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Three days ago, a person on my subscription list, whom I met online in 2007 through the FanLib fiasco, asked the world at large, "OK what *is* the thing going on with OTW right now? I keep seeing people going 'I'm not going to comment on this' but I have no idea what's going on. Help ( Read more... )

Folks, "guys" has mysteriously returned to LiveJournal's most popular interests page.

This takes a huge load off my mind. It never really belonged to the group of interests blocked from most popular interests ( Read more... )

Using the wayback machine, I was able to compare Livejournal popular interests from May, 2007, with those of today. In order of size, these are the interests SUP has disappeared from the daily popular interests report ( Read more... )

shaggirl was looking at my ancient post on the Bloglines fiasco, where I have a link to LiveJournal's most popular interests page.

She noticed "porn" and "fanfiction" were no longer appearing as top interests, which she found odd, and left me a comment: Could that many people have deleted those interests as a result of the fall-out [...] or has LJ ( Read more... )

Since July, 2007, when I decided to migrate from LiveJournal to the bullshit-free land of InsaneJournal, folks have asked me, "Hey, Stewardess, aren't you worried the majority of fandom/porn writers/lolcat communities will stay at LiveJournal ( Read more... )

As of May, 2007
Total accounts: 31,943
Active in some way: 448
That have ever updated: 10,383
Updating in last 30 days: 244
Updating in last 7 days: 140
Updating in past 24 hours: 49

Thank you, anon benefactor, for the pre June 2007 stats!

As of July 22, 2007Total accounts: 37,592 ( Read more... )

While we were howling about the snitch tool and the buyout by SUP, Six Apart quietly put into effect interest banning.

Don't know when it began, but some interests are no longer searchable. It's highly likely a few of the hate speech terms have been blocked for a while, but many others are obviously new additions ( Read more... )

There are times in your life when you cannot resist saying: I told you so.

Livejournal has been sold by Six Apart to SUP, a company based in Moscow.

The Unidentifed Financial Opportunity I predicted in June, 2007, is finally revealed ( Read more... )

To understand the effect of the new Livejournal flagging tool, I am now officially 13 years old. Important stuff you need to know ( Read more... )