Heads-Up: 11/23, 4-6AM ET: Install of Disclaimer and Save Fix

Hi folks -- the tech folks just confirmed that the new patch just cleared testing. It will be installed early tomorrow morning (Nov. 23), starting at around 4AM ET and should be over by 6AM. It will be a rolling install, which means there may be some outages, but there won't be one big outage.

Here's what's going to be installed:

* Save Entry Fix:
Many users have been having problems saving entries to their Journals. The problem was fixed on the server side (incorrect files were replaced) and the server caches were flushed, but the bad files may have remained, stored in caches on your computer. This would have caused you to still see the problem.

One fix was clearing your browser & TopSpeed caches, which should have fixed the problem for most people (unfortunately, a lot of people wouldn't know or didn't hear to do this).

To remedy this, this patch will force your computer to get the correct version of the files, by telling it to go look for the correct files in a new location. This will bypass any cached versions of the incorrect files still stored on your machine.

* Advertising Banner Disclaimer:
Several changes to the header design will be incorporated to visually distinguish the advertising banner from the user-generated content below it:

Updated Header with Ad Disclaimer

The AOL header (which is seen by users outside the AOL client) will be changed to have a dark blue background.

More vertical space and a light blue horizontal line is going to be placed between the advertisement and the AOL Journals header.

A text disclaimer will go under the ad. It will read, "Ads are not an endorsement by the blog author."

I have asked the tech folks to keep an eye on the comments to this entry -- If you still have problems saving Journal entries, or experience other problems with Journals after the install window ends at 6AM, please leave a comment so the tech folks can be made aware of it.

Thanks -- Joe

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#49 Comment from donah42
12/2/05 11:17 AM | Permalink

Could the disclaimer font be any smaller?
I haven't had any trouble saving entries since I quit posting in my AOL J and moved over to Blogspot.
#48 Comment from lamove04
11/27/05 9:45 AM | Permalink

What a joke. The redesign still shows a HUGE banner ad. I do not want something like that at the top of my blog, disclaimer or no disclaimer.

I'm curious-- did anyone at AOL-Journals look at all the journalers who won peer-voted VIVI awards and count how many left AOL-J because of these ads? The answer is: A LOT.

--Albert, now at: http://AlbertsWorldofArtsyFun.blogspot.com/
#47 Comment from kauffmanprt
11/26/05 11:20 PM | Permalink

just glanced have onion rings in oven real quickglance looks good guys will catch u ltr. must watch news soon let people know what i think tomrrow mwk
#46 Comment from bhbner2him
11/26/05 7:54 PM | Permalink

No problems with my journal or saving entries so far....but if the powers that be will being seeing this, I wanted to say "Thank you for listening!" regarding the banners. Perhaps this is a compromise folks can live with. - Barbara
http://journals.aol.com/bhbner2him/LifeFaithinCaneyhead/
#45 Comment from billandnae
11/26/05 1:03 PM | Permalink

Joe,

so sorry you have to deal with this, and that's all I'm saying!

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Heads-Up: 11/23, 4-6AM ET: Install of Disclaimer and Save Fix