Title
Auto-add news and lj_maintenance upon account creation
Short, concise description of the idea
The news and lj_maintenance communities should automatically be added to a user's Friends list when s/he first create his/her account.
Full description of the idea
The
news and
lj_maintenance communities should automatically be added to a user's Friends list when s/he first create his/her account here at LiveJournal.
An ordered list of benefits
This will really help people know what's going on with the site -- I know I didn't find out about news and lj_maintenance until I was using LiveJournal for a year or so.Getting information directly from the source is better than things getting twisted around and stuff.World peace.An ordered list of problems/issues involved
Automatic adding of friends isn't something people may like.An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation
I think DeadJournal does this already, no? I don't know exactly what needs to be done, though; I don't know the code well enough.