Entries tagged with livejournal

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Community tags are updated!

I promised I'd give you a heads up when all the tags were converted to the format described in the previous post, and they are indeed all done.

For consistency's sake, we converted the

fandomhigh tags to the same setup, only in that comm, it's the class tags that stayed as-is with no prefix, since those are the most-used.

There's a new guide to tagging here in

ft_directory, and that link has been added to the FH Profile Index of Doooooom, and to the sidebars on the communities it affects.

If there's a tag that needs updating, an issue that we didn't think of, or you just have questions, please let us know in the comments!

Current Mood: hopeful

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I'll post a heads-up once everything's converted, so you'll be able to hit the tags pages and see what the current tags actually look like.

We'll link this sucker up on the FH Index page and in the sidebars of the two comms so nobody has to memorize the format; you can just come here and check the table.

We'll also add a thread to the "Hey Teachers And Townies, Where Do You Live And Do You Have Business Changes" post the next time it goes up (after new characters have come aboard), specifically asking if business owners need to change the tag for their business.

Questions, comments, suggestions, things we didn't think of that mean we'll need to revise this plan, which we're happy to do?

Current Mood: thoughtful

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Community Tags on Dreamwidth: An Announcement, An Apology, and a Poll

The announcement: so as it turns out, after going on 12 years, we've generated quite a few character tags in

fandomtownies and

fandomhighdorms; - enough to be over Dreamwidth's 1000-tag limit for free accounts, once we'd transferred everything over. (The other game communities are safely below that and will probably remain so.) The quick solution was to spring for a short term paid account for those two comms, but unless we wanted to keep that up forever, we needed to find the least game-damaging way to reduce the number of tags.

What we came up with ( was this... )

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Reminder: Poll Closes Tonight at 11:59 EDT!

Over here at SurveyMonkey to decide if we're staying at LJ or moving to Dreamwidth!

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Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma... (Livejournal Shenanigans and Possible Game Changers)

We interrupt your musical stylings, pre-Easter Peep-vilification and numb, Twitter-scrolling horror to bring you a once-again relevant blast from the past: the LJ vs. Dreamwidth decision.

Some background, if you haven't logged in recently: Livejournal has moved the servers for all of their non-paid accounts from the U.S. to Russia, and has a new Terms of Service agreement that logged-in users (even paid and permanent) must accept before it'll let you get anywhere. Said TOS puts all of our journals under the requirements of already-existing Russian internet/blogging laws, and adds some concerning new rules, ( including... )There's a lot of what-ifs in there, but people are justifiably concerned about the risks to both their personal and RP journals, as well as their privacy. So, to the question posed several times in years past, "At what point do we reconsider the question of moving the game to Dreamwidth," the answer is now. The now point.

Like we've promised since the first time the issue came up, we won't be doing that unilaterally. We've created another LJ or Dreamwidth poll -- one that doesn't require you to log into LJ to fill it out -- and we're leaving it open until 11:59 pm EST on April 15th. Once it's closed, we'll tally up the votes and let you know about the results. If the majority vote to move the game, at that point we'll start hammering out more details on how and when we'll accomplish that together.

Things to know about the poll:

You don't need to be logged-in to anything to fill it out

You do need to leave a name so we know you're an FH player/gremlin/squirrel and not a bot or troll. (Unless you're Fosse.)

Only the admins will see the name.

Only the admins will see who voted which way.

Unlike an LJ poll, you can't go back and edit your vote, but if you do change your mind, just vote again with the same name and add "Updated {date}" to the name field and we'll delete the old one for you.

Questions, comments, tequila?

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Small But Annoying LJ Update

As our new townie and the ever-resourceful

never_dull just discovered together, LJ has managed to make codebase changes that once again break the master friending list, so we've lost the ability to add all/most journals at once. Not a big issue except for those with brand new characters, but... yeah. Thanks, ~~Obama~~ Livejournal.

We've updated the friending list page, returning the list to [

nookiepowered] format so you can do the right-click--> add dance, but that's the best we've got for now. If/when the automated version works again, we'll joyfully let you know.

