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

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ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[arachnida]

While I'm at it.

While editting this account earlier today, I was randomly redirected to another account that was not my own, straight into the profile editting field. I've also had reports from other people that they've had the same thing happen to them, only with inboxes and various other things. People keep private information in there, some of which shouldn't be made public to random site surfers.

Did you even test this before you released it?

Re: ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[t1pth3scal3s]

anoncomm and RPS are going to have a field day with said info, I can fucking see it now.
"Privacy not working? Time to sling dirt with PROOF!"

Re: ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[creatingalegacy]

I am now fucking TERRIFIED that someone's going to get into this account and destroy the over-a-year's work I've put into this damn character aHSAKDSLSLSAJSAKSDLSL; D:

[bitching_boots]

If you are really paranoid about losing everything, use LJArchive or some similar program to back up your journal.

Alternately, set up a Dreamwidth account (let me know if you need an account code) and import your entire journal there as a back-up. Please note: Whenever LJ fucks up, there's usually a large influx of new users and/or people updating their back-ups so it might take a while to import your entire journal.

(Unfortunately, neither of these options would import content posted outside your journals, such as comments left in other journals or posts made to communities. The only thing I can further recommend is to try to convince everyone you RP with to create DW accounts and import all of their stuff as well.)

[creatingalegacy]

How would one import an entire journal to DW? Is there a process there that does it for you?

I'd love an account code, thanks. Truly appreciate it.

[puzzlement]

The Dreamwidth site includes an LJ import feature.

[doire]

You could import everything until LJ changed their login, but just now it's only entries until they(DW) work out a fix for the importer.

[eidolon_bird]

Strangely enough, Dreamwidth just sent me another invite code for being active on their site. I'll send you a PM.

As for importing, as others have said, they have a built in importer. They are having issues just like LJlogin and the like (see this post for more info) but they have have a work-around and are actively working on a fully functioning solution.

Re: ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[shoujo_bubbles]

Dear me. You idiots have seriously let this privacy issue go on long enough for so many people to comment about it? Get your act together, please.

This? Is absolutely disgusting and a poor reflection on your company as a whole. If certain people learn about this, I could see them not even wanting to bother with you anymore.

[slinkslowdown]

WHAT?!

[eqo]

lol

[mereprototype]

Let my icon say everything for me.

Re: ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[silverflight8]

Can you file a support ticket for that, so that support can investigate? Thank you!

Re: ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[moropus]

You mean after this brilliant thread, you actaullywant somebody to fill out a bloody form too before you will DO something? What the hell?

Re: ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[perfectrecord]

Because it seems to be happening at random, it may be that none of the Support volunteers and staff have been able to reproduce this as of yet. They're asking you and other people who have had this happen to open a Support request so that they can go through detailed troubleshooting steps to narrow down what may be causing it and hopefully be able to resolve it.

Granted, for something this serious, I would have much rather the ops rolled back the last release. Especially since, when a similar but much less pervasive security breach happened a few years ago on LiveJournal, the ops were very quick to roll back the code release that triggered it, within fifteen minutes or so of their discovery of it. The radio silence now on this issue, which has gone on for well over a day is, quite frankly, very disturbing to me. ^^;;

Re: ACTUALLY, LET ME ADD SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT

[moropus]

Well, lets see what they tell the BBB, because they aren't telling me anything.