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*punches LJ in the face*

1. %&*# Facebook Connect. It's not that people couldn't already have reposted comments they made on f-locked posts in your journal by copying and pasting them, but it's a deliberate act that most people, I think, have a kind of "don't break the f-lock" stricture against (at least if they want to remain on your f-list). This little "here's a box to automatically repost all your posts and comments to Facebook and/or Twitter if you want" thing makes it very easy to do so by mistake, and worse, provides a link back to the post that the comment was made in. If that post is f-locked of course X random yobbo from Facebook won't be able to read it, but a clear and obvious connection will have been made between the person whose Wall they clicked from and your journal - a connection which perhaps you wanted to obscure. If they simply had to provide this service, they should have made an option where a person could turn it off on their own journal (that is, those boxes would be disabled when people commented, even if the commenters had the feature turned on). ARGH ETA: I invite you to express your displeasure - vociferously, if necessary.

2. Much more immediately annoying, on this journal anyway and probably for 90% of fandom, is that they've somehow managed to bork tags which have slashes in them - you know, like http://shyfoxling.livejournal.com/tag/severus/sirius. (Well, inconsistently bork, it seems; sometimes the slash is getting replaced with %2F and it breaks, sometimes it isn't getting replaced and it breaks, and sometimes it appears to work normally. But a bunch of people are complaining about it on the news post and I've observed it myself.) ETA: Apparently this was unintentional and is being worked on.

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If anyone is pissed off enough at the Facebook/Twitter Connect thing that they would like to test the waters at Dreamwidth, I have a bunch of codes. You can also usually find codes for the taking at dw_codesharing. Their journal importer is pretty good - it'll even import the comments on all your posts. (Unfortunately that feature doesn't yet work on communities IIRC.) And you can set up the crossposter to crosspost back to LJ/IJ if you want (to be clear: that's all it does, is let you post copies of your posts to your accounts on other journal sites; a free account gets 1 such crosspost, paid gets 3 - "paid premium", a level that doesn't exist on LJ, probably gets more), and when you edit a DW post it'll automatically edit the remote copies. I've actually been posting everything to my three accounts from DW for some months now - you just can't really tell because I don't have it set up to put an identifying footer on the remote posts.

BTW, my own policy on this: I don't have a Twitter account. I have a Facebook account, but I don't actually make use of the thing