life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

Beta version under testing here.

It's a lot better than the last attempt they made. The only problems for me are 1) too much whitespace at the top and not enough at the bottom 2) still no link to the tags page after how many years?

This was me hacking around with the code for ten minutes to try to fix the excess whitespace.

What do you all think of it?

ONE DAY CONTENT STRIKE


For one day, Friday, March 21, make no posts. Make no comments. Let there be NO new content added to LJ.

SUP obviously does not realize that Basic users have given something of value to them, that it is content that drives the site.

So, for one 24-hour period, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT, let's see how many people we can get to pledge to contribute NO CONTENT.

This will create a permanent downward spike in the daily-posts statistics, a permanent reminder of the power of the userbase.

Full information at The Fox's Den.

SPREAD THE WORD!


First they do away with Basic accounts for new users, then they censor fanfiction from the "popular interests" page. Ever feel a little squeezed?

OK, LJ: divvy up the comment notifications now, please.


Is it just me or are the rest of you not getting them either?

SUP has taken over LJ


O-kay. World ending in T minus, oh, three days, Y/N?

Thinly disguised ads in news? Once again, LJ, Y HALO THAR EPIC FAIL.

On a brighter note, A Harry Potter Plain White Ts parody. This was played on Radio One—filking is now mainstream!

I still can't get LJ Archive to work, despite downloading .NET 3.0 to make it happy. It works for one of my journals, but not this one. I suspect some eejit has stuck a daft smiley in a comment somewhere that the program is interpreting as code. Why can't LJ export your journal with comments in a readable format themselves?

I love it when you find that someone you know in one fandom shares some of your others. Last week doyle_sb4 emailed me saying, "I didn't know you ran an Antonia Forest comm!" I would have squee'd loudly if I hadn't been in work. It turned out that she'd just found the novels in the university library and is currently working her way through them. And the lolcat thing is not her fault really.

Suspendgate 07--here we go again.

Apparently having an interest that is illegal is equivalent to soliciting the illegal behaviour, according to Teh Intarweb Lawyers. So if you list 'rape' or 'incest' ot 'underage sex' as an interest, you're gone. Perma-suspended. Even if the reason you list is is because you're a survivor, in at least one case. Also members of comms that list the interests, apparently.

More.

They can't get me for pr0n, but I'm worried what the next verbotten thing will be—copyright infringement?

And LJArchive keeps giving me errors. Haven't been able to get the darn thing to work for years.

Today's the day for starting a chapter-a-day re-read of HP if you want to finish in time for Deathly Hallows.

Anna Nicole Smith has died. I haven't seen so much fuss over cause of death since Diana died.
Perhaps now we can finally hear the last of Jade Goody? It's astonishing how people stay famous for being famous, especially when they became famous for something like a reality show in the first place.

Oh, and when the news hit ohnotheydidnt, it BRAKE TEH INTARWEBZ LiveJournal

Oh, and it looks like we'll finally be getting a list of tags to choose from on the update page at some point. Only about two years behind...

Over on lj_biz, they announced the arrival of more sponsored features, ones that will be visible to paid/perm users; an SMS service and the arrival of sponsored communities. Cue 68 pages, to date, of disgruntled comments. brad does damage control. And so does burr86. And they change the icon and utter soothingly some more. brad continues here.

I'm not concerned about SMS because, like voice posts, it probably won't be available in the UK. I took a look at the first sponsored comm, scienceofsleep. (Note the sponsored comm icon, utterly distinguishable from the normal one if you squint, and unless you happen to be colour-blind).
Its maintainters and members have a suspiciously high proportion of new journals. In typical LJ fashion, the mob have gathered and are calling them on this.

Why on earth did the advertisers not announce who they were up-front, and whatever features (news, exclusive pics, whatever) LJers are supposed to get out of the community? Surely anyone with half a brain could have worked out that making posts in extravagant praise of the film, while pretending be real users, would only put people's backs up? And presumably someone was paid to set up this community.

Just dashing in to say:

LiveJournal did listen to the feedback.

The beta for the info page now looks like this. It's not perfect, but it's a vast improvement on the previous version. Personally I like grrliz's mock-up, but they seem to be incorporating some features of it.