How's commenting looking?

Test comment.

Ah ha! I can now sign in for the first time in several weeks!

(I was initially worried to see zero comments for this entry, but I suppose I am posting my own a mere 5 minutes after it went online...)

Well, it still takes about 30 seconds to post a comment, so I say it's still broke.

Works for me.

Just tried signing up and it seems to have worked fine.

Works here. But then, for me, its pretty much always worked.

I've been able to comment anyway, so I see no change. In my case, that's good.

Working for me. But I've always been able to get in with Movable Type.

I can comment for the first time in weeks! I logged in using typepad.

That was fast. logged in no problem! If you are interested in a bog post competitions like the open Lab check this one out on Tom Paine's Ghost. http://www.tompainesghost.com/2009/10/post-with-most-on-tom-paines-ghos… Submissions due by the summer solstice.

yeah, MT has worked fine for a while.
You need to get one of those Googlites to try it. Ron Sullivan is one who comes to mind.

What did they fix? I found Typepad to be horribly glitchy, but Movable Type has worked well for me for months.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

I was able to sign in with TypePad in one try this morning. Didn't even have to leave a donut offering.

Quite frankly? I never had any problem in weeks.

Testing...

Extremely slow on most threads, not just those with several hundred comments (though of course it's worst on those).

Fast and painless.

Does anyone have trouble reading Scienceblogs in general on a Blackberry (specifically a Storm)? This seems to have happened to me relatively recently - and is unrelated to login of course, but I have been waiting for at least a marginal oppoprtunity to bring it up.

What happens to me is the page comes up initially and if I read fast, I can actually maybe get the gist of one or two topics - then the page refreshes as it completes its load and I get only the top bar and the little swirly thing at the bottom - no text.

But.... Login is just perfect :D Thanks!

JC

So far, so good!

I clicked the "sign in" link and it signed me in without needing to enter my username or password.

I for one, will be very happy if signing in is finally fixed. I'll wait and see how the rest of the week goes before passing judgment.

Since moving to MT from TP not had any issues.

The last few times typepad/TypeKey has been working, whereas only a few days ago Sb was still throwing up pages of errors for it - I'd very nearly commented as much on the previous "Warning" thread except that I wasn't entirely convinced I had a statistically large enough sample of consecutive successes yet.

I think it was earlier yesterday (UK time, so might be 2 days and the evening for the US) that I noticed on a refresh that they had messed with the formatting of the comment box area again.

However, it was only just today (UK) that I noticed a thread again displaying the faulty nav-commenters.gif logo instead of correctly recognising and marking the posts of typepad/TypeKey users. So there's a still a bug in there somewhere. And several of the other login logos haven't been installed at all.

Extremely slow on this thread even. Some of the ads are way too over-the-top.

TypePad logged me in on the first try! That has only happened once before and that may have actually been a dream!

Just registered and commented using Movable Type. Yay :)

Typepad will still not work for me, and it's the one I used to use all the time. For the last several months it just gives me an error message and says that the site isn't registered (??) Moveable Type won't let me log in as anyone but PZMinion (I tried to re-register and accidentally put a typo in the email: it will never, ever forgive me for this, and holds my nickname hostage.)

So I am left with Vox, which is okay, except I don't have a blog, and I hate those stupid red bunny ears next to my name.

I can sign in using my Google account, which I must say is a very nice way to do it.

Signing in went very quickly, even on my old emac. So it is looking good.

(The ads, of course, have little to do with registration, if anything. They just slow everything down.)

Comparing comments 12 and 20 makes me smile.

I like the fact that the comment box doesn't even appear until one is signed in. I imagine that this will be a good index of when registration is off.

I see that Googlites now have a name instead of a Hot Mess, but they have all been assigned the surname Author Profile Page.

incremental improvement...

I've been unable to register or comment for a few months now, but things seem to be working. Send those developers a few cases of crackers and some vegemite; code wrangling into the wee hours of the morning builds up an appetite...

The unfortunate reality is.... if it's not working for you, you must suffer in silence.

Hmm. Well, I hit the 'sign in' link and immediately got 'Thanks for signing in' and this window. Maybe I was already logged in?

Ditto with the extreme slowness of accepting comments and returning to the updated thread.

And the incarnation of this thread onto which I'm typing this comment has that nav-commenters.gif again (squashed into the 16x16 space that should hold the TypeKey/typepad one, while other account login types are shown correctly next to the names of posters).

A few days ago I had a comment which had been accepted, and allocated a number on the left-hand list, not be visible in the thread for hour(s?) (despite repeated refreshes) until after someone else also commented on that thread.

looking good from Wales

David B

So far so good.

Here is a test of Google. Sign in went ok, just curious what will come up in the username.

Worked well before, works well now.

I was able to sign in using my Google account.

Previously I could not even see the sign in screen.

Suggested future questions: Does everyone here know how to read English? Do you have access to a computer?

Looks rather like the "Author Profile Page" silliness is still there for those of us who sign in using a Google account.

i was able to easily register yesterday.

Wow, it works! Finally!

Testing... check one two...

TypePad test - logged in without a problem.

Can sign in just fine with Livejournal, but when i try typepad i get the following errors:

http://scienceblogs.com/mt/comments?__mode=handle_sign_in&key=TypeKey&s…

Go Back

And:

An error occurred: Sign in requires a secure signature.

when you actually press "go back".

Oh, good. If people can sign in more readily, we won't have to put up with these tiny, truncated threads anymore. Comment away, everyone!

