Release 86

[markf]

Release 86 has just gone live!

New Features / Improvements:

• Community owners can now make use of the Google Analytics feature for their community. (Previously, this feature was only accessible for personal journals.) Note that only the owner of a community can activate this feature; maintainers are not able to define or view the Google Analytics

Comments

[bejustorbdead]

LJ keeps logging me out when I got to a new page even with LJlogin and also just made a new journal, it won't let me upload icons at all, what the hell?

[not_from_stars]

Yes! LJLogin is no longer able to work with this new release, it seems. I use that for everything so could you please fix it?

[tinkerfae]

THIIIIIIIIS!!!

[markf]

This is actually unrelated to the release, but we did make a minor change today in the way we handle cookies which has affected this plugin, and it will require the developer of the plugin to make some changes to it before it will work again. The changes made will make life significantly more difficult for automated spammers, and is something we intend to leave in place.

[badasscopters]

Not.

Cool.

[koala_nest]

Actually, it's not that bad. Yes, we're inconvenienced for a little bit, but only until Slarti and company fix it. The automated spammers and such are even more inconvenienced than we are. And anything that sticks a thumb in the eye of the bots is good in my books.

[badasscopters]

Either way, it sure would have been nice for them to announce this in a better way than waiting until people complain, and then basically throwing out what is basically a massive "nope.avi" back at us. Then maybe I would be less bothered by it.

[koala_nest]

I never said LJ was particularly competent when it came to communicating with us.

[badasscopters]

Oh. Well, what I meant is more that this is why I found it not cool and not the actual breakage itself. I should have clarified that. |D;

[koala_nest]

Pfft. I STAND CORRECTED!

[dragonoflife]

Historically, LJ's change to prevent spammers have always done more harm to legitimate users than spammers. Why would you believe this one is different?

[vectorman]

Spambots can be deleted and blocked in roughly five seconds or less; Recaptchas are more or less the bane of RP existence.

[bluespring]

Recaptchas are more or less the bane of RP existence.

This, this, this.

[vectorman]

They were only put in place as a failsafe to keep the site from crashing after the original 5000 comment post (at CFUD iirc). Except now the comment limit is 10,000. And almost any popular meme or RP post goes beyond 5k and the recaptchas don't necessarily slow people down. It's just irritating as all fuck and archaically unnecessary. The issue they prevent is long over.

[leinyan]

it's pretty easy to cheat your way through captcha though, or at least minimise the time you spend working out what it says.

[vectorman]

sometimes you can type complete gibberish, sometimes it demands exact spelling.

overall it saves MORE time to just try and be precise.

also

hamsteaks.