Looking back upon my life, faded memories on the wall

[shrydar]

Hey, when did LJ stop letting you skip back friends views by more than two weeks?

A while back I split my reading across two custom friendslists, so the people who post less often weren't drowned out by more frequent posters and the comms I'm in. I noticed today that if I filter the noisy list down to personal journals only (http://.livejournal.

Comments

[callistra]

Ouch
:-(
That's news to me too.

[shrydar]

I'm guessing it's a measure to reduce server load, but it's not a good sign :-/

[leecetheartist]

Hmm.

[shrydar]

indeed.

[stephbg]

Eek! Skip 400 and there's nothing on my flist. :-(

[shrydar]

Apparently "the silence is going to fall" or somesuch. Does a rough binary search on skip count reveal a cut-off date?

[stephbg]

About two weeks, as you said.

[shrydar]

Hmm, true. And that might explain why it's a date cutoff rather than a skip-count limit.

[drew_bowie]

A sign of the end times?

[shrydar]

Seems likely.