Kinja Link Doesn't Work

April 21, 2004 3:26 AM

In the tradition of asking questions about items in the sidebar of MeFi, I can't get the Kinja link to work in either Mozilla (preferred) or IE. Both attempts result in "The weblog addresses listed below are not valid. Please enter URLs in the form www.example.com" Granted, I could be un-lazy and type in www.metafilter.com, but I thought I should point it out.
posted by ajpresto to Bugs at 3:26 AM (10 comments total)

Weird, it worked for me. A popup is launched, I logged in, then it said "www.metafilter.com" has been added to your favorites.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:47 AM on April 21, 2004

It only works for "everyone and their mother"; sucks to be the rest of us.
posted by timeistight at 11:33 AM on April 21, 2004

Yeah, it doesn't work for me either. I have a Kinja account and logged in. All I get is an error page and a pop-up asking me to login to Kinja. If I login, I get:

The weblog addresses listed below are not valid. Please enter URLs in the form www.example.com
posted by MrAnonymous at 11:48 AM on April 21, 2004

*err, I have a Kinja account as was already logged in.
posted by MrAnonymous at 11:49 AM on April 21, 2004

Works for me, and I'm not anyone or a mother.
posted by ewagoner at 2:04 PM on April 21, 2004

Ajpresto, I assume you're using Windows and not a Mac? I'll try and look into it, this is very weird though. It sounds like the site's URL isn't being properly passed to the application.
posted by megnut at 2:38 PM on April 21, 2004

FWIW, it worked fine from my PC running firefox. Let me test IE 6... also worked fine.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:32 PM on April 21, 2004

If you're debugging: It failed for me on IE6 on two different XP machines. It also fails on FireFox under OS X. However, it worked on Safari and IE on OS X and IE6 on XP running on VirtualPC.

Don't ya love javascript?
posted by timeistight at 3:56 PM on April 21, 2004

I should have said: WinXP, IE6. Works just fine.
posted by ewagoner at 7:42 AM on April 22, 2004

A popup is launched

there was nothing left to say after this was said.
posted by quonsar at 7:48 AM on April 23, 2004