publish" it throws me back to "connect with kinja" and when I try that it throws me back to "make a kinja account". It also opens this thing every time I open the AvClub main and article pages.
I did it 100% as directed and it's 100% not working. Thanks kinja.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Aug 25, 2017 6:17:31 GMT -5
I finally gave Kinja a try last night. First I tried merging my Disqus account, but I followed the wrong instructions, so I had to do it again. Which means I have two William Goat accounts, both burners, one linked with my Disqus account and one not.
It took a while to figure out that I had to log in with my username, NOT my screen name. In trying to figure that out, I created two more accounts: one for my gimmick account (which was never Disqus) and a new account linked to my Gmail under a new name. Who knows when I'll use them.
Right now the most annoying thing is probably just a problem with my phone: the comments appear chopped up and hard to read, like I'm looking through one of those lenticular thingies.
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Dellarigg
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This is a public service announcement - with guitars
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 25, 2017 7:44:40 GMT -5
Today's Q&A has either 65 or 85 comments, depending on which page you look. Not a great sign.
There are many things that put me off the new design, all of them addressed here and elsewhere. But I think the endless scrolling that you have to do now is the worst - the endless scrolling to fail to find what you want, such as a review of the new War On Drugs album, at that.
ETA: all right, the review's up now. Still sick of scrolling, though.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 25, 2017 8:47:03 GMT -5
Some of these gripes are legitimate, and I sympathize; some of them are just adjusting to a new system that isn't quite running smoothly yet.
Kinja did the whole grey thing a couple years ago when women were getting seriously harassed with nasty replies full of violent imagery; the idea was to be able to flag or dismiss those comments before they were verified and fully visible. so I know the greys are a little annoying; individual comments will be ungreyed when someone stars or replies to them and you can be permanently ungreyed by having an AVClub staffer follow you (Sean O'Neal followed a ton of people yesterday) or when we're able to link our accounts for good.
So... try to have a little patience. The burner login thing is seriously annoying, I know. It's idiotic that you can't use an email and change your password. But it is what it is.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Aug 25, 2017 9:16:57 GMT -5
Some of these gripes are legitimate, and I sympathize; some of them are just adjusting to a new system that isn't quite running smoothly yet. Kinja did the whole grey thing a couple years ago when women were getting seriously harassed with nasty replies full of violent imagery; the idea was to be able to flag or dismiss those comments before they were verified and fully visible. so I know the greys are a little annoying; individual comments will be ungreyed when someone stars or replies to them and you can be permanently ungreyed by having an AVClub staffer follow you (Sean O'Neal followed a ton of people yesterday) or when we're able to link our accounts for good. So... try to have a little patience. The burner login thing is seriously annoying, I know. It's idiotic that you can't use an email and change your password. But it is what it is. Yeah, out of all the changes the greys bother me the least--but then again I didn't have any issues linking up my new Kinja account with my Disqus account. Practically everything else to do with Kinja, however... |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Aug 25, 2017 10:04:45 GMT -5
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Baron von Costume
TI Forumite
Like an iron maiden made of pillows... the punishment is decadence!
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Post by Baron von Costume on Aug 25, 2017 10:11:58 GMT -5
Welp, my burner account stopped working already
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Post by Mars Defense Perimeter on Aug 25, 2017 10:13:13 GMT -5
Welp, my burner account stopped working already ERRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNIIIEEEEEEE |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Aug 25, 2017 10:21:56 GMT -5
I attempted to sign up for it today. I wanted to use twitter or something to verify my account but clicking twitter did nothing. I begrudgingly used Facebook, same lot of nothingness. I go with a work related Google thing I have, nada. I go with a "burner" it fails twice and each time I attempted to re-register the user name I'd attempted to register was "already taken" because apparently my registration had gone thought. Finally on take 3 I got it to work. All my posts are grey. Also I have to remember some bullshit string of characters to log into kinja now that there does not seem to be any way to replace with a passcode that I can easily remember. Fuck Kinja. I'm legit done with AVC. The "bullshit string of characters" in lieu of a password is insane. As far as I can tell, if you should ever lose your bullshit string of characters, you're pretty much permanently locked out of your account. Better hope the laptop that you primarily use for posting lasts forever, because once it's gone, your account is also gone. Somebody please tell me that there is a way to change it to a standard password, because there's no way I'm going to ever be able to memorize 20 random letters in the proper order. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Aug 25, 2017 10:25:12 GMT -5
I attempted to sign up for it today. I wanted to use twitter or something to verify my account but clicking twitter did nothing. I begrudgingly used Facebook, same lot of nothingness. I go with a work related Google thing I have, nada. I go with a "burner" it fails twice and each time I attempted to re-register the user name I'd attempted to register was "already taken" because apparently my registration had gone thought. Finally on take 3 I got it to work. All my posts are grey. Also I have to remember some bullshit string of characters to log into kinja now that there does not seem to be any way to replace with a passcode that I can easily remember. Fuck Kinja. I'm legit done with AVC. The "bullshit string of characters" in lieu of a password is insane. As far as I can tell, if you should ever lose your bullshit string of characters, you're pretty much permanently locked out of your account. Better hope the laptop that you primarily use for posting lasts forever, because once it's gone, your account is also gone. Somebody please tell me that there is a way to change it to a standard password, because there's no way I'm going to ever be able to memorize 20 random letters in the proper order. use a password keeper (you should be doing this anyway for secure passwords, I don't have any passwords for anything important that aren't at least 20chars) Though if my account's anything to go by it doesn't matter because it tells me the password doesn't match anyway despite me taking that code and saving it and also screenshotting the page and saving that. |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Aug 25, 2017 10:32:07 GMT -5
