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	dez_chan 2009-03-02 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	It's just you. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	youngcurmudgeon 2009-03-02 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, goody! Does that mean I'm a special snowflake? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2009-03-02 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	Can't say it's doing it for me either. I will say, though, (even though I'm sure I've said it before) that icon is the cutest thing ever. I love the adorable dweebery of that scene. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cassildra 2009-03-03 12:45 am UTC (link)
	I do too. It's so squee-tastic. <3333333 Number One Dad (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-03-03 05:48 am UTC (link)
	What's even more fun is imagining Patrick Stewart in the scene (not to diminish the young actor's performance; that he gets it so right makes the mental substitution much easier). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hyaenid 2009-03-02 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	It was happening to me as well, although it stopped when I logged in. (Reply to this)

	deliciouschaos 2009-03-02 09:24 pm UTC (link)
	It isn't happening to me, though for what it's worth, I'm a paid user. It sounds really creepy, though. (Reply to this)

	annathepiper 2009-03-02 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	I can repro this. I'm a paid user on my main account, and even logged out, I don't see it on my main Friends list--but if I go check the Friends list of my non-paid other LJ, yeah, it repros there. It took a couple of seconds but I did get redirected to the ad URL. FAIL! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	annathepiper 2009-03-02 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	P.S. This isn't an issue with the users' browsers being compromised; this is very likely more of an issue with a broken ad getting out onto LJ's ad servers. I've seen this happen on previous jobs of mine. The fault is with the ad taking over the browser, not with anything local to your all's machines. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	youngcurmudgeon 2009-03-02 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! That actually does make me feel a little better; I've been running all my antivirus stuff going WHERE ARE YOU HIDING and it was coming up blank. Good to know I'm not alone! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	annathepiper 2009-03-02 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	You're welcome! I saw something very similar to this happen on the last job I had, where one of the ads running totally took over the browser window when it loaded, no matter what page on the site you tried to hit. Very annoying. I just flung a support request at LJ, hopefully that'll alert them to yoink the broken ad. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladybirdsleeps 2009-03-02 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	Is the account basic or plus? I can't reproduce it on my non-paid accounts, but they aren't plus. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	annathepiper 2009-03-02 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	My other account's Basic. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladybirdsleeps 2009-03-02 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	It doesn't make sense for LJ to make it impossible to get to your friends page. It sounds to me like a classic symptom of browser hijacking. (Reply to this)

	queencallipygos 2009-03-02 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Not getting that, but I'm getting a DNS error whenever I try to go to LJ at all. (Reply to this)

	yoritomo_reiko 2009-03-02 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Report it to LiveJournal. Anything that hijacks your browser is bad news. I had it happen a couple of times ages ago and they got the advert causing the problem taken down. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	youngcurmudgeon 2009-03-02 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	Just did that. (It says something, I think, that I only thought to do that after posting here...) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	skeleton_key 2009-03-02 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	It happened to me, too. (Reply to this)

	hylarn 2009-03-02 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	Basic account, no problems here. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sheep 2009-03-03 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Same here. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mrs260 2009-03-03 01:03 am UTC (link)
	LJ Support volunteer here--we had a spate of these reports today, so it's not just you. Reports stopped a few hours ago, so we're keeping our fingers crossed that whatever was happening is fixed. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mrs260 2009-03-03 01:05 am UTC (link)
	ETA: I should say I'm speaking in a totally non-official capacity. I am not in any position to speak for LiveJournal Support. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	youngcurmudgeon 2009-03-03 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Understood. But thanks for letting us know! It seems to have been fixed for me -- hopefully everyone else is returning to normal as well. (Reply to this)(Parent)

aposiopetic
2009-03-03 01:34 am UTC (link)

Somewhat randomly, but do you know if people are having trouble getting to LJ period? Because I've been unable to get LJ to load for the past five days (it's the same on all the computers here, but I can get to any other website just fine). At first I thought it was a virus, but I got the (potentially) effected computers reformatted but it's still fucked up and I'm still getting the same error, "Network Timeout - The server at livejournal.com is taking too long to respond."

