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This journal is now Friends Only.
Given the way LJ seems to be changing in such a way that it's harder to protect the privacy of users of the service, I have decided to make my journal Friends Only (including most old entries here from the past 8 years, which used to be publically viewable.) This means you will need to have an LJ account, and be added to my Friends list in order to ( Read more... ) -
Groupon are fundraising for the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund for Japan and other affected areas.
For those of you in the UK, Groupon are matching donations to the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund for Japan and other affected areas, pound-for-pound, up to the £70,000 mark. 100% of your donation goes to the Red Cross. Donations start from a minimum of £2, and can be purchased in multiples of that value ( Read more... ) -
Save Our NHS.
Save Our NHS. If you're a Brit, you might want to sign this petition, urging your MP to vote against the 3rd reading of the hugely unpopular Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Commons.
About the bill ( Read more... ) -
LJ FAIL: They think we're stupid.
You'll all have read the most recent news update by now, the one in which LJ staff try to con users into thinking that they've "addressed" our privacy concerns by announcing that they're making changes to crossposting to Facebook and Twitter.
Actually, they've taken a step backwards on that. In a prior update, news said:
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LJ FAIL: And in a moment of interesting timing...
... this comes to light, about Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
A series of "embarrassing and damaging" IMs from Mark Zuckerberg have been confirmed as real by The New Yorker, and by the Facebook founder himself. Among them, an exchange once leaked to Silicon Alley Insider in which Zuckerberg explains to a friend that his control of Facebook ( Read more... ) -
LJ FAIL: news update.
There's been an update on news.
This is a good start, but it's still not enough for me.
- I still want to be able to opt-out of crossposting altogether for my own journal, and the communities I manage on LJ. Not just in Friends-Only entries, but in public posts too. Why should LJ make it easier for other people to crosspost from my journal? I would ( Read more... )
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LJ FAIL: Some potentially useful workarounds.
If, like me, you disabled pingbacks but your journal still seems to be sending those out anyway, you could try using a shortened URL when you link to other LJ posts or comments. For instance, from this service. That will apparently help ( Read more... ) -
LJ FAIL - The FAILage worsens.
So it turns out that while LJ's been remarkably slow and feeble with responding to users here who have problems with pingback bugs, or with the whole crossposting to TwitBook situation, LJ have not been slow to update their Facebook pageI guess that shows where their priorities lie. Neglect customer service to your existing customers, including ( Read more... ) -
LJ FAIL: Past the 10,000 mark. Same gripe, different community.
Looks like the post over on news hit the magic 10,000 comments mark, which means no new comments can be posted there now.
So instead people are commenting on this post on lj_releases instead. Heh. Go to it! :^)
Don't forget there's also this poll to vote in, which we know LJ staff members are watching. That's topped the 10,000 mark as well, but should still be ( Read more... ) -
LJ FAIL - Pingback b0rkery.
Also, I have opened a support request about pingbacks, because as I discovered yesterday thanks to cleolinda commenting on my journal, there seem to be pingbacks being sent out from my journal entries, even though I've disabled pingbacks myself.
The pingbacks FAQ says:
The pingback system is mutual; when you choose to receive pingbacks, you are also ( Read more... )