theljstaff (theljstaff) wrote in news,
2011-07-01 10:22:00

Release notes, AIDS Walk fundraiser, Contest updates, Free vgift for paid users,

Greetings, users!

July 1st, 2011 - Welcome back to another edition of the news. We've got a few pieces of information to pass along before everyone stateside disappears for the Fourth of July weekend. We start with a brief description of new features added during our release update on Wednesday.

Important stuff to know

Features and changes
  • Sort community posts by user - We've added navigation options which allow you to more easily sort community entries by poster! The 'Sort by poster' option now appears in the Navigation Strip when you're viewing a community. Roll your mouse over or click 'Filter' on the navigation strip, type in a username, press 'Enter', and voila! You can now view all the posts created by the specified user in the community. Additionally, when you're viewing a community, the menu which appears when you hover over a person's userpic will also include an option to view entries in that community by that poster.


  • Improved post sharing/promotion functionality - We've incorporated a variety of buttons which can be used by to easily share or promote entries on FaceBook, Google, Twitter, and vKontakte. Additionally, we've included a button which allows other users to donate LiveJournal Tokens to you. Please note, these buttons are not displayed by default. Instead, you can opt to add them to any entry by including the <lj-like> tag.

    The default <lj-like> tag will display all available buttons. You may also customize which buttons are displayed in the post. For example, <lj-like buttons="fb,go"> will only include buttons for FaceBook and Google. The two-letter code for each available service is as follows:
    Facebookfb
    Googlego
    Twittertw
    vKontaktevk
    LJ Givelj

    In action, using the <lj-like> tag will look like this, depending on the buttons you've selected to show:

AIDS Walk San Francisco

It's sometimes hard to comprehend how much HIV/AIDS has affected the lives of people around the world. Today, there are over 30 million people from all walks of life who are coping with HIV/AIDS related conditions. There's no cure yet but united we can take action against this formidable pandemic. This year, July 17th to be exact, LiveJournal staff members in San Francisco will be participating in AIDS Walk San Francisco. We invite you to join the cause! There are a couple ways to contribute:

  • We're currently offering an AIDS Walk SF charitable vgift in the 'Charity' section of the vgift store. There are three denominations available: $2, $5, and $10. 100% of your charitable vgift purchase will go to AIDS Walk SF.
  • We've setup up a donation page and a team signup page at the AIDS Walk San Francisco website if you prefer contributing in a more direct manner.
If you live in the San Francisco area and you're already signed-up for the event, we invite you to join us on July 17th as we take to the street to promote a worthy cause! Message mike if you'd like to meet up to walk together.

Header design contest

July 2011 header by LJ user jussy_baby

Congratulations to jussy_baby, winner of this month's header design contest. You'll be seeing this lovely design displayed atop LiveJournal during the month of July. Speaking of header design contests, we previously mentioned that the contests will no longer be held on a monthly basis. Instead, the contests will be held a few times a year. Sit back, relax, and rest up because you'll need to scare up all your creative energies for our next header design contest. Oh wait, did we just give away the next contest theme? Well, the black cat's out of the candy bag so we may as well come clean.

The next header design contest theme is Halloween. The winning header will appear on LiveJournal throughout the month of October. We'll be accepting submissions for the Halloween header design contest from Monday, August 22nd, through Monday, September 19th. Don't worry about missing anything, we'll remind you a few more times in news before the contest starts.

Journal theme contest update

The three winning themes from our last design contest are scheduled to go live with our next update, which should be approximately three weeks from now. We'll keep you updated should any changes arise. Thanks again to the winners. The new journal themes will be a wonderful addition!


Life, liberty, and the pursuit of pic-a-nic baskets!

If you have a Paid or Permanent account, you can send five free picnic baskets now until Monday, July 4th, at 4pm, PDT! You'll see both the free and the $0.99 gifts displayed until you've sent them to your friends. If you're not receiving vgifts (from friends and/or Frank), you may have disabled them. To enable vgifts, visit Edit profile (under Profile), scroll down to the bottom of the page, and check your settings. Make sure the box beside 'Disable sponsored only' is NOT checked! Enjoy!



For news about LJ_Scribe and LJ_Photophile, we'll see you under the cut!

Photo of the week

Congrats to hep, winner of our 72nd lj_photophile contest!


Click here to help choose the next photo of the week. FYI: We pick entries for the poll based on a combination of comments, +1 ratings, and staff input. The winner receives 500 LJ tokens. We thank you for sharing your talent with the global LiveJournal community.

Welcome back, dear scribes!

Congratulations to kitterific, majorjune, and sapphire_3! who won prompt #18 of our LJ_Scribe contest! We've selected 6 finalists in response to our 19th prompt for your review. In addition to the joy of sharing your well-turned phrases, the top three finalists will each win 1,000 LJ Tokens. The remaining finalists will receive 500 LJ Tokens.

