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LiveJournal Support

Welcome!
Welcome to the LiveJournal community support center. Listed below are some of the most frequent questions people ask. If you don't find what you're looking for, you can submit a support request below.

Known Issues:

    At any time, you are welcome to check out the status page LiveJournal maintains on a seperate server.

    IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

  • We are not accepting support requests in the customization category at this time. Existing requests in the customization category will be answered and dealt with in the same manner as before.

  • LiveJournal is under heavy site and database load. Because of this, many aspects of the site will have problems intermittently. Posts may not appear immediately, errors may appear when commenting or attempting to read an entry, and site features may not function. New servers are on the way to help fix these problems -- be patient! Please do not open a support request regarding these issues, as we are working as quickly as we can. Watch http://status.livejournal.org for updates.

  • We've recently changed the security structure of our login process, and now some users are having problems remaining logged in. We're aware of the problems, and are working on fixing it. Please see this post in news for more information

  • LiveJournal is currently working on translating the site for internationalization purposes. If the site displays in a language other than the one you prefer, please choose the correct language here.

  • Support volunteers cannot give out invite codes. If you are interested in creating a LiveJournal, you need to either know someone with an existing account, or you must create a paid account. The invitation codes are a solution to the massive popularity of livejournal.com, and if the policy ever changes, it will be announced in news. Also: Once an invite code is used, it cannot be returned to you. Invite codes are a one-time-use only item.

  • Recently, the number of stolen accounts has risen dramatically. To combat this, LiveJournal has implemented password quality checking for all users. If you have received an error that your password is easily guessed, please visit FAQ 18 for password change information. Further information can be found at this post in news.

  • Thank you, and sorry for any inconvenience.

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Have a question?


1. Check the Known Issues in the box above.


2. Try to look up the answer yourself:
About LiveJournal What is LiveJournal? | Origins | It's free? | Who runs it? | Terms of Service | Getting started | How to help
Site Navigation Features Calendar view | Topic directory | Memorable posts | Interests | Directory Search | Official journals | Where to learn more
Accounts Creating an account | Account types | Memberships | Memberships as gifts | Changing a username | Email validation | Validation errors | Directory listing | Password security | Retrieving username/password | Changing a password | Break-ins | Generating invitation codes | Payment expiration | Deleting a journal
User Pictures User Pictures
Journal Entries Incorrect Date/Time | Page too large | Missing entries | Basic Text Effects | Posting pictures | Posting links | Posting polls | LJ-specific tags | "Don't auto-format" option | Backdated entries | "Current Mood" feature | "Current Music" feature | Editing an entry | Deleting an entry | Deleting all entries | Will you ever delete my entries?
Comments Enabling comments | Editing/deleting comments | Comment IP logging | Banning anonymous comments | Banning a user | Banning all comments
Friends & Security Levels Friends list | Add a Friend | Friend Groups | Who can read journal entries? | Being listed as a Friend | Who can read memorable posts? | Changing privacy of an entire journal | Banning a user from reading
Communities Community Journals
Customization Modifying a journal's appearance | Color usage | Style overrides | Fonts | Background images | Number of entries per page | "Comments" links | Mood icons | Javascript issues
Additional Features To-Do Lists | Downloading your journal
Communications Fast servers | Access problems | Getting email | Problems receiving email | Problems replying by email | Changing an email address | Text Messaging
Client Software For Windows | For Unix/Linux | For Mac | Other clients | Music auto-detection
Conflicts with Other Users Anonymous posts | Standards of decency | Hateful posts | Harassment | Stalking | Reporting abusive users | Account suspension
Working with Other Sites Blocking search engines from your journal | Embedding a journal into your website | Preventing LJ users from loading images off your server (for other webmasters)


3. Ask the Support Team, if you still need help:
 
Just fill out a Support Request form.

LiveJournal's team of volunteer helpers is at work around the clock answering users' questions.

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Support Areas
Here are the three major things you can do here in the support area.

  • Read the Frequently Asked Questions
    Try and solve the problem first by yourself before asking other people. You'll probably get the answer faster, too!

  • Ask a question
    Is your question not in the FAQ? Click "Ask a question" and you can submit a new support request and somebody in the LiveJournal community will read it and get back to you with an answer. If they don't help you, your support request stays open until somebody does help and you confirm that your problem is solved.

  • Help somebody out
    Got some extra time on your hands? Help out a LiveJournal user that has an open support request. Users that help other users out will get "support points" that will show up on your userinfo page. There are multiple reasons for helping other users out:

    • Just to be nice
    • To get points just for fun and competition

    If you're curious, check out the list of high scores, showing who helps the most.

    If you want to be notified when new support requests come in, set your notification settings.