The 100th day

Today marks the 100th day since we announced SUP's purchase of LiveJournal from Six Apart , the formation of LiveJournal, Inc, and goals for the first 100 days . We've made some amazing progress since that announcement, and we're really proud of what we've accomplished in such a short period of time: the team in the U.S. is growing, we've gained a VP of Product Development, set up a San Francisco home for LiveJournal, and we're ramping up recruiting so we can continue to support and improve the... read more

For the ones who didn't know. " 1. LiveJournal has gotten rid of Basic accounts .... they don't say it explicitly, because they don't want you to know about it. But if you look at FAQ #38 you will see what I am talking about: "Basic Account is an option available to accounts which were created before March 12, 2008. No account created after this date can be turned into a Basic Account. Basic Accounts will not have any advertising displayed on their accounts, but will have fewer benefits and...

It's time for another round of Changes of Support. This edition covers up to the end of March. The Premium Features category of the FAQ was removed; The Mobile Access FAQ category was added. ( link ) The account structure change was announced. ( link ) A new tool allows Userpics SH+ to fix issues involving the invalid UTF-8 error messages on the Manage Userpics page. ( link ) The Russian Support category opened. ( link ) Information on the state of using pay verify was posted. ( ...

12 марта Начало. В сообщении об истечении ста дней после покупки SUPом LiveJournal упоминается факт упрощения процесса регистрации новых аккаунтов. Техническими подробностями решают не грузить. Пытливые умы пользователей пытаются осознать всю мощь свалившегося на них счастья. В комментах к предыдущему посту , jasonshellen (VP of Product Development for LiveJournal) между делом упоминает о прекращении регистрации базовых аккаутнов. Он как бы пытается показать нам, что сие событие незначительно...

*what I'm calling the current LJInc clusterfuck, since creation of new basic accounts has (temporarily at least) been banned. For a review of previous fuck-ups dating back to 05, see this excellent list . Now on to the wank: LJinc offers an apology for not doing what they said they would do (some would call this lying): Since the launch of LiveJournal, Inc., we have been working on creating the best approach to develop the platform and, in particular, communicate with users about how to...

I'm limiting my posting and web browsing today (21 March 2008: Good Friday and the spring equinox).  I'm doing this out of sympathy with today's LiveJournal Strike.  Since all my blogs are explicitly fed to LiveJournal, even posts I make here are fed out through the LJ community.  Had I planned better, I would have not made those explicit feeds at all, or at least made this post earlier.  Whatever.  I think what might be an even better message would be for people not to browse LJ blogs.  OTOH...