F'list purge; comm purge--I'm trying to cut down on LJ time in favor of Dreamwidth time. (See recent Dreamwidth post for more details.) If I cut you and you're *not* crossposting (and you care), let me know; I'll re-add people ( Read more... )

Six years (and two days) ago, I bought an LJ account, because of a post by wickedthought. (It's locked now, or I'd share it with you.) It wasn't a deep-and-meaningful post; it was sharp and funny. But I'd been looking for him since his website vanished, and I had a few friends who were active on LJ, and it seemed like the right time to join this game. Besides, ( Read more... )

I haven't vanished; I've mostly shifted to InsaneJournal.
April posts.
I've also been active at
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I got my LiveJournal account April 1st, 2003. So it's my LJversery. Or something. Half a decade is a long time online; no wonder I'm not finding it easy to leave ( Read more... )

I'm never sure how effective one-day boycotts are. But I'm perfectly willing to join them. Especially given how SUP's director of blogs thinks " there's never been a successful company whose success was based on bowing to collective resistant forces"... note that he's calling his paying customers "resistant forces." (The full text of the interview ( Read more... )

stewardess points out that porn, sex, and fanfiction have been removed from LJ's most popular interests page.

Yeah, they're working hard on improvements in content delivery... by removing access to content they wish they didn't host. (And that part about "increasing certain limits for Basic and Plus users?" Ummm... they'll be increasing the status points ( Read more... )

From the FAQ: New accounts (created after March 12, 2008) may choose between Plus and Paid account levels.

A comment in no_lj_ads says that it's based on UserID number; past a certain point won't be able to select "basic." Theoretically, currently paid accounts will have the Basic option when they revert, but hey, that could change tomorrow ( Read more... )

New policy is up at draft policy page (compare to current policies here); they said that they want conversation (and should complete the consultation process by "the end of May"--contrast with the 100 day plan of " Establish a clear set of policy guidelines by mid-March ( Read more... )

shota is the target this time.
http://community.livejournal.com/ljspeaks/7830.html?view=254358#t254358 Dear LiveJournal user thefacelessevil ( Read more... )

Interim post; later, I want to update this with links to all the history involved. (And I wanted one of those spiffy online countdown graphics, like people use for pregnancies, but preferably without the baby at the end, but I couldn't find one.)

It's been almost 40 days since SUP announced its 100-Day Plan to improve LJ. They said that, by March ( Read more... )