I was going to comment on deletegate, but I came late to it and probably don't have anything useful to add that hasn't already been said by thousands of others. I haven't been in fandom for some time, but that hasn't stopped me considering (once again) what I'm going to do when my paid time runs out. I'm careful who I do business with, and I won't ( Read more... )

So I've been catching up on this whole sponsored community crap that's been going down lately. I can't say I'm surprised at this latest development. LJ seem to have been their level best to alienate their core user base, what with bradfitz swearing on his firstborn that there would never be ads, only for there to now be ads, and similar ( Read more... )

To my horror, my lj layout had changed to something else. I spent an hour trying to configure it back to its old settings, muttering about lj's very unfunny April Fool jokes. Doesn't appear to be an April Fool joke. And of course, since I have some advanced customisations I had to work out how to do them all over again, since I've only ever done ( Read more... )

Oh thank God it's back up again ( Read more... )

Like just about everyone else I've been having dreadful trouble accessing lj over the last few days. It was worst at work today when all I got was page not found error messages. I eventually managed to get into  lj_maintenance but there was nothing up-to-date there, just that they were working on the problem yesterday ( Read more... )