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[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I don't say Snowmageddon... I say everyone is acting like it's the end of the world tomorrow... batten down the hatches...

[Tonari no Emily]

Apparently we'll hit freezing temps all the way in the gulf coast of Texas too... It's always a hazard when this happens here because we're so unused to ice on the roads.. Let's just hope I don't get stuck at the hospital again!

[Soo]

Yah no hospital for Emily!

[Nirkatze]

Soo wrote: "I will bug you to give me all the deets to make an awesome trip!"

I have all the deets! I worked for several years as a concierge at a local hotel, so I know cool things to do! It's been a while though, so I'm not caught up on everything.

re: winter storms--I hope everyone stays warm and safe and no hospitals, no no!

[Felina]

Our winter has been mega lame here in Salt Lake. Barely gotten any snow. My son is so sad about it. I don’t think we have one coming either, at least I haven’t heard anything.

Nirkatze, where in Alaska? My husbands sister is in Fairfield (that’s the name right? Suddenly that sounds wrong and I’m too lazy to google it) and we’ve been trying to get up there to visit for ages. Seeing the northern lights is numero uno on my bucket list.

[Nirkatze]

Fairbanks, I'm guessing? That's about an 8 hour drive north of me. About half the folk in Alaska live in Anchorage. It's a lot colder in Fairbanks, being landlocked. ^^

Seriously, if you do get up to visit, drop me a line!

[Diana Stormblessed]

Alaska has been on my to visit list for ages. But always in summer only.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I've been good since seeing 30 Days of Night back in college ;)



Vampire movie, 2007, Josh Hartnett, no sunlight lots of violence... that's about all I remember :D

[Felina]

I love that movie. I watch it a few times a year. I should totally make it a tradition to watch it on the shortest day of the year. December 21st?

[Tonari no Emily]

For clarification, I was stuck at the hospital because I work there lol
But yes not again!!

[Nirkatze]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "For clarification, I was stuck at the hospital because I work there lol
But yes not again!!"

Hah, that's a good reason to be stuck there.

re: 30 Days of Night--easy solve, do as Diana says and don't come up in Winter. :) Though I sleep really well in winter here.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I have winter torpor so I'd probably be the same...

[Felina]

The dark days we have in winter already make me depressed. I couldn’t tackle that level of darkness.

[Nirkatze]

Felina wrote: "The dark days we have in winter already make me depressed. I couldn’t tackle that level of darkness."

Fireplaces. Fireplaces make everything cozy. And Christmas lights strung indoors... some days I don't see the sun at all, stuck in my classroom from 7am to 7pm... but coming home to a fireplace makes all the difference.

[Diana Stormblessed]

Felina wrote: "The dark days we have in winter already make me depressed. I couldn’t tackle that level of darkness."

Same. It's only Jan 5 and I'm already begging for spring to come back. The Seasonally Affected Disorder is real here.

[Diana Stormblessed]

Nirkatze wrote: "Felina wrote: "The dark days we have in winter already make me depressed. I couldn’t tackle that level of darkness."

Fireplaces. Fireplaces make everything cozy. And Christmas lights strung indoor..."

I love real fireplaces. A nice crinkling fire and some smores to cook over it are the highlights of winter.

[Felina]

I enjoy a fireplace but fires in my house make me nervous.

And SAD is real and I have it. I adore those long summer days. The sun is up at 5 am and seems to go down at 11. It feels like anything is possible.

[Nirkatze]

I have the hardest time in the summer... the sun is out all day and all night, and it's too hot to get a good night's sleep....

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

And so it begins... 6 days after New Year... time to take Goodreads offline and do alot of maintenance "because less people use Goodreads this time of year, and it's the best time to do it"...

Sucks to be people like us that use Goodreads consistently year round...

All this to say I'm starting to get the expected amounts of extra "page unavailable" and "failed to upload comment" results

[Soo]

I've been getting that since 01/01.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I haven't been getting it like I got it for a bit today... occasional failed loads... GR stopped loading for a few minutes straight on me today... then everything was normal... I keep expecting notifications to break...