The "Author Profile Page" alt text (or blank placeholder for a missing image - depending on your browser) is likely to continue being a problem until someone uploads (into the /mt-static/images/comment/ directory) images with the names:

google_logo.png
yahoo.png
aim_logo.png
wordpress_logo.png

Or at least that was the situation when last I checked what the HTML source code was expecting to be there. As fixes go, that would be an extremely easy one to do - unless there's some ridiculous copyright / trademark to resolve before they're allowed to upload versions of those particular websites' favicon logos!

It's the same as before for me. I still can't sign in with my Blogger URL as an OpenID (although that could possbily be a problem with Blogger). When I used typepad with my Blogger name it didn't redirect me back to the thread. But when I went back to the thread using the "back" menu, and clicked "sign in" again, it immediately signed me in. So it works for me, for some definition of "works". But like I said, it always used to do that for me.

Well, Typepad was a bit clunky, but no errors. It's been working for me for a few weeks now.

Good to know they didn't break anything while they were up to their elbows in ScienceBlog's insides.

It might be working now...

Woohooo! I can comment again!

Wordpress log on doesn't work either for me.
First it begins yelling that i need to be logged on, so i go to the wordpress site and log on, than it claims the following:

WordPress.com

You do not own that identity.

While i am in my dashboard of wordpress in another tab of my browser.

Yo, PZ, if I emailed you the logos for google, yahoo and wordpress (probably the blue rather than grey one) would you be able/allowed to upload them?

I'm not sure which "aim" thing it's meant to be, so I can't do that one reliably. But no-one much seems to be using "aim" to login anyway (from the various thread checks I've done over the past months).

MT works fine, no delays or problems.

Signed in with TypePad on first try, which is better than usual. But I still have to click sign-in here, wait for new page, click TypePad, wait for new page, click something else of TypePad, then do actual signing in.

As I have said before, I made a text file with my sign-in data, some HTML code for commenting, and some handy symbols. I just copy-and-paste from that, which makes sign-in a little easier.

I've been a lurker for a year. I've never tried to comment as I've always been put off by the ongoing problems. Today I have signed up and logged on and posted this ... let's see if it works!

Works fine from my Google account.

Seems to be working fine for me also...

It works, but it took about 45 seconds to exit the preview window and come back here.

Slightly off-topic:
Would be great if they would evaluate OpenID's sreg (Simple Registration) extension. :P

Except my user name is screwed up.

Test

SO far so good. This is my first comment here in a good long time.

I can login, but then I don't think I ever had a problem with that. We'll see how fast posting goes.

It is very slow.

I think the actual posting is instantaneous, but you don't see that.

You only see it when you create a new tab of the page while you wait for the comment to "be posted".

thanks, it works using live journal.

Problem is, it has always worked for me...

I changed my display now, logged out, logged in and it's still working just fine.

Seems to be working fine for me.

Hey! It finally works. Thanks...

Registration process was fine. It looks like I am able to comment without a hitch. Pretty easy.

Posting is very slow, it took 26 seconds to post my comment. And then it complained that I'd posted too quickly but didn't bother to tell me what a reasonable posting limit was, or to return me to the edit control with my the text of my second comment. How do people have fucking conversations with these types of comments forums, I'm just way to impatient to bother with these things. I wanted threaded conversations like network news days, back in the day.

Typepad worked after a long time! But I noticed yesterday that after posting a comment, it is taking a really long time. And it is not just at Pharyngula; other Scienceblogs are also similarly afflicted (I checked Orac's, GrrlScientist's and Ed Young's).

The powers that be might want to have a serious look at their profile update page (MT). Some of the fields don't pre-populate when you edit and when you view profile it shows an error.

Oh, but the commenting, that's still working.

I created a new MT account and it seemed to go smoothly. Now I can add my snarky comments and not just read!

I expected a camera when I signed in and I didn't get one.

fail

I use Vox so that I can read Sastra's blog.

Wish it accepted google accounts correctly though

This is a test comment. If you don't get it, let me know.

TypePad worked for me, but then it always has.

MovableType: no

TypePad: yes

Hooray.

Let's see if my name shows up instead of the hash of URL and numbers I'm seeing now...

Got in with TypePad for the first time in weeks!

For you history/archaeology types, let me recommend a good book I'm just finishing up: Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe.

I have Schubin's (sp?) Your Inner Fish on hold at my library.

Also, I like Schubin's classy comment re: the newly discovered early pre-Tiktaalik tetrapod trackway which was basically "Cool! Let's look for more fossils!". To me, that's the scientific outlook in a nutshell.

I guess that sums up the stuff I wanted to post but couldn't.

I'm a Googler, and I'm in... I think. Let's see what happens afte I hit the Submit button. :-)

Good for me login through wordpress, but then it always has, too.

Oh, that's cute. Now you'll all just have to learn to pronounce my cephalopod ID...

Hmm....If registration is turned on, how can those who are having problems signing in tell us of their problems?

oops. back to the Hot Mess.
*sigh*

ennui #76 wrote:

I use Vox so that I can read Sastra's blog.

I have a blog??

I didn't know that. But yes, I see now that if I click on my name, it takes me to my blog. There's nothing to read but instructions, but it is mine.

What a lovely surprise. I just wanted some way to get on Pharyngula. I think I'll wait to see if it surprises me with anything else. I must be careful not to post there, then, or it will ruin the experiment.

Hey PZ! I would just like to inform you that you have atleast one fan in the Middle East. I'm a resident of Dubai and I am an avid reader of Pharyngula.

Kudos also to the fanbase you've built up, because their comments make for some delicious brain food.

- Rohit Nair ( www.thelogicgate.net )

It's the old "email us if your email stops working" conundrum.

well. here i am. all commenty.

