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LiveJournal Major Notes: Notes, Tweaks, Bug Kills, LJ_Cares! [Nov. 12th, 2009|01:53 pm]

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Notes augmented


We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!


Product tweaks and bug kill



  1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened

  2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here

  3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!

  4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!

  5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded


New FCK fixes rich text editor!



  1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5 for improved visual design!

  2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken

  3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0

  4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor

  5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

  6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)


LiveJournal Cares


We’re pleased to introduce you to [info]lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.



In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit [info]lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.


Papered in postcards


A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, England, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.



Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!


Photos of the week


We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at [info]lj_photophile.


You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!


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We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

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Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT [Nov. 11th, 2009|02:00 pm]

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
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Fears [Nov. 10th, 2009|01:17 am]

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((Private entry))

I don't really mean this, I know that I don't, because there is Mina and there are so many other great friends, and wonderful professors, and I'm learning so much for my degree...

But I feel very worried just now that I made a mistake, to come here. I know it will past— just—

So many passings. It isn't at all normal. It can't be! And Howard's... he isn't about so much, we've both been consumed by tasks, and this is both good (less prodding at sleeping linguistic dragons) and bad (less knowing what's afoot). If, indeed, anything that's afoot has... anything to do with, well— us.

Yes, I'm quite afraid.
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E-mail: Tom, to Jake [Nov. 8th, 2009|01:40 pm]

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LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest [Nov. 5th, 2009|01:15 pm]

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The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to [info]xkcd_rss, [info]icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!



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If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! [info]c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join [info]c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.

Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.



Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at [info]lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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A letter to Ian [Nov. 4th, 2009|02:35 am]

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A letter, handwritten in Ron's usual excellent script upon a page from what must have been a yellow legal pad, sealed in a cheap envelope and sent by campus mail to Ian Fleming.

XX April 2009

Ian—

Oh, don't worry about that for an instant. In light of all that has transpired, I would feel frivolous at best and hedonistic at worst, staging a spectacle of the proportions I was previously imagining, I must tell you. I think the only reason I may be holding up as well as I feel is that I have mostly not known those departed, and am already too well acquainted with loss in days gone by. As insufficiently as I can mourn, however, I do wish not to have us do anything unbefitting the time, and so I believe your decision is utterly the right one. Should your immensely generous present be intended to placate, be sure that no such gesture is necessary, although if you do insist on my having those books regardless of reason, I may be too greedy to refuse. Wherever did you find them?

Wæs hæil.

— Ron
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Nouvelles [Oct. 31st, 2009|10:50 pm]

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I don't understand [Oct. 30th, 2009|09:38 pm]

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((Private entry))

Something quite distressing has happened. And no, I don't mean the events that I have heard rumour of, in Astor last night. Rather, Father Francis sent me a letter back. He... doesn't believe it is wise for me to spend too much time with Mina. I admit that I guard my wording regarding very delicate matters of... a certain nature, but if this is in some way a flaw, he has that flaw tenfold times farther. Oh, but I do respect him. He is a good man. I am very grateful for his care, for providing both Arthur and I with a life, when we might have had none, or none worth living, after Mother...

He is concerned that she does not belong to the Church. I have never asked her. I have not seen her at Mass, no, but maybe she has a preference for her home parish, which I would understand— or... or to be frank, must it matter so? She is not C of E, I have quite frankly not thought about it so very much. I wonder if I erred. But I can't have erred. It's her. I adore her...
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Network Maintenance - Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 04:00-05:00 GMT/UTC [Oct. 30th, 2009|05:17 pm]

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EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side.

Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to [info]rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station.

Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be.

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Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in.

Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :(

Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work.

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status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else [info]marta will get mad at me. :D

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