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PLEASE GO HERE AND TELL LIVEJOURNAL TO FUCK OFF WITH THE LIKE BUTTONS


You heard me. THEY'RE ADDING LIKE BUTTONS TO LJ.

The next step in turning LJ into a Facebook clone.

They don't want us here. We're too inconvenient. They want a pack of monkeys who'll just push buttons and then pony up money for the privilege.


TELL THEM HELL NO.

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Well, that was unpleasant.

About 3:00 this morning, I FINALLY got the problem sorted out, no thanks to LJ. Their system was not sending out any emails at all for a while there, so it was impossible to obey their validation instructions. I switched emails to Gmail, nothing. I switched back to Yahoo, nothing. Back to Gmail again. JESUS. Finally, somewhere around 2 or so, their system started sending out emails, at least to MY account. Then it took me a while to FIND the damn validation email. I had requested one six or seven times, using different browsers, and after shutting down and rebooting, etc. Only one of them showed up, the one I apparently requested after the email glitch over there stopped glitching. It was hidden in a particular folder I wouldn't have looked in. How did I know that? Someone at LJ provided that answer to a user FIVE WEEKS AGO. They haven't said that to anyone else with this problem since (and there were quite a few people in the queue with it, even more if it's a common complaint among all those requests written in RUSSIAN), so since then, no one has gotten the answer they needed in order to deal with this.

If you were working on a help line, and you had a piece of important information that would help customers with a problem a lot of them are having, wouldn't you let your supervisor or whoever else know about it? So other people could provide the same answer?

And LJ wonders why people take off for other sites. I swear.

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Okay, so who knows about customizing LJ styles? I haven't the vaguest fucking idea how to do this. Anybody know and willing to toss out some advice and/or links?

Seriously, I hate this fucking theme, and I can't find anything much better. Are there others I don't know about?

FUCK. I HATE BEING FORCED INTO THINGS LIKE THIS.

It's already killing any impulse I have to write. That plain black page was a huge deal for me. Now wrangling with these UGLY FUCKING PAGES that do nothing for me is pissing me off and depressing me.

You guys have really nice pages. Where the FUCK can I get stuff like that? Because the stuff I'm seeing is utter, utter shit.

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Some kind soul in Italy - whose name I do not recognize - sent me a very generous gift today. Whoever you are, thank you SO SO much. You've enabled me to keep my lights on for another month, and maybe start putting away a little money for a new pair of glasses. (Haven't had a new pair since 2005, and I'm squinting a lot these days.) *BIG HUG*

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I suppose this is as good a place as any to talk about something I haven't yet - goals. In selling my items, I'm reaching for a goal of $500 this holiday season, which will pay my bills through the winter, when energy rates get so high. It will also enable me to put aside whatever other money I can get hold of in other ways, towards some things I've had to put off for a long while (like those glasses). Because of the interest and generosity of my friends here, I'm well on the way to making that goal, so I'm terribly grateful, and thankful to have such kind and wonderful friends. (I hope to make my goal soon, either here or at eBay.) Love to all of you!

'Night!

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Is anybody missing any RSS feeds from their friends page? I'm signed up to several that post every day, but they've all disappeared. When I check the lj's, I find the last date for every one of them is December 22. But I was reading entries from all of them just this morning!

Has anybody else noticed RSS feeds disappearing like this?

Another question here:

I'd like to send someone a virtual gift on LJ. But when I go to the gift page: http://www.livejournal.com/shop/vgift.bml?cat=all - I see no option for actually BUYING one of them. They're all there, but there doesn't seem to be any button or anything to select a gift.

Now, I've done this before. It's been a while, but I know I didn't have to hunt around to figure it out last time. If I remember correctly, it used to be that you just clicked on the icon for the gift you want and the system would start you through the invoice process. But now the pictures of the gifts are not clickable; they just sit there.

Is there something I'm not seeing on that page? Why isn't this working?

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So LJ has refurbished the Tags Management Page. this is a good thing, especially since they've now made it possible to remove tags from your list. (I've had a couple of misspelled tags hanging on there for at least a year!) It's more flexible, so great.

My question is: on the list of tags, there's a little arrow before each tag. What's it there for, and what does the coloring of the arrows mean? At first I thought it was for how many entries are tagged with that specific tag, but the FAQ says you're allowed up to 1000 entries for each tag, and the ones that have "full" arrows don't have even a tenth that many entries tagged with them.

So does anyone know what's up with those colors? The FAQ doesn't mention the coloring at all.

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Gacked from a bunch of people.


When I tried this yesterday, I got just a few pictures and they didn't seem to have anything to do with my journal. But I guess the coding worked itself out, because today I got this:


( My collage )


Now that's more like it. Pretty cool, I'd say. :)

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Thanks for the rose, honeyandvinegar!

...how do you guys deal with seeing people go on about how "lovely" someone is, when your experience tells you that person is actually not nearly so "lovely"?

Because you know, it can get a bit tiring.