And I hear the new 2025 reading challenge is very buggy, from reddit and my visit to the Help Page to see what people were saying...

[Soo]

There's no way the challenge update is going to go well. GR is on an old system and who knows how buggy & cobwebbed Kindle system is. XD

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

So many people are having problems with books not counting, books counting twice, etc etc etc...

I guess people have been asking for an update, apparently, but I miss all the features lost from the old system... ability to see friend's challenges, the sitewide stats at the top, etc etc etc...

And then, the one time I tried to explore the new system it was so annoying... most things load new pages instead of just explaining in a popup... that's alot of subchallenges to load/explain... if it's gonna be that shitty, there should have been an announcement that explained the changes up-front...

Such a terrible rollout...

[Soo]

That's because it's done to be "mobile" friendly. Mostly tablets or Kindle Reader. Choices on how things will be changed for interface makes a big difference on graphics & programming.

Meh

[Nyssa]

I do miss seeing other's challenges.

As for the double counting:

1. If you set the book as read on Goodreads, do not set it as such on the Kindle.

2. If you set both, deleting the second one is easy.


I've been completing the challenges via Kindle for a few years; I find them fun. I wish there were a way to count paper books as well.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm mostly parroting what others are saying elsewhere...

I opted out... I'm not signing up for the Reading Challenge this year at all...

[Katie]

ugh that sucks. I haven't been active enough to notice these glitches.

I did see they have nifty new achievements for reading. Kinda a mute point for the monthly reading ones because our group is so active XD

[Narilka]

Sorry for the double post but since not everyone checks the Vagabond thread...

Here's what I believe is the first of 3 recordings from Dragonsteel Con where Brandon and Dan Wells are joined by Matt Dinnimann and Robin Hobb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBmk...

Enjoy!

[Soo]

If you use Facebook, check your Meta Settings and Turn OFF EXTERNAL ACTIVITY TRACKING.

META default setting allows it to track everything on your phone/device and sell the info.

I found 2 years worth of apps & records. Had to manually check off to remove apps from tracking.

Then choose to Stop Tracking External Usage.

Dived into rabbit hole to check all other privacy and ad settings.

In Ad Audience lists, there's a bunch of entities that can add you to an ad list. Had to manually go into each one to click "Don't Allow".

Cautious upside, I have more friend posts showing up in my FB feed after spending 30min taking off permission to use my info and add my info to random ad lists.

[Narilka]

Soo wrote: "

If you use Facebook, check your Meta Settings and Turn OFF EXTERNAL ACTIVITY TRACKING.

META default setting allows it to track everything on your phone/device and sell the info.

I found 2 yea..."

This is good advice and if you're big into social media it probably bears looking into the other settings of services you use. If a service is free, you are the product.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

as long as Goodreads isn't tracking me, I think that's everything... and I don't really have phone apps much...

[Tonari no Emily]

Ugh. Thanks for the PSA. I use Instagram which is a Meta app too.. Thinking of deleting the app and logging out again. Better for my brain anyway...

[Tonari no Emily]

On another note, Houston, TX area got several inches of snow! I don't think this has happened since the 60's... The most we've got in recent years was maybe 2 inches lol

Luckily, I'll have work off for the next couple of days because we just don't have the infrastructure to make the roads around here safe for snowy/icy conditions. Let's just hope we don't lose power like we did back in 2021...

[Nyssa]

My sister Facetimed me from New Orleans; they have snow, too.

[Soo]

Facebook & Goodreads are clinging to the idea of what it was supposed to be for and failing more over time. No good alternative to either FB or GR.

Yup, anything META runs has a default setting to track everything you do on ANY of the devices you run Facebook or Instagram.

I feel like even if you choose to OPT out of being tracked, you are still tracked, but it's not as obvious by getting targeted ads.

It's gotta be a super cold front for the lower south to get snow. Cool and weird cause it's out of the norm.

I remember how excited we used to get some snow in South Carolina. XD

LoL even when the areas are prepped for weather, stuff still doesn't work. Too many people from other places living in the area & not knowing how to drive/deal with weather.

