A pox on Vox
I’ve had a lot of fun on Vox in recent months, because it’s a very user-friendly system with a lot of convenient features. I especially liked being able to tag my posts with various words, and the convenience of being able to add in my favorite books (audio & video also, although I don’t use those features). However, yesterday it started giving me problems.
I don’t know what kind of “upgrades” they’re doing on their system, but it has suddenly become entirely user-unfriendly, if you use Mozilla Firefox as a browser (like I do). At first, I couldn’t leave comments anywhere in the Vox system with Firefox. That was bad enough, since I hate Internet Exploder with a passion, but I figured that if I absolutely had to, I’d just suck it up and use IE for leaving comments (which would also give me a minute or six, while the clunky & nasty IE was chugging through its opening, to think about how important it was for me to leave that particular comment).
Oh yeah, I tried upgrading to the newest Firefox, hoping that would fix the problem. It didn’t. Neither did signing out & back into the site. I tried everything I could possibly think of, and nothing helped.
Today I discovered that I cannot post new Vox entries, or edit existing ones, in Firefox. This has now gotten me super pissed-off. IE has horrid security! IE lets in tons of ads that Firefox blocks! IE is clunky & anti-user-friendly! (It took me a ridiculous amount of time — well over 10 minutes! — to figure out how to shut off the damned clicky noises in IE that happened every time I went to a new webpage or clicked on a link! In Firefox, you can find that & shut it off in about 5 seconds, which is what I did when I first installed it.)
You bet I left feedback at Vox. Not that I think it’ll help, since apparently most people use IE (or — *gag* — AOL’s browser!). I started a Vox blog because it was a much nicer (and more user-friendly!) interface than LJ or any of the other blogging sites I’ve looked at. It was a really convenient place to blog about the spiritual/Wiccan stuff that I’ve been focusing on more, recently. Now it looks like it’s quite possibly frakked up beyond all reason for my purposes. I’m seriously pissed.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Color me unthrilled at this as well. And here I was thinking of, actually using that to make a post because I had this bright idea of trying to blog more since I’ve been quite the slacker lately.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
It’s not Firefox itself but rather Adblock, probably even specifically the Filterset.G updater for Adblock. I researched a fix and have applied it to my home computers, but I’m still highly annoyed. Ugh.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
That’s odd - I’ve been on Vox on and off all day, including a post and haven’t had any problems with it and Firefox.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Firefox works here, use ad-aware as a blocker, Spyhunter and some other thing that came with this Sony VAIO. Internet Explorer sucks, Google needs to clean up its act. My blog’s on My Space, but seldom write in it. Am going to explore VOX, maybe populate it.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Vox is still working for me (I use Firefox exclusively, but the only extension I have is the Web Developer).
March 1st, 2007 at 1:13 am
Well, obviously I shouldn’t be diagnosing tech problems! Hopefully I can get mine fixed in the next few days. Le sigh.