Krissy ([info]ljkrissy) wrote in [info]news,
2006-02-02 15:50:00

February News

Punxsutawney Phil says there will be six more weeks of winter, so don't pack away your warm LJ hoodie just yet!

Frank the Comic
Thanks to the genius of [info]ryanestrada, our faithful mascot Frank is now the star of his own comic strip. Visit [info]frankthecomic to read the first three installments of the ballad of Frank, which answers the question: "How can a goat use a computer?" Ryan will release a new comic about once a week. Be sure to join the community to get access to special treats like userpics and desktop images.

Site Security
The engineering, ops, support and abuse teams have been hard at work making sure that LiveJournal is secure. We've always made security-related changes as they've become necessary, and we will continue to do so. The following is a brief recap of the vulnerabilites we faced recently as well as the fixes that were committed.

The technical details are complex (read the details in [info]lj_dev), but this specific vulnerability was the result of the way Mozilla/Firefox browsers handled certain behaviors possible in a user's journal style. All browsers have vulnerabilities, just like all big services like LJ have occasional bugs; many of us use Firefox and we all use LJ and we will continue to do so. We have handled this security situation by aggressively working to fix the vulnerability, supporting users with responses from our Support team, updating our users without disclosing sensitive technical details before the fix was complete, and following up with ongoing support and more communication.

For those of you who had a negative experience over the past week or so, we are truly sorry. We hate to see any one of you have a bad time on LJ. We worked with users to resecure and clean up a couple hundred accounts. Our fixes resulted in some bugs and general performance issues that certainly affected many more of you, and we regret any inconvenience it caused. We really appreciate everyone being patient and supportive during this time.

To help you better protect your account, we've created a page where you can view every login to your account to make sure no one but yourself is accessing it. In keeping with LiveJournal's open philosophy, we're asking for the community's help to find and report any undiscovered security issues. If this interests you and you'd like to participate, check out [info]lj_dev for ongoing details.

New LJ Design Community
Our design team has created a community where LiveJournal team members can discuss design questions, issues, and new ideas for LiveJournal with the LJ community. Visit [info]lj_design to meet the team and share your feedback.

Valentine's Day is right around the corner. Head to [info]21406 to confess your secret LJ crush, and stay tuned to [info]news for our upcoming Valentine's Day plans!

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[info]shalanar

February 2 2006, 23:52:12 UTC 6 years ago

first?

[info]stivemaster

February 2 2006, 23:53:32 UTC 6 years ago

no a was firster

loser:)

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[info]stivemaster

February 2 2006, 23:52:39 UTC 6 years ago

yeah girls

lets play

[info]rholupi

February 3 2006, 09:30:53 UTC 6 years ago

Re: yeah girls

w00t

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[info]chibi_sally

February 2 2006, 23:52:52 UTC 6 years ago

Love the comic! ^_^

[info]spyderwebb

February 2 2006, 23:53:10 UTC 6 years ago

Hah! First page like WHOA.

very cool comic.

[info]azula

February 2 2006, 23:53:17 UTC 6 years ago

Awesome.

[info]almighty_ethong

February 2 2006, 23:53:23 UTC 6 years ago

ace

[info]xevinx

February 2 2006, 23:54:43 UTC 6 years ago

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_design/2457.html is a 403 for me.

Also, first page?

[info]force_a_smile

February 2 2006, 23:55:17 UTC 6 years ago

that's depressing.

[info]rawness

February 7 2006, 10:50:07 UTC 6 years ago

i agree. ryan does great comics though, he did an Acts of Gord one for awhile.

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[info]ex_fluff

February 2 2006, 23:55:31 UTC 6 years ago

Because making first page is sexy.

[info]inject

February 2 2006, 23:59:11 UTC 6 years ago

Your icon is what's sexy :O

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[info]balljar

February 2 2006, 23:56:03 UTC 6 years ago

Issues...

I'm still having issues with .htaccess and images showing up on LJ.

It appears the domain name changes are messing things up - the 'exemptions' I had set (www.livejournal.com, balljar.livejournal.com, etc.) are no longer adequate. People are getting red X's on their friends page, but can see the images on the 'Post Comments' page.

This behaviour is also seen with voice posts.

[info]killhamster

February 3 2006, 00:36:54 UTC 6 years ago

Re: Issues...

use the wildcard character in front of the LJ domain and that should clear that up.

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[info]fluffy_ninja

February 2 2006, 23:57:36 UTC 6 years ago

Bloop.

[info]questella

February 3 2006, 00:58:27 UTC 6 years ago

You have a pretty icon. =)

[info]jannedoe

February 2 2006, 23:57:42 UTC 6 years ago

The comic looks a lil lame to me...

[info]chickenflicker

February 3 2006, 01:22:27 UTC 6 years ago

:(

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[info]ccnuggie

February 2 2006, 23:57:50 UTC 6 years ago

Hopefully all these new feature links can be easily found via the site map, so that we don't have to come to this community or rely on our memory to find them.

[info]j3ss

February 3 2006, 00:04:00 UTC 6 years ago

bookmark them

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[info]dpitman

February 2 2006, 23:57:56 UTC 6 years ago

Hi, I was hoping to be able to request posting access into frankthecomic?? I just joined the community, and was instructed to request access in order to post. Thanks a bunch!
Dian

[info]ccnuggie

February 3 2006, 00:01:25 UTC 6 years ago

The moderator for every community can be found on the userinfo for that community.

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[info]comrade_robinov

February 2 2006, 23:57:57 UTC 6 years ago

Are you all responsible for a post that disappeared this morning, or did a moderator delete it? How could I tell?

[info]cardboardtowns

February 2 2006, 23:58:01 UTC 6 years ago

First 20 comments woot.

[info]feelinpeachy

February 2 2006, 23:58:13 UTC 6 years ago

yay!!

[info]rooibos

February 2 2006, 23:58:26 UTC 6 years ago

FRANK THE COMIC?WTFFFF

[info]ryanestrada

February 3 2006, 02:49:08 UTC 6 years ago

I KNOW OMG WTF ROTFLMBO TADMAIJMIUHHH

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[info]rabid_dustbunny

February 2 2006, 23:58:36 UTC 6 years ago

Ah? Ah! I left a comment! ...

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[info]magnolia107

February 3 2006, 03:00:41 UTC 6 years ago

Good icon. Good movie.

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[info]soviets

February 2 2006, 23:58:38 UTC 6 years ago

A comic about a website's goat.

random.

[info]ryanestrada

February 3 2006, 02:49:37 UTC 6 years ago

totally

[info]parsleh

February 2 2006, 23:58:40 UTC 6 years ago

Great :D

[info]chickenflicker

February 3 2006, 01:25:42 UTC 6 years ago

Hey you. :D

[info]stillimage

February 2 2006, 23:58:49 UTC 6 years ago

Good deal! :D

[info]inject

February 2 2006, 23:58:49 UTC 6 years ago

Awesome XD

[info]rainydayzgirl

February 2 2006, 23:58:54 UTC 6 years ago

Not gonna lie, I didn't read this message. that's okay though. I ♥ Lj!

[info]cupcakegrrl

February 5 2006, 14:36:16 UTC 6 years ago

Your missing out on so much

[info]a2jgirl88

February 2 2006, 23:59:01 UTC 6 years ago

cool :)

[info]spiceonice

February 2 2006, 23:59:51 UTC 6 years ago

DAN V! XD

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