It's been quite annoying that LJ has been down for most of the week because I've had several things to post about and I've not been able to do so till now. And now it's Friday which generally has very few people reading LJ. Although maybe with the recent downtime that might not be the case. Anyway, I'll have to put all my news into one post and ( Read more... )

So LJ now has games that you can install. I'm not sure what to think of this new development. It seems like it's another 'hey, let's make LJ more like Facebook!' idea to me. Are any of you playing any of these games? Are they any good or is it just another way to get yet more money out of us? Any other thoughts about them??

I just tried to respond to a comment I got earlier on - I accessed the page on my LJ through the link in the email notification - but when I hit submit, I got the weirdest error message. It said,

Access ForbiddenYou've been temporarily banned from accessing LiveJournal, perhaps because you were hitting the site too quickly. Please make sure that ( Read more... )

The recent idiocy from LJ/SixApart continues. They've now decided that it's an offence to even link to any prohibited content even if it's hosted OFF LJ.

For more information on that, there's a post here. If you want to see LJ say exactly what is and what isn't, take a look at this entry in lj_biz. And if you want to see LJ answer for all of the ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't seen it yet elsewhere, LJ is currently permanently suspending communities and journals with interests in illegal sexual practises, including incest, paedophilia, underage slash, lolicon, chan, shota, etc., without prior notice. Bearing in mind that in the UK even consensual BDSM is illegal, so something like that could ( Read more... )