Redesigned Homepage

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A redesigned version of the LiveJournal homepage is now live!

Key features

On your first visit to the new homepage, you will see a tour which will highlight the features of the page. Once you have finished or closed this tour, it will no longer display on subsequent visits to the site. If you want to view the tour again, you can do so by going to http://www.livejournal.com/welcome/.

Notifications

At the top of the new homepage is a section with several different types of notifications. This entire module can be collapsed or expanded in the upper right corner of the module. The notifications are divided into 3 sections:

• Event notifications will let you know if you have any new private messages, if you have received any V-gifts, if anyone has added you as a friend, or if any of your friends have upcoming birthdays.
• Comment notifications will show you where any new comments to your journal are, as well as any responses to comments of your left in other journals.
• The guests section will display information about the last 4 visitors to your journal. It will only display users who have enabled this feature; if you have this feature disabled, you will not display in this module for other people. If you have enabled this service, you can see more information about your visitors at http://www.livejournal.com/statistics/guests/. This page will not display any information for people who have disabled the My Guests feature.

You can remove the current notifications for both Events and Comments by pushing the "clear" link in each section.

Top Entries, Journals, and Communities

Personal journals are now also included in the ratings system in addition to Communities. This will also allow entries from personal journals to appear in the Top Entries module.

A journal and its entries will be displayed on the homepage unless any of the following are true:

• The account has disabled the ratings feature. You can enable or disable this for your journal or community at http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=privacy.
• The privacy of an entry is anything other than public.
• The journal or entry has been flagged as having Adult content.
• The entry is posted with the option checked to "exclude from ratings" (Note: this feature is not currently implemented on Beta)
• The entry or account has been banned from ratings.
• The entry or account has been suspended for violations of the Terms of Service.
• Cyrillic services have been enabled (this will make your journal part of the Cyrillic ratings instead of English).

The homepage will also show your current position in the Top Journals, as well as the position of all your entries which are in the top 2,000.

Top 15 subscriptions

You can subscribe to a feed of the Top 15 entries in the ratings system with your LiveJournal, Facebook, or Twitter accounts.

Custom settings for ratings

There are 3 different options you can toggle on/off

• Show/hide multiple posts from the same account - You can adjust this in case you do not want to see more than one entry from the same account in ratings.
• Show/hide posts from friends - This will hide entries from your friends and communities you are a member of, allowing you to limit the page to only show you content you would not already see in your friends feed.
• Show/hide hidden posts - With this you can see any entries which are currently hidden from you. Hidden entries include any entries from journals or communities you have either banned from ratings or banned from your journal entirely. You can click the gear icon next to this link to manage which accounts you have banned from the Top Entries module.

LiveJournal Shop

You can see several featured Virtual Gifts and Userheads available in the LiveJournal shop in this module.

Please let us know in comments if you run into any bugs or confusing behavior on this page.