Unable to Comment on Other Blogs
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Interesting development: When i use Chrome, the Likes are still not working for me on the example page I used above. I am using Windows 7 (64bit) and the latest version of Chrome as of right now: 29.0.1547.66 m
If I use Firefox 23.0.1 then it works perfectly… previously it did not work with any browser including Firefox….
So it seems that Chrome may have something to do with the problem?
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lanceolot, thanks for your additional details. From what I have been hearing elsewhere, Likes have been sporadically not working and then working again without any concrete pattern. At any rate, I am unable to reproduce the issue in Windows 7 in Chrome right now, as Likes are working for me.
Could you please keep an eye on this for me and let me know if the issue resolves itself or persists over the next few days.
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Sure…. I’ll make a point of trying to like a few extra freshly pressed posts and let you know what happens… ;-)
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Thanks. Sorry to keep sounding like I’m dragging this out, but until I can nail down how it happens and reproduce it, it’s hard to pass it along to the developers for a fix. :)
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Ok… Still having problems – here are a few pages where it does NOT work using Chrome:
http://vincentmars.com/2013/09/19/are-you-becoming-a-paperless-writer/ ***
http://bottledworder.com/2013/09/17/the-anatomy-of-regret/
http://thestake.org/2013/09/10/orson-scott-cards-life-is-at-odds-with-his-art/*** As a quick test, I fired up Firefox and tried to like this page and after logging into wordpress via the popup, it worked first time.
Here are a few pages where it did work.. i.e. I simply loaded a different page and clicked the like – no logging in or changing anything on my browser after viewing the pages that did not work…
Works:
http://nhwn.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/your-writers-mind/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/wordpress-ios-7-update/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/writing-challenge-dialogue/
http://jordymike.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/writing-without-a-map-in-which-i-end-up-exactly-where-im-supposed-to-be/Other than the problem being limited to Chrome, the other most obvious thing is that the ones I have problems with are custom domain sites running wordpress… the ones without custom domains (i.e. *.wordpress.com) work perfectly every time. I cannot say for sure if the ones that don’t work are hosted by wordpress.com vs elsewhere but I sure you guys could figure that out quicker than I could.
Lanceolot
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lanceolot, thanks so much for this! It was very helpful! I have passed your note along to our developer and the info you included may be enough for us to sort it out. I really appreciate your assistance and patience, and I’ll keep you posted!
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lanceolot, it looks like this issue may be related to third-party cookies. Can you please check to see if they are working for WordPress.com here:
It may be that you have cookies enabled for Firefox but not Chrome.
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Ok.. That seems to be the problem… Unfortunately I do not like tracking and other third party cookies on my primary browser i.e. Chrome…. and it’s a catch-22 with enabling this as it would then force me to chose between clearing all cookies on exit or having “remember me” features to improve usability with things like auto logins etc. to various online services like WordPress. I do clear things but usually not every day.
Will be interesting to see what happens if/when Firefox and others change their defaults to block 3rd party cookies…
Oh well… so much for Likes… I’ll just have to live with the reduced functionality
Thanks for the effort.
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I appreciate your desire for privacy. However, when you go to certain sites like ours, we use cookies as a way to maintain your login authentication across various actions on the site, so you don’t have to keep logging back in.
If it reassures you what we are doing with our cookies, you can review the kinds of information we collect here
http://en.support.wordpress.com/private-user-data/
and
http://automattic.com/privacy/Finally, you can choose to opt out of a couple of our statistics tools via your account settings:
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My concern has nothing to do with WordPress.com. If I subscribe to a service and it uses cookies for its own purposes/functionality then I have no problem with that…… its the third parties that use cookies for tracking and other less than “honourable” reasons without my knowledge or express permission…
WordPress.com works perfectly fine for me if I disable third party cookies… and enabling them just for Like functionality is not worth it. I will just live with the restriction…
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