Earn Extra Cash with Your Journal!

[theljstaff]

As many of you may have alraedy seen, LiveJournal announced the Your Journal - Your Money feature today in news. This feature allows you to link your Paid or Permanent LiveJournal account to a Google AdSense account to display ads on your journal. You keep all of the proceeds from the display of these ads once Google takes their cut; LiveJournal does

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[rhetoricians]

I'm still holding out for the ability to search a community and pull up all of my own posts in it from the time I joined. That's the only feature paid LJers don't have that I want.

[faedreamer]

Now *that* would be an awesome feature.

And more damn userpics. I'd pay big for an additional hundred or so.

[dingorama]

OMG YES, THIS! I've often wondered why/how this feature hasn't been offered or created yet, hmm..

[kethryvis]

srsly. i started asking for it when i joined LJ, which was what, 2002ish. and it was already oft-requested at that point.

LJ, we appreciate that you give us stuff. But maybe, just maybe, it would be really swell if you gave us the stuff we keep asking for? Like being able to search our journals (without using Google because that doesn't work overly well), giving us a la cart userpics like you promised almost a year ago now, or something like that. We might be more open and excited, then, about this other stuff you keep giving us.

Just a thought.

[swagmonkey]

Not disagreeing that it should be built into the site, but my LJ client allows me to search my journal. I use XJournal. There are probably plenty of others that offer similar features.

I don't think the google option would work well, unless your journal (or the part you cared to search through) were all public.

[christinaathena]

Or to pull up all of *any* user's posts to a community. It'd be useful to be able to find all posts by user X on community Y. Some communities I'm on use tags for that purpose, so that every post by a given user has their name as a tag, but that's a rather clumsy workaround, IMO. This would especially be useful on writing communities and the like, where you might enjoy a particular user's story and want to see more by them.

[going_x_crazy]

I've been wishing for that feature ever since I joined LJ

[ladynadiad]

I'm holding out for a decent search period. It's annoying how I have to use google to be able to find stuff on LJ that I'm looking for.

[lygophilous]

FERVENTLY SECONDED. THANK YOU FOR THIS STATEMENT.

[whishastar]

I agree that a search function would be great!

My way of finding posts to communities by myself or any other specific user is to go into the archive of that community and then view all posts for a month and use the find function of my browser to search for user name. It's cumbersome, but it has worked as a crutch.

[glowing_dragon]

Amen to that!

[markf]

I'd actually love to see this functionality as well, although with this feature would come increased ability for people who break into accounts to wipe out more content. There's already people out there with scripts that delete every entry in a journal, and I'm sure they'd be modified quickly to do the same with data from this feature to all entries ever posted in communities by an account too. I think I'd rather see some form of backup/restore functionality added before this.