Is MGoBlog working right for everyone?
IE keeps freezing up on me when I click on certain links on MGoBlog. The front page loads fine, but for instance when I try to click the Dan O'Neill story (and certain threads on MGoBoard) to read the comments I get a "Not Responding" deal. I'm at work and we're fire walled up pretty good here, but this is a recent development (last week or so).
Update your IE perhaps?
No, it won't let me comment on peoples forums.
Malletted.
That's awesome.
I have no idea if your problem is related to this, but... At work I found a way around the old crappy versions of IE which don't really work with mgoblog (office wouldn't let me update IE, so I was stuck with version 6.something). I put firefox mobile on a flash drive and run it from there. You don't need to install anything so there shouldn't be any admin issues. Everything the program needs to run is contained in the folder on the flash drive. It works pretty well, especially for this site and gmail...
http://mobilefirefox.com/
It's a particular ad that is creating problems for IE, more often IE 6 than not. If you can identify which ad it is, email Brian and he is able to remove it from the rotation.
My computer got upgraded and I'm not suffering from this anymore, so I'm not troubleshooting ads anymore, either.
Just to prove that the MGoBoards are, in fact, in good working order, I feel compelled to point out that it's "working correctly," not "working right."
No. Are you honestly trying to say that it's wrong to say 'working right?'
This place really does have one of the highest concentrations of unforgiving yet unknowledgeable pedants that I've come across. Stay vigilant, guys!
+5000
I find your lack of funny disturbing. Check irony/sarcasm meters and try again later.
There was nothing remotely funny about your comment. I'm happy to reconsider after you walk me through it, though.
Come to think of it, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking. Grammar errors, whether real or imaginary, are never funny, and neither is pointing them out. We should celebrate our differences and our diversity, and those who may be at a slightly different stage of their development in the English language, be they 14 years old or 40, should be allowed to learn and develop at their own pace. I truly apologize from the deepest part of my heart to any who may be offended by my comments and will consider this unfortunate incident as a learning experience - because truly, that is not who I am.
Butthurt humorless whiners who leap to the defense of anyone who might be the target of anonymous Internet forum bashing, however - now those guys are always funny.
Your response here leads me to believe you weren't actually joking, in which case you were lying on a message board to cover up your own attempt to be a "butthurt humorless whiner," which incidentally isn't a terribly funny insult either. If you were merely joking, you would have just explained the joke you were trying to make--presumably you were claiming to be making some ironic commentary on precisely the kind of wrongheaded criticism I was talking about--and we could have moved on. But instead you invent some argument I'm supposed to have made and erupt in hysterics about what a victim you are and how humorless I am.
Pointing out grammatical errors can often be funny. Your post was neither pointing out a debatable error nor obviously funny. That's fine. Everybody misses the mark now and then.
And yes, if forced to choose between reading clear but ungrammatical subject headers and reading posts from sanctimonious know-nothings sitting around waiting to pounce on anything that doesn't immediately strike them proper grammar, I'll take #1 all day long.
And now I'm embarrassed for the both of us. Good work.
And now I'm embarrassed for the both of us. Good work.
That's because you're taking this stuff WAY too seriously. And no, I usually don't bother explaining a joke because when it comes to that, you're not going to laugh anyway, so what's the point?
problem with the blog. Mine, however, is concentrated in the above exchange.
each one of my opinions has not been met with universal acclaim and offers of free drugs and women... it must be because I'm using Safari
People using IE6 are having problems? Working as intended imo.
(Yes, I realize people at work are sometimes forced into this. Sorry.)
The site has always loaded extremely slowly for me. Im in the sticks using satellite internet, which as it is has an egregious latency. This site though exacerbates it and takes probably 10x - 20x times longer than any other given site to load.
People with normal connections probably wouldn't notice this.
It does make you wonder though why this site, which isn't exactly breaking new frontiers of technology, is so much slower than others.
One must admire your dedication to Michigan sports if you're still checking MGoBlog "from the sticks" (I'm presuming that that is a similar euphemism as "in the bush" meaning in the middle nowhere many many miles from any sort of place with reasonable technology (such as the middle of the Sahara)). Your dedication must be even more admired since you're taking the time to view a thread and comment on it, that probably takes a while.
We Michigan fans are truly everywhere.
Not so much the middle of the Sahara as the middle of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. I imagine the women are probably more desirable in the desert though.
It keeps implying that we were horrible last season. Maybe I should delete my cookies?
+ 3-9
I cannot load any of the links in the right nav bar when I am using Opera Mini.
It all started that week Brian mentioned "server issues" that were causing the white screens.