Release 88

[markf]

Release 88 is now live!

Features:

• Site-scheme comment pages have been redesigned! Any journal or community which has disabled customized comment pages, such as this community, have been updated. Highlights include the commenting form having improved userpic selection, making it easy to insert links, images, and videos, expand/collapse

Comments

[rainbooming]

http://www.sup.com/en/management.html
http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=igrick

I believe this pretty much confirms it. Igrick is Ilya Dronov, head of LJ Russia. That makes his behavior even more disgusting. Twitbomb away, I say.

...omg he looks so young. /random

[biifurcatiion]

And he doesn't look very friendly at all in that picture. BUT. Now I know who he is and who he answers to, which is fabulous.

[myrana]

It's definitely him - Ilya Dronov's public Facebook page (here) has "igrick" as its URL, and it's linked to igrick.

[corinn]

It's pretty hard to defend LJ from all the people who scream "fuck the Russians ruining LJ, who cares about their access to a platform for free speech when they're totally deliberately ruining the site for everyone else, insert DDoS conspiracy theory here, also did I mention fuck the Russians" when it turns out the head of LJ Russia is a massive troll who evidently takes some degree of sadistic amusement in the English-speaking userbase's fury.

[metrometric]

Uhhh... Okay, honestly, not trying to attack you personally here so much as the sentiment you brought up, but... No, it should be pretty easy to defend the Russians, given that the Russian user base is being treated just as badly as the English-speaking users. Honestly, it's really pissing me off that the Russian users, who had no more say in this than the English users did, are somehow made out to be the villains in this. igrick does not represent the Russian LJ user base any more than markf is representative of all English-speaking users.

[corinn]

Honestly, it's really pissing me off that the Russian users, who had no more say in this than the English users did, are somehow made out to be the villains in this.

Uuuuugh I am not doing well with words right now and am failing hard. I agree with you. Screw this migraine, I can't concentrate on more than a sentence at a time. Thanks for that, new comment format!

I've been involved in some of the arguments on LJ's FB page when people start painting the Russian userbase as villains based on the combination of the Russian employees and the DDoS attacks and am really against that stance. My previous comment comes from frustration with how I can just clearly see the arguments there bring up "But igrick!" whenever I go for the "No, the Russians are not deliberately messing with the English userbase" angle. I don't see "you're falsely conflating the owners and the users" or "they're treating the Russian users poorly too" going well over there. igrick will be the face pasted onto the ~evil Russian~ straw man. Also, I've been arguing that the Russian

[metrometric]

No, no, your comment made perfect sense. I admit I'm frustrated, but I was fairly sure you didn't share the sentiment I was frustrated with, and I am sorry if it came off as aggressive towards you

[corinn]

That's okay♥ I do think we agree.

And thank you ever so much. You obviously care more than LJ admins do! :D You'd think multiple users going UH HEY GUYS? THIS IS CAUSING ME REAL-WORLD PHYSICAL PAIN, I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING, HEY GUYS? GUYS? would elicit some kind of response.

UGH THESE ILLEGIBLE CAPTCHAS WITH BUTTONS WITH CYRILLIC MOUSEOVER TEXT *REFRESH REFRESH REFRESH*

[unjaundiced]

I've been having massive headaches since the horrible update where they changed how the text editor lets you update previous posts. 3 HOURS SPENT TRYING TO ADD 5 LINES OF TEXT IS NOT NECESSARY!!!

Also, if you completely type in the wrong thing, LJ Captcha usually takes it. You don't even have to type in the Cyrillic. Type a letter that looks like it (or a random symbol/number/draw a picture) and it'll take. Useless Super useful function, this Captcha!

[corinn]

Huh. That's odd. I get ERROR YOU FAIL TRY AGAIN or whatever if I don't do the captcha perfectly. Though I've never tried to enter anything when it actually gives me an image of something Cyrillic. The rollover alt text or whatever on the buttons that should say refresh or whatever is streams of Cyrillic. And by "illegible captcha" I meant "I haven't the damnedest what I'm even looking at" rather than "Is that N or IV?"

[unjaundiced]

Really? I always write whatever in the Captcha box and it takes it, even if it's a whole sentence (okay less than that). When you get Cyrillic or accented letters, usually if you type in a letter that sort of matches, it'll work. I get Aramaic and Arabic all the time, lol. Just to keep things interesting of course.

I think I got a smiley face like this >> ☺ << once and just put o. Sometimes it'll make me do it right, but usually it doesn't care which is good since sometimes the text/numbers are illegible anyhow. Captcha is super weird... For me anyhow.

Captcha wants perfection off-LJ though. It demands utter submission.

[claudine]

You only have to type one of the words in Captchas. (At least the LJ ones.) It's the one with the double-image. (Or the blurrier one, actually.) I found this out on a JE hate meme and it has never failed me. :P

Basically, the unnecessary word is to "teach" the Captcha to recognize new words. So you can either not type it in, or type whatever the hell you want.

[unjaundiced]

Lol good to know. Sometimes I just type in one letter and it works. The excessive typing is usually me telling Captcha rude things that one should not repeat to ones mother.

I would like to be a bad influence on Captcha. Does it recycle the words and reuse them later then? Because typos and stuff would explain some of the weirdness it puts out.

[claudine]

I know people who basically type "cock" on the unnecessary word all the time. XD

[unjaundiced]

Aw... Poor Captcha. It started out life as an innocent little bot full of grammar fails. Now it's been corrupted by the perversions of real life. I know who's f-list to check if I see ckoc come up! because Captcha can't spell

Mine of course! :D

[zeitgeistic]

The unnecessary word is actually a word scanned from an old book that they are trying to digitize, but the computer text reader couldn't read it. This is straight from one of the guy's who worked on the project.

Sorry to jump in, just gotta defend the re-Captchas because I think it's an awesome project.