really weird LJ problem

[juldea]

Last week, when replying to an LJ post by carinbrat, I noticed a weird bug - my knitting icon was showing as a completely other picture of some kind of sports coach blowing a whistle. It showed this in my picture page as well. I left it alone assuming some kind of pointer had been mixed up somewhere and would get fixed.

But just now I noticed in a comment stream to red_ervish that another one of my userpics was wrong - my "joco close" was now some kind of Pokemon. I went to my userpics page again, and not only those two but my bellydancer pic were all replaced with something completely random.

I changed my LJ password and reuploaded the userpics - luckily the ones that were replaced were ones I could recreate easily. Don't know if I was being slowly hacked or what, but that was weird. And luckily, it looks like deleting a userpic but then recreating one with the same name seems to relink old posts and comments. So no lasting harm done.

Comments

[hazliya.livejournal.com]

That happened to me once, but it was LJ's fault for being so spazzy. It wasn't just my userpics, but one or two on my f-list. I waited a few minutes, logged out, then back in, and it was fine. =)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I would write it off as LJ spazziness, but the picture stayed "wrong" in the same way for over a week. Reloading wasn't the issue...

[shogunhb.livejournal.com]

We were talking about this last night at Carolyn and Brian's, apparently it happens a lot.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Really? Wow. Well, now I know.

[carinbrat.livejournal.com]

You know, I always saw your knitting icon.
I didn't realize that it had been switched with sports stuff... I just thought it had been switched out with another knitting icon.

maybe it was just your view of it? Which, makes the situation doubly mysterious.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Whoa... really? Yes, that makes it super mysterious. O_O

[karlean7.livejournal.com]

It's happened to a couple of people. Nobody is sure why, yet.