Current LJ stupidity

[tibicina]

I'm not going anywhere, though I do have an account over on Dreamwidth with the same handle if anyone wants to link to me there

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Dreamwidth?

[ginnelson]

I'd like to take a look at this, if you have any invites left? What do you think of it, so far? What's different?

Re: Dreamwidth?

[tibicina]

I've sent an invite to the email I have for you. I actually think it's better than Livejournal for the purposes of most of my friends. They tend to be more responsive to the people who have their journals there, and they have a lot of options that I like. (The most obvious of which is that you have a subscription list - people you read, and an access list - people who can read your locked posts. The two are not linked and not called 'friends'.) Otherwise, it's very similar, but I also have a lot of friends here who aren't over there. And I have a permanent account here, which, among other things, means I'm treated like a paid account and have the maximum number of user pictures and other things like that. And at the moment I don't really have a lot of extra money to throw into being a paid account over there

[thealien]

What is the current lj freakout over?

[tibicina]

LJ has poorly implemented code which allows you to repost your comments (and your entries, but the comments on other people's journals is the problematic part) to Facebook and Twitter. Even if the original post by someone else is friends locked. This is made even more problematic by the fact that the code will sometimes grab part of the orginal post and put that there as well as the comment. The reposted comments will also have a link back to the original post, which, if friends locked, other people won't be able to see, unless they're on that filter, but for some people just having others know that a post is there is problematic. More so if the comment makes clear who they are and the link gives their LJ handle

[thealien]

Nothing to worry about, then.

Thanks!