--MP in a Monkeypony mask

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LJ Update: Comments, version 24601

Apparently something LJ did in a recent update ended up re-introducing the "long threads break the page" bug for certain styles. (Thanks for the heads-up,

glacial_queen.) Unfortunately, the custom commenting styles that

whateverknight generously designed for us are among those, so this is both a player note for those of you using them on your character journals, and a gamewide note that we've changed the comms back over to Minimalism themes with LJ's Custom Comments turned on.

You probably don't need to change your character journals to a different style unless you've got posts in them with super long threads that are breaking -- fixing the comms should cover most of the issue. If you do want to change to a different style, though, your options for keeping subject headers are limited to Minimalism, or switching the LJ default comments back on, since there's finally an option for subject headers in those.

In conclusion, ( here is a puppy. )

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LJ Update: Minor stuff, but FYI

They haven't posted an actual formal, numbered Release in ages; this stuff just comes through in dribs and drabs in News posts, so I've only been giving y'all the heads-up here if it seems like something that might affect our playing experience.

Today's updates:

Mobile View -- otherwise known as Tiny Phone Internets -- will now display individual journals (not just your friends page) in the Mobile style, instead of whatever your chosen style is. You can make your journal go back to showing in your own style on the Settings/Display page under Mobile View. For paid/perm accounts, this means everyone will see your style when they look at your journal. For free accounts, you'll see it, but everyone else still sees Mobile View. This is only likely to impact people who RP by phone a lot, and even for them, probably won't really change the experience of replying to individual pings.

Mass comment deletion -- Now when you delete a comment in your own post, LJ will ask you if you also want to delete every comment that person has made in that post, or every comment they've ever made in that journal. (In comms, that option will only appear for maintainers/mods.) Spiffy for controlling spam and flamers in RL journals, but please don't use it in your character journals, since we don't want to end up deleting other people's past character interactions. (It's turned off by default, so you have to check a box to make it happen.)

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Livejournal Release 119

This one contains mostly updates and fixes to the new-style friends feed that no one ever has to use if they don't want to; there's a lot more color customization and the sidebar now has optional widgets for your Links List (a big step toward making it usable for us RP types) as well as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

The only "affects everyone" update is some changes to the Add/Remove friends page; it looks to be just collecting all the stuff you can set for/about individual friends on one page, including friend-groups and notification settings, that used to be a bit scattered.

(This actually hit Friday, but there were so many OOC posts that day, I figured I'd wait instead of spamming, since there's nothing earthshattering here.)

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Livejournal Releases 118 and 118.2

Release 118 came out while I still in SDCC recovery mode, so I missed linking it at the time. It didn't really do anything that affects RP besides tweaking the Manage Userpics page layout a bit on the new site-scheme, and fixing an error message bug related to screened comments.

Release 118.2 adds some important things like said Manage Userpics page back to the main menu navigation on the new site-scheme, and users who delete their accounts now have 60 days to change their minds instead of 30. They've also switched the LJ search from Yandex to Google, which in theory could be a vast improvement, but so far is kind of a step down due to the inability to sort results.

And now the weather.

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Livejournal Release 117

A day late and several dollars short on my part, but yesterday was a busy day.

The big news from Release 117 is that basic users can now use customized comment pages! So everyone now has access to subject lines again, whether in the system view, or your preferred custom style.

The rest is bug fixes, new social media embeds available, and similar non-RP-related information, but the big one is a pretty big one when it comes to RPers!

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Livejournal Release 116.3: Who Are You And What Have You Done With LJ's PTB?

*The option to use either the new style friends feed OR your own custom friends page design that matches your journal will be permanent

*In the standard site comment pages, Subject Lines are back up in the header bar of the comment where they belong

*Text in comment boxes is now black instead of gray

*If you choose to use the new-style friends feed, your Link List is now one of the options for sidebar widgets

Other stuff like bug fixes, a bit about things they're working on for the future, and of course the discussion, is here.

(The subtitle of this post is a direct quote from one of the replies to the announcement.)

