December 14th, 2011 - Happy December Holidays and welcome to the official LiveJournal newsletter! Bringing you system updates, community events, and other newsworthy nuggets from the world of LiveJournal. Here's a look at what's news on and around LJ:
Release 88 sneak peekOur final site update of the year, Release 88, is scheduled to go live around Tuesday, the 20th of December. We'll send out another announcement when the release goes live. In the meantime, barring any last minute changes, here's a sneak peek at a few features coming to LiveJournal with Release 88:
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When: Monday, December 12, 2011 until we find the right person. Check out LJ_Contests for the particulars. Spreading the holiday cheer, vGift style!
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I wonder how long things will be slow/messed up after this latest one...
Sorry, LJ, but a lot of the things that are supposed to be 'improvements' just...aren't. Why do you have to mess with the layouts/buttons/etc all the time?
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paying user on a sock journal
What I want to know is the status of whether to keep subject lines in comments. There has been tremendous backlash against the idea of disabling comment subject lines from fandom and RP. Please do not withhold information from your users, paying or not.2011-12-15 02:00 am UTC
Re: paying user on a sock journal
I'd heard something about that. Let us know, LJ2011-12-15 12:56 pm UTC
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Unfortunately, it's the single thing they HAVE been handling right.
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But...instead of letting us know what the changes are before implementing them and hearing us complain about them inevitably being ill-conceived or not working, you're letting us know before that changes are coming.
I suppose that's a step up at least from letting us know after the fact. Keep trying, LJ. Baby steps and all that.
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Having been a paying user for most of my 10 years on LJ, I keep hoping that the request of Them What Pays might matter. Nope.
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For the record, getting more of my money will require a "yes."
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Subject lines.
No one wants these comment changes. No one.Listen to your users.
Listen to the people who give you money.
Don't do it.
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Re: Subject lines.
LJ didn't listen to users when people didn't want the crossposting to FB and Twitter. Complaints upon complaints got us nowhere.LJ's attitude is something like this cartoon:
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By the way, is that new hideous design even useful for lov-vision and/or blind users? You know, some people use screenreaders to access LJ and from what it looks like, I assume it's not.
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please keep subject lines.
the comment pages aren't broken, stop trying to fix them. fix shit that's actually broken, please, leave comments and subject lines alone. :(2011-12-16 02:36 pm UTC
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Adding...
But okay, I guess I'm okay with the RTE changes.2011-12-15 03:10 am UTC
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I know our complaints fall on deaf ears though but I figure maybe it's worth mentioning it anyway. Sigh. You don't get my money anymore for these reasons, LJ.
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So, did you completely do away with free userpics with paid subscriptions as gifts to others for the holidays? Because I really, really miss this. :(
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