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twissie

All About LJ

Jan 21, 2012 12:45

So here's a couple of places to follow if you're interested in what's going on with LJ:

- theljstaff (this seems to be the new news, really. I have no clue why they don't use the more well known news source for the two (!) things that have been posted here)
- manonon (a very dedicated user who translates posts (about LJ) by igrick (head of Russian LJ). It's a fascinating ( Read more... )

lj, the internet!

Comments 8

shirenu January 21 2012, 13:24:44 UTC

...What is Release 88? LOL!!

twissie January 21 2012, 13:29:40 UTC

Hahaha :D

I guess you'll only see it if you participate in big communities that use the default comment pages/don't force your own journal style on all comment pages - basically, they changed the look and feel of the comment pages. They removed the subject lines, you can't preview your comments, you HAVE to use a visual userpic selector, no parent link for huge comment threads, font was changed and made 2x bigger than all the other fonts on the site ++++++

http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html

shirenu January 21 2012, 14:38:01 UTC

Ah, I've seen that, I just didn't know that was the name for it X'D

twissie January 22 2012, 13:01:19 UTC

Stay informed about your overlords~! XD;;;;

defined January 22 2012, 11:57:48 UTC

Oh man, that quote. "We don't care about our current users, but you should come join our site!"

twissie January 22 2012, 13:00:48 UTC

It's sad :/ I used to have an LJ staff person on my friendslist (before he quit/got laid off) and randomly found one of his comments when I was looking through some old entries earlier today. We were discussing how the ongoing changes kept trying to change LJ into something it isn't, and then he said:

" LJ is completely unique. Apparently 6A is starting to realize this. I was told yesterday that they're changing the vision for LJ to be focusing on the things LJ already does best."

That was back in 2006. I think 6A (or whoever runs LJ now) has forgotten about this :/

Automated Russian LJ news comm... manonon January 24 2012, 09:58:44 UTC

You should also watch ruljautonews. They post all relevant posts from igrick and others with links to automated translations as soon as those posts appear. I'm often late with the translations...

Re: Automated Russian LJ news comm... twissie January 25 2012, 23:51:23 UTC

Thanks a lot for pointing that out to me. I had no idea it even existed :O