Kinja techs probably don’t know either.

I have a lot of empathy for the AVC staff who are now stuck with a legacy CMS that was clearly built for a different, not entirely compatible purpose. Been there, done that, it sucks.

I understand that you cannot go back to the way it was, but my suggestion to improve Kinja is to change Kinja as a whole so that it functions like the old site exactly.

The instructions posted yesterday were not very clear. I managed to create this account by linking it to my Disqus account but this account apparently needs to also be linked to a FB, Twitter or Google account, which was not explained at all. As far as I can tell this account is now orphaned. I’ll lose access to it…

It’s a shitshow. I tried a number of times in three different browsers and nothing seemed to happen and there were a bunch of JavaScript errors piling up in the console. I emailed support and they said it worked so I tried again and it turned out that what I had to do was click on the user icon in the upper right hand…

I too tried about 10 times to claim my account...maybe more. It finally got me out of the grays. I hope you’re good too.

We knew from the moment we were told we’d be moving to Kinja that it would be a major overhaul. We knew we’d be trying to take a decade-plus of content—filed according to its own complex, not exactly modular organization system—and fit into someone else’s platform, then asking the administrators of that platform to…

This fucking sucks. Can someone suggest another non kinja’d site?

I’m also a web developer and a thousand times yes to all this. How do you ship a product without a working search? How?! Did they not even try staging this?

That’s not the Kinja way. If you’re not commenting in the first couple hours, no one will see your post. It’s always been like that.

I would upvote this, but I can’t, because clicking on the star next to your comment takes me back to the top of the page.

I’m.... not?! Well that’s something at least.

Quick reply, to see if I’m still in the grey. Yesterday I probably tried a few times too many to claim my account, so I’m afraid I scared it away.

But seriously, here’s a question:

Sorry, you took too long to post, this comment has been sentenced to obscurity.

Is there any sort of way of checking if the account claim form worked? I tried the disqus claim website yesterday, but it never seemed to actually log me into disqus to migrate my account.

Man, I’m trying, but this site is garbage.

Is there a chance of making posting a top-level comment not utterly pointless if you don’t get in within a certain time? (i.e., comment sorting, refresh options)

Nope!

I’ve worked alongside web devs, though I’m not one myself, and I can appreciate that not everything can be anticipated when going through a massive revamp. Hiccups are inevitable. I can also appreciate that oftentimes there are people within an org who DO anticipate certain hiccups but are ignored because they don’t…