When "What next?" meets "Well, what if...?"

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened


2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here


3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!


4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!


5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5 for improved visual design!


2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken


3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0


4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor


5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers


6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, England, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

Title: The Art of Being Sneaky.
Author: Sango Shadowphoenix
Word count: 4319
Rated ‘E’ for Everyone
Canon Universe, Post-Naraku, Modern Era.
Disclaimer: InuYasha and its characters belong to Takahashi-sensei. So does Tessaiga, of course.

Summary: The good news: Tessaiga has finally been found. The bad news: Sesshoumaru has to steal his own family heirloom, Kagome is as clueless to old courting customs as she is prone to sticking her pretty neck into troublesome situations, and the aforementioned demon lord wants to tie the knot with the girl with the pretty neck. With, of course; not on.
Warnings: n/a

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Just a quick reminder that today is the last day to post an entry for our current contest. Your deadline is 11:59 p.m. (PST), and the prompt is...

If you wanna play along, leave me a comment saying Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious rainbow. I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

1) What's the story behind your LJ username?

-When I signed up for LJ, I knew I'd mainly be using it for fandom stuff. Sesshoumaru is my favorite fandom character and he is a silent taiyoukai. :)

2) What is the squickiest thing you've ever seen?

-This question is hard! Hmmm....well, it wasn't in RL, but somewhere on the internet there is a video of an athlete who breaks her leg doing hurdles. Her knee bends completely backwards. It was really gross.

3) Name the top five places you want to visit someday.

-Japan, Great Britain, Australia, Ireland, Germany

4) What would you do if you had a million dollars?

-Get my own place, buy car, pay off that pesky student loan, then put the rest in savings. 

5) Who is the easiest fandom character to write and why?

-Probably Kagome. She's kinda generic when it comes to personality.

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quoth_the_ravyn challenged me to write Rurouni Kenshin with the prompt: "something cannon, post-enishi, post-the-emo = Kenshin finally making a move in the CORRECT direction or you know, already in the middle..." 

I never did like emo!Kenshin much either, men with true passion are so much more fun to play with so I hope this fits the bill, m'dear.  

Warning: Thar be a wee bit o' limeiness ahead.  Not enough to warrant an f-lock, but enough to hopefully satisfy the prompter...
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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Rin-ne by Rumiko Takahash has been updated with Chapter 28: Black & White.

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Title: Who do you love?
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Fickle (Issekiwa Week 89)
Word Count:250
Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome, Inuyasha/Kikyou
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Warning: None
Summary: Two-timer?

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Title:Kagura
Author:petalears
Universe:Canon
Rating:G
Word Count:250
Summary:Kagura ponders freedom.

 

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