For reasons which escape me, and which haven't been announced or explained, a very large random selection of users have had their birthdates removed from their user profile pages ( Read more... )

For the second time, I've tried out the new Beta Navigation System. And then I went to feedback/betanav.bml and ( wrote the following: )

Support request 611095:

No mechanism exists for permanently disabling the navigation strip

I'm aware of how to remove the navigation strip on my own journal. I've read FAQ 264, so pointing me at it once more won't be helpful.

I've read the recent post over in suggestions about how the existence or non-existence of the navigation bar doesn't respect ( Read more... )

Seemingly owing to poor browser support for Windows Mobile 5, I'm unable to post comments from the handset ( Read more... )

I just got a comment notification email from April 24th. The headers suggest it's been hiding on LJ's servers for the intervening two and a half weeks, before leaving the site just a few minutes ago.

Has this happened to anyone else today?

Account type:Permanent Account
Date created:2002-05-09 12:49:42
Journal entries:2,000
Comments:Posted: 8,188 - Received: 10,661

In the "Virtual Gifts" thread over in suggestions, a bunch of comments have been screened.

This was in reply to a comment from daveman692 in which he said
Can you point me to an actual example of where Virtual Gifts have been abused? Thanks.

My contribution read as follows:

I can use this feature to insert real-life contact information into the use userinfo page of ( Read more... )

http://news.livejournal.com/90961.html
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=260
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=553266

( suggestions/generator.bml )

Further to this message, I've had a reply from LJ Support as follows:

Dear Douglas,

Thanks for taking the time to contact us. I've contacted the head of the Feedback community with your idea, so that he may consider it.

Please feel free to let us know if there's anything else we can do for you.

On the userinfo page for the feedback community, they encourage users to send them emails. I've just done so.

There's lots of traffic on the recent "News" post, much of which is about the recently introduced "nudge" feature. I'm sure you've been reading, but it's not easy to sort out the comments about "nudge" from the comments about other things ( Read more... )