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Livejournal Release 116: "Holy Crap On A Stick"

I'm just gonna quote the post here, because...yeah.

Comment subject lines are back!

We're pleased to let you know comment subject lines are returning to the site's default commenting style! Comment subject lines were only available when viewing custom comment pages, but they are now included as an optional setting for standard comment pages as well. You can turn comment subject lines on for your journal or community by visiting http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml and enabling the "Show subject in comment form for system style of comments" setting (the wording of this setting is likely to change soon).

Edited to add: The new option will only display if you're actually using system comment pages. So if you're using custom comment pages (if you have the "Disable customized comment pages for your journal" field set to No), then you won't see this option. If you want to use the system comment pages, you need to first set the "Disable customized comment pages for your journal" to Yes and save the page, and then you'll see the new option appear right below that one. You can then use the new option to turn on comment subject lines.

It's not perfect (in order to make the subject line a link, they lost the black text so it blends a bit with the username and other linked data in the comment header bar) but it's still a clear sign of the upcoming zombie apocalypse.

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Livejournal: 2 in the same week. What's next, Goatnados?

news has announced that the staff are reviving the

lj_feedback community as a place to garner user feedback before rolling out changes. BRB, checking my pulse.

The first post over in

lj_feedback, meanwhile, is asking for user opinions on the desire for and possible functioning of a Like/+1 system for posts and/or comments. (My personal feedback on it is there, fwiw.)

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Livejournal Release "We Didn't Make An Official Release Just Changed The Whole Site Design"

Which y'all were I'm sure aware of despite the complete lack of announcement in any official community or to the English-speaking world; luckily there was a "Switch the heck back" link provided. (Which, alongside personal frazzledness, was why I didn't make an OOC post about it when it happened.)

There's not a lot of further information from LJ, but there is a feedback post, finally, and it's here. (In

news. I know, I can't contain my shock that they've actually decided to use the News community for news again, either. I thought it had been eaten by goats.)

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In Other News, There Is No News: Livejournal Release 112

LJ Release 112 consists of some fixes to the photo uploader (for Rich Text Format posts and comments, not Scrapbook), and two new premium styles. Also known as "Pretty much nothing that affects us, Praise The Kraken" and there literally is no matching

news post.

Current Mood: jubilant

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LJ Release 110

Lo, a new LJ update has happened! It's mostly a few bug fixes and some changes to the default comment scheme, which you can read more details about in the LJ Releases post here.

And then there's this:

Customized (S2) comment pages will no longer fail to load additional comments when the first comment thread of an entry has more than 100 comments in it.

That's right, ladies and gentlebeings, no more pagebreakings and disappearing threads! REJOICE, FOR LJ HAS FINALLY FIXED SOMETHING.

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Livejournal Release 106

Now there is tag merging, praise the Kraken and pass the krill. The end.

*fixes every freaking instance of "devils nest" vs "devil's nest' "

Current Mood: Irritated at other tech people besides LJs for once

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Livejournal Update Number Doesn't Have A Number

There is a new homepage; it is ugly and prioritizes flashy links to crap we don't need to know, but doesn't have much effect on RP aside from its contribution to general irritation with the world, which frankly there's plenty of already today, thxbutnothx.

Thus ends my report.

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LJ Release 105

News | LJ Releases

Aside from some bug fixes, the two major changes here are:

* Community maintainers can now get pingbacks when one of their communities is mentioned in a post. Yes, fellow admins, I turned that off for all the FH communities so none of us will get pingback spammed every time somebody linkdrops.

* It's now possible for community maintainers to create and post to custom filters within their communities. There's a default "all maintainers" group, or we can create a group manually from the list of member usernames, just like you do when making your friend groups for personal journals.

We don't have any immediate plans for that function, but it may end up being useful for coordinating NPC players for fighty posts, pre-playing BDE scenes without having to hide the post in someone's personal journal, and getting all the OCD set up in big game/OOC posts before they get made public.

Not a terribly goat-punchy update this time! Though I suppose saying that is basically inviting plague of weeping ruminants. Here, have an OOC thread to stave off the Frankopolypse.