I sent an email to support@livejournal.com, but that opened up a support request here...but since I can't get LJ to load, I have no idea if anyone responded. I've also talked to my ISP and they have no idea what's up :/

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	mrs260 2009-03-03 01:55 am UTC (link)
	As far as I know, there's no major issue of people being unable to get to the site. The request doesn't have an answer yet: when someone does answer, you'll get an e-mail. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aposiopetic 2009-03-03 01:56 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for the info :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mrs260 2009-03-03 01:56 am UTC (link)
	D'oh, I pressed send before I meant to. Make sure you've tried the standard clear your cache/hard-reload the page thing. That will help a surprising amount of the time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aposiopetic 2009-03-03 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Well, I'm not sure you can get much more cleaned-out cache then reformatting your computer (or trying different ones that haven't been to LJ before), but I'll keep that in mind g (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mrs260 2009-03-03 02:03 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I think that counts! :-0 (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

aposiopetic
2009-03-03 04:59 am UTC (link)

*L* yeah.

For what it's worth, it turns out that one of my ISP's server in the path between here and LJ broke and they're working to fix it overnight. Of course, I wish I had known this $600 ago (you know, when I called them the first time before I spent all the money and the tech never went, "Well, let's try doing a trace to see where this goes through..."), but it seems like that's what the problem is.

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	j_crew_guy 2009-03-03 02:25 am UTC (link)
	I started having the same problem today. I can't even get Semagic to connect. So if you do get an answer, would you mind sharing? grin (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

aposiopetic
2009-03-03 02:35 am UTC (link)

...you have no idea how relieved I just got, in a crazy fucked up way *L* I had the same Semagic error too, for the record. I made a post about it here on JF and it seemed like one possibility was a virus that's to be floating around the ads filesharing websites (Megaupload, etc). One of the symptoms seems to be that certain websites won't load and while I did have similar time out errors on other websites (Wikipedia, Cnet downloads), I spent all day Friday scanning with everything that everyone recommended and I came up with a whole lot of nothing. I also don't know if it's an ISP thing, but I have DSL from Frontier and live in New York, for what it's worth.

But sure, I'll pass along anything I get :)

(And unrelated, but is your username from The Broken Hearts Club? Because if so, you just cheered me up *g*)

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j_crew_guy
2009-03-03 03:24 am UTC (link)

Okay, this is just plain weird. I have (crappy) dial-up from Frontier and live in New York. (Can't get anything else out in the country.) I think I might have had time out errors with a couple of other websites, but probably wrote it off as the crappy dial-up being crappy.

Being stuck on dial-up, I tend to avoid the filesharing websites (why tempt myself with frustration) but I do use them when I can get to a high-speed connection with my Eee PC.

And I remembered your post on

random_lounge when I started having trouble connecting to LJ today. (The problem started for me, at least, after the internet started working again after stopping last night.)

Scans I've done have turned up exactly nothing as well.

But sure, I'll pass along anything I get :)

Thanks! :)

(And unrelated, but is your username from The Broken Hearts Club? Because if so, you just cheered me up *g*)

Yes it is! *g*

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aposiopetic
2009-03-03 03:30 am UTC (link)

Wow. That does make it sound like it's a problem with the internet, because mine hiccuped on me right around when I had the problem too. If you don't mind me asking, what part of the state do you live in? Because the more information I can give them the better, probably. If you don't feel comfortable posting it here, my email is aposiopetically@gmail.com.

I live sort-of in the country (in Pine Bush, which is at the border of Orange, Ulster, and Sullivan counties), but it's had a surge of development in the last few years, so we've had high-speed for a while (my mom works from home and it's a requirement).

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	j_crew_guy 2009-03-03 04:09 am UTC (link)
	Sent you an e-mail. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	talec 2009-03-03 06:03 am UTC (link)
	Oh, hey! waves from the Sullivan County NY/Wayne County PA border :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aposiopetic 2009-03-03 06:06 am UTC (link)
	L Hello :D Is your internet fucked up too? L (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	talec 2009-03-03 06:23 am UTC (link)
	Doesn't seem to be. :O (I have Earthlink) But now you got me reading my LJ flist for the first time in over a year! augh! I'm supposed to be doing my taxes! @_@ (Reply to this)(Parent)