Click Profile and then the Groups tab. Forever I've been wondering how many comments I had to make to go from TI Forumite to something else like "Prolific Poster". I thought it was a set number that was kept secret and then one day I'd be approached by two gentlemen in suits and asked to put on a blindfold and yada yada yada, I'd move to the next degree. Little did I know it was just a matter of clicking and requesting. I am now officially an AV Clubber. Uh, I think. I don't feel like I have enough comments to yet request entry to one of the others. I still don't have the slightest idea how to use Kinja, but at least this tread has showed me that I'm not permanently stuck with one black star. Behold my two blue stars! Behold! |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 25, 2017 10:39:39 GMT -5
I attempted to sign up for it today. I wanted to use twitter or something to verify my account but clicking twitter did nothing. I begrudgingly used Facebook, same lot of nothingness. I go with a work related Google thing I have, nada. I go with a "burner" it fails twice and each time I attempted to re-register the user name I'd attempted to register was "already taken" because apparently my registration had gone thought. Finally on take 3 I got it to work. All my posts are grey. Also I have to remember some bullshit string of characters to log into kinja now that there does not seem to be any way to replace with a passcode that I can easily remember. Fuck Kinja. I'm legit done with AVC. The "bullshit string of characters" in lieu of a password is insane. As far as I can tell, if you should ever lose your bullshit string of characters, you're pretty much permanently locked out of your account. Better hope the laptop that you primarily use for posting lasts forever, because once it's gone, your account is also gone. Somebody please tell me that there is a way to change it to a standard password, because there's no way I'm going to ever be able to memorize 20 random letters in the proper order. Doesn't seem to be, but I took a screenshot and emailed it to myself, because there seemed to be no other way to save it. |
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Post by Incense on Aug 25, 2017 10:43:59 GMT -5
Forever I've been wondering how many comments I had to make to go from TI Forumite to something else like "Prolific Poster". I thought it was a set number that was kept secret and then one day I'd be approached by two gentlemen in suits and asked to put on a blindfold and yada yada yada, I'd move to the next degree. Little did I know it was just a matter of clicking and requesting. I am now officially an AV Clubber. Uh, I think. I don't feel like I have enough comments to yet request entry to one of the others. I still don't have the slightest idea how to use Kinja, but at least this tread has showed me that I'm not permanently stuck with one black star. Behold my two blue stars! Behold! You know, I honestly didn't care much about the posting designations, but now *I* want pretty stars. I don't have enough posts to earn the pretty pink ones, so I'm going for the blue. Thanks for the tip! |
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Post by Incense on Aug 25, 2017 10:58:36 GMT -5
The "bullshit string of characters" in lieu of a password is insane. As far as I can tell, if you should ever lose your bullshit string of characters, you're pretty much permanently locked out of your account. Better hope the laptop that you primarily use for posting lasts forever, because once it's gone, your account is also gone. Somebody please tell me that there is a way to change it to a standard password, because there's no way I'm going to ever be able to memorize 20 random letters in the proper order. Doesn't seem to be, but I took a screenshot and emailed it to myself, because there seemed to be no other way to save it. Yeah, I immediately copied mine and pasted it into an email to myself. |
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Post by Hippo on Aug 25, 2017 11:07:23 GMT -5
 Dean Sharktin does not like the new layout one bit and is going to find a sea lion to chomp on in protest. I would like a Dean Sharktin of my own. |
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Post by moimoi on Aug 25, 2017 11:18:59 GMT -5
Dean Sharktin does not like the new layout one bit and is going to find a sea lion to chomp on in protest. I would like a Dean Sharktin of my own. Would you settle for a Domo-kun?  |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Aug 25, 2017 11:21:55 GMT -5
Dean Sharktin does not like the new layout one bit and is going to find a sea lion to chomp on in protest. I would like a Dean Sharktin of my own. I did get mine off eBay for a bit less, but I don't see anything available there now. |
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ArchieLeach
AV Clubber
I talk too much, I worry me to death
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Post by ArchieLeach on Aug 25, 2017 11:44:38 GMT -5
Forever I've been wondering how many comments I had to make to go from TI Forumite to something else like "Prolific Poster". I thought it was a set number that was kept secret and then one day I'd be approached by two gentlemen in suits and asked to put on a blindfold and yada yada yada, I'd move to the next degree. Little did I know it was just a matter of clicking and requesting. I am now officially an AV Clubber. Uh, I think. I don't feel like I have enough comments to yet request entry to one of the others. Unrelated inquiry: Why am I so skilled at wasting the fuck out of a day, and why is that not the type of thing people are willing to pay me big bucks to do? Well, I was wearing a suit when I messaged you, if that helps! We changed the initiation from two dudes in suits to one and phased out the blindfold because it creeped people out. GOOBLE GOBBLE. Like an over-excited newbie, I was enthusiastically urging fellow refugees to include themselves in the AVC group when one of the veterans asked whether "we're doing groups now." So you can probably promote yourself, if you like. I think this is probably the best place to do just that. |
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