Ok, now I'm really curious as to what my name will end up being.

This is only slightly better.

Hallelujah! ...... er....... Great! Finally!

Wow! Yea! It works!
Signed in through the Googles.

And why is the 'Author Profile Page' business still around?
[shakes head]

I didn't have any problem signing in for a long, long time. The bug that annoyed me most is still present, as it seems: the disgraceful displaty of OpenID URL instead of name.

OTOH, it used to take an eternity for page to refresh after hitting "Submit." I suspect that also wasn't addressed.

testing.

There are no comments at all from people who can't comment no matter what they try, so, 100% success!

I am able to log in and comment from my google account. Success!

I completed registration and signed in with no problem.

I am unable to sign in or comment;)

(Isn't this the internet equivalent of asking "Is anyone in the back unable to hear me?")

a crack team of programmers <- Are you 100% sure it's not: a team of programmers on crack?

Regardless if they fixed the problems of some people all good.

Ever since I found out I can sign in through google I stopped messing about with the other possibilities that weren't working for me anyway. So - google still rules, all hail the mighty google overlords :P

Typepad still glitchy.

Crack team or team on crack?

crack team of programmers
"quote" quote

works.. yay.

Comments have always worked for me, but they have always been slow to get posted.

And would somone please tell me what OM means after some of your names??

Google login working but hate the ridiculous ID string.

Re #17 and reading from a blackberry: I have had the same problem using Opera on Windows Mobile for the last few months :-(

Definitely much better.

Previously, I had to keep resetting my MoveableType password each day.
'Twas about to submit a bug request yesterday, actually...

Movable Type still dopes not like me. I can't sign in and if I try to sign up it says I already exist.

But TypePad seems to work and it never has before! W00t

Hmmm... How do I configure it so that my name links to my own website, rather than some generic Typepad user page?

I can haz commentzez?

Typepad seems okay, or it could just be the matrix...

I do smell the bacon however, so I must be it.

Tax Religion.
Tark

hello dash - hello dash

I have a blog??

Zounds! I apparently have a Vox blog too, but the last entry is from 2006 apologising for the lack of recent entries.

One day I'll get around to cleaning up the detritus I've been leaving all over everybody's nice clean internets, I promise.

Typepad seems to be working so far.

And would somone please tell me what OM means after some of your names??

hznfrst, those are the winners of the monthly Molly awards. The OM stands for Order of the Molly, and the name is in honour of the late, irascible Molly Ivins.

Here's a list of all the intelligent, thoughtful individuals (and one smartass) who have been awarded Mollies.

AHA! EB is back... ahh sigh, I was growing fond of my GothicGyrl.

Movable type is still wonky, but type pad signed me right in with no problems. At least I know I have Livejournal to fall back on in case it goes wonky again.

It worked!!!

Does Movable Type have a sysadmin?

I tried registering, with a username that I had unsuccessfully tried registering a few weeks ago. It tells me that the account is disabled (presumably because the registration emails never got through), and that I should contact my system administrator for access.

Or should I just pick a new username and hope I'll remember it? (There are a few that I like but that are often taken by other people, including my initials--old Unix habit--and then there's this one, an account name from college that nobody else ever wants.)

Woot - worked for me!

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlBtzBnH17TTSEy0GxjoKcp8d… Author Profile Page #109 wrote:

Google login working but hate the ridiculous ID string.

Yes, https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlBtzBnH17TTSEy0GxjoKcp8d… Author Profile Page -- I can see the problem. Calling you 'https' probably won't help, because there are too many of you https.

Until and unless this gets fixed, I'd like to suggest that google people routinely preface their comments with their preferred nick.

Which probably won't look anything like https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlBtzBnH17TTSEy0GxjoKcp8d… Author Profile Page.

I have tried to sign up with no success in the past. I was able to confirm my registration and can now post as a official registered poster. Seems to be working on my end finally.
Cheers,
KB

Hmm, it just occurred to me that fixing the comment system was not *necessarily* a good thing... This blog hasn't exactly suffered from a *lack* of comments, ever.

Still seems to be working though. Nice.

testing from google, account name still looks $DEITYawful in preview

For the 1st time using typepad logged at the first attempt.

It's been working much better for the past couple of weeks. Long may it stay that way!

Or should I just pick a new username and hope I'll remember it? (There are a few that I like but that are often taken by other people, including my initials--old Unix habit--and then there's this one, an account name from college that nobody else ever wants.)

I recommend doing this. I created a new MT login, using a literal throwaway e-mail (a mailinator.com string), then changed the account profile to what I wanted, and it worked just fine.

test

testing testing, 1,2,3

Testing

@ Sastra #122:

The "Author Profile Page" bit is not attached to the rest of the junk URL version of an account name. It's generated at your end by your browser from the ALT text specified with the google logo image name - because the google logo image file is missing from the ScienceBlogs directory! Not everyone's browser shows the ALT text in lieu of a missing image. Some just show a missing image placeholder, eg a blank square or a box with a cross in it.

However, under the current difficulties, it would still be a good idea for people who are stuck with long "random" URL's instead of their usual nickname to open or close their posts with a nickname signature. I'm normally anti such sign-offs on websites which work properly, but this one unfortunately doesn't work properly at the moment.

Signed in under Google. First timer here, and it seems to be working fine.

The only change I have noticed as a Movable Type user is that the comment text box is hidden until I click "Sign in to comment." and then I am signed in automatically and the text box appears.

v.rozenweig #120,

I tried registering, with a username that I had unsuccessfully tried registering a few weeks ago. It tells me that the account is disabled (presumably because the registration emails never got through), and that I should contact my system administrator for access.Or should I just pick a new username and hope I'll remember it?

