Install Awareness

Head's up: Tomorrow morning between 4 and 6am Eastern, the AOL Journals tech folks are going to try that install again. This is the one that will put a dividing line and disclaimer between the banner ads and your Journal, and will also hopefully solve some of the save issues people are still having.

What this means is that if you're online posting something between 4 and 6 am, there may be a few glitches as the install goes through the system. Don't panic, just wait until after 6am Eastern to update. Hopefully the AOL-J tech crew will have sacrificed the appropriate interns to the appropriate computer server gods this time, and everything will work as it should.

Hey, you know, I forgot I wasn't supposed to mention the whole human sacrifice thing. Forget you read that part, okay? Thanks.

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#11 Comment from ecori
11/30/05 8:44 AM | Permalink

You all have added a dividing line and a very small font grammatically incorrect disclaimer and that solves anything??? Let's be honest here, this "update" also installed animation in ads that now crosses over that stupid meaningless dividing line and runs right across our words in our journal. How stupid does AOL think their customer are anyway? Or maybe I should reverse that . . . how stupid is AOL to think they can insult us this way?

You all keep making a bad situation worse with the lack of any true dialog with we angry customers, insults in your proposed "solutions", and the way you all continue on as if everything is fine.

Shame on AOL.

Virginia
#10 Comment from visionarydiva1
11/29/05 10:20 PM | Permalink

I don't know if this will solve any problems but o well honestly what can we do. Unless we are will to move our service to another company I don't think that we will make a serious mark.

Amy
http://journals.aol.com/visionarydiva1/AVisionaryDiva
http://journals.aol.com/visionarydiva1/ABookClubforJLanders/
#9 Comment from sdoscher458
11/29/05 10:17 PM | Permalink

Can the dividing line be about 2" tall and go right across the ad? One can hope, can't one? I'm all for human sacrifice if it starts with the top management first. Sandi...
#8 Comment from panzerjohn
11/29/05 9:16 PM | Permalink

John -- I just want you to know that Joseph the Intern is VERY NERVOUS right now. We told him we were going snipe hunting in the woods tonight. Don't blow this, OK? Because our only backup is to wave a dead chicken over the servers.
#7 Comment from monponsett
11/29/05 6:43 PM | Permalink

As one of the blogs Diecast mentioned, I am dealing with the banners as follows:

- Denouncing Bank Of America in my Journal Description (I think it currently says "You're better off with a small safe.")

- Attempting to make some money for myself off this. I already have a pizza/curly fires/soda deal on the, well... on the table. I make an AOL Journal for them, type up a crude menu, get a few pictures of the product, throw it all onto AOL.... took me an hour (including negotiations), and I have a free weekly dinner for the rest of my natural life. The more Journals i make, the more free stuff I get... it's Smurftastic!!

- Make sure that everyone I can get to at A to the Izzy knows how unhappy I am with the banners. I've gone easy on John, because he's obviously the guy AOL wants us to beat on.

Beyond that, my enjoyment of AOL Journals outdoes how pissed I am at the banner ads. It is winning by a close margin, however.... the next time AOL effs me, they'd better kiss me first.

By the way... I think I'm only in John's favorite links section because I threatened him in my letter of introduction. The other people listed there most likely didn't bring up the possibility of Heavies visiting his small farm town.

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