For our next contest, please respond to the following in any form you choose (no more than 250 words, excluding the prompt): "Sorry to bother you in the middle of dinner." You do not need to include the prompt in your writing. Be sure to post your submissions as entries, rather than comments, to lj_scribe up through Tuesday, July 5th, at 4PM, PDT. You'll find the +1 rating link under each post, so remember to check back and vote for your favorites!


Have a safe and sane (or your preferred equivalent) holiday weekend! See you next time!


Tags: aids walk fundraiser, free vgift for paid users, header design contest, journal theme contest, lj_photophile, lj_scribe, release notes
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we_got_caught

July 1 2011, 17:23:48 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  July 1 2011, 17:26:31 UTC

interesting.

ETA: Ooo, sorry shutter.

shutter

July 1 2011, 18:40:23 UTC 1 year ago

that's okay, i was asleep.

Simon Maryann

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affliction

July 1 2011, 17:25:00 UTC 1 year ago

Always changing something I see.

natt

July 1 2011, 17:26:05 UTC 1 year ago

"Please note, these buttons are not displayed by default..."

OMG, LJ, you're improving... well done.

dishapeaches

July 1 2011, 18:17:58 UTC 1 year ago

I like this too (no pun intended).

rosiedoes

1 year ago

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lied_ohne_worte

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rosiedoes

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hibiscus

July 1 2011, 17:28:00 UTC 1 year ago

Inactive Account Purge News PLEASE

Still waiting, nearly a year later, on an update for this. Staff used to to tell us in the comments there would be news shortly. Months later, is it cancelled?

glowing_dragon

July 1 2011, 18:42:26 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Inactive Account Purge News PLEASE

Yum, strawberries!

markf

1 year ago

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hibiscus

1 year ago

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felis_sidus

1 year ago

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niklaus

July 1 2011, 17:31:16 UTC 1 year ago

Oooh the sharing buttons are neat. And I like that they're optional.

ixtey

July 2 2011, 00:50:16 UTC 1 year ago

ms paint adventures! *o*

niklaus

1 year ago

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luvzcappietau

July 1 2011, 17:32:11 UTC 1 year ago

yesss! I really needed that sort by poster function, helps me out a lot!

vic_vega66

July 1 2011, 17:32:37 UTC 1 year ago

I checked my friends list and found that a few people were missing off it, I checked with them and hadn't been de-friended, LJ had just randomly removed them, what the heck is going on? I've also spoken to someone else and they've had the same thing happen.

flyboy_fox

July 1 2011, 19:12:23 UTC 1 year ago

This has happened to at least two people I know, as well. Hmmm...

yaaresse

1 year ago

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iulieki

1 year ago

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bradygirl_12

July 1 2011, 17:36:27 UTC 1 year ago

The free v-gifts aren't picnic baskets, still ice cream cones. :)

mike

July 1 2011, 17:45:38 UTC 1 year ago

I'll see if I can get this straightened out in the next few minutes. =)

bradygirl_12

1 year ago

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starbonds

July 1 2011, 17:37:02 UTC 1 year ago

Thank for you making the share buttons optional and turn off by default this time. And thank you for the user search button!! So much more useful and easy then inputting it in manually.

scripps

July 1 2011, 17:37:12 UTC 1 year ago

Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question but does this mean that we can post publicly without there being any facebook button. In other words is it safe to unlock all my fics?

I don't use Facebook at all but would someone who has a facebook profile be able to link one of my fics.

fiddlingfrog

July 1 2011, 17:47:02 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  July 1 2011, 17:50:08 UTC

If you post publicly then anyone, whether they use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Friendster, ICQ, AIM, SameTime, WebEx, or even just e-mail can link to your public post.

Edit: Hell, there are browser plugins that add even more options than what LJ has available.

scripps

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lied_ohne_worte

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scripps

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lied_ohne_worte

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azurelunatic

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scripps

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spectralbovine

July 1 2011, 17:37:42 UTC 1 year ago

In before international posters make snide comments about the focus on an American holiday. ("The Fourth of July? Oh, we just call that MONDAY.")

coffeechica

July 1 2011, 17:47:54 UTC 1 year ago

Happy Canada Day!

spectralbovine

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gemfyre

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lied_ohne_worte

1 year ago

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twisted_times

1 year ago

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yayhappens

July 1 2011, 17:37:50 UTC 1 year ago

The free version of the picnic basket is nowhere to be found. 0.0 (yet?)