After you register with Movable Type or TypePad, you can later change your screen name to almost anything you want. So presumably you could create a new commenter account and ditch the old one but still use your old screen name when commenting at Pharyngula.

hyperdeath #112,

Hmmm... How do I configure it so that my name links to my own website, rather than some generic Typepad user page?

TypePad users can only put a link to their website on their generic TypePad user page (as you have done). Only Movable Type users seem to be able to make their screen names link directly to websites of their choosing.

!@#$#@ oh hey, it works!!

I'm not going to hold my breath, I've been burned so many times... burned I tell ya, burned!!

I promise not to be this annoying in the future... maybe.

Huzzah! I am nigelTheBold. No Perl errors. No refusal to allow me to sign in because I didn't share my email address (the option to do so was not presented).

Typepad works, but moveable type seems reluctant to let me sign on.

Signed in. Lets see if I can post?

For me typepad has always worked.

However, it is not what a newbie would expect.

If I try and sign in using the USERNAME I have at Typepad, I get nothing but grief.

If I put my email address that I registered at Typepad in the USERNAME field, it logs me in first time, very time.

And it displays the USERNAME from Typepad in the comments window and in the post. Never displays my email address.

Still working.

yay! I can post!

Yes it works.........Maybe computer code is a science after all

What!? These programmers never heard of unit testing?

If this appears, it has worked.

I am not to happy with my user name tho.

Still can't sign in with Movable Type (won't send the authentication email), or Typepad (gives me an error message when I try to sign in), and OpenID still displays my blog URL and not my user name.

So.. yeah, I can sign in, but no, it's not working any better for me.

Yay! TypePad worked, MoveableType did not. The email from MT never arrives.

Ding Dong.

Hello?
Anybody home?

@140: I think if you fill in your Google Accounts profile, that username thingy might clear up.

I'm in, but you're not allowed to post too quick after each other.

test google

seems ok

Coincidentally, by some conservation law I had not previously been familiar with, commenting on Panda's Thumb is now broken; attempting to comment on any of the last three posts (Uncia uncia, for example) leads to a "500 server error".

About 2 minutes to sign in, on the slow-ass machine at work.

One thing I like is that it doesn't give you a box to type text into until you're logged in.

Sometimes I used to type a comment and try to post it without thinking, then get thrown to the login thing, and once I logged in my text had disappeared. (AARGH!)

That might have been a bad interaction with how my browser's set up---I never sorted it out---but it's nice that it doesn't seem to be setting me up to fail in that way.

It has seemed a little slow to actually process the post, but I haven't been sure if that's the site or my connection or what.

test yahoo

Curious if my Google account still shows up screwy like it was before...

Ok

* login with google or yahoo works

* it still gives awful userids

* actually posting a comment still takes a bloody eternity

For all of the people who have commented on how long it takes to post, the messages are posted on the blog pretty much instantaneously. I just takes awhile for your end to go through it's motions. It took so long for me to get back onto the blog, I usually would have Pharyngula on two tabs, that way I could get back to the blog. My latest statement usually popped up when I refreshed while that page was processing.

OK I logged on with my Google account which was working before but showing up all screwy (some annoying boilerplate link text was showing up).

So I previewed, looked OK, hit "submit" and got

An error occurred
close [Mon Jan 11 13:37:04 2010] MT.pm: Can't call method "remove" on an undefined value

Trying again w/out previewing now.

Oddly, my OpenID login doesn't work on some sites (notably StackOverflow), but it's never caused me any problems here.

However, my OpenID is set up to provide a nickname to the site, but Scienceblogs insists on publishing my OpenID itself, and not my nickname. Can that be fixed?

TRiG.

Signed in with Yahoo...

Steve_C

the ID sucks though.

Weird. i don't see any link to sign in. Maybe that's due to my mobile bro...

Fuck me sideways! I got as far as the above after putting in my name and email. Suddenly the page refreshed and I'm now logged in. Good. Fast. Surprising.

and that apparently worked. Although it did take me to the Preview page even when I hit submit which I'm guessing is a feature?

re Paul W @153;
That's what it gave me yesterday but simply clicking the link signed me in straight away. Today I got the boxes for name, email, url and comment but, after doing the first two and some of my comment...

Might have worked for me. If you see this post...

I am able to sign in with Typepad for the first time in weeks.

truthspeaker aka balloonguy

Google login, A-OK. Yay!

Well, this is a test, using my google account. Of course, now things will come up with that email instead of my name. Oh well. I'm still me. And this is the first time in weeks I've been able to comment on Pharyngula from work (most of the sign-in sites are blocked by IT).

Trying with moveable type. Historically, I can post, but it takes 30-180 seconds. Let's see...

I haven't had any problems with MT since i joined last week from being a lurker for some time.

Only those google/yahoo http users are highly annoying. Why do some have a nick and others a ridiculusly long url? Could those with the url please type their nicks, it helps in threads.
Thank you

Yup, it took 45 seconds. Acceptable for my needs, but no detectable improvement.

The last two times I had to login (using Typo Pathetic), it has not given me a screenful of gobbledygook-error, but has instead simply worked. This is highly unusual, and hopefully now routine.

The "login" seems to persist for 2–3 days, albeit each time I (re-)start the browser (FireFox 3.5 on Linux) I have to click the link. Bingo, I'm auto-logged-in, and it seems to stay that way (until the browser is shutdown). But after 2–3 days, I have to actually log in again. (I'm not using the "remember me" (or whatever it's labelled) thingie in Typo Pathetic). This all Ok, albeit the 2–3 day apparent timeout strikes me as a bit long? (I don't know if my dynamic IP-address changes or not?)

