There's an announcement about new ScrapBook in lj_pics_beta going live next week - for once it's even in English! :)
(it's confusing though because in Russian new version will be called PhotoAlbum and in English it will apparently still be ScrapBook)

Upd: some more information is collected here. I will not be updating this entry ( Read more... )

I'm reading comments to Money, money, money entry and thought I should post some recaps.

Most horrifying thread so far is here. It starts innocently enough, with disgruntled chotkaya_alisa asking igrick how is he not ashamed of making LJ a ghetto for morons filling their journals with internet trash and calling themselves bloggers, that LJ Times is filled with ( Read more... )

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UPD: markf explains this feature more clearly here and hereFolks, today I'm announcing something especially important. I will be focusing on ways to make money off your LJ, expand your audience and increasing feedback from your existing audience - for those interested in that ( Read more... )

Many years ago I've watched Nobuta. wo Produce and was confused by the gesture Akira constantly uses.


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Folks, v.90 is now available to everyone. The list of content can be found either in my post about beta version or in LiveJournal's official news that surprisingly appeared before my post ( Read more... )

This is a translation of this entry by igrickSomething had happened here at LJ just yesterday that I mean to use as an example. One of the popular journals has been suspended for propaganda of pedophilia. LJ practices zero tolerance towards pedophilia. That means that any journals caught on spreading pedophiliac content will be frozen immediately with no ( Read more... )

ruljautonews brought me this comment by andy, one of LJ's developers. He says that Livejournal is planning to split "friends" to "subscription" and "access", just like it's done on DreamWidth. He can't provide a release date for this, but he said that it was already set.

lj-ru-support is a community that gathers feedback and bug reports and announces new features for LJ. ( Read more... )

Apparently SUP didn't care enough about Frank the Goat to keep his lj account: frankthegoat has been deleted and purged.

Brad Fitzpatrick has posted a screenshot of the email informing him of the fact.

RIP.

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In the last couple of years I've often heard that LJ is dying. Once it were Velf and Klimenko* saying that judging by statistics they gather on their side, LJ lost 30% of the audience in several months in 2010. In 2011 Vedomosti "proved" that usage has dropped by comparing August statistics to January. ( Read more... )