[Nirkatze]

Hey Texas, give us back our snow! I'll trade you for all the rain we've been getting. Super weird.

[Tonari no Emily]

Nirkatze wrote: "Hey Texas, give us back our snow! I'll trade you for all the rain we've been getting. Super weird."

Lol so strange! Id gladly give it back if i could

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm ready for 0F, feels like -22F, to be over... today's the coldest day of the year to date... it was -6F around sunrise... I got those 0F feels like -22F around 10:30am...

[Diana Stormblessed]

Today was not a good day to be a dog walker. I’m ready for spring for sure.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

This February reading list is a BEAST! There's something here for everyone, so check them out and join the fun!

Feb 1, 2025 To Green Angel Tower (Osten Ard: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #3) by Tad Williams
Feb 1, 2025 The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) by Stephen King
Feb 1, 2025 The Answer / The Beginning (Animorphs #53-54) by K.A. Applegate
Feb 1, 2025 The Traitor Queen (Traitor Spy #3) by Trudi Canavan
Feb 2, 2025 The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (Hollows #2) by Kim Harrison
Feb 3, 2025 Little Fires Everywhere by Celestine Ng
Feb 3, 2025 Gobbelino London and a Menace of Mermaids (Gobbelino London, PI #6) by Kim M. Watt
Feb 3, 2025 Archangel's Kiss (Guild Hunter #2) by Nalini Singh
Feb 3, 2025 Shards of Time (Nightrunner #7) by Lynn Flewelling
Feb 3, 2025 Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3) by Sarah J. Maas
Feb 3, 2025 Reign (American Royals #4) by Katharine McGee
Feb 4, 2025 Hell's Super (Circles in Hell #1) by Mark Cain
Feb 5, 2025 The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Ghost Roads #2) by Seanan McGuire
Feb 5, 2025 The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha Suri
Feb 5, 2025 Across the Wall & To Hold the Bridge (Old Kingdom #3.5) by Garth Nix
Feb 6, 2025 The book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves, China Melville
Feb 7, 2025 Prodigal Son (Orphan X #6) by Gregg Hurwitz
Feb 7, 2025 Diving in the Deep (Finder Chronicles #2) by Suzanne Palmer
Feb 8, 2025 The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co. #2) by Jonathan Stroud
Feb 9, 2025 Spellmaker (Spellbreaker Duology #2) by Charlie N Holmberg
Feb 10, 2025 CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga #14) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Feb 10, 2025 The Outstretched Shadow (The Obsidian Trilogy#1) by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
Feb 10, 2025 The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard
Feb 11, 2025 Infernal Enchantment (Firebrand #2) (Supernatural London) by Helen Harper
Feb 11, 2025 Shadows Linger (Black Company #2) by Glen Cook
Feb 12, 2025 Pretender (Foreigner #8 Arc 3 #2) by C.J. Cherryh
Feb 13, 2025 Hell of a Witch (Tear Down Heaven #2) by Rachel Aaron
Feb 15, 2025 The Brothers Cabal (Johannes Cabal #4) by Jonathan L. Howard
Feb 15, 2025 Instruments of Control (Revanche Cycle #2) (First Story Universe) by Craig Schaefer
Feb 15, 2025 Golden Sun (Red Rising Saga #2) by Pierce Brown
Feb 15, 2025 Esrahaddon (The Rise and Fall #3) by Michael J. Sullivan
Feb 15, 2025 The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer #1) by Jasper Fforde
Feb 15, 2025 The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson #6) by Rick Riordan
Feb 16, 2025 Changer of Worlds (Honorverse: Worlds #3) by David Weber
Feb 17, 2025 Summon the Keeper (Keeper's Chronicles #1) by Tanya Huff
Feb 17, 2025 Age of the King (Echoes Saga #6) by Philip C. Quaintrell
Feb 18, 2025 Emily Wilde's (#3) Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Feb 18, 2025 The Queen's Price (Black Jewels #12 Queen Saga #3) by Anne Bishop
Feb 18, 2025 Steamforged (Steamborn #2) by Eric R. Asher
Feb 18, 2025 BioShifter: Volume 3 by Natalie "Thundamoo" Maher
Feb 18, 2025 This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7) by Matt Dinniman
Feb 19, 2025 False Gods (Warhammer 40k: Horus Heresy #2) by Graham McNeill
Feb 20, 2025 Dragons of Summer Flame (Dragonlance: TSG #2) by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Feb 20, 2025 Threshold (Stories from Cradle) by Will Wight
Feb 21, 2025 Crucible of Gold (Temeraire #7) by Naomi Novik
Feb 22, 2025 Maskerade (Discworld #18) by Terry Pratchett
Feb 23, 2025 Undeath & Taxes (Fred, the Vampire Accountant #2) by Drew Hayes
Feb 24, 2025 Will Leave the Galaxy for Good (Jacques McKeown #3) by Yahtzee Croshaw
Feb 27, 2025 Fall of the Argosi (Spellslinger: Argosi Saga #2) by Sebastien de Castell
Feb 27, 2025 A Rip Through Time (#1) by Kelley Armstrong
Feb 27, 2025 He Who Fights With Monsters 4 (HWFWM #4) by Shirtaloon
Feb 28, 2025 Shadows of London (Joseph Bridgeman #2) by Nick Jones
Feb 28, 2025 Ravensong (Green Creek #2) by TJ Klune