I routinely moan at/about the SciBorg's seemingly non-existent IT staff, but this time I'll congratulate them: Things seem to have improved! Thanks…

...

Hmmm, seems a little faster. Everything seems to be working, but then, I never had any problems.

Well some people here are definitely managing to get Google logins (by their own reporting and by Sb's assignment of logo image - albeit that the actual file is then missing!) which display a nickname rather than a ridiculously long URL.

So it looks as though they've managed to do some sort of account setup (perhaps via Google itself rather than via the ScienceBlogs sign-in page) which the others haven't done.

We also have a genuine Yahoo user (complete with silly URL) for which Sb wants to display favicon_yahoo.png (ie a different filename than I previously noted from source pages - but still missing!).

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

It works!!!

Well I can't sign in via any means, let alone Moveable Type. I haven't made any comments, including this one. In fact this has been the case for weeks.

I see this as yet another attempt by the atheist, materialist, darwinist hegemony to suppress atheist, materialist darwinists like myself from commenting.

{shakes fist}

DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL!

No I haven't been drinking...much...why do you ask?

{sound of beer opening}

Louis

Can sign in with my TypePad account still, so that's all good I guess.

Typepad worked for me, but Moveable Type did not.

Google is working for me.

The submit took around 20 seconds. One annoying thing is the the "Home" and "End" keys don't work in the text field making editing the text using keyboard input klunky...

ok, if only I can find out how to change my handle in google I'll be sweet.

I was able to sign up via VOX, but not with movable type or typekey. Google just leave googldy goo across the signature line.

Of the current "Author Profile Page" people (I'm typing after comment #174):

• wordpress_logo.png is needed for startlingmoniker, edivimo (with other apparent wordpress people actually using MT or OpenID to get in).

• google_logo.png is needed for rlrrlrll, ian.k.alexander, mike.s.young, cookieacct, physicalist1, mikelatiolais, lorenzo.benito, residualecho, george.wiman, brunovs, noam.zur, v.rosenzweig, piratebard, petrander, deriamis, keinsignal, npmott, triskelethecat (and some people who haven't yet sorted out their nicknames - who perhaps should ask the ones who have!).

• favicon_yahoo.png is needed for the person who would be Steve_C (but other supposed yahoo people are really using OpenID to get in).

Sign in has been better the past couple of days. However load times for comments are still incredibly long.

Could comment then; can comment now. No improvement there. (grins)

I'm going to guess that my OpenID URL will show up here, rather than my user name. Unlike some earlier commenters, I use the openid.org site. I doubt that will make things any better, but you never know.

Yes, the URL shows up in the preview.

No problems here.

(Re: my #186)

And yes, the URL is what shows up in the finished comment. Everything that was broke for me is still broke.

easy peasy.

Trying this out.

I just registered and it's working fine!

Signing seems a bit faster for me, so far so good!

Agreed. OpenID sign in needs to request a user-name and so forth from the authenticating server. I'm not sure how keen I am to show everyone my my URL.

For a first time in like forever...I have not had to re-register every time I return after I leave the blog for more then an hour.

I have decided not to wake up the gremlins that be, and do not sign out.
This tactic never worked in the past, but hopes were always high, and always crushed.

Seems that now it does, still not going to sign out though....just in case!

Commenting seems to work for me. Which is good but not new. YAY!

TypePad is working by Moveable Type cannot seem to send registration confirmation email.

Comment 196 took about 20 seconds to post. Not really any faster than before.

Seems to work, right? Let's see.

Oh. Oh, my. It...works.

Better!

I've been lurking as a non-registered reader of Pharyngula for about a year now. I just signed up for an account, and the registration process went flawlessly. Quick and easy!

Finally, I've arrived! Just put the luggage over there; That's a good lad. When's happy hour?

It remembers me. How nice.

Google account

Oh, my [non-existent] god! It worked.

From Yahoo.

Let's hope it works again tomorrow.

For the first time in months, I have a voice!

Moveable Type doesn't send confirmation emails. Yahoo and Google mangle my name. TypePad seems to be the only one that works.

Typepad is working fine.

Typepad worked for me. It has worked before, then not worked, but I mostly lurk anyway. I can't keep up with you pheople ;-)
So, here's data, at least.

This would be the first time I have *ever* been able to sign in and comment!

Signing in thru Google, which I've never done before, so let's see how this works

Trying my OpenID from Yahoo...

Well, other than the fact that the "Posted by:" doesn't look anything like my name, I can log in and post, and the posts pop up pretty quick.

Just checking it out.

Slicker than snot.

Now the real test is in performance:

They're testing it on us, now, in a production environment? Haven't these people heard of Release Management?

Fuck it, lets just hope it works.

google login works but my alias at google doesn't work

ps. I'll tell you what they haven't fixed. That horrible 60 second lag when you hit Submit

typepad works

Hurray!
I can now comment with impunity!

Typepad under Opera / XP worked, and worked instantaneously.

As others have said, the Openid is kinda bugged it seems. Other than that, it's working well.

*ahem*

Yeah it fucking works!
For me anyway!

Weird. Google (or, gmail, to be exact), signs in with my address, not the weird google address (http etc) that a lot of others are having trouble with. Wonder why? Used IE6 at work and Firefox (mac version) at home.

Well... I just tried experimenting. I had signed in via typepad and posted above, then logged out and left the page entirely.

When I just came back to it, I had to click on the sign in again and immediately the comment box opened up *without* redirecting to the typepad sign in page first. So that's a good thing I guess.

