Newsflash Update

[imaria]

marta has posted here, giving us updates on two of our pressing issues:

1. Regarding the SUP "latest visitors" feature, we have been informed it should not be an issue soon:
   
   Just as an FYI, that functionality will be turned off today. If you check back by tonight you should see that non-SUP users will not show up at all on this program.
2. Regarding the

Comments

[qfemale]

>>Will you be satisfied with the upcoming changes to the "latest visitor" feature?

No.

Either disable it for everyone on LJ or enable it for everyone on LJ. (Opt-in of course)

agreed 100%

[ext_58826]

opt out sucks.

[marta]

I don't mean to state that is the end of information or this is a full resolution of everything - I just wanted to give you an update on things I knew *right now.*

Also, the "My Guests" program for SUP-enabled journals has its own opt-out (based upon what I learned today of it), but it will not show non-SUP-enabled journals (all the rest of us) at all on the "checking to see who viewed my journal" page. I am open to finding out more about this if there are more questions!

[qfemale]

>>I am open to finding out more about this if there are more questions!

Will this be made available for the rest of LJ at some point?

[marta]

At some point it could be available, but it's not in any plans that I know of. I can certainly take opinions on it if it ever gets floated as a future plan - although I haven't heard any more about it than what I said in the other few comments.

[qfemale]

Thank you!

For what it's worth, I'd like it if it were available for everybody.

[archmage]

Satisfied? No. Happy that it's a start! You betcha.

[dancesontrains]

Word.

[cacahuate]

Based on elfwreck's list, previously blocked words that have been unblocked so far:

breasts
incest
cracker (and related)
spic (and related)

[emarkienna]

It's interesting to now have a look at who listed these interests - I tried searching for "spic" and "spics", and there's only a handful of racist type communities that I can see, and they seem to have hardly any members.

I haven't searched through all 44 communities returned by "cracker", or the 88 returned by "crackers", but racist/hate speech communities don't exactly jump out at me...

I'm curious to know whether these terms were actually being used to allow hate speech supporters find each other, or whether they're just randomly banning any "offensive" term.

[just1user]

it was like glob *spic* - e.g. "spice girls" was banned also.

[emarkienna]

I know :) All of them appear to be substring searches, which is rather silly of them.

[winterthunder]

On the issue of user tracking, I'd be happy as long as I were able to opt out of it. I don't like it when I'm tracked period, but especially when I'm tracked without my knowledge.

[imaria]

It looks that, since none of us non-Russians have use of the function, we are all being opted-out (which seems to make sense). And that the function IS opt-outable for the Russian users that can make use of it.

[winterthunder]

But we are/were being tracked if we visited Russian journals, no? That bothers me more than having or not having the option to track my own visitors.

[intrepia]

From what I understand, the code release today made it so that non-SUP users are no longer tracked when visiting SUP-enabled journals (I guess you could think of that as a default opt-out with no opt-in) and gave the SUP-enabled users an opt-out.