***Note to those who don't want to hear about SA issues. This should be very non-triggering. Some minor info about the type of calls I took today on the crisis line are listed. If you don't want to risk it, you can safely skip to the second paragraph (third if you count this note as a paragraph), after which I completely stop talking about it ( Read more... )

In case you are unaware, voting is now open for the user positions on the LJ Advisory Board. If you haven't voted yet, what are you waiting for ( Read more... )

I've written and rewritten this post about two dozen times. I can't seem to get what I'm feeling off my chest in a way that is coherent enough to be understood. My thoughts are so disjointed and complicated by my emotions that anything I put down either comes out as a raging inferno or sounds completely insincere when I try to be less emotional ( Read more... )

This post is several days overdue, because of some RL issues. Sorry.

On Saturday night, I spent some time on the phone with marta. Not only was she a wealth of information, but she was also a lot of fun to talk to. Here's what I found out ( Read more... )

First, the LJ stuff. If you haven't seen them yet, two new posts have been made by LJ Staff. One in lj_policy about the flagging issue, and one made in lj_2008 regarding the Advisory Board. Both posts include marta endeavoring to answer as many questions as possible (Thanks marta!).

If you read the comments to those posts, you will doubtless see references to this post ( Read more... )

So, in case you haven't heard yet, LiveJournal has been sold by Six Apart to Russian blogging company SUP. This is the company that LJ licensed Russian LJ to last year. More about that on news, lj_2008, and lj_policy.

One of the things that they have stated is going to happen is the creation of an Advisory Board. Most of the members will be appointed by SUP (brad has ( Read more... )

Okay guys, here's a long overdue update ( Read more... )

Okay guys, here's the deal. I know that LJ/6A received numerous copies of the letter in 3 different formats. I spoke with Rachel on the phone on Monday before her post went up on lj_biz. I had hoped that her post would answer all of our questions. Obviously, it didn't. Then, I sent her 2 emails Monday evening letting her know about things she needed ( Read more... )

Hi guys!

I just wanted to post an update for everyone regarding responses to our letter. I just got off the phone with rachel. She informed me that she is planning to make a post to later today. At the very least, we will get a "It's not quite finished, so check back tomorrow" post, but she is hoping that it will be finished and she can get the ( Read more... )

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