Oh and put me down as another who registered on moveable type and never received the confirmation email after asking for it several times.

...I'm here. I'm posting. Yes, the new system is working! I used Moveable Type.

This is the first time I've been able to post EVER so hi, long time lurker here.

Gaaha. I am ignored!

Testing...

How hard can it be to extract some decent user names!?

Yup, it works! It does take ages to go through, but that's much better than incomprehensible error messages :)

Re #229:

Not hard at all: http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html

:P

Was anyone else amused by the sampling bias in the question? It's almost like asking who here has internet access.

Was anyone else amused by the sampling bias in the question? It's almost like asking who here has internet access.

Well, given than the fact that there are a ton of people on this thread saying "I couldn't get in before, but now I can" it seems like your analogy is pretty piss-poor.

Sign-in is working GREAT, took me only a one-click 3 seconds just now (though I am one who has never found sign-in to be much of a problem). -- Frank

Another long time lurker here. As long as there's a thread for testing posts, I figure it's time to actually sign up someplace so I can comment...

That appeared to work OK.

Testing ... just signed up and it was very snappy.

Woah, logging in with LiveJournal actually works ok now.

...aah, commenting allowed, how nice! When will the other problems be solved?

Never posted before. Testing from google account.

Now on my laptop, using firefox, and it gave no comment box until I clicked the 'sign in' link. I then went to MT and then tyoePad and back with no errors.

Now I can't think of anything to say :-(

Test

Woo hoo - works in IE!!!

But can't comment in Firefox :(

(flaming bag of sh*t)

My thought bubble is saying "Did the doorbell ring? Should I run now, or push the button again?"

Hi, this is my first time signing in and leaving a comment. Let's see if it works.

Behold! It works! Joy and happiness.

Testing...

Other than having to reset my password, it seems to be working fine.

It worked! At first there I thought it was a little like that "let me know if you don't get this email".

Cheers,

Ok.. did some more checking..

Typepad - OK
Livejournal - OK
Yahoo - OK
Google - OK

Wordpress - Fail :(

Testing #2, hopefully with a better name...

Finally got TypePad to work.

Testing google login.

By the way "cleaned up a bunch of stuff of an unspecified nature". You're just like a former employer who's bug reports often read "Arakrys, I'm seeing spaghetti code. Fix it!"
(He actually meant some html popping up)

OK so after a heap of seconds it worked! Yeea!
(but I sometimes managed to get through before)

Just wonder why my name is lowercased and followed by 'Author Profile Page'.

Yay, finally :D

Woot!

Works for me.

I'm in! Yehah

Seems to be workin good!

I haven't commented in months because of all the issues, but Typepad still remembered me and let me log in without any problems.

Actually, it still takes a few seconds for the comment to "submit". Bah I don't notice much difference.

I'm in!

Just registered and signed in no problem from my iPhone. Also, first post here woohoo!

I'm testing a theory I have about google accounts. If right, more info to follow...

Testing

I'm here. Google Chrome in XP.

Testing, firefox in snow leopard.

Yay! My first post ever! Moveable Type has never worked for me!

Wordpress is crap - I had to switch to using my Google account.

@ arakrys #254:

Just wonder why my name is lowercased and followed by 'Author Profile Page'.

Lower-case seems to be a feature of all the nicknames of Google accounts checked so far (see post #183) where people had managed to set a nickname at all. It looks to be systematic (but it's unclear which end forces it). It may also apply the other newly imported account types. (TypeKey/typepad being older and MovableType being the "native" selection for ScienceBlogs.)

The "Author Profile Page" bit is being displayed by your browser from the ALT text of the logo image for your account type, because the image file itself is missing from the ScienceBlogs directory. Other people see a place-holder box on their browsers instead of the text.

Logged in fine via my Google account (using Chrome).
Some of images for the login options did not show, but other than that. No Issue. Not that I have really had issues in the past... not that I post a lot anywhoo...

So, yeah, Epic Fail that resulted in a little info:

1) Your name is $RANDOM_STRING because you need to fill out a little info in your google profile (as others have pointed out). You can access that through the Settings.

2) $RANDOM_STRING or your email address username seem to be the only two choices with Google. Even changing my Nickname to what I normally use for commenting didnt change anything - even though Google says "visible to the public as $NICKNAME". Lame, but not ScienceBorgs fault.

3) The "Author Profile Page" is, as others have suggested, a missing image. Nothing we (users) can do it seems.

OK, works fine except for the ugly drop shadows on the headline font. Were there always headlines and we just never saw them before or are they new?

If it's the latter, go back to the regular font, sans drop shadow.

Sign-in via google.

Some minor oddness, not obviously better or worse so far, still working.

Using Open ID - wordpress username!

Works with my Google account.

Testing, firefox in snow leopard.

That is unnatural and *clutches pearls* indecent. For shame.

It just occurred to me that I am commenting on a blogpost about commenting on blogposts.

gotta get a life

Legion - I never noticed the shadowed font until the last Firefox upgrade.

My login on Moveable type is fine, so I haven't tried typepad. Using the latest Firefox in Windows 7. Submission still takes a long time, though. I do like that now there isn't a fakeout comment box that mocks me when I fill it in, then it turns out I'm not signed in yet and it disappears.

It wasn't obvious, but I'm trying this with Google, and it looks like it's going to work.

The sign in with google is great!

works for me. but it did before, so its more like "hasnt been broken for me".

This thread...TL;DR

But I got in on the first try...yay!

Twice in a row...I guess that means I'm optimistic this works.

Typepad has been terrible for me, maybe one out of ten tries have I gotten in.

Perhaps I'll post a bit more often again.

