I have seen credible reports that the LiveJournal servers have been moved to Moscow, where they are now subject to Russian rather than US law. This does not give me warm fuzzy feelings for LJ's already-shaky future ( Read more... )

Lately, every time LJ pushes a new update they break legibility and accessibility a little more. This is becoming a problem. It's beyond my ability to correct with browser adaptations ( Read more... )

I've been seeing more spam on my LJ entries than usual in recent weeks, but most of it is posted anonymously and gets auto-screened, so nobody else sees it. Two days ago I started getting the following message from LJ accounts that were presumably created just to post these comments (on, I assume, as many journals as possible as quickly as ( Read more... )

You may have seen that monstrosity of a reading page they're getting ready to unleash on everybody. (If not, click on the link in the blue banner at the top of your reading page.) In a nutshell, they're getting rid of individual-journal styling for the reading page. The new style does not work for me. ProfoundlyBut that's not the main thing I ( Read more... )

Edit: I think I've got something adequate now. The indentation of comments ( Read more... )

OK, why is it that Firefox is giving me 502 (bad gateway) from LJ and asserting that it's them, not me, but I can access the site from Safari running on the same machine? I don't particularly want to use Safari; all my usability improvements are already set up in Firefox ( Read more... )

Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on doing funky things with privacy; LJ is at it too. For those not clicking through: you can now have LJ automatically cross-post your entries and comments, including comments made on other people's locked entries, to other sites. Sometimes comments reveal context even without the original entry being available. ( Read more... )

Dreamwidth is an LJ-like site that entered open beta a few days ago. I'm there. I don't know how I'll use the account yet. I have a permanent account here on LJ so I'm not planning to go anywhere, but every time LJ has a kerfuffle I wonder what my fallback plan is, and Dreamwidth seems to be the winner there. It's run by ex-LJ people and seems ( Read more... )

Thanks to mamadeb I now have a Dreamwidth account. (I won't have time to set it up until after yom tov, so no content yet, but if you're there too, feel free to connect.)