This is a test to see if Dreamwidth supports LiveJournal's new embedding feature. If this works, you should see an embedded LJ post below that describes several of the changes made to LJ that were announced on the Russian news but not the English news ( Read more... )

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Alright, I've got a couple weeks of stuff to catch up on and I'll probably post them out of order. I still need to talk about how my California trip went (really well!) and my thoughts on "Oklahoma!" and the theatre program at Moreau, but first let's address the elephant goat in the room ( Read more... )

I've liked the features and layout of LJ's new default style, Air, for a while now, but I've really hated the colors. Last week I started investigating what I could do to alter it to suit my preferences, and I think I've gotten it pretty much the way I like (it matches the colors I have set on my friends feed - I call it Autumn Evening.) Take a ( Read more... )

Sometime in the last day or two LJ made some code changes that finally broke the old xColibur site scheme. This mostly manifests in comments not loading on non-journal styled entry pages, but some menus appear to be broken as well. People have been writing in to Support asking about this, and have been individually answered, but there hasn't been ( Read more... )

Someone just discovered* the simple way to switch your journal between using the /friends page and the /feed page.

1. Visit the Admin Console.
2. a) Enter set modern_feed off and click Execute return to the /friends page.
   b) Enter set modern_feed on and click Execute to return to the /feed page.
   [If everything worked right the page should look like this]
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I'm giving LJ's new layout another try (it's ~80% of the way to convincing me to switch permanently) and took a look to see if there have been any changes to the new friends feed (~95% done, in my opinion.) And right at the top of the widget sidebar was a big "Login to Tumblr" button. Holy crap, they made my idea a reality. Now if only there ( Read more... )

* Enable proper expanding and collapsing of comments
* Deleted comments need better display
* Add tags lists to header
* make the calendar look better
* add link to your own journal and friends page in header
* Page titles: on page? in header?
* options for alternative selection colors
* options for support requests* investigate re-posts (they're ( Read more... )

There have been consistent reports that syndicated feeds are updating in batches instead of at a regular schedule. I decided to watch the cute_overload feed to see what was going on. Over 27 hours I took thirteen snapshots of the feed on LJ, its information page, the blog, and the blog's feed XML.

( Long and illustrated bug report )

I went searching for something else today and look what I found: LJ has built-in diffs for the translation system. This would have saved me so much effort last year it's not even funny anymore.