Hi

testy test test

test comment

JYFIHP!

Test comment.

About effing time! The data dump feature has been burping word salad on me for weeks.

profile editing in google not fun yet.

How's commenting looking?

As disorganized, off topic and unfocused as ever.

Pharyngulites, the 1st graders of the commenting world.

still profile editing.

GOATS ON FIRE! I'm in.

For months, I couldn't sign in to tell you that I couldn't sign in.
Finally I explored the google thing.
Not all atheists are as brillant as the Pharyngulites you know.
All this just to ask for help with a poll:
http://www.kcra.com/politics/22203958/detail.html#COMMENTTOP

Worked for me. Kind of appropriate, given the moniker.

Now how do I get a user name that doesn't contain the whole alphabet? Can't find it on the google sign in.

Testing...

(normally I use a different authentication method) Trying the google sign-in, just to see what all the fuss is about.

Also trying out the Google sign in....

Testity test. Let's see if this google sign in thingy works.

different but seems to work.

Signing in is pretty speedy but commenting is slow as a dog.

Oh well, dem's the breaks.

Test, Test.

Just tried to create a profile in movable type from the sign in page. It never sends the verification email. Same thing happened last time. Google login works OK.

Thus spake Brownian,OM:

Here's a list of all the intelligent, thoughtful individuals (and one smartass) who have been awarded Mollies.

I know I haven't been around for a while, but singling me out like that is uncalled for!
:P

a test a test, nothin' but a test.

EMMET! Yay! Come over to The Thread!

Yay!

MikeM

Godddit Godddit Godddit

Godddit

• Goddit
• Goddit

1. Goddit
2. Goddit

Ya know, you spend years and years formulating a really clever user ID, like MikeM, and it gets replaced... With what?

I'm pretty sure I can't pronounce that.

woot, it seems ot work with Typepad at last!

I haven't tried signing previously, with so many complaints I didn't bother.

Using google it works

Hmm, I'm signed in using Google, let's see what username does it write for me..

Typepad worx for me for teh first time in months!

Pats on the back to the SciBlog programming geeks!

Thanks for explaining that, Brownian (#117). I am mollified by your answer.

login looking better, the Code Squad must have done something right

Google still calls me unpronounceable names, but hey. If I ever get the time and patience to squirm through to the Preferences hole, maybe I'll be able change that. Meanwhile, well, I sneeze a lot. Maybe that's how it's spelled.

Ron Sullivan
http://toad.faultline.org

Seems to work, but then I've never had a problem.

Typepad. I left for like 6 hours and it remembered me! So sweet...

Status bar sez:

Waiting for researchblogging.org

for about a month.
"Why?" one wonders.

Typepad remembers me from yesterday. Wonder if logging in using Google no longer puts up a blast of ugly?

The obvious problem here is that those unable to sign in will be unable to comment.

Excellent - piece of the proverbial. :-)

If you see this, it works. Praise Me!

A few hours later and still no movable type new user verification email from the register page.

I am on the bottom of the world (NZ) but it shouldn't take this long.

Hello.
Cursors don't show up in the log-in boxes.
Praise the FSM if comment shows.

This is a test of the emergency login system.
Enjoy.

Trying with OpenID....

Signed in using Google account, which seemed to go without a hitch.

I tried replying yesterday, but Movable Type turned into Carol Beer.

'Computer says no...'

Today it reverted to business as usual: I can log in and comment, but only after going through the password reset routine.

MT has never once recognised my username and password. I reset it to the same password every time, and every time I try to log in it has amnesia and I have to reset.

Last step in the test.

For the first time I was able to create an account and log in...

Now let's see if it works for the comment...

Woo hoo! It remembered me from work yesterday (back at work and using IE6). No problems with firefox in snow leopard at home (sorry, Sven...you can go back to your fainting couch with your pearls. I'll bring you some smelling salts, poor dear).

Type pad works here all fine and dandy...three times in a row...some record!...no where else though...sigh!

I just signed up for MT and it's given me a box to type in. We'll see...

Another test...

I'm already registered, and on my pc the process to sign in includes just clicking a link.
(yeah, I'm lazy, I let anybody dump cookies on my PC)

Woot again! It held me from yesterday.

Well, hey! It worked for once! Awesome.

test

TypePad worked for me. Yay! Usually I had to try multiple times.

Test, Google account works for me as well. Did not try it before, so not sure if anything improved.

Yawn. Commenting on the other hand is still slow.

Typepad seems to be behaving itself.

Ahh very good. It is now the next day and I just tried to comment --so far, working very well. All I had to do was click the "sign in" button and type-pad automatically logged me in without redirect or anything (again).

So, so far, it does appear to be working quite nicely for type-pad and livejournal.

So let this be a record that Electricbarbarella is GothicGyrl (and vicey versus) should anything ever happen.

~~Toni

How's commenting looking?

PZ is the only person in the world who could ask this simple question and get 344 comments.

http://darwin-killed-god.blogspot.com/

MT still won't send me confirmation e-mail; TP sent me a link to reset my password but following that link give a "page not found" error (lovely); now trying Gmail but I'm not sure how to get my nick back.

Beautiful. No redirect or anything now. Hurray for cookies :)

Oh boy, but I have this silly-looking code for ID.

Things have been fine for me since I switched from Typepad to Movable Type.

Ooh, nice. No detours or errors. Seems to work fine!

Well... only thing that sucks is that the user-name gets screwed up when the login method is "Google"

Typepad still works, yay. Never could get Moveable Type to cooperate. Won't mess with it again, don't need to proliferate unusable usernames. :)

Well, let's see what happens...

...looks good on preview...