And yes, my settings allow V-gifts.

beaugart

July 1 2011, 17:43:35 UTC 1 year ago

The ice cream cone from last time is still showing as free. If you didn't give an ice cream cone last time, do it now! LOL

I guess I'll check back in a couple hours for the picnic basket.

mike

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yayhappens

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mike

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yayhappens

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menomegirl

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skyrat13

July 1 2011, 17:45:29 UTC 1 year ago

Did the format of this journal change?? The posts used to show up in my feed consistent with my journal's default settings. Now the text is black which is harder to read on my journal's background. Can you please change it back to how it was so the setting don't override people's viewing options??? The text is also overlapping the user icon, it is way less readable than the last news post.

snowgrouse

July 1 2011, 17:55:39 UTC 1 year ago

Looked crap on my friendslist too and rendered the text unreadable, so, yeah. Seconded. Overriding other people's friendslist layout settings=accessibility fail.

kellzilla

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plainrea

July 1 2011, 17:47:09 UTC 1 year ago

I'm so glad that crap is optional.

surrey_sucks

July 1 2011, 22:32:43 UTC 1 year ago

slightlymore

July 1 2011, 17:50:16 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks for making it loads easier to search out specific posts in comms. ♥

Question, though. What happened to the king and queen userheads? Someone else mentioned that the Wizard of Oz themed userheads were removed too. I'd gone to buy a queen and couldn't find it. You guys should think about releasing a crown as well. ♥

buffy

July 1 2011, 22:25:08 UTC 1 year ago

I missed out on buying the wizard userhead too. Hopefully he'll be available again.

ecctv

July 1 2011, 17:52:11 UTC 1 year ago

I HATE EVERYTHING NEW
I LIKE OLD THINGS
UNLESS I DONT LIKE THEM
FIX EVERYTHING
CHANGE NOTHING.

markf

July 1 2011, 18:05:21 UTC 1 year ago

WE WILL COMPLY WITH YOUR DEMANDS
NO FURTHER CHANGES WILL EVER BE MADE TO LJ
EXCEPT THE CHANGES THAT FIX EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG
BUT WE WILL ONLY IMPLEMENT SAID FIXES IN A WAY WHICH CHANGES NOTHING
THIS COMMENT SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A CHANGE
(UNLESS IT FIXES THINGS)

rosiedoes

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trixieleitz

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piratesswoop

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evilcoc0nut

July 1 2011, 17:54:34 UTC 1 year ago

So what will the header be in the meantime? Starfishes until October? I'm gonna miss the monthly new header thing tbh. :(

mike

July 1 2011, 18:22:31 UTC 1 year ago

LiveJournal will still have a new header every month. We're just changing the frequency of the contests.

evilcoc0nut

1 year ago

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barbarakelley

1 year ago

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lifemovingfwd

July 1 2011, 17:56:56 UTC 1 year ago

Can I please get this thing OFF my friends page?

starshone_storm

July 1 2011, 17:59:06 UTC 1 year ago

Press the End key, click Remove.

starshone_storm

July 1 2011, 17:57:03 UTC 1 year ago

What's with the coding on this issue? It broke out of my (admittedly somewhat narrow) layout.

ozqueen

July 1 2011, 18:04:49 UTC 1 year ago

Ditto, ugh :/

surrey_sucks

July 1 2011, 17:59:04 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  July 1 2011, 18:01:21 UTC

Is there a way to prevent the calendar from popping up and obscuring things when you accidentally scroll over it? It is really annoying, and it constantly pops up because the buttons I regularly click on are near the calendar, and then the calendar pops up and obscures the buttons I want to click on! It would be nice if it only popped up if you clicked on it, not scrolled over it. Anyway, most computers have a calendar or display the day, so this feature is pretty redundant.

yomimashou

July 1 2011, 20:59:03 UTC 1 year ago

+1

surrey_sucks

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kittydesade

July 1 2011, 18:06:24 UTC 1 year ago

THANK YOU for making the Like buttons an option rather than a feature we have no choice in.

Thank you for actually listening to the consequences of the last three Facebookesque changes where everyone screamed and got royally pissed.

nightangelca

July 1 2011, 18:07:16 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks for making the cross-platform sharing buttons optional and non-default! Interesting -- definitely not wanting to use them currently but might consider them in the future, depending on the path that my LJ takes.

Also, thanks for the AIDS Walk promo.

lovecoeu

July 1 2011, 18:13:05 UTC 1 year ago

happy weekend!!!!!

sireesanwar

July 1 2011, 18:14:20 UTC 1 year ago

Okay I love that sort feature. I will use that a lot. Genius!

I'm also intrigued by the "like" options. I suggest making that a button when posting to help us all remember we can use them.

Thanks a million.

dreyar

July 1 2011, 18:21:08 UTC 1 year ago

For the header contest, is there a special criteria for reaching the finals? Or are they chosen at random?
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