After what just happened, I am VERY wary of AOL’s new takeover of Fleaflicker due to the screenname issue. I like fleaflicker. It's free, it is customizable, it's easy, it runs pretty well. Out of the free services, I thought it was the best, so I've been moving most of my leagues to fleaflicker aside from my one splurge on MFL.
Anyway, I sent my buddy an invite to a league I created on fleaflicker. No big deal. He logs in, creates his new “AOL screen name” thing, and voila, he’s in, just like that.
Except…he was now logged into my account. He had access to all of my teams, leagues and commssioner settings.
Let’s make sure we understand that one. I sent an invite to a league. He accepted the invite (4 other people had already accepted the invite into that league successfully), created his account, but when he created his AOL screen name on my computer, his account became mine, and I lost ALL of my leagues.
But hey, at least he had access to them all, including my teams and my commissioner settings! What was really interesting was clicking on the “Adjust account settings”. Sometimes it took me to my settings, sometimes it took me to his settings. You just never knew. We wiped cookies/internet temp files clean, started over from scratch, rebooted, and then guess what?
He was stuck in my account, and I was locked out of it. I could access MY account using HIS username/password, but there was no way to change it.
After spending several hours on the phone and speaking with tech support, I got the bottom line:
1) You should always clear your cookies before creating new usernames (WTF?) and that might be what caused the problem
2) There are bound to be some problems with the port over of AOL’s fantasy site to fleaflicker and to be patient
3) Because I’m not a “subscribing AOL member” I was ####-outta-luck and there wasn’t anything she was going to do about it (she was more polite, but that was the bottom line)
So let the buyer beware.
EDIT - also understand, He used his computer initially, it wasn’t until he came over afterward and tried it at my house (him on my son’s computer) that we figured out that the accounts were tied in. He signed in and was like “wow, i have all these leagues, where’d these come from”. We emailed and he mentioned that and I thought “what are the names”…that’s when I shat myself.
and it wasn’t just fleaflicker, we had “joint access” to each other’s screename information, each other’s AIM stuff, our AOL email accounts (not the subscriber crap either)
so yeah. the port over happens in July. If I had a league on fleaflicker, I'd consider getting it the hell off of fleaflicker before AOL does their port over. After the ridiculousness that I just went through with AOL and their tech support, only to be told, "yeah, your problem is a real easy fix" (all it was was a pair of AOL screen names that were crossed up) but you're not a paying subscriber, so piss off", that's what I'm saying to fleaflicker and, more directly, AOL.
PISS OFF.
ESPN, here I come (yahoo has ######ed IDP settings)
Anyway, I sent my buddy an invite to a league I created on fleaflicker. No big deal. He logs in, creates his new “AOL screen name” thing, and voila, he’s in, just like that.
Except…he was now logged into my account. He had access to all of my teams, leagues and commssioner settings.
Let’s make sure we understand that one. I sent an invite to a league. He accepted the invite (4 other people had already accepted the invite into that league successfully), created his account, but when he created his AOL screen name on my computer, his account became mine, and I lost ALL of my leagues.
But hey, at least he had access to them all, including my teams and my commissioner settings! What was really interesting was clicking on the “Adjust account settings”. Sometimes it took me to my settings, sometimes it took me to his settings. You just never knew. We wiped cookies/internet temp files clean, started over from scratch, rebooted, and then guess what?
He was stuck in my account, and I was locked out of it. I could access MY account using HIS username/password, but there was no way to change it.
After spending several hours on the phone and speaking with tech support, I got the bottom line:
1) You should always clear your cookies before creating new usernames (WTF?) and that might be what caused the problem
2) There are bound to be some problems with the port over of AOL’s fantasy site to fleaflicker and to be patient
3) Because I’m not a “subscribing AOL member” I was ####-outta-luck and there wasn’t anything she was going to do about it (she was more polite, but that was the bottom line)
So let the buyer beware.
EDIT - also understand, He used his computer initially, it wasn’t until he came over afterward and tried it at my house (him on my son’s computer) that we figured out that the accounts were tied in. He signed in and was like “wow, i have all these leagues, where’d these come from”. We emailed and he mentioned that and I thought “what are the names”…that’s when I shat myself.
and it wasn’t just fleaflicker, we had “joint access” to each other’s screename information, each other’s AIM stuff, our AOL email accounts (not the subscriber crap either)
so yeah. the port over happens in July. If I had a league on fleaflicker, I'd consider getting it the hell off of fleaflicker before AOL does their port over. After the ridiculousness that I just went through with AOL and their tech support, only to be told, "yeah, your problem is a real easy fix" (all it was was a pair of AOL screen names that were crossed up) but you're not a paying subscriber, so piss off", that's what I'm saying to fleaflicker and, more directly, AOL.
PISS OFF.
ESPN, here I come (yahoo has ######ed IDP settings)