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My Pof Profile Disappeared
So the morons over at POF.com have been working for at least 6 months to figure out why some users' ability to hide or unhide their profiles is broken. When you go to 'Edit Profile' there should be a little one-line link in the middle of the page saying 'To hide/unhide your profile CLICK HERE.' For many people this link is missing, meaning that if their profile is hidden they can't unhide it, and vice-versa.
There's a thread in the support forums with more than 14,000 views and 8 pages of complaints about this issue and yet the illustrious programmers can't even figure out their own HTML code to make it work right. The mods and admins have been so unhelpful that it's comedic, like some sort of incompetent bureaucratic Keystone Kops reel.
One person apparently posted a 'link' several months ago that was probably the same as what's below, but the administrators of the site told the mods to take down the link and give a 'lifetime ban' to anybody who reposts it. WTF? What kind of f*cked up sh*t is that? Which is why I'm posting it here and not there.
Anyway here's the fix, kludgy as it may be. Took me about 5 minutes to figure out. Simply log into your POF account and type in the following to your URL bar (or copy and paste):
To hide: http://www.pof.com/editprofile.aspx?HideProfile=1
To UNhide: http://www.pof.com/editprofile.aspx?HideProfile=0
You won't get any confirmation or anything. But I've tried it on a profile that doesn't have the problem and the line saying 'To unhide your profile CLICK HERE' switches to 'To hide your profile CLICK HERE' and back again, so that tells me it's working. And I tried it on a broken, hidden profile and now I'm getting some messages, so I believe it's not hidden anymore.
I guess it's not technically a 'fix' to their ridiculous bug, but it is a workaround.
Try it.
EDIT:
This workaround absolutely works. You can see for yourself by searching for your username. If it's hidden, it won't show. UNhide it via the method above. Search again. You'll see it. If it's currently unhidden, do the opposite.
[The above text was originally posted on my blog, matingmarket.wordpress.com. Reposted here for a wider audience and better SEO.]
There's a thread in the support forums with more than 14,000 views and 8 pages of complaints about this issue and yet the illustrious programmers can't even figure out their own HTML code to make it work right. The mods and admins have been so unhelpful that it's comedic, like some sort of incompetent bureaucratic Keystone Kops reel.
One person apparently posted a 'link' several months ago that was probably the same as what's below, but the administrators of the site told the mods to take down the link and give a 'lifetime ban' to anybody who reposts it. WTF? What kind of f*cked up sh*t is that? Which is why I'm posting it here and not there.
Anyway here's the fix, kludgy as it may be. Took me about 5 minutes to figure out. Simply log into your POF account and type in the following to your URL bar (or copy and paste):
To hide: http://www.pof.com/editprofile.aspx?HideProfile=1
To UNhide: http://www.pof.com/editprofile.aspx?HideProfile=0
You won't get any confirmation or anything. But I've tried it on a profile that doesn't have the problem and the line saying 'To unhide your profile CLICK HERE' switches to 'To hide your profile CLICK HERE' and back again, so that tells me it's working. And I tried it on a broken, hidden profile and now I'm getting some messages, so I believe it's not hidden anymore.
I guess it's not technically a 'fix' to their ridiculous bug, but it is a workaround.
Try it.
EDIT:
This workaround absolutely works. You can see for yourself by searching for your username. If it's hidden, it won't show. UNhide it via the method above. Search again. You'll see it. If it's currently unhidden, do the opposite.
[The above text was originally posted on my blog, matingmarket.wordpress.com. Reposted here for a wider audience and better SEO.]
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- Be unique (for security reasons, don't recycle credentials from another online account).
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- Only numbers, letters, and underscores are allowed. No special characters like comma (,), apostrophe (‘),at sign (@)ampersand (&) or spaces can be included in the username.
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