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A comment on the question "why won't comments load on gawker and jezebel?" in Gawker Media Tech:

Paul: were comments fine for you about 2 hours ago; stopped working about an hour ago, and still not working?

We rolled out a change (about an hour ago) to eliminate a problem whereby some of our code was being blocked by firewalls / ad blockers (basically, we renamed a file). When this propagated to CDN hosts there were some outages, but it should be ok now. – Tom Plunkett , on July 31, 2009 17:59

A comment on the question "why won't comments load on gawker and jezebel?" in Gawker Media Tech:

netman / ava: Comments are not working *now*? We pushed a fix live to resolve issues for people behind firewalls or using ad blocking plugins; it is possible there were issues as the code propogated, but it should be fine now.

For those behind firewalls or affected by ad blockers, we changed filenames (needed for some parts of client side code) to eliminate potential matches with ad blocking software. – Tom Plunkett , on July 31, 2009 17:56

Tom Plunkett replied on July 31, 2009 16:25 to the problem "Search feature returns 0 results?!" in Gawker Media Tech:

Which site? I assumed jalopnik.com (http://jalopnik.com/search/alfa/) but it returns over 400 results.

A comment on the problem "Comments Not Loading in Gizmodo" in Gawker Media Tech:

fab - can you provide information on your setup:

- OS/Browser
- Add-ons that you have installed
- Location: Home, work, both?

Some add-ons (like AdBlock Plus) are known to block client-side code on all of our sites. – Tom Plunkett , on July 30, 2009 16:06

Tom Plunkett marked one of zegridathes' replies in Gawker Media Tech as useful. zegridathes replied to the problem "Login links not working".

A comment on the problem "Very slow scripts on Jezebel, erratic comment functionality" in Gawker Media Tech:

dealia, thanks for the comment.

One thing that has been noted as an issue (in other tickets) is the fact that certain adblockers & firewalls are causing our system to break.

Can you provide the following:
- OS/browser info
- Add-ons (like adblock)
- Location: Corporate, home, both – Tom Plunkett , on July 30, 2009 14:27

Tom Plunkett marked one of rip's replies in Gawker Media Tech as useful. rip replied to the problem "Jalopnik postings with photo lists are broken.".

A comment on the question "why won't comments load on gawker and jezebel?" in Gawker Media Tech:

@gmerin: can you provide more info (examples, perhaps)? Doubleclick has nothing to do with the host "tags.gizmodo.com"; we -- as in Gawker Media -- use the "tags." servers to distribute images, video, css (static assets). It has nothing to do with doubleclick ( which is served via Google infrastructure -- a Google company). Anything you can offer, we will eliminate the problem as it relates to Doubleclick.

Thanks! – Tom Plunkett , on July 19, 2009 22:32

Tom Plunkett set one of Gina Trapani's replies as an official response to "Bring back "How I Work"!" in Gawker Media Tech

Tom Plunkett replied on July 17, 2009 21:12 to the idea "Bring back "How I Work"!" in Gawker Media Tech:

I guess not...

Tom Plunkett set one of Tom Plunkett 's replies as an official response to "Not able to see private messages that I send to people." in Gawker Media Tech

Tom Plunkett replied on July 17, 2009 21:12 to the idea "Not able to see private messages that I send to people." in Gawker Media Tech:

We have phased out this feature.

Tom Plunkett set one of Tom Plunkett 's replies as an official response to "live.gizmodo.com webpage should have a better way of automatically updating" in Gawker Media Tech

Tom Plunkett replied on July 17, 2009 21:11 to the idea "live.gizmodo.com webpage should have a better way of automatically updating" in Gawker Media Tech:

thanks.

Tom Plunkett marked one of Gawker Media Tech Support's replies in Gawker Media Tech as useful. Gawker Media Tech Support replied to the idea "Mac software lets you read text much faster".

Tom Plunkett replied on July 17, 2009 21:11 to the idea "Mac software lets you read text much faster" in Gawker Media Tech:

thanks

Tom Plunkett set one of Tom Plunkett 's replies as an official response to "Gawker Network & Politics" in Gawker Media Tech

Tom Plunkett replied on July 17, 2009 21:10 to the idea "Gawker Network & Politics" in Gawker Media Tech:

We are what we are.

A comment on the question "why won't comments load on gawker and jezebel?" in Gawker Media Tech:

I assume people are aware, but see this on the ABP site --
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project....g

"it is recommended not to use Filterset.G with Adblock Plus"

and

"If you already have Filterset.G Updater installed, you can uninstall the extension and remove the Filterset.G subscription in the Adblock Plus Preferences dialog." – Tom Plunkett , on July 17, 2009 19:11

A comment on the question "why won't comments load on gawker and jezebel?" in Gawker Media Tech:

Also see this: http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project....g

"it is recommended not to use Filterset.G with Adblock Plus"

and

"If you already have Filterset.G Updater installed, you can uninstall the extension and remove the Filterset.G subscription in the Adblock Plus Preferences dialog." – Tom Plunkett , on July 17, 2009 19:09