[Soo]

My notifications are 14 hours+ and nada new.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "My notifications are 14 hours+ and nada new."

Your profile says "Joined in February 2011, last active in December 2024"

Try logging out and back in...

[Scout]

We had between 5-8 inches of snow here in South Georgia. I hope it never snows again. No one knows how to drive in it, so we were housebound for 6 days.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Drive slow and expect to fishtail a bit on turns if you lose traction...

[Soo]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Soo wrote: "My notifications are 14 hours+ and nada new."

Your profile says "Joined in February 2011, last active in December 2024"

Try logging out and back in..."

That makes no sense because I've had to resign in on a different device in January.

Anyways. Relogged in (which lead me to multiple Page Doesn't Exist). Like, I went to my profile. Doesn't exist. Reload. Profile loads. Log out. Doesn't exist. Reload. Base page for GR shows. Every single time.

- two thumbs down -

Did not fix my notifications. XD

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Well... it fixed mine and Leah's... something in profiles isn't tracking logins/activity correctly, and for some people that fixes things, because I guess GR stops giving people notifications when it thinks you haven't logged in in 2-3 months... for me and Leah it read November in January (even tho we use the site most every day)...

It was worth a try...

Your profile says last active this month now...

Pre-Edit: it IS worth noting that this doesn't fix missed notifications, it just makes future notifications start appearing again... anything from your lost day is lost forever, sadly...

I feel like they did something to how notifications work to stop the thing where they break notifications for a week, and then when they fix them it's like a clogged pipe shooting out gunk, and you keep getting old notifications for a few days after, until everything returns to normal... now they just disappear into the ether if they don't appear on time...

[Soo]

Came back to say that it fixed notifications. It doesn't make entire sense though because like I said, I had to relog in January.

Mobile webpage will ask for a relog more frequently than PC browser.

Thanks for the tip!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

No idea... it's the first thing I check now, when things breakdown tho... if my profile says I haven't logged in in 2-3 months, I feel confident that the relog will help...

I generally stay logged in all the time and only relog when it kicks me out... I think it's supposed to kick you out every 30 days and force a relog (based on what most checkboxes say on sites that let you stay logged in), but I feel like it's more like 90 days and at different times, when I'm forced to relog on PC and mobile...

[Soo]

It's erratic.

I use Firefox on laptop & Brave on mobile devices. Sometimes forced log in happens every month and sometimes takes longer than 3 months.

🤷‍♀️

[Chris]

Scout wrote: "We had between 5-8 inches of snow here in South Georgia. I hope it never snows again. No one knows how to drive in it, so we were housebound for 6 days."

What part of South Georgia are you in? I'm in Bainbridge, in the SW part near Tallahassee FL.