Migrants to IJ, 2007

I'm getting a dead signal at livejournal from all browsers at the moment - anyone else?

If off-topic or prematurely worrisome, just delete, of course.

I posted this huge bullet guide of programs to help Windows, Mac & Linux users backup their LJ's via the current drama going on. There's even some programs to transfer your entire LJ to IJ! :D

Find the post here, if you're interested.

*loves and dashes*

I hope this is all right to post here.

Back during Strikethrough, I used Snapetoy's post on how to set up Semagic to simultaneously post to multiple journals and have been happily doing so. However, I got a new computer this week and realized I don't remember how to set that up, and of course the post was on GJ and is now history! Does anyone remember how?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.

ETA: Thanks to eemilyvr1 for the link!

Does anyone remember GreatestJournal? Well it's finally down. I was on it yesterday and it was working fine so it must of happened within the last 24 hours.

What I keep on getting is:

403 Denied
GJ is currently down - Please go to LiveJournal

Old users: you can backup all entries and comment with ljarchive

As of January 6, 2009, after a year of issues, GreatestJournal is finally dead. Oh well.


Check this out http://greatestjournal.com/

SUP sacked a number of employees in their San Francisco office. no_lj_ads has a tiny summary and a few links to a few sources (they call it the Grim Purge which I find inappropriate...)

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/41072.html

Among the 'features' added:

Title of post in Last Post, Friends Pages, Calendar view (every page where displayed multiple entries) now links to entry.

One problem, though. The code broke the Smooth Sailing layout. The whole thing.

You're supposed to test these things first, boys and girls.

ETA: Looks like it was fixed. But how long until something else breaks?

Whether they want it or not, LJers are now stuck with a new profile layout:

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_design/17491.html

User feedback is one of the most important ones

But apparently, not enough to actually listen when you get a resounding chorus of DO NOT WANT.

Bots are joining Live Journal!

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_support/762150.html

So non humans are joining LJ and friending people, I am assuming it is the rash of Russian auto-frienders!

Russian Government goes after Live Journal bloggers.

I wonder if SUP owning Live Journal and them having close ties to the Russian Government is making it easier to go after people expressing their political opinions?

It took less than half an hour for LJ to privatize my request about "Increased limits for Basic accounts." (I'm not surprised; they've ignored the request I made four months ago on the topic.)

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=907482 & auth =xwjk (Remove spaces to see request; IJ's coding removes auth bits otherwise). Full text:

At the announcement of the 100-day plan at http://community.livejournal.com/lj_2008/1794.html, one of the features promised was "Increase certain limits for Basic and Plus accounts." The new post in lj_2008 mentions increased userpics for Plus, but nothing about Basic accounts.

Which limits have been or will be increased for Basic accounts?

Any bets on ever getting an answer to that one? Or will it wait a few days until they release info about the new ad-supported Basic accounts, and claim that there are "increased limits" somewhere in there? (We know a lot of you have been awaiting our decision on Basic Accounts, so watch this space for an announcement August 14, 2008. Any changes to Basic Accounts will also affect how we deal with Basic Communities, so you can also expect an update on that.)

Have you recently had Russian LJ'ers friending you? I've noticed that the last 3 of 5 new people who have friended me are Russian. Now I have no problem with someone friending me Russian or whatever else, but looking over their profiles there are NO common interest. The journals are all in Russian so I can't read them. Am I being paranoid or does this reek of something????

A friend of mine recently posted an entry in their LJ that I think everyone needs to be told about.

http://dejana.livejournal.com/152580.html

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but LJ's bringing basic accounts back by the end of the summer for the Northern Hemisphere.

Thoughts? Comments?

This is cross-posted from my journal here.

I posted this to LJ Abuse from a community I belong to. It's illegal in New York State to sell fireworks and I thought it would be illegal on LJ to do that do.

http://community.livejournal.com/buffalo_dorks/2418977.html

FIREWORKS FOR SALE!

FIREWORKS!

I have tons of them that I bought in PA a few months ago. I'm looking to sell them. So, if you're interested in buying them, get at me! It'll save you all that gas money from driving to PA for them. Also, they are NOT silly little bottle rockets and such. I'm talking real fourth of July boomcrackers. I have a car, so if you don't drive and really want them, I'm willing to drive them to you -- for a small gas fee of course.

You can just drop me a comment here and we'll discuss prices, or if you prefer privacy e-mail me at jodiejustice@xxxxxxxxxx.com. I can take pictures of the fireworks for you as well.

So this is what I wrote:

Prozacnation (********@grilled-cheese.org)
Account type: Plus Account
LiveJournal: username: [info]prozacnation
style: (S2) core: public, i18n: none, i18nc: none, layout: public, theme: public, user: custom,
email validated?yes
cluster: Soybean; data version : 7
scheme: dystopia; language: en_LJ
underage? no
Support category: Abuse
Time posted: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:55:54 GMT (3 days ago)
Status: answered (still needs help)
Summary: +(03) unk poss IA in buffalo_dorks [PE]

This is a private request. It is not publicly visible.

Original Request:
This is illegal in New York State:
http://community.livejournal.com/buffalo_dorks/2418977.html

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Diagnostics: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

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Here's an article on Internet Freedom of Speech that mentions the 07 debacle on LJ. Admittedly, they have glossed over or or erred on some details. However, beyond picking at the specific context, it's generally an interesting look at speech issues on the net. The piece makes an excellent point about the social significance of being expelled from a community like LJ or MySpace, among other things.

A poll is up, on announcements, to vote on a new default sitescheme for IJ.

Go vote.

Thank you to everyone who's taken my poll on journalling preferences. It's still open so if you haven't taken it yet, please come on over. I've just put together a few of the (hopefully) interesting things I noticed.

This is something I've been wondering for a while now, but in light of LJ's announcement, I'm even more curious. I'd appreciate it you could take a second to fill out a quick poll on your journaling habits.

Please feel free to distribute this poll on InsaneJournal! I'd like to get as many answers as possible from IJ users.

Thank you!

Every once in a while I like to check up on GJ and make a big "BACK UP YOUR JOURNAL! FLEE NOW, WHILE YOU STILL CAN!" comment to the last ~news post. This morning when I went there I got this when I clicked the "comment" link:



This happening for anyone else?

Found two more today--support requests marked "answered," with no answer listed.

#824444, about the unsearchable interest terms.
#836059, about graphic artwork policy not included in the TOS or FAQ.

That's the third support request they've closed without answering; there's another, from late March, that they've just been ignoring--I assume that when it gets old enough, they'll mark it "answered" and let it drop off their "open requests" list. (#862270, asking what promised "increased limits for Basic and Plus users" the new owners will be implementing, since they got rid of Basic accounts.)

I suppose this is not news to anyone. Just thought I'd mention--if you made a support request a while back, especially on a touchy subject that takes a policymaker's decision rather than an abuse team member's judgment call ("is this random wankage, or real harassment?"), it may have been marked "done" without telling you.