ATTENTION F-LIST: Hold on to your butts

[vanya_elda]

Livejournal implemented a new release yesterday and some personal information might be compromised because of it. The announcement has 700+ replies and some people are actually contacting the Better Business Bureau about the privacy breech

Comments

[yuppielawyer]

Fail, LJ.

[ymfaery]

Where is the privacy breech mentioned? In the comments?

[vanya_elda]

It's never touched on by one of the staff members, but there is a plethora of TL;DR about it in the comments. I thought it was people just trolling at first, then multiple reports started coming in, and then one of my friends freaked a little when she was taken to someone else's journal when she tried to edit hers.

[ymfaery]

Ah. LJ staff shutting up like normal, it appears.

Also, I forgot I followed a link to your post and was briefly confused when I noticed your username didn't match who I thought I was commenting to. So hi, person new to me. ;)

[vanya_elda]

Haha Hi! I'm glad this is getting passed around because it gives me the creeps. I posted it to ~unfunnybusiness and someone there confirmed that they had a WTF moment when they went to edit their post and were taken to someone else's locked entries. :|

[realpestilence]

I'm glad you posted about this. I've noticed a few little things that I thought might be my imagination because I hadn't seen anyone else talking about more LJ fail yet.

Thanks for passing the word. :)

[vanya_elda]

You're welcome! It's a serious problem and all users need to know about it now when it is actually happening, not through an email that comes 5 days after it happened.

[without_me]

Perhaps this, at last, is the push I need to switch to DW for real.

[vanya_elda]

Right? I'm going to start transferring everything there after work.