Blog Problem Reports

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Here are a couple of problems with TPV that PG has received in response to his request for those having issues with the new blog theme to email him:

I keep getting this error, when I try to comment:

You are temporarily locked out

You have been temporarily locked out of this system. This means that you will not be able to log in for a while.

Return to the site home page

I can comment on other WP blogs without problems.

I don’t often want to, but I did want to remark on the article about the Scandanavian with the ‘autobiographical’ novel and blowback.

and

I see you want to know how I’m accessing the site: Windows 7 (not 10), in Brave, or Firefox the ‘can’t login’ error appears.

OTOH, I always could go to the next page. That one worked.

Additional problems or difficulties similar to those described above? Feel free to leave a comment to this post or send me an email via the Contact link.

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3 thoughts on “Blog Problem Reports”

  1. I was early to Smashwords, and I’m still there (just barely).

    As each new serious distributor emerged (PublishDrive, StreetLib) that distributed to more than just the top X retailers, I moved more and more of my distribution business off of Smashwords. (And boy was that a problem — SW seems to have little control or audit oversight over their distribution partners, and the full-of-errors records were sticky and hard to eliminate, a necessary step so that I could reach the partners thru other distributors.)

    At this point, they have my Smashwords-local listings, and one remote distribution partner. Neither have generated sales in years.

    I’m about to pull the plug on them altogether as an unnecessary distraction, as soon as my next series comes out.

    It’s not so much that they’re useless to me now — it’s the migraine I get trying to navigate their system though processes and archaic setups. (Workaraound example: “ghost” author names if you’re a publisher, not just an author, etc.)

    It’s nothing but ineffectual patchwork now, as far as I can tell.

  2. The last:

    I see you want to know how I’m accessing the site: Windows 7 (not 10), in Brave, or Firefox the ‘can’t login’ error appears.

    Forgot to mention earlier that I am also on Windows 7. I had the login issue for a while, too – but once the option to register actually became available, and I went through the process – no problems.

    I would note that the login handler that you are using, PG, doesn’t care that a commenter has a WordPress login – what it cares about is whether they have registered to comment on the Passive Voice site. A WordPress site can be “unsecured” – i.e., anyone can comment with just an email address (which doesn’t even have to exist, BTW); “open” – i.e., someone with a verified email or other identity check through a third party (WordPress, FaceBook, etc.) can comment; or “restricted” – i.e., the commenter has registered specifically with the site and been accepted by the administrator.

    I think some of the “problems” are the result of going to a “restricted” site rather than an “open” site – at least once you convinced the plugin to do what it was supposed to do.

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