LiveJournal News

And the Winner Is . . .

The votes have been tallied, the results are in, and we have a winner (two, actually). Congratulations to the newly elected user representatives to the LJ Advisory Board: from lj_election_en, it's kylecassidy, and from lj_election_ru, it's nekbke! You can see the full breakdown of results for lj_election_en here and for lj_election_ru here. Thanks to everyone for your participation.

Advisory Board Election Winner!

Congratulations to the newest addition to the LJ Advisory Board, election winner legomymalfoy! Please see lj_election_en for full results. Thanks to everyone who voted!

Recent Policy Changes

Since March we've worked with you and the Advisory Board members on developing a set of reasonable policy guidelines. Your feedback and the Advisory Board's perspective have guided us each step of the way. Well, three months of this ongoing discussion have finally born fruit: please see our latest post in lj_policy for details!

Advisory Board Elections
Today, May 22nd, marks the beginning of the Advisory Board Election process. Polls will be open through the 29th. Out of the following list, find the candidate you think is best-suited to provide the kind of input we at LiveJournal can use to better the site:

vichan
twirlandswirl
tango
squeaky19
sollitaire
rm
randomposting
qfemale
primitivepeople
mrflagg
lostcosmonaut
lordandrei
lizyd
legomymalfoy
jmaynard
jj_maccrimmon
jette
jameth
imc
fuzzface00
deathboy
daniidebrabant
cambler

This is for you guys, so cast your vote! The polls are waiting at lj_election_en.

New V-Gifts
Summer's finally here! The season brings warm weather, the spirit of apprecciation, and, naturally, a slew of new v-gifts. If you're looking to celebrate a special friendship, the spirit of theatre or a loved one's graduation, we've got perfect ornaments for the occasion. Take a gander at these fine options and get your celebration on.


L to R: daisy, theatre masks, tiara, diploma, graduation cap

TxtLJ
You can use LiveJournal's TxtLJ service to receive text notifications and make posts to your journal with your mobile phone. Give us some feedback on the experience at feedback. What would make TxtLJ more useful? How can we improve the service for you guys?

LJ Dashboard
We've cooked up a new utility at LJ Labs, where we're developing a whole host of LJ side projects.

Introducing LJ Dashboard, a portal to the most popular communities, journals and entries on LiveJournal. Now there's a mechanism to help you discover new content and keep track of what's happening out there. Login to the Dashboard using your Open ID, which is exampleusername.livejournal.com. After you're asked to grant identity validation to dashboard.livejournal.com, you'll be all set to poke around and play with some of the things we've come up with.

Since we're launching LJ Dashboard for the first time, we encourage you to post some feedback at lj_labs.

We're currently running some house ads on the Dashboard. Soon ads for external businesses will replace them. But right now all users see the house ads because, for the time being, we don't have a way of distinguishing between paid and unpaid users on the Dashboard. Have no fear: soon as we've got that worked out, paid users will be spared. Thanks for your patience!

We're having a lot of fun with some great ideas right now so keep an eye out for new LJ Labs releases!