clearly I'm too stupid to phone post

[erilyn]

I finally decided to try and set up phone posting, just in case I feel an urgent desire to post when I'm away next week, or make some concert posts over the next few months.

But when I call the Australian number, I get an invalid login message after I enter my PIN. I think I've entered both my phone number and PIN correctly, so not sure what's happening. Do I have to wait a while, or am I being an idiot?

ETA: apparently it's not me, it's that the fucked up Australian phone post number doesn't work most of the time. Not cool :(

Comments

[veronamay.livejournal.com]

Neither of the above. The Australian number hasn't worked properly since day one - it's entirely hit and miss as to whether you can log in or not. I've managed it a couple of times, but usually it just refuses to accept the login.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I remember people who tried it straight away having problems, I didn't realised they'd persisted. That's pretty fucking useless :(

[veronamay.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is rather. I mean, you can still use one of the o/s numbers if you want to phone post, but there's not much point having a local number if it's broken.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Has there been any sign they're gonna fix the Australian one?

[veronamay.livejournal.com]

Not to my knowledge. Probably because we're not making enough of a fuss about it. Too lazy. *g*

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

No wonder it doesn't work, check out this graphic from the LJ homepage advertising that phone posts numbers are available in the US, Canada, UK, Japan and Australia.

[veronamay.livejournal.com]

... oh, LJ. *facepalm*

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

There are no words.

[runzu.livejournal.com]

LOL