hey, y'all, i don't know if you've seen yet, but free lj accounts are no longer available. you can only have plus (with ads) or paid (with money up front).

does anyone know what happens if you take an existing basic account and switch it to plus -- can you switch back, or are you stuck at plus with all the ads? eta: claire reports that you can still ( Read more... )

all y'all lj users need to be aware of this: In an effort to ensure people under the age of 18 do not see inappropriate content, we added a new functionality to LiveJournal today.i do not, at the moment, have any plans to flag anything in my lj as being inappropriate for people under eighteen. if anyone would like to discuss that with me, please ( Read more... )

so, as some of y'all may have noticed, i'm volunteering for the otw's accessiblity, design, & technology committee. this is cool! in fact, it's so cool that i kind of want to put it on my resume. this wouldn't be a problem except that i kind of don't want this lj on my resume; yes, we're launching into the half-year period during which i talk ( Read more... )

i've seen a lot of people saying "i don't like chan, but i don't think it should be banned like this." good! separation of "i don't like" from "should be banned" is something that always gets a thumbs-up from me. that said: i do like chan. frankly, i've been writing it for years and no one's called me a pedophile yet. although i suppose that ( Read more... )

With people going off in every direction, here is something you can do if you don't want to start piling up accounts on every lj clone out there: use OpenID. For example, I used my cmshaw livejournal account to leave these comments on my insanejournal account just now. I'm just doing this for test purposes -- I'll be using my cmshaw insanejournal ( Read more... )

the thing is, i'd been working on a post on the theme of "to be smut/ it must be ut-/ terly without redeeming social importance", if i may quote one of my favorite intinerant mathematicians who is, in turn, quoting the source of lj's obscenity definitionlike most of my big rambly meta posts, it was entirely likely that it would have forever ( Read more... )

two things that i think will be of interest to people who don't usually follow livejournal news:

the dystopia and xcolibur site schemes are officially no longer supported; they've disappeared from the site options menu. however, you can still keep using them. if you need to reselect them (after trying another site scheme or if lj burps and ( Read more... )

yes, it's another "hi, still here!" update. hi! i'm still here! boy do i need to update more often.

maybe at the end of the month when the mandatory overtime i'm on finally lets up i'll do a little posting celebration.

anyway! i was indeed dragged off to the fall out boy concert by bayleaf earlier this week, and it was indeed awesome. i'm not sure ( Read more... )

i've seen a number of links; it looks like liz-marcs, femmequixotic, and ataniell93 have the latest information. eta: also lolaraincoat and catrinella.1. an external group may be targetting fanfiction and roleplaying (among other things) on livejournal that mentions underaged sex. this may be the only thing bringing journals to livejournal's official attention; i have not seen any information on ( Read more... )

if, as you're commenting, you get a database "schwartz" error and your comment posts without any text -- yeah, a lot of people are seeing that. hopefully it'll be fixed soonish ( Read more... )