Comments | varymydays: You can't always get what you want

varymydays

You can't always get what you want

Sep 02, 2010 13:44

Apparently, a LJ spokesperson wants us to fill out the following poll to say how much we do not like the facebook-LJ-twitter merge thing:

http://community.livejournal.com/thequestionclub/86168785.html

Never mind that the news post is filled with over 7,000 comments of people who DNW. ( Read more... )

lj, fail

Comments 3

sophicsulphur September 2 2010, 20:55:55 UTC

...wh-what.

I was cool about the pingbacks thing and didn't think anything of it, so enabled it on my journals. I did not realise that it would send out large chunks of people's locked entries.

WHY DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND EVEN BASIC PRIVACY CONCERNS, LJ.

But srsly, thanks for this. I failed at comprehending what was going on. D:

varymydays September 2 2010, 21:02:31 UTC

It's the facebook-LJ thing that really makes me mad. If someone comments on a f-locked entry, they can then crosspost their comment on your private matters to Facebook or to Twitter. It will contain your full name and a link to your LJ. I keep my facebook and LJ very, very separate as most people do. XD" Not cool.

And yeah, the pingbacks can send out a good chunk of people's locked entries. I just tested it out myself, and it's pretty freaky. Apparently, it only works if you make a post public accidentally and then change it to flocked. If it's flocked the whole time from the moment you post it, no one will get a pingback about it. Still! I don't like thinking that if I accidentally make something public that I want flocked, it could be seen by people who are not my friends :/

now with less RP journal execharmonious September 2 2010, 21:26:00 UTC

The thing where there are security holes with public entries that have been subsequently flocked has been a problem before, I feel like I vaguely remember. You'd think LJ would have fixed this by now.

I kind of get why LJ and Facebook want to integrate, after reading comments on the news post (LJ is more of a general blogging platform in Russia than in the English-speaking world, and people don't keep stuff all that separate there and I guess are cool with this), and seems like LJ only care about their Russian userbase these days, even though the culture of English-language LJ is pretty different. Still, it's intimidating.