lj_releases

Games

• We've partnered with iJet media, who has given us four of their most popular games to try on LiveJournal!
• For those who love games, you can see them and install them here: http://www.livejournal.com/games/
• For those of you who want to try games, but want to manually change your visibility or contact settings, you can do so on the Games tab on the Account Settings page (example)
• For those of you who don't want to try games, don't worry, these games do not post anything to your journal (which we love, because you won't have to sort through a trillion game updates on your Friends Page!)
• While these games are still in beta there may still be some phrases that look a bit odd, but we'll be improving and adding to these in the future, so stay tuned

Community Management Changes

• These changes will be rolled out over the next few days - until the changes are made, Community Maintainers have been frozen so no one can be added or removed
• All communities can now have an "Owner" - a maintainer who cannot be removed by other maintainers
• The Owner is the only one who can rename or delete the community
• Community Moderators may now add tags to posts, approve members into the community, and screen comments (they still cannot remove members, delete posts, or delete comments)
• Here is how the Owner will be assigned for each community:
  1. To become assigned as Owner, a user must have been active on LiveJournal in some way during the past three months (logged in, left a comment, any sign of activity). If the Maintainer who would otherwise be named Owner has not been active in the past three months, the next most eligible person will be assigned
  2. If there is a record of who created the community and that person is still a Maintainer, that person is now the Owner
  3. If there is a record of who created the community and that person is NO LONGER a Maintainer, the first-added Maintainer will become the owner (and if they're not eligible, the second-added, and on down the line)
  4. If there is no record of who created the community and there is only one Maintainer, that person will be the Owner
  5. If there is no record of who created the community and there are multiple Maintainers, all the Maintainers will be asked to vote on who should become Owner. Adding and removing Maintainers will be frozen until an Owner is decided (example)

Features and Changes

• Paid and Permanent journals and communities may now have up to 4,000 tags
• New header by contest winner spikaleido
• All new accounts and communities will have the Comment setting "screen comments from non-friends with links" set as default
• The <marquee> tag will now be stripped from comments when they display (that is, the text will still show, but it will not scroll)
• Although it was in a patch release on 12/29/10, this is the first major release since, so documenting here that "Screen comments from non-friends with links" is now the default setting for Cyrillic Services journals and communities who had not ever changed their comment screening settings

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue which caused it to be impossible to edit the IM fields on the profile (LJSV-1350 and related issues)
• The LiveJournal Shop v-gift widget on the homepage now displays the dollar sign before the numerical price (instead of after)
• Corrected minor typos in the Russian translation of the TOS
• Updated the number for Megafon (Cyrillic SMS only)
• The sysban/bot error page has been changed from a 403 to a 412 (precondition failed) in order to prevent system caching
• Interstitial ads will no longer be shown on the iPad
• Changes were made so that the new YouTube embed code would work correctly

• The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy have been updated. For more information, please see this lj_policy post

• The list will only show 50 friends at a time
• The search feature will return all partial matches (i.e. "the" will return all users with "the" in the username)

• Cyrillic users can now add a wishlist - for more information please see this post in ru_news

• The new Holiday header is live!
• Crossposts to Facebook will now use the correct image
• Mobile browsers will no longer be served an interstitial ad

• Directly after the release began, the friendsfriends page (for Paid users) was inaccessible. This issue has now been fixed
• Collapsible sections on the Profile are not being expanded correctly (LJSV-1341)
• The alignment in S1 styles is appearing incorrectly when viewed in IE8 (LJSV-1342)

• Added homepage section "Creative Expression"

• Replies to other users on Twitter won't be included in the digest published
• A user who is logged in under one account can now leave a single comment from another account without being logged in on the new account (that is, one-off commenting from alt accounts will work now)

• Suspended entries shouldn't be considered when displaying recent entries in a community (LJSV-1030)
• Userpic factory giving incorrect error message for large image (LJSV-1202)
• Navigation links are missing in certain journals (LJSV-1177)
• OpenID users will now have "remember me" option enabled by default (LJSV-1249)
• Userpic menu in awkward place in comment form tab order (LJSV-1216)
• Novel conundrum doesn't show posters username and userhead (LJSV-1244)
• Navigation links are missing in certain journals (S2 only) (LJSV-1177)
• Leaving a comment without text no longer removes the subject icon
• Conditional JS and CCS no longer have an empty "?v=" param

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• Twitter Digest -- If you connect your Twitter account to your LJ (see "extensions" profile tab), you now have a checkbox option to have your public tweets posted to your journal each day without using a third-party "tweet shipper".
  • Yes, it's opt-in.
  • All tweets after the 10th tweet are automatically lj-cut.
  • The digest is posted to the journal at 12:00 (in the afternoon) according to your time zone settings; if you don't have a time zone specified, it uses 12:00 GMT. For this initial release, you can't change the time that you want it to post, though this may change in the future.
  • The created entry uses all your default security/content/commenting options.
  • "@username" will auto-link to that username on Twitter, and "#topic" will auto-link to a Twitter search for that topic.
  • The created entry is NOT then auto-posted to Facebook/Twitter. :)
  • Known Issues: We're investigating reports of the entry posting at the incorrect time, as well as posting with the wrong day of the week attached to the tweets.
  
  
• Twitter authorization -- You or your friends can now use a Twitter account (along with Facebook) to comment. These accounts will have the option to upgrade to a "full" LJ account beyond just commenting.


• Sort community by poster -- See all entries a person has made in a community by adding "?poster=exampleusername" (or "&poster;=exampleusername", if you already have one with a question mark) to the end of the URL. Example: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/?poster=coffeechica will show you all my posts here. Pagination works with this URL argument.


