It's easy to disable Snap on your Live Journal -- just click on the gear icon in the upper-right corner of any preview and select the "Disable" option.

You could also go to the Snap FAQs to turn Snap off globally, for all websites. (For best results, clear your cache first ( Read more... )

The Usenet newsgroup comp.internet.services.blog.livejournal (also available through Google Groups) was recently created. Part of the point of this group is to allow for ongoing discussions of LiveJournal issues, separate from LJ itself; this would be, in my opinion, beneficial for both technical and social reasons. It's obviously not intended to ( Read more... )

I hacked up vinnie_tesla's Talk To the Hand script to work on usernames rather than tags, so you can hide untagged community posts: Cuz the Face Ain't Listening -- Expressive. Currently only for the Expressive layout; I'll try to add other versions as I have time. No promises, but if you comment with layout requests including a journal with that layout where ( Read more... )

I've created a custom journal style that lets you subscribe to your LiveJournal Friends page in your favorite RSS/Atom news-reader application (Safari, NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, etc.)

Why Is This Cool?• A news-reader will automatically check for new posts and download them in the background ( Read more... )

Just a quick note - I've fixed my LJ Friendsmap tool, which scrapes the location info from your friends' profile pages and then assembles their locations on a Google Map, so that it now supports communities as well ( Read more... )

I made roflbot a month ago and it's been neat to see various LJ image macro communities using it for pictures (my favorite so far: ihasatardis). I just updated roflbot with a customized mode for adding text to LJ userpics. If you type in your username, you'll get a selection screen for one of your userpics:


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Here's a silly LJ 'personality test'. It uses three of the feeds described at the LJ bots page - the interests feed has a handy list of the popularity of each interest a user lists; then there's the list of friends/friendsof; and the RSS feed to grab a recent entry and run a readability index on it.

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Talk To The Hand is a Greasemonkey userscript that allows Firefox users to hide entries with selected tags from your Livejournal friends page view. This edition is only known to work with the A Sturdy Gesture page layout. Ports to some other layouts should be trivial (I plan to do a Generator one this afternoon), but I haven't manged to figure out ( Read more... )

Save yourself the $10 a month, there are several places that will do this for free, they will all utilize the RSS feed of your journal.

RSS is a pretty incredible tool, it's like friends list for the entire internet, you might know that your journal has one, just add /data/rss to the end of your livejournal url.

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User's RSS feed displayed on a scrollable timeline.

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