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What is the matter with you, kid?
And now for something completely different. As of this evening, LJ appears to have ceased to display icons on either my entries or my friendlist. Not mine, not anybody else's, not in comments unless they're in the user's own style. I did a complete refresh on Firefox in case that was the problem and it wasn't. Has anyone (who is still using LJ) experienced this problem? If so, do you have any suggestions? In an ideal world, by morning this issue will have fixed itself and I can delete this post. We do not live in an ideal world. I'd love advice. Icons are important. This one should have a very cranky-looking Psholtii at the top of it.
[edit] Since it's started to come up in comments, I run Firefox 46.0.1 on Mac OS 10.6.8. The latter of these has not changed in years. (Please do not encourage me to solve any problems by updating my operating system; I have several technical reasons for holding on to this version.) Looking at Firefox's release history, I can't see that it's done anything in the last twenty-four hours. I am therefore assuming that the sudden non-display of my icons is a problem with LJ, but would appreciate correction if I have the wrong end of the hydra here. In the meantime, my journal continues to look very naked to me.
I hope I don't have to change the style. I have had Refried Paper since I started this journal in 2004 and I'm used to it.
[edit edit] Experimentally reverting to Firefox 45.0.2 on another computer with the same operating system, my icons become visible. Updating to Firefox 46.0.1, my icons disappear. I don't understand why this issue did not make itself obvious on April 26, 2016 according to the online release history, but there it is. I can see in the HTML for the page that the icons are present, just not displaying. So: toxic Firefox/LJ interaction?
[edit edit edit] It looks like an HTML compliance issue with LiveJournal. It's just showing up now in Firefox. This is almost certainly out of my control.
[edit] Since it's started to come up in comments, I run Firefox 46.0.1 on Mac OS 10.6.8. The latter of these has not changed in years. (Please do not encourage me to solve any problems by updating my operating system; I have several technical reasons for holding on to this version.) Looking at Firefox's release history, I can't see that it's done anything in the last twenty-four hours. I am therefore assuming that the sudden non-display of my icons is a problem with LJ, but would appreciate correction if I have the wrong end of the hydra here. In the meantime, my journal continues to look very naked to me.
I hope I don't have to change the style. I have had Refried Paper since I started this journal in 2004 and I'm used to it.
[edit edit] Experimentally reverting to Firefox 45.0.2 on another computer with the same operating system, my icons become visible. Updating to Firefox 46.0.1, my icons disappear. I don't understand why this issue did not make itself obvious on April 26, 2016 according to the online release history, but there it is. I can see in the HTML for the page that the icons are present, just not displaying. So: toxic Firefox/LJ interaction?
[edit edit edit] It looks like an HTML compliance issue with LiveJournal. It's just showing up now in Firefox. This is almost certainly out of my control.
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Same version of FF here. I'm not having problems; it's an LJ issue.
I guess it could be an LJ style issue, but when some anomaly like that hits me, I clear cache, delete unnecessary cookies, check extensions for updates. NoScript seems prone to borking image display (I do not have javascript enabled on LJ) when it needs to be updated. (My LJ style is an old one, Smooth Sailing, FWIW---stripped down by me.)
Another difference---I have uninstalled Flash, it does mean a bunch of things don't work but Flash is so deprecated that WeatherSpark has stopped using their Flash-dependent map. I think LJ does not use Flash, but I am sure it's using javascript.
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Hurrah!
Same version of FF here. I'm not having problems; it's an LJ issue.
That's weird. Are you viewing my journal in my style or yours?
I guess it could be an LJ style issue, but when some anomaly like that hits me, I clear cache, delete unnecessary cookies, check extensions for updates.
I started by clearing my entire browser history, cache and cookies included. It didn't solve the problem. I did a formal refresh on Firefox, which I had never done before, just in case that would help. Ditto. After that I asked the internet.
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(I view all LJ pages in my own style, as I cannot bear jumping in and out of the many styles, many of which are of dubious visual utility, on my friends page. The effect is of literary cacophony.)
If it were a Firefox issue, it would be affecting more people. If it were a higher-up LJ issue affecting icons, or something, others would be seeing it. As annoying as Firefox can be, I think it's not FF this time.
I think your style is broken. It does happen on LJ, I have seen it myself before. Unfortunately their maintenance is not very responsive, but you should file a support request anyway to go on record that the style is broken. Maybe it can be trivially fixed and someone will do that.
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Would you mind telling me what you see when you look at it in mine?
(I view all LJ pages in my own style, as I cannot bear jumping in and out of the many styles, many of which are of dubious visual utility, on my friends page. The effect is of literary cacophony.)
I have my friendlist set to my own style, but otherwise I interact with other people's journals in their own style. Since many other people use your method, however, it's taken me forever to get feedback on what my journal actually looks like, unfiltered, from outside.
Unfortunately their maintenance is not very responsive, but you should file a support request anyway to go on record that the style is broken. Maybe it can be trivially fixed and someone will do that.
I have updated my support request with the new information.
