Upgrade progress (or lack thereof)

Posted By: Glenn HaumanPosted On:

The process continues. A few notes:

* Thnaks to Mark L. for pointers that are helping solve some of the problems. However, they don’t seem to be addressing problems with Typekey themselves, as it’s refusing to send me a registration email. If anybody else has been able to become a registered user of Typekey, let me know– and of course, please try to use it here, so I have a real registered commentor to test against.

* Secondly, I have discovered only after upgrading that MT-Blacklist is incompatible with the new version of Movable Type– which means my spam inbox is going to be exploding shortly. Thanks heaps, SixApart– I’m SO glad I paid you money.

Folks, if you can avoid upgrading, DON’T. If any representatives of SixApart would deign to contact me so that these niggling little problems can be worked out, feel free– otherwise, I’m going to keep using the bully pulpit here.

* Finally, to the chap who prompted all of this in the first place: Dee, you better run. Peter was merely ticked at you; I’m now out for blood after having to spend hours cleaning up your messes. Disconnecting your Comcast account isn’t going to be enough to hide– I recommend moving.

UPDATE: If I didn’t make it clear, when you post, clicking on Typekey should allow you to sign up so that you won’t have to wait for your posts to be approved. So please do so, because otherwise who knows when your comments will go live.

FURTHER UPDATE (3:51 PM): Typekey has numerous reports of the confirmation emails being blocked as spam. So we’re working with that as well. Joy.

116 comments on “Upgrade progress (or lack thereof)”

  3. Okay after much ,frustration and profanity,this thing works.Sorry im not a computer genius.:)
    This is not what I would have preferred but when morons like the Shrouded one i guess this was the only option.Shrouding would work with a esponsible rational human.The above mentioned person is obviously not that.Oh well ,for better or worse my idiocy can still be read on this blog
    🙂

  5. I am not sure what a typeKey identity is but I am trying now to write something.

    Unfortunately, I have seen this coming, also because at least one of the other boards I visit as well had similar problems. I hate it that a tiny minority (one person in this case, it seems!) is spoiling it for everybody else.

    First of all I want to say “thank you” for all the work and effort you, Glenn, have done and are still doing to put this right.

  8. London calling (Well I’m sort of close to it, come on I’ve wanted to do that for ages!)

    I’m in!!!

    Registering was simple and easy for me, was I too lucky?

  9. testing this thing, sorry it came to this, but hopefully this will straighten it out.

    Now, hopefully they don’t get desparate for some money and start selling all these email addys. (Not you and Peter, Glenn, but the TypeKey people)

    jeff

  10. It’s fascinating to me seeing how history is able to repeat itself in various ways. First we appease Hitler by giving him the Rhineland, then a few years down the road Pearl Harbor gets bombed. Later we assume we’re an impenetrable fortress, making O’Sama and Al Queda minimal threats, and we lose two skyscrapers. Now PAD decides to just ignore Dee and his copy/paste rants and gets bombed with a lewd, vicious attack against his family.

    All of the above instances have resulted in someone being forced to toil long and hard afterward to get everything straightened out; WWII troops, Afghanistan troops, Glenn Hauman. The whole thing makes you really wonder if it wasn’t a good idea go take a madman like Saddam out of power before he came after us (dot dot dot). Whether or not preventative maintenance could have avoided it all before, and what might have been were it not practiced in Iraq today.

    Have we learned something today? Meh, probably not.

  12. Just testing. Ah, I should say something else.

    Two termites walk into a bar. One asked, “Is the bar tender here?”

  13. It’s weird. It wouldn’t let me preview, just tossed me back to the comment box without me actually being logged in anymore. Just letting you know.

  19. I do NOT want my email address available to view to everybody. If PAD & Glenn want it, fine. But I don’t want everybody else with it.

    Please tell me this can be changed.

    That only invites disaster from another idiot.

  27. I share your pain, in regards to SixApart’s new systems. The MT pages that I still run remain (and will remain) at 2.661. All new journal-type pages that I’ve started up are now being run through WordPress. Yeah…it was nice being able to log in once and access all the different journals on the same server that I use for different purposes, but I’ll sacrifice that for a much more mod-friendly piece of software.

  30. I had no trouble signing up, but it looks as though it signs me out after every comment. The screen is flickering, which is driving me crazy. Also, it is posting my real e-mail address. Not too thrilled about that for spam reasons.

  32. “Later we assume we’re an impenetrable fortress, making O’Sama and Al Queda minimal threats, and we lose two skyscrapers.”

    O’Sama? So now we’re linking al-Qaeda to the IRA? 🙂

  34. Sign-in doesn’t seem to be working for me. It just relaods the comments page without actually logging me into an account. Any ideas?

  35. i couldnt complete the dámņëd registration process because no matter how many times i told them what was in the verification string they said i got it wrong so i guess i am doing it the long way

  36. I ditched MT recently for the same reasons. I am now using PHPNuke, and it works great for my needs. http://www.phpnuke.org is the phpnuke website, http://www.oentalox.com/eglantine is my website using it. It’s a Jacqueline Carey fansite, and you can disallow anonymous comments and the like, and ban people. It’s very useful. Might want to give it a try.

  38. Glenn: confirmation e-mail? As in, sent to me after I posted my initial test entry? I suppose I should check my logs, as it’s possible my own filters dumped it as spam. They don’t bother warning the sender. 😉

    I like Ben Rosenberg’s idea… there’re some decent forum sites out there. It would allow for the posting of irreverence without necessarily dumping it into any of Peter’s own threads. 😉

    And Craig, it would appear that after the first instance, the e-mail address isn’t linked. Even though even that first link could pose problems…

  42. TypeKey works. But now a stupid question: Can’t Dee or whatever also find a Typekey identity and continue to annoy?

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