DW Help?

[thefourthvine]

Dear DW people -

I have a weird problem with my reading list, namely: every first embedded video in a post turns into Sesame Street: TJ Counts to 40 by 10s (except with an added apostrophe I can't include because it kills my soul) and every second embedded video in a post turns into a box full of fish that I unfortunately can't link you to.

For a long time - for a really embarrassingly long time - I thought that everyone on my list was just posting the Sesame Street clip and the box of fish, and I thought there must be something deeply awesome about them that I was missing. Because, you know, a lot of times people will post embedded video without enough commentary to make it clear that they don't in fact want you to see Sesame Street and some fish. But recently bravecows posted this, and her text made so little sense with the accompanying "Now here's a song about FORTY!" and, of course, the fish - her "too many dicks" comment is particularly disturbing if you think she's talking about that fish box, as it happens - that I opened her post in a new tab. Where it turned out that she had actually embedded videos that made perfect sense with her text.

I have tried restarting Firefox, rebooting, and clearing my cache. Any other suggestions? I can live with this, but honestly, if I go the rest of my life without thinking a person I greatly admire is singing all day about fish dick even though the fish don't have any music, I will be just that much happier.

(I guess there must be a support thingy somewhere on DW, but I never had any luck with that at ALL on LJ, so I am being avoidant, there. Does anyone actually have personal experience of success with support over here?)

Confused love,
TFV

Comments

[libitina]

I've had this happen, too, but I hadn't noticed it being exclusive to dreamwidth (it might be, but I haven't noticed).

But I do not get fishes where dicks should be. I just find that when I have two friends posting embedded videos on the same day, I am going to have the first one's video showing up not only for the first poster, but also where the second one's video should be.

It has happened to me often. And usually ignoring it for a while fixes things (so probably caching in there somewhere as a problem). I solve far too many of my computer related problems by sticking things in a naughty corner until they are better behaved.

[cathalin]

I do not get fishes where dicks should be.

I'm sorry to comment jump, but this is one of the best sentences I have ever read on the internet.

[damned_colonial]

+1 lol

[northern]

yesssss

[bell]

I just find that when I have two friends posting embedded videos on the same day, I am going to have the first one's video showing up not only for the first poster, but also where the second one's video should be.

Yeah, me too-- I just never looked for a reason as to why because I very rarely want to watch the embedded videos anyway.

[bell]

And, oh, it happens to me on both LJ and DW.

[erika]

May I metaquotes this? (The fishes where dicks should be.)

flattered

[libitina]

erm... sure? with the context of the post, if possible.