Challenges and Exchanges and things + not receiving comments in my email

[badbastion]

*So excited to see the art for spn_reversebang! I probably won't be home when it goes up, but I'm sooo looking forward to it. *REFRESHES PAGE FOR AS LONG AS I'M HOME THIS MORNING*

*I'm currently having a lot of fun working on my art for the samdean_otp minibang, yay!

*and working on little doodles for sassy week and samifer week on tumblr (I'm badbastion over there, so creative with my usernames. I'm also very bad at doing follow-backs. I just can't keep up with my dash, and I don't have time to look at everything I want to look at already :I)

*I caved and signed up for spn_j2_xmas and jeeeeez, my signup comment was so long, haha. I hope it's more helpful than it is overwhelming, to have so many options.

*What are some other fun challenge type things going on around the fandom? I don't want to sign up for anything else where I'm required to have something finished by a deadline; two of those is exactly enough for me. I'd prefer things where participation is optional. Any suggestions? :)

*For some reason, I'm not getting email notifications from Livejournal. I checked all my settings, and I just don't know what's up. I'm thinking maybe it's all the free pandas being shared around that's gunking up the system, but another user told me they were getting notifications just fine. HMMM. So if I miss replying to a comment, I'm not ignoring you, I swear, haha.

Comments

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I would amend my previous statement - I don't get ALL the email alerts I should but I do see to get MOST. The ones where I don't, I have checked that the correct boxes are ticked several times but nothing seems to happen... I rely on email alerts because I am useless at being proactive and remembering to do things like check my Friends wall thingy and suchlike. So I miss loads of good stuff.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

All I'm getting are friending and birthday notificiations, and even those are late, lol. I got one comment email, but it was halfway down my email inbox, unread among all the read mails, lol. Strange times these are. I rely on email alerts too, because I post so much and all over the place, in people's journals, on entries, on memes, and even with the email alerts I still sometimes miss comments.

I'm hoping this'll all get sorted out soon. LJ did some update just yesterday, didn't they? WHY U NO FIX EMAILS?

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

That is so weird isn't it? There is obviously a glitch somewhere... A bit like our telly that keeps losing one or two digital channels every now and again ITV4 is just gone and we have to retune the tv to get it back. A bloody nuisance when you've set the video for something and wake up to find it's videoed a black screen of death.

Bloody technology.