WTF is going on?

[hackthis_archive]

The Problem

1. I made a comment in makesmewannadie's LJ using a John Lennon icon.

2. The post was made, the icon, well, it was there this morning. And yet, now? This is NOT my icon. I have never even seen it before.

3. Not only that, but in confusion I went looking through my icons. Yeah, there are three icons there that don't belong to me. And yet, there they are.*

4. Naturally, I reckon I've either been hacked or LJ is fucked. So I go over to support/lj_maintenance, where bradfitz says:

Userpic breakage -- I need to do some work that'll involve breaking userpics and other files for a bit. Shouldn't last too long....

5. WTF does that mean?

Is anybody else having this issue? Has support said anything?


* For the record, the icons under 'bitter end', 'out of flippin order' and 'entourage' are the wonky ones, so yeah, if those belong to you, I didn't nick them.

Comments

[norah.livejournal.com]

I have a few wonky ones too , and so does cranberryink - I noticed it when she posted with a crappy icon, when usually her design is so gorgeous.

I pity the fool who ends up with one of MY icons by mistake! *cackles gleefully* That shit ain't worksafe, you know?

[semisuper.livejournal.com]

That happened to several people I know last night; they were back to normal by this morning, and no one really seems to know what happened. Their keywords remained the same but different icons showed up; as far as I know they simply changed their passwords and chalked it up to an LJ glitch.

ps hi, I think you're great.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

My friend dutch_eowyn had the same problem and she said maintenance explained it wouldn't last long... Can't remember more. Except that while she saw a lot of weirdness in ehr userpics, a lot of us checking for her saw everything as normal.. Maybe it was only 'broken' for people on a certai cluster and users of otehr clusters could see the normal stuff, or something. Weird, in any case.

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

I just checked my icons, and I have this weird alien thing instead of Dom! Whaaaa?

[random-flores.livejournal.com]

No, it happened to me. Cause that? SO does not look like Gina Gershon.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

*cackles*

OMG that's classic.

[random-flores.livejournal.com]

In all fairness - they look very happy together. *pats the strangers in her LJ icon*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I was like who the hell are those people! Check out my emo icon -- don't people know that I hate emo? Bah!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Wait, that Sears one is kinda cool, let's see if the emo one pops up now.

[norah.livejournal.com]

this is NOT my "holy fucking GUH" icon....

[norah.livejournal.com]

Except now it is. *gives up omg*

[random-flores.livejournal.com]

If I didn't know better, I'd think they did it specifically to get back at you. The world revolves around you, you know.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

It's a communist plot!

Again!

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

Oh GAH! That sucks!

You're definitely not alone, though I have no idea why the fuck this is happening.

Evil lj gremlins...

*snugs you hard*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

::hugs::

[phoenixw.livejournal.com]

How bizarre! I went to look through my userpics and there was this thing, replacing an existing thing that isn't there now.

Gah! I guess I should report it. Or something.

[kissingchaos9.livejournal.com]

WTF is this? This is not a Seth/Ryan icon. This is Lindsey Lohan and an Oompa Loompa. Ew.

[obsessedmuch.livejournal.com]

Curious to see what comes up as there is NO ICON there for this icon spot. None. Big blank space. Oh LJ, you do love to make light of things that you MIGHT HAVE FUCKING TOLD US ABOUT. Your ass wears a hat for me, yes it does.

[tobymalfoy.livejournal.com]

It's a bug. They are fixing it right now:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/83530.html?thread=19651402&style=mine#t19651402

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Yours seem to look fine by now. Phew. This makes me wonder if this happened to me, as well... I wasn't online last night, so who knows.