WARNING - don't follow link in Daily Release email (BookObsessed)

Title: WARNING - don't follow link in Daily Release email
Description: changes at bookcrossing

Potok-fan - July 17, 2008 10:36 AM (GMT)

I'm just catching up on what's going on at bookcrossing - lots of chatter, mostly very unhappy.

But the most important thing is that it seems that if you click on the link in your new Daily Release Alerts email, it will take you to "edit profile" and you're in danger of ruining your profile... which you cannot change back if you don't have wings.

Go over there and read more before you click on anything!

ETA: Here's the official announcement: http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/9/5539355/count_50
And here's a complaints thread: http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/9/5539509/count_41

NEW EDIT: Sorry - in my rush to get this info out I didn't see that Bookobsessed is already discussing these changes in Book Talk: http://bookobsessed.com/index.php?showtopi...&#entry10875474

Potok-fan - July 17, 2008 12:23 PM (GMT)

karendawn has posted this in the other thread:

QUOTE

From the BC forum about getting back your original profile:

- Search at google for
"the [yourBCname] bookshelf" (no brackets[ ] of course)
- find your shelf (most likely (one of) the first entry)
- click on "cached" - I repeat: "CACHED" ;-)
-> you'll see your profile page as it looked some days or hours ago
- save the source code of that page (how to do this depends on your browser) to your harddisk
- if necessary find someone to help you extract your data from this file (search for the string "profilebio"- your profile content starts a few lines after that).

Be quick! You never know when google will check your page the next time.

Marlene - July 17, 2008 12:28 PM (GMT)

I do have wings but yes I clicked on the linkie and they fucked up my profile.

Thanks for the warning. :kiss: Too late for me but it is worse for people with no wings. :angry:

AceofHearts - July 17, 2008 02:10 PM (GMT)

I didn't even get the link in my e-mail . Guess it is because I don't have wings

Kiri - July 17, 2008 05:21 PM (GMT)

QUOTE (AceofHearts @ Jul 17 2008, 02:10 PM)

I didn't even get the link in my e-mail . Guess it is because I don't have wings

I didn't get it.. and I do have wings..

maybe they like us? :evil:

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