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The code to make an LJ username link, such as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
vakkotaur has been modified. It's now possible to make the link say something else. If one uses the same method as before, no problem.
It has been, and still is:
<lj user="vakkotaur">
But you can also do it like this:
<lj user="vakkotaur" title="Valentine Payne">
and now the link is my journal, but it will read Valentine Payne rather than vakkotaur.
If one uses the new method responsibly, no real problem - it's just a way to say a different name:
I saw vakkotaur at Siouxland.
I saw vakkotaur at Siouxland.
But one could be irresponsible and do something like this:
I saw kinkyturtle at MFF.
..and cause confusion as that link says vakkotaur but really goes to kinkyturtle's journal.
And of course there is outright trolling or namecalling possible. Just substitute something derogatory in the title section.
Of course this sort of thing has been possible all along. It's just a whole lot easier now.
I suppose there is one benefit of this. You can finally capitalize the username!
There's some hubbub over job cuts at LiveJournal that are not just a couple, but seem to be about half the US or at least San Francisco staff. ValleyWag has managed to misreport it as being (even) worse than it really is. While I do not expect LiveJournal to suddenly curl up and die, this is probably as good a time as any to point out a few things:
If you want to do a simple (but tedious if you've had an LJ for several years) backup, LJ has this Export Journal page. The tedious part is that it can only back up a single month at a time, so can get fiddly. If you want do backups or transfers another way, there are various scripts. There are also downloadable clients that can be used to download as well as upload.
Since Spring 2007, when LJ seemed to be utterly determined to screw itself up by committing acts of egregious idiocy and then blaming the actions on its customers, I have had another account Vakkotaur over at InsaneJournal. Lousy journal name, good service. IJ's owner has posted about the situation.
I have been simulcasting my journal to both IJ and LJ since January of last year. Much, but not all, of my LJ has been mirrored on IJ as well.
Orvan Ox also has his journal over on IJ. To see his posts on your LiveJournal friends list, you can add him as orvan_ox_ij. The downside is that those entries will not be preserved by LJ and so comments left on LJ will disappear with the old posts - comments left on the IJ version will not disappear. Without an IJ account, you can still leave comments by using OpenID which is supported by both IJ and LJ.
A few days ago I posted a link to a list of questions used in that "30 Questions" thing that's been going around LJ (and, I assume, other places) for a while. Last night someone pointed out another link to the questions. The interesting thing is a comment on that posting, pointing out that some questions had changed.
( Which version did you get? )
Trying to keep up with all the goings on in regards to LiveJournal policy and implementations? Don't want to have to friend the proliferating number of communities across which information is diffused?
You might give the_lj_herald a look. It attempts to consolidate LiveJournal updates and point them out. If you think that this seems far too useful and sensible for LiveJournal to do, you're right.
From the user info page:
The LJ Herald is not an official community. Its editors are not employees of LiveJournal, Inc./Six Apart/SUP nor are they Support volunteers.
If anyone reading didn't realize what exactly my last post was about, the explanation is here and here.
Also, take a look at your settings page and make sure the new options (scroll to the bottom) are set they way you want them. As usual, the defaults SixApart/LiveJournal made for you are probably not the settings you'd choose.
This is the night that for many in North America, Daylight Saving Time ends. Time for the clocks to "fall back" an hour.
I am used to using client-side overrides to defeat bad web design since there is so much amazingly rotten web design. In another oddly placed post it is mentioned how to use a user style sheet to completely rid oneself of the irritating navigation bar. I've tried this and it works well. It's annoying that I'll need to copy this bit onto each machine I use, but at least it's possible to make LiveJournal present itself to me as I wish it to.
ADDENDUM: I read a bit fast and overlooked that if one is using S2 styles, as I am, that their is a custom style sheet entry in the settings page that will make ?style=mine do the right thing without needing a client-side style sheet. The client-side style sheet is more universal, so I'm doing that as well.
Something must've gotten through, almost, as the hidden announcement post now has comments enabled - though all will be screened, so make of that what you may.
Take this link: Manage Settings.
Scroll down to Navigation strip display options:
Un-check both selection boxes:
[ ] Always see the navigation strip when you view any journal or community
[ ] Always show the navigation strip to anyone who views your journal or community
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save Changes button.
Not that anyone I know really needs the reminder, but a certain misspelling has been bugging me of late.
Despite the misspelling used as Christopher Bridges' pseudonym, the correct spelling of the word for something so extremely absurd or ridiculous as to merit laughter is:
ludicrous
Note the complete absence of the letter a as well as the ou rather than i for the final vowel sound.
An extra-wide post results in the need for horizontal scrolling when reading a journal, and also when someone reads a "friends list" with that wide entry. There are only a couple things that result in horizontal scrolling and prevention is rather easy in both cases.
( Here's how... )