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I just looked: my Firefox is 45.0.2! With a note that it will update when I restart Firefox. Now, I do recall seeing in the past week or so a remark on a Firefox update thingy that informed me that Firefox will soon no longer be supporting my operating system and that I should update it (NOT LIKELY, Firefox coders: at this point, anyone who can update has done so). Firefox has a habit of popping such notices in my face when I am doing something else, so I have a habit of dismissing them as fast as I can, barely-noted. Next time FF freezes and I restart it, I'm screwed. It would be nice if they didn't issue new versions every week or ten days.
So I am in fact not running 46, and that is why when I view your LJ while logged-out, the icons appear correctly.
However, this is still strange and annoying behavior, to suddenly stop loading an ordinary set of images.
(If my car crashed and required updates to function as often as the software I use does, it wouldn't be legal to own.)
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Seriously.
Next time FF freezes and I restart it, I'm screwed.
You can arrest this process by going to Firefox Preferences: Advanced: Update and then selecting "Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them" rather than "Automatically install updates (recommended: improved security)."
However, this is still strange and annoying behavior, to suddenly stop loading an ordinary set of images.
Yes. The fault seems to be on LJ's side in that the HTML used in various journal styles is massively no longer standards-compliant, but it only seems to have become perceptible after the latest Firefox update. (I don't know why the time lag: I think there's an interacting combination of issues here. I shut my computer down every night and restart it in the morning, so it should have installed the new update promptly.) I can look at each page's HTML and see that the icons are there and should be displaying. I just can't make them show.
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Thank you. It isn't and I don't know why!
(I can see all of my icons on their individual page, just not on any of my pages.)
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See edits to post. At this point it looks like the only solution within my control is to change the style, but (a) I've had this style for twelve years and I like it (b) other LJ-styles display similar HTML errors, just not this particular one (c) I have no idea what else will fail with future updates. I don't know why LiveJournal wouldn't want to bring their code in line with the standard, but they really don't seem to have.
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I hope it turns out to be easily fixable. They could be cached as broken somewhat further up the chain (local service provider, router, etc.).
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Thank you. I am submitting a support request in case the issue is not me. I don't see how it could be, honestly: I haven't changed my journal style in years.
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After that, the best bet would be to call the service provider and ask them to clear the local cache.
You've probably already tried the "add a new icon to see if it's visible" trick.
I hope they come back soon. It's lonely without pictures.
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I started with steps 1 and 2 before posting. I cannot experiment with step 3 because I'm in Lexington at the moment, but I did clear all cache and memory in Firefox. As of this morning, exact same problem.
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Nine
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I'm trying to figure out how to get them back on mine! Firefox claims to be up to date.
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Nine
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I was hoping someone on my friendlist would have encountered this problem and resolved it and been able to tell me how. So far, not yet.
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Yeah. I got nothing. I'm worried about this.
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I'm using the same Firefox on archaic Mac OS 10.6.8 I was the day before yesterday!
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My version of Safari tapped out in 2013: it doesn't have the same problem, but it hasn't displayed icons properly since then. It's one of the reasons I stopped using it.
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I'm only seeing them on other people's journals. I really don't want to have to change my journal style.
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(Be careful, if your style is heavily customized you may lose customizations flipping around.)
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I had to revert back to the old site scheme to make that option SHOW UP, but I found it.
Sadly, Sovay, I could not /find/ Refried Paper. I think they've eliminated all access to the original style themes. Or I'm just incompetent with LJ. Either is likely.
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I appreciate the effort! When I look at my journal style, it says that I'm still using Refried Paper, for whatever that's worth.
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So my style is deprecated, therefore it is highly unlikely that anyone at LJ is going to fix the HTML errors in order to make it compliant with the latest browsers, i.e., I need to find a new style. Aaaaaaargh.
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ETA My Firefox version is bleeding-edge current "developer edition" (so bloody that the most recent update slowed it down considerably with a new bug, but I bet it'll be fixed soon); my Chrome, which is vanilla but up to date, and MS Edge also do not show the icons. I've made a screen shot in IE11 and saved a "full" HTML version of this page in Firefox. Maybe the CSS and screen shot will be useful to someone? (I am full up on side projects and haven't checked the question of custom themes, but saving a few files tonight costs almost nothing.)
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I don't know! I took down the technical specs—colors, fonts, text, links—earlier tonight just in case.
My Firefox version is bleeding-edge current "developer edition" (so bloody that the most recent update slowed it down considerably with a new bug, but I bet it'll be fixed soon); my Chrome, which is vanilla but up to date, and MS Edge also do not show the icons.
Yeah. Thank you for checking; I am not surprised. Unless LJ does some kind of massive overhaul, I expect the compliance gap will only widen. I do not think HTML 4.01 Transitional cuts any ice with current standards.
Maybe the CSS and screen shot will be useful to someone? (I am full up on side projects and haven't checked the question of custom themes, but saving a few files tonight costs almost nothing.)
I appreciate it.