• New lj-specific tag <lj-map> -- embeds an interactive Google or Yandex iframe map into your journal entry. Tag syntax: <lj-map url="http://exampleurl.com"> where the URL is that of the Google or Yandex map you wish to embed.

• Removed the Hotmail exception for resetting passwords [interlude while I jump for joy \o/]


• News post email notification is now shortened; includes link to the entire news post


• Fixed weird bulleted display when entering credit card info


• For ONTD only: Collapse 3rd level comments after the 5th comment.

• Safari & Chrome users get the "Post Media" button again (LJSV-1206)


• Photobucket tab is back on "Insert Image" options (LJSV-1109)


• In Opera: Pressing Enter to select a tag won't cause the entry to be posted (LJSV-1130)


• Custom userheads should now be visible in all system style friends pages (LJSV-1188)


• Clicking tag names in IE shouldn't overwrite the first tag you've entered (LJSV-1148)


• Users with >5000 friends-of can again see the counter # change when friended or defriended


• Don't give a "success" message on comm member rejection if no user was selected


• Optimized comment loading speed

• Fixed display of long post titles in LiveJournal Live


• Logged-out users won't see ads in unfolded LJTimes articles by paid users


• Ratings now have regional RSS feeds for Ukraine and Belarus


• Make it so Ratings now show 15 different authors (because that section gets monopolized by a only a few popular users)

• A custom userhead store for non-Cyrillic users! Custom userheads can be purchased for $1.99 and are available for one year after purchase.
• MSN Messenger integration has been removed. If you signed up for MSN messenger through LiveJournal, you can still use your handle with a client or on the MSN Messenger web service, but it won't be in-browser for LiveJournal anymore.
• Cyrillic-only users will see (starting tomorrow) a site footer (LJTimes) with recent posts or news

• The logic of displaying the Facebook/Twitter crosspost boxes has changed:
  - The ability to crosspost comments that are protected (on a protected post or a screened comment) has been disabled for non-cyrillic users (cyrillic-services accounts still have the option)
  - If you haven't connected a Twitter or Facebook account, the option to crosspost won't show on comments
  - The option to crosspost/repost won't appear when one edits a comment
  - When crossposting/reposting an entry or comment you can now select what thumbnail photo to repost as well by clicking "Choose a pic"


• The visual design of the button icons on entries have been updated


• TxtLJ integration has been discontinued due to declining use - it's been removed it from the options on the Mobile Settings and Notifications tabs.

• Pingbacks should not be sent at all if either party has them disabled (LJSV-1190)
• The drop-down menu for tags should now work on editjournal.bml (LJSV-1155)
• The userhead image source was broken in some styles; this has been fixed (LJSV-1187)
• Users with more than 50,000 "friend-of" or communities with more than 50,000 "watched by" will now show the correct number for those values on the profile count
• When an "identity" account (OpenID/Facebook) is converted to a full account the username of the full account will be referenced instead of the "identity" account in notifications of actions (for instance, community membership requests and comment notifications)
• The context of pingbacks will be shortened and given proper line breaks (LJSV-1193)
• Pingbacks shouldn't be sent when the author is also the poster (that is, you don't send pingbacks to yourself) (LJSV-1195)
• You can now edit a comment (when available) when it is in reply to a now-deleted comment (LJSV-1145)
• When the HTML for a "repost" button is incorrect, the entry will no longer show a 500 error (LJSV-1153)
• When a user forwards one username to a renamed username, the old comments once again show the new username (LJSV-1199)
• When viewing a page showing the intersection of two tags you can now use the "previous" and "next" buttons to page back and forth (LJSV-1126)
• Ads no longer appear next to the full version of poll results for paid users (LJSV-1096)
• Corrected a longstanding issue where the Date Out of Order option wasn't always working correctly (LJSV-407)

Facebook Connect can be used like OpenID

Easy upgrade to full account for OpenID and Facebook Connect users

Link accounts to cross-post to Facebook and Twitter

Pingbacks

• Fixed a problem that caused some users to be unable to edit their profiles (LJSV-1171)
• Cyrillic characters in an embed code should no longer cause an error (LJSV-1162)
• Custom colors should now be displayed properly in S1 journals (LJSV-1168)
• Temporarily removed Webmoney as a payment method
• Made some improvements to error pages
• Using the repost tag should repost the entire entry
• Corrected confusing text in the rename process
• Added "Click the Finish button to confirm your order" on the last page of shop check-out process

• When a user deletes their account, they will now be given the option to delete all comments and/or community entries at the same time
  
• The name of the account will be added to the top of all news notifications (the full text ones, not the tracking notification)
• Users will be unsubscribed from news notifications if the email is bounced with a 550 error (after trying for one week), failure to connect to domain (after trying for one week), or both (after trying for 72 hours) and the email on the account marked as "Not Validated"
• Users will be unsubscribed from news notifications if they do not log in for 6 months

• Fixed javascript so that auto-complete for tags now works when there are numbers in the tags (LJSV-1123)
• Tag drop-down should now work correctly in communities (LJSV-1123)
• Polls containing a scale question with no replies will no longer throw a 500 error (LJSV-1129)
• Fixed an issue in 8 styles that was causing mood themes to be resized on the Friends view (LJSV-1015)
• Unscreening comments now works properly at the Recent Comments page (LJSV-1067)
• Text can now be pasted into the Rich Text Editor when using Safari and Chrome (LJSV-871)
• Notifications regarding polls have been fixed; they should now be sent out correctly (LJSV-958)