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| LiveJournal technical development & planning. |
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changelog
| Every little change, as it happens. |
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lj_test
| The testing community, for testing the above changes. |
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featureannounce
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lj_biz
| LiveJournal business-related community. |
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New feature: Tags
Wednesday, Jun 15th, 2005 -- 5:49 pm
jproulx |
After a bit of a bumpy ride, we have released full Tags support for LiveJournal! LiveJournal now lets you add tags to your entries when you post. Tags let you organize your entries into categories so that you and your friends can quickly find related entries in your journal. For example, you could tag all of your entries about your pet cat Gabe with "gabe" and "pets", then anybody who goes to your journal can read all of your entries about your fluffy ball of terror. The tags system is fully integrated into S2, in both the public system styles and in custom styles. You don't have to do anything! Of course, style authors are welcome to customize how the tags are presented. (Please stay tuned to ![[info]](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20050625000046im_/http:/=2fstat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} s2howto for more information!)We've worked hard to bring you this new feature and hope that you enjoy using it as much as we've enjoyed making it! For now, here are some useful links: Finally, if you're one of the users that found their style reset to Generator -- we're very sorry! The problem has since been resolved, and your journal should have returned to normal. If it hasn't, please visit the Customize My Journal page and set your style back to what you were using. That should set you back to the old style complete with all your old customizations. This release lays the foundation for some really fun tag related feature possibilities in the future, but those will only be as good as the tags you put on your entries. So, tag! ... you're it! |
Help us build our school list
Thursday, Jun 9th, 2005 -- 10:38 pm
bradfitz |
Dear friendly and numerous LiveJournal users, I've been wanting to get a list of all high-schools and colleges in the world, since we can probably do something cool with it related to communities/interests/search, but I'm too impatient to go through the process of finding a database reseller and doing the whole tedious price bargaining thing. I even accidentally started mailing people to see how much a list would cost, didn't get replies within 24 hours, and then I hit myself --- am I forgetting the power of the Interweb? I can just ask users to enter stuff! So if you're feeling friendly and want us to know about your schools, help us out: http://www.livejournal.com/misc/sch No clue exactly what we'll do with this yet, but there's no shortage of fun ideas. Feel free to reply in the comments with your own ideas, too! P.S. I hacked this form and database table up in like 10 minutes. My apologies if it's the ugliest thing you've ever seen. I'm not a designer. :-) |
June 2005 Permanent Account Sale
Monday, Jun 6th, 2005 -- 9:11 pm
jproulx |
Tonight (starting at Midnight EST), Permanent Accounts will be available for purchase from our Payment Center -- look for the "Permanent Account ($150 USD)" option from the "Item" menu to add it to your order. Remember that this sale is only valid for the next 24 hours (ends tomorrow night at Midnight EST), so if you want a permanent account snag one now! Permanent Accounts get all of the features that paid users get, and more! As an added bonus to the sale, we've bumped up the maximum number of Permanent Account user picture icons from 50 to 100. Paid users will be able to upgrade to 100 user pictures in the near future, but for now it's exclusive to Permanent Accounts. ( Please note: ) |
May News
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 -- 4:34 pm
jproulx |
 Summer is starting, and we heartily welcome the sun and warmer weather. Here in the office we look around and notice only one thing missing for a successful summer: you! We're looking for talented Bay Area locals that can intern part-time or program full-time. If you fit the description, apply now!Now, to kick off the summer properly, we're starting with a 24 hour permanent account sale. A permanent account is the ultimate prize for a LiveJournal addict, comes with 50 user pictures and all of the current paid features, and has the added convenience in never having to pay for your account again. Considering that we've added a lot of features since our last permanent account sale two years ago, we've bumped the price up to a fair $150 USD. The sale starts Tuesday, June 7th (midnight EST) and will last until Wednesday, June 8th (midnight EST). Graduation gift anyone? New Features: In paid feature news Six Apart managed to obtain an mp3 license for us, so any new phonepost made after today will default to mp3 encoding. You can still choose between Ogg and GSM-encoded WAV if you want (we recommend Ogg!), but mp3 is popular and the support for it is everywhere now. 4 out of 5 of the style contest winners are now available for general use -- go forth and customize! Over the next few months we'll be adding more and more styles, so keep an eye out for new additions. We recently purged all of the accounts that have been deleted for 30 days or more, and in the process we freed up a lot of usernames that can be used with rename tokens. Check out the list of recently purged usernames to see if there's a rename suited for you. Upcoming Changes: In housekeeping news, our lawyers have informed us that everyone needs to agree to the new Terms of Service. We were supposed to do this in January when we got acquired, but we forgot and now we can't put it off. If you login, post a comment, or post an entry after next Wednesday (June 8th), you will also be asked to review and agree to the new Terms of Service. We will make this as seamless as possible (you won't lose the comment or entry you were trying to post), and once you agree you won't be asked again until we change the Terms of Service (which we don't see happening for a long time, if ever). We've got plenty on the horizon for this summer: Mark and Mahlon have been working hard on adding tags to journal entries, and are in the process of internal testing and evaluation. Brad's working on LiveJournal OpenID integration, which will allow users from other journal services (like DeadJournal and TypePad) to leave comments on your entries seamlessly. We're going to be redesigning the style selection pages to make it easier to customize your journals, and Scrapbook will get a facelift and nifty new features like video support. Update: In light of all of the feedback regarding the permanent account sale, we will be raising the user picture limit to 100 for all permanent accounts. Have a fantastic June! |
April News
Friday, Apr 29th, 2005 -- 11:56 am
jproulx |
 Contrary to what Brad posted last month: we're not adding banner ads, we haven't lost our jobs, and Brad's not driving around in some souped up Porsche. Hope we didn't fool you too bad!In real news, we've finally settled into the new office and we've really started to integrate with Six Apart. Their design and interface architecture team is helping us while we review and revise portions of our user interface, and our collective operations team is working together to share experience and resources. In new feature news, Brad announced earlier this week that there's a new way to manage your comments that is quicker and easier to use. Also, we've added support for the Nokia LifeBlog client, which means you can update your journal directly from your Series 60 phones, in addition to e-mail posts, phone posts, etc. Our overall Atom support has improved greatly, so any AtomAPI based clients should work with LiveJournal now. We've also tuned up our spam comment handling, making it less advantagous for spammers to comment in your journals. Earlier we announced the results of the 2nd ever LiveJournal style contest, and we've gotten a lot of feedback to add all of the submissions to the site. In light of that, we will be working with all of the authors who submitted a style to see that they're all added to the site. In ScrapBook news we're in the process of testing a new Windows XP client that integrates with Explorer, offering people an easy way to upload pictures from their computers. We've tuned our e-mail picture posting feature so that it works with a wider variety of cell phones, and as mentioned earlier we now support picture uploads from the up and coming Nokia LifeBlog cell phone client. We've made a bunch of performance changes and we're also getting in a new shipment of web servers just for ScrapBook, so ScrapBook will speed up considerably. As for new features on the horizon, we've prioritized the results of our development poll and are working on a lot of things in parallel. We've got a team of developers working on adding tag support that should be beta by the end of the month, Brad's working on adding more unobtrusive Javascript wizardry to streamline common tasks, I'm working on adding more styles, everyone's working on improving infrastructure, and much much more. Hope you all have a marvelous May! |
