ION, LJ is retiring its advisory board this month but didn't want to tell anyone about it (who reads lj_advisory frequently, anyway?).

h/t dw:rydra_wong here

Borrowing kate_nepveu 's text:
LJ is taking any link you have to a non-LJ site, telling a third-party site what that link is when it's hovered over, and then modifying the link so that it has LJ's affiliate code (read: way for it to make money). You can opt-out of this by going to the console and entering "set opt_exclude_stats 1" (without quotes). More ( Read more... )

I backed up my prior lj and deleted it. Eventually, I'll put the book, tv/film, and game posts back up, though I might do something clever involving cross-posting.

This is a vote of no confidence in our landlords.

Sorry to cause some of you to do redo filters and such (if indeed you redo them, which I'd appreciate but do not expect).

eta The bf ( Read more... )