...and gets my name right too! (Using Google)

But it's slooooooooooooooowwww.

Seems to be working. But this seems like a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If it wasn't working, it's not like someone could leave a comment saying as such.

Seems to work OK using my LJ name, which it didn't use to, (at least not consistently). It's a different name than I've been posting under previously, but at least it cuts the proliferation of identities.

Works? Works!

if this comment makes it, it's the first one I've been able to post in more than a year.

Finally, success!

Not able to log in using WordPress, though I have used it elsewhere. Tried 3 times this morning to set up a user name through Movable Type, but they never sent the promised e-mail to complete the process. Type Pad, however, is a winner.

Cheers.

Wow, unbelievably slow to post my comment.

4 seconds from clicking the "Sign in" link to getting the login fields; another 5 or 6 to get to the comment box and the "Thanks for signing in" message. Seems fair enough to me, given my knackered old PC and BT "up to 8 megabits (but all you'll ever get is 1.2, sucker!)" connection...

... and just over a minute for the post to appear after I clicked the "submit" button. Not quite so good.

Looks like it enjoys my google account now too. Thats a good sign!

WOOHOO!! I can post!! Finally!

Ah yes. Took about 30-40 seconds for it to complete the post, but slow response is SO much better than silence and error messages! Maybe I can ease up the exclamation points!

When logging in via OpenID I have to login in twice because when I return from the login process the first time it still "sign in" where comments should be, but when I do it again exactly the same way it works the second time.

Seems to work. I'll try tomorrow and see what happens.

If this shows up, then it seems to have been fixed.

I don't know why it put my login name and "AUTHOR PROFILE PAGE" there. Seems a bit redundant.

Still works. Sweet.

One odd glitch: I signed in with Typepad on the "Oh, God, we are afflicted" thread, yet still had to fill in my name and email. No errors.

I come here to this thread, and I'm already signed in with Typepad.

Now, I haven't had any problems with Typepad for several weeks (other than going through 4 or 5 screens). So, I dunno.

Oh! Wow! It worked! I'm no longer exiled.

Looky there! New registration service icons are popping up all over the place.

I'm able to sign in using OpenID, but the resulting displayed identity is wrong: it's incorrectly using the transient identifier that is only valid for a single session. It should be displaying the "claimed identity" (the persistent identity I use when requested to sign in).

I never had a problem logging in. I just click 'sign in', click Opera magic wand -> in.
Maigc wand obviously is the 'remember password' feature.

I was noticing the remaining registration icons appearing too. Amusingly, they haven't got them quite right (eg for transparency) and they haven't been consistent with the sign-in page choices. So emailing up-to-date properly transparent PNGs to PZ hasn't helped after all.

Hey I can register for the first time ever!

Cool.

The sign in was easy enough, even for an old guy with minimal computer skills.

Another day of consecutive sign-in success.

The person + speech bubble default icon does still keep replacing the TypeKey/typepad one though.

While, obviously, one wouldn't see the people who still can't sign in and comment(!), there are definitely more and different names signing in and posting with the various account types (apart from AIM). Which suggests it's working better for quite a lot of people.

Test post at 6:42 pm EST

I've been (reluctantly) investigating Yahoo - since I do have a Yahoo account via Flickr and it still seems to be making a mess of most people's ID's.

• The Yahoo setup pages are a mess. They behave really badly, not just counter-intuitively.

• Yahoo's default settings policy seems to be to expose the user (account holder) to as much danger as possible.

• The nickname field, which you get to set on what looks to be the closest thing to the original profile settings page, is not used here! How utterly pointless.

• The Account Info page shows some of what you've set and has links to other things to set but some of those bomb you out of Yahoo when you go through them instead of taking you back to that menu page. Bad form, Yahoo.

• A Yahoo account can have up to 6 aliases which act something like nicknames for message boards. Contrary to some wibblings I found on the internet, these don't appear to have their own profile settings or choices over what account information is visible/shared. They can somehow be made to pass email onto your main account email but also allow people to track you down! However, you'll still want one for here.

• The yahoo account must first be enabled for openID use. What you get when you try to do that is a list of possible IDs you can activate (checkboxes not radio buttons so you can do more than one). The first is the long URL junk string with which most people have turned up here. The second is your real Yahoo account ID - which it advises you not to pick because it's dangerous! After that come any aliases you've already set up.

• When you then try to sign-in on ScienceBlogs using the Yahoo method, you get another chance to activate openID but the button above that leads you to the choice of your pre-activated ones. Again the first will be the messy random junk one. But you'll also be offered your preset aliases - with only a small amount of hexadecimal junk tacked onto the end of each.

• There's no need for people to be so doubtful about how their post is going to appear here - because the way it greets you back at ScienceBlogs (above the comment entry box at the bottom of the thread) already shows you the mess it's planning to use.

testing...WTF™

Works great using Google. No hassle.

Then can you tell the other google users (back in #57/61, #77, #83/85, #100, #109, #125, #129, #140/3, #149, #204, #216, #240, #293/5, #316, #322, #340, #347, #350) what they need to do to get a sensible display name?

Is it simply that they haven't set up their google profile at all? Or is it, as with Yahoo, an issue of the normal account profile information not being used?!

Judging from #154/6, the same sort of Yahoo problem shows up when those people are actually signing in via the OpenID option.

When is there going to be a comment ranking system?

In the meantime this has evidently changed. Moveable Type is now showing my actual OpenID for my identifier. This is an improvement; thank you.

Better would be for Moveable Type to use the OpenID protocol for getting the user's requested display name, as others here have requested and as other sites do without trouble. One step at a time, I guess.