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December 14th, 2011 - Happy December Holidays and welcome to the official LiveJournal newsletter! Bringing you system updates, community events, and other newsworthy nuggets from the world of LiveJournal. Here's a look at what's news on and around LJ:

Release 88 sneak peek
Our final site update of the year, Release 88, is scheduled to go live

Comments

paying user on a sock journal

[atroppa]

What I want to know is the status of whether to keep subject lines in comments. There has been tremendous backlash against the idea of disabling comment subject lines from fandom and RP. Please do not withhold information from your users, paying or not.

Re: paying user on a sock journal

[slightlymore]

I'd heard something about that. Let us know, LJ

Re: paying user on a sock journal

[culper355]

Please don't remove the subject lines they make navigation so much easier,. especially when trolling through memes or fandom communities!

Re: paying user on a sock journal

[phyncke]

I would like to know on that as well. Graphics designers use those also.

[ryuuseicomplex]

Can we get a work on purging suspended and inactive usernames? If I remember right that was supposed to be done last year and I still see no sign of anything happening there...

[plznospoilers]

THANK YOU. I recently sent a help question about this and was given a vague answer of "well we might do that sometime". LJ, I want to give you money to give me a name no one has ever updated since the year 2000 (provided you keep your subject lines.) Please consider this request!

[00goddess]

I have a few accounts that I haven't updated in years. I use them as an archive of the things I wrote at that time. They are not in my opinion inactive. I hope that LJ will NOT go into purging accounts that are no longer updated.

[plznospoilers]

they said they'd only get rid of accounts that had absolutely nothing on them so i'm sure yours are safe.

or, i would be sure but lj isn't exactly in the mood of assuring me of anything considering this comment layout change.

[mosinging1986]

Instead of "fixing" features that aren't broken, how about some word about this year's numerous problems/down time, and what's being done to prevent it from happening in the future?

[dark_puck]

If you're talking about all of the DDOS attacks, they HAVE been handling that one right.

Unfortunately, it's the single thing they HAVE been handling right.

[elusis]

They sure didn't handle the week-long death of the RSS feeds right - they didn't even put them on the "Known Issues" list until I refused to close a support request where they just said "dunno, we're working on it."

[lafinjack]

Add status to your friends list, which you can also always access at status.livejournal.com (even when the rest of LJ is down).

[fencer_x]

First off, that pic is beautiful.

But...instead of letting us know what the changes are before implementing them and hearing us complain about them inevitably being ill-conceived or not working, you're letting us know before that changes are coming.

I suppose that's a step up at least from letting us know after the fact. Keep trying, LJ. Baby steps and all that.

[elionwyr]

I've been asking, "Hey, why not tell your users before you do things?" question for...I forget how many years.

Having been a paying user for most of my 10 years on LJ, I keep hoping that the request of Them What Pays might matter. Nope.

[nobel_berserker]

Seconding the request of the above poster. I also want to know if subject lines will still exist under the new release.

For the record, getting more of my money will require a "yes."