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News

Welcome to LiveJournal news. If you crave more frequent and detailed news, check out the following journals:

comm_news Weekly meta-summary of everything!
news Infrequent, basic, overall news. (this page)
lj_maintenance Server status and planned downtime annoucements.
changelog Every little change, as it happens.
lj_dev LiveJournal technical development & planning
lj_biz LiveJournal business/marketing development & planning


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Looking for gift ideas?
Thursday, Dec 12th, 2002 -- 2:17 am

bradfitz
Can't think of holiday gift ideas for your LiveJournal friends? Give them LiveJournal! For all 6 and 12 month paid account gifts purchased through 12/31, LiveJournal will give a free one month paid account to the buyer.

Also, props to chameleon669 for the wonderful goat graphic on our front page!

Bad Hardware
Wednesday, Dec 4th, 2002 -- 2:16 pm

bradfitz
We have two machines dead right now which is causing the site to suck.

Normally, two machines out would be nothing to worry about, but these are both in the same user cluster, so it's pushing all the work to that cluster's master.

The vendor for both the problematic machines is in Seattle, about 3 blocks from the data center, so we're gonna try and get everything resolved today. (don't worry --- both machines are slaves, so there's no reason to be afraid of data loss or anything)

In the meantime, making new posts and comments is disabled for free users to lighten up the load.

Taking it in a different direction.
Wednesday, Nov 27th, 2002 -- 1:08 am

jproulx
Earlier this morning we stopped taking requests in the "customization" category of the support department, in an effort to alleviate some of the pressures of offering such a broad range of support. However, we're not ditching support for customization type inquiries. We'll just be taking it in a different direction:

We're going to be expanding our current documentation and we'll be encouraging everyone to help out by contributing their ideas and design talents. LiveJournal members will be able to get involved and contribute to our knowledge base much in the same way you can volunteer for the support or documentation departments. The howto journal will house more tutorials than ever, and will quickly become the definitive resource for customization purposes.

With S2 right around the corner (which is closer than you might think), we will hopefully have a vast resource of nifty customization information compiled and available for everyone to use.

Looking for communities?
Wednesday, Nov 13th, 2002 -- 2:50 am

jproulx
As some of you may be aware, there is an officially sanctioned community, community_promo, which allows LiveJournals users to run promotions for both the communities they maintain, and the communities they like the best. It is a great place to spread the word about your favorite communities, and to learn about some of the more obscure ones that slip under the radar.

However, there's another great place like community_promo that'll help you find some great communities. I'd like to announce the recently sanctioned resource community_quest, a community where you can post and try to find communities that already exist. Try it out! Its run by the same maintainer as community_promo, and is quickly becoming the most popular way to find what you're looking for. Its the 411 of LiveJournal communities!

Security Notice
Thursday, Nov 7th, 2002 -- 2:08 pm

jproulx
Some of you might receive (or have already received) an email that says the sender is webmaster@livejournal.com, with a message containing the following paragraph:
LiveJournal.com
has been experiencing some technical difficulties with some of our
member's live journals. The only way for us to fix the problem, Is for
you to log into your account ASAP! Please log into your account
here http://www.livejournal.com/

Please disregard this email, as it is just a hoax trying to scare users into giving out their passwords. The link in the message body doesn't actually take you to livejournal.com, but to a page on another server that looks exactly like our home page. If you log in from the false page, you risk having the security of your LiveJournal account becoming compromised.

We're contacting the services involved in hosting the false page, and we hope to get this taken care of soon.

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