New release and update: Squeezing from stones, painting them, breaking them apart

[foxfirefey]

The Good first:

daveman692 is back at Six Apart! And he is doing really sexy things. You can read about opening the social graph. (Here, too--brad is doing work on it, as well.) Dave is well known for working on OpenID, and this kind of work will be really nice and empowering for users! XFN and hCard have already been added to LJ profiles

Comments

[romanticlala]

I agree whole-heartedly, it is a stupid idea to remove the login box from the navigation strip; even more than that, I am confused about how it is supposed to know that you're a paid user if you're not logged in, and if you're logged in, you wouldn't need the login box? Unless it means paid journals get the login box and basic journals don't...

Regardless, I have my LJ bookmark set to LJ's login page: https://www.livejournal.com/login.bml, where there are no ads. Eat that, 6A!

[foxfirefey]

It's attached to the nav bar of the journal, not the person.

So, a Basic journal showing the nav bar to logged out users won't have it, but a Paid journal will.

[romanticlala]

Gotcha, thanks for clearing that up. :)

[elfwreck]

Looks like the only way for free users to login without ads is the secure server: https://www.livejournal.com/login.bml

[tallblue]

I wonder how long that will last???

[soph]

Or use LJLogin on Firefox, but obviously that's not always possible.

(btw, isn't it the only way for *anyone* to log in without ads, unless you're a Paid user logging out of a Paid account and then logging in from the logout screen?)

[matgb]

Anyone can log in and out using the navstrip that displays on my journal and friends page--I haven't been to the main site front or login pages except to look and see what the fuss is about for months.

And that's with me logging in and out regularly at conference and using 4 PCs as a base in the average week.

A 'perk' of a paid account now is a login box on your own journal, something that everyone had before now :-(

just LJers doing LJy things

[speck]

balances out that most contests are US-centric.

No prizes, and community-voting (or no "sponsored" prizes, maybe LJ-stuff) = non-US participants and winners.

Re: just LJers doing LJy things

[tallblue]

They should have global contests, even if the prizes were paid time, user picture addons, scrap book addons or some v-gifts.