Half a bajillion years ago I actually had a little spare cash, and I invested it in a permanent LJ account. Because of that, I do not currently plan to delete my LJ account, but I will be a great deal more circumspect and even more infrequent in posting here ( Read more... )

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Hallelujah!!!

Pages should now finish loading regardless of what browser add-ons you are using.

Crossposted from http://montuos.dreamwidth.org/934912.html ;
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Well, that was unpleasant for a couple of days. I have been strenuously resisting the change to LJ's new Friends page version - missing tools and options, unacceptable colors and fonts, objectionable layout - and discovered at some point that I had been changed over anyway. I eventually found the button to switch back - except that it didn't, ( Read more... )

I'm really enjoying the new lj-cut feature, where you can expand and collapse the text inside the cut without leaving the page you are on! Now if only you could close the cut again from the bottom, or even figure out where the bottom of the cut is, the way you can with Firefox's LiveJournal Addons, or on Dreamwidth...

" Today we’re letting you know that the new Scrapbook will release this week; in anticipation, we want to give you a bit more information on some additional changes that have been made."

Or in other words, they listened to feedback and have actually made a few good changes where they could. For instance, tags will be saved, even though you won't ( Read more... )

Last weekend we were talking about assorted problems associated with using older computers. One of them that I knew to be fixable, although I couldn't remember offhand exactly what the details were, was sites such as LJ choking on too many pictures and embedded things ( Read more... )

[EDIT 9/19/10] Finally realized I'd screwed up the link to the news - that's the LJ news, not the DW news! - and corrected that. [endedit]

From the news today:
We understand and appreciate your privacy concerns. For this reason, we'll be modifying the comment cross-posting portion of the Facebook and Twitter Connect feature so only comments on ( Read more... )

So there was this LJ Writer's Block that caught my fancy and I answered it...and apparently that particular WB was the most popular one that week...and it was mentioned in the news...and guess whose entry was #1 in the list of 10 excerpts thereWow... I'd be thrilled just knowing that it was one of ten random picks out of the 849 responses currently ( Read more... )

I've been trying not to be a pest about this thing this year, but the LiveJournal Advisory Board election is still in progress.  If you haven't voted yet, please consider toddling over to http://community.livejournal.com/lj_election_en/31595.html and select whoever you think will represent you best.  Polls close at 4:30 p.m. PDT on Friday June 26, ( Read more... )