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Something peculiar is occurring lately…. a few of the blogs I’ve been happily following and commenting on, some for a very long time, are up and disappearing from my Reader and are totally erased from my ‘Blogs I Follow list’. POOF!
If you see a notification that I am now following your blog …well…. You’re one of the ones who have been POOFED!
I’ve caught a few but…how many can I be missing? And WHY is this happening???
Hmmmmm … WordPress ????
Poetry of Light 
It’s happening all over. I wonder what they’re up to.
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Thanks Richard. I assumed it couldn’t just be me … but it’s so disconcerting. And strangely interesting who is disappearing. (!)
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Yes, totally. Richard, who I collaborated with for two years, disappeared from mine and now I have a daily subscription to his blog – it seems faintly ridiculous.
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Gremlins!
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Dear J – does this apply just to WordPress blogs you’re following? I’d take this issue to the WP Forum – the folk there are always so helpful. Good luck!
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Thanks for the suggestion Miriam…I posted an inquiry. We’ll see…
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I just today had a subscriber who had the very same issue Jana; and I’ve heard of this happening before to others, as well as several failures to be notified of posts once subscribed. To me, it rather points to the presence of a bug somewhere within the WP source code – some malignant microbial gremlin. Whether there will be anything about it in the forums I’m not sure. Perhaps I’ll take a look.
Yours, hopefully not up in smoke just yet.
Hariod.
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I suspect a microbial gremlin with a peculiar sense of humor. However, Mercury is also in retrograde until the 25th, so I’m assuming they are in cahoots.
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By further coincidence, another subscriber to my blog mentioned a possible workaround for our microbial gremlin just an hour ago Jana:
http://contentedness.net/2014/10/08/mood-balloons/comment-page-1/#comment-1891
It’s all to do with a WordPress software update apparently.
Hariod.
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You are so good here Hariod, thank you … but before more people drift away I copied my listing and stored it in a safe place for reference. I feared by exporting my listing I’d somehow lose the whole thing. I’ll just be vigilant.
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My problem is I could not see the gravatar of the people who like my post except in the notification page. This has been going on for the past week. I’ve tried WP’s help forum but it always points out to the setting which I haven’t changed so far. The only message I get is “loading”….
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So there are all sorts of shenanigans going on, Arlene …. the plot thickens.
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well
hello …
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Bem vindo de volta!!!!
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Little hummers
delight
in language and flutter
all hearts understand…
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Change is a constant that is for sure. Disappearing blogs, that sounds like a project. Have a great week all the same. 🙂
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Yes, it is! It seems to have a velocity all its own. And a sense of humor.
The same to you Nomzi !
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😀 Thanks.
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I’ve been very quiet but I’m still here, and you are too x
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Hi Teri…I love your comment. xxoo
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I made my account private for awhile due to these links that essentially are spam hitting on my page(s) that somehow escape the WordPress spam filters. It was addressed by WordPress in the forum questions but they insist they aren’t doing any harm – except it completely screws up all the statistical data. I haven’t found my way out of that problem yet. I used to enjoy looking at the statistical information but now its totally unreliable
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I think I’ve come to the same conclusion about the statistical data. It’s fun to look at, but it doesn’t seem particularly accurate…. Sorry about the spam problem. Every once in awhile I get one, totally unrelated… as if it is a misdirected message. Off in cyber space…
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A ghost in the machine? To add to the pile of evidence I have had similar problems since changing my theme…Perhaps one day we’ll all wake up and find this was all just a dream…
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I still think, John, that it’s our ankle winged friend Mercury….seeing if we can keep up with his curious maneuvers.
“Off with this blog!”
Well….foiled you little trickster. Caught you!
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I’m fairly sure this hasn’t happened to me yet, but now that you’ve mentioned it I’m going to keep a close eye on my list. Hm.
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Not a bad idea Tony …. it was only by chance I caught it. I started to see blogs I’ve followed for a long time come up as recommendations on the side bar in the Reader. What? I also went to comment on a blog I’d seen in the morning and couldn’t find it again in the Reader. La-la land…
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Thanks for mentioning this and creating the dialogue. Will be on full alert!
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It’s happen to me I had to go looking though my settings to find them
Now that being said
When you visit you always put a smile on my face
As always Sheldon
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