The Lost Challenges discussion

This thread is for you to chat with your fellow challengers about anything and everything, book related or not :)

Anyone else have trouble with goodreads, or is it just me, it would even let me up date on one of our challenges.I don't know what's going on, if its just goodreads or its just my family's computer ,but it does the same thing when I'm on my laptop.

Uggh.... I'm hoping they're not putting out another update.

I've heard people talk about having trouble recently. Some said that switching to Chrome fixed it. I use Firefox and have no issues as of yet.

I don't know what's going on, when ever I want to post or copy & paste I have to get out my iPad to do so , for some reason if I'm trying it on either the computer or laptop I can't post, or copy and paste and the line the blinks it some time don't even show up, plus like when I was trying to update on one of are challenges, the blinking line that you see when you type would go to where I wanted it, it was stuck. its been doing that to me for the last few days

I'm having the same problem. It's making me crazy.

Dee wrote: "I'm having the same problem. It's making me crazy."

I know right,its making me made,

I've noticed that it seems to be lagging a lot when I try to scroll down the page. I thought it was my laptop.

Elizabeth wrote: "I don't know what's going on, when ever I want to post or copy & paste I have to get out my iPad to do so , for some reason if I'm trying it on either the computer or laptop I can't post, or copy a..."

I am having these same types of problems too, it makes updating challenges near impossible. Though I'm sort of happy that it seems to be a Goodreads thing since I'd begun to think I'd broken my mouse. I already broke one this year dropping it, I didn't want to have broken another for no reason I could see.

Penni wrote: "I've heard people talk about having trouble recently. Some said that switching to Chrome fixed it. I use Firefox and have no issues as o..."

I'm using Chrome and having minor problems but not as bad as Elizabeth is describing.

Elizabeth wrote: "I don't know what's going on, when ever I want to post or copy & paste I have to get out my iPad to do so , for some reason if I'm trying it on either the computer or laptop I can't post, or copy a..."

There's a lot of stuff up on the Goodreads Feedback group about problems happening. If you have time and inclination you might go there and describe the problems you're having. They are trying to gather info on the issues. I think it is going to be a pesky bug to find and fix.

*sigh* I switched to chrome last night so I could do all the challenge stuff I needed to do. I was able to do it that way no problem. I hate change......I'm old!!

Thinks Penni I went there and joined and posted what was going on , I list all of it , tried to post on your message but of curse it wouldn't let me.

Caroline wrote: "I've noticed that it seems to be lagging a lot when I try to scroll down the page. I thought it was my laptop."

I agree that as I scroll down the page, it stutters and sputters. There's just too much data (as in what people are reading, friending, etc.) On good days, the scrolling is endless.

Sometimes the scrolling stops and there's only white.

I just got a message from one of group members of Goodreads Feedback and they said that Goodreads don't look forward to the problems been fix until. Maybe Thursday since Goodreads don't of any technical support for long weekends.

Thanks for the info, Elizabeth!!

Your welcome,Dee ,lets hope they finally fix the problems since the person also said in the message that Goodreads has know about these problems since Friday

your not the only one with that does that to MadameZelda it won't even let me post on your message. that's why I have to go back and forth and use either my phone or my iPad to post or do anything that I want to do on goodreads.

That's interesting, Elizabeth. I didn't know about Goodreads' failure to allow posting.

I was having the same problems last weekend. Happily, a GR tech responded to my email on Saturday (even though it was the long weekend in the U.S.), and he said the problems are mostly based on Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge. At his suggestion, I tried Chrome and had no problems. Then he kindly send another email a couple of days later saying they had fixed it. And sure enough, I've had no problems since then.

I'm hoping you are all back to normal now too.

They actually fixed the problem just the other day, so glad that they did because the last few days that Goodreads was acting up , let's just say I wasn't the only ones getting mad, there's a group on here called Goodreads Feedback, you go there and join and tell the group what's problems your having with goodreads,

Glad to hear you're all back to normal now :)

So last night I was working on updating some challenges. I have Wordpad posts for all the challenges I'm working on, I fill them out there and then edit my posts here.

I worked for quite some time on the Scavenger Hunt, filling in all the words/quotes from books I'd read in October. I was happy as I'd found nearly all of them.

I'd just begun updating my post here when I began to realize something was wrong... I'd used the November Scavenger Hunt file! By way of excuse, I'm Canadian so we've had Thanksgiving already, but still!

Will redo it with the correct list tonight :(

Oh no! Hope you didn't spend too much time on it? What a pain in the bottom for you :(

BTW I did not realise that Canada had a different date for Thanksgiving. I learned something new! Lol. (My excuse is I'm English and we don't have it at all!)

Oh no, CC! How frustrating...especially in November when you'll be working on those words all over again.

Hey people! How are you?
I just finished my exam session today and since I've been traveling by train I've already jumped into March readings.
So, I'm gonna tell you this one: I set up all the challenges that I found on the group in Excel so I could organize and work on them, diving them with colors according to the duration. Now I signed up for the long challenges in january, february and also now in March and I think I'm just gonna mess up something sooner or later. Or maybe I'm just tired right now :'D
Besides that, how is it working our for you?? I'm mainly keeping track of It's all in a name and the A to Z Challenges (Titles - both English & Italian -, Authors, Series and Covers; I've started up a list of places too somewhere but I realized this morning I can't find it at the moment)

Wow Ana! That's really organised. I keep track of my challenges in a private group here on Goodreads (I think a lot of people do that) but I'm not really very organised about it. I tend to just muddle along and hope my books fit somewhere, then when it gets close to deadline I start frantically hunting for books to fill the gaps!

Yeah, I love keeping (or try to keep) everything in order on PC like files, do lists and similar. I think it's a way to balance with not being able to keep physical stuff around me in order...

Caroline wrote: "Wow Ana! That's really organised. I keep track of my challenges in a private group here on Goodreads (I think a lot of people do that) but I'm not really very organised about it. I tend to just mud..."

Ha, my private group is excessively organized. It's the only way I can manage my 196 challenges.

196??? Sam, that's amazing! I'm only taking part in around 40-50 and it takes me forever to update them all each time I finish a book.

WOOHOO - opening weekend for Formula One!! A Ferrari in P2!

JoAnne wrote: "WOOHOO - opening weekend for Formula One!! A Ferrari in P2!"

Is it? Hubby kept that quiet! I know what his plans for today are then. More reading time for me :)

Caroline wrote: "JoAnne wrote: "WOOHOO - opening weekend for Formula One!! A Ferrari in P2!"

Is it? Hubby kept that quiet! I know what his plans for today are then. More reading time for me :)"

It's in Australia this weekend. We have to record it in the middle of the night. Just finished watching qualifying from last night.

I think it must have been on Sky Sports channel last night but we don't have that (because I'm mean apparently!) but the highlights are on 'normal tv' at 1pm so he's going to watch that :)

We put our clocks forward yesterday, making it officially 'British Summer Time' and it's still cold, grey, wet and miserable. I'm still wearing thermal socks!

Deidre(Dee) ~ Official Bookworm ~ wrote: "But I hope that you get a nice, long summer Caroline. You probably deserve it by now:)"

I wish! Summer seems to last about 5 minutes most years! Blink and you miss it :)

I've yet to see Britain in the summer, but I always find one thing very funny: I've been there three times so far, in autumn, winter and spring and I have had great weather most of the time. People at home always told me that I had to be crazy to go there at such times, but whenever you talk so someone who visited Britain in summer it's always the same story: wet, rainy, cloudy, cold :D I think I'm going to to stick with staying away in the summertime ;)

Rosa wrote: "I've been there three times so far, in autumn, winter and spring and I have had great weather most of the time...."

You've been very lucky Rosa! We've had two nice days that I can think of so far this year. Today is not one of them :(

Deidre(Dee) ~ Official Bookworm ~ wrote: "Maybe you should move to a warmer place, like New Zealand:)"

I would but it would involve getting on a plane and that's something I just can't do. Major phobia!

Caroline, you could always make a cruise out of the travel. Like in the old times, prisoners shipped away to Australia, just more comfortable ;)

Rosa wrote: "Caroline, you could always make a cruise out of the travel. Like in the old times, prisoners shipped away to Australia, just more comfortable ;)"

I'm not great with boats either :(

It's funny, I always think of Australia and New Zealand as having good weather all the time, but I suppose it varies wherever you are.

There are so many countries I would love to visit but I get seasick on boats and I just can't get over my plane phobia! My husband says one day he'll do to me what they used to do to Mr T in the A-Team and knock me out before putting me on a plane. I think he's joking....

Caroline wrote: "I think it must have been on Sky Sports channel last night but we don't have that (because I'm mean apparently!) but the highlights are on 'normal tv' at 1pm so he's going to watch that :)"

It's been too long since I had Sky. We lived in Sicily for a year. We did not have the sports package though. We watched it on one of the Italian channels.
In the US, it's on a cable sports channel (which you have to have the 250+ channel package - I guess I'm not mean! LOL) except for 3 races shown on a "regular" channel, like your BBC channels.

We had Sky TV (but not the sports package, just basic) up until October last year. A year before that I tried to cancel and kept saying 'no' to all their offers until I somehow ended up being offered a year for free! Of course I can't say no to free stuff. When the year ran out, I rang up to cancel and they weren't willing to match my previous deal (I wonder why not!) so I told them to switch it off. We hardly watch TV anyway so it wasn't worth paying for it. I prefer the word 'thrifty' to 'mean' - lol :)

Caroline wrote: "We had Sky TV (but not the sports package, just basic) up until October last year. A year before that I tried to cancel and kept saying 'no' to all their offers until I somehow ended up being offer..."

We have the same problems here too! Usually the cable company is knocking on the door! I cannot stand that. I love DISH Network. We had to have Time Warner Cable when we first moved to North Carolina and everytime the cable went out (and it was a LOT!) we had no phone or internet. Never again.

Are you able to watch TV without cable or a dish? We had tried years ago when they digitized the signals but we could not receive anything clearly. I think the days of FREE TV is over!

JoAnne wrote: "Are you able to watch TV without cable or a dish?..."

We have a Freesat box which picks up a signal through the Sky dish. It's only basic channels but plenty for our needs.

JoAnne wrote: "Usually the cable company is knocking on the door! I cannot stand that..."

Luckily we live in the middle of nowhere so we very rarely get any doorstep salesmen. Cold callers on the telephone are another matter though!

Caroline wrote: "It's funny, I always think of Australia and New Zealand as having good weather all the time, but I suppose it varies wherever you are.

There are so many countries I would love to visit but I get ..."

I used to hate to fly as well, but then my sister went and became a flight-attentant and since then it got better because I traveled with her and as long she stayed calm I was 'calm' as well, no matter how weird the sounds or how bumpy the flight. she has another job now, but when I fly now, I always look at the flight attendants, especially when the plane starts or come down. (She also told me, when they hurry by, not looking at anybody, it's not because of some trouble, it's just to mimimaze people wanting something from them whem they don't have time)

(and I found some really great motion sickness meds ;) )

I've never actually even been on a plane. I get panicky just being in an airport! I have been on a ferry (all the way to Ireland - LOL) and as well as the sea sickness I was panicky about that too. I think I'm safest travelling via my books :)

I'm pretty sure everybody would get sea-sick in THAT sea.

hm. but with the channel-tunnel, most of Europe and Asia are available for you!

(and, GB is pretty awesome on its own. If I had to get stuck on one island, I would choose GB)

Did I mention my dislike of being underground? Lol. I basically am trapped on this island! But I've had some great holidays exploring the different parts of this country. I just wish the weather was nice a bit more often!

I was pretty sure you wouldn't want to be under the sea ;).

Yes I'm sure you had! I love the UK and Ireland. (One thing I'm extra fond of is Galaxy chocolate!)