h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I had trouble logging in to the new system this morning, because I use Spamarrest to vet my emails; the bbc needed a person to read and retype a "hidden" word (scribbled over to confuse a mechanical reader) before their verifying email could reach me. Fortunately I also have a college email address, so I got them connected to that and got through that way.

If they told us what address they'd be contacting us from, I could have authorised that sender in advance.

I really hope the bar is temporary. It really stands out in alabaster (and goo, I suppose)

Then again, I got used to the new front page

Oh, and what's this Random Top User on the front page??

Whoami needs the banner

Sorry - i am getting hysterical now

Mort - go to bed.

Whisky, DNA hub you only need h2g2 account no extra log in!

I get this text:

"If you haven't already registered with us as a Member, please create an account with h2g2. You will be able to use this account to contribute to the Hub."

Yes Jodan.

In the cold light of day the next morning,
The wisky bottle clanging to the floor
the hustle and lamposts settle down,
its h2g2 once more

Actually, I've not been having any error messages over the past hour or so....I wonder if the gremlins are leaving the building?

I'm finally in! Last night, Mozilla and IE both kept sending me to an error page saying that I had "used the back button" or "refreshed my page"... I ended up signing on in Opera. I gave the email almost 2 hours to arrive, but eventually gave up and went to bed. The email was waiting for me when I got up.

I was still a little concerned when the activation link took me to a page saying something to the effect of "You are now a member of BBCi, but you have not used h2g2 yet. Click the button below to join h2g2" and a button labelled "Register with h2g2"... But I clicked and was taken to (almost) my familiar U-space.

h2g2, I missed ya'!

Vicki, the gremlins probably haven't succeeded in logging on yet...

Que es, plain page?

In the URL, where it says 'Brunel' or 'Alabaster' or "Classic', type 'plain' (without the quotes).

Peet, are you using the Gimme Opera or the paid for?
And which Mozilla are you using?

Somebody was telling me the other day I should have more than one wowser, for testing HTML pages...

I can unsubscribe hub forum, but nor post

tr, I'm using the "Free" Opera, v7 and Mozilla 1.5a... I also have Netscape 7, Netscape 4.7 (I'm struggling to stick within the "no spitting" rule there) and IE6, all for that very purpose.

A tip - if you're using the "Free" Opera, and only looking at one site, press F11?thread="wizard" class="smiley" src="http://www.h2g2.com/h2g2/skins/Alabaster/images/Smilies/f_wizard.gif"/>

The gremlins must have been able to log on now, because I've just had error, after error, after error

Poor thing...
I haven't had any problems yet this morning.

Hmm. That's interesting, Peet. Where did you get the antique Netscape?
How does your computer react to all those wowsers? And how many can you use simultaneously?

Error, Error, Error, Error

suppose it's no-ones fault really - it's just I think I had really high expectations.......

Got some errors, of the 'you need to register or log in to post' type. When hitting the 'reply' button', they' d pop up these error messages, just hit back button, and hit 'post', or 'reply' again, till it worked annoying though and not uniformly on everything

Yeah, I found that too, but now I keep getting "Service unavailable" everytime I try to go back to my PS!!!! Looks like I'm stuck in this thread now.


Anyone got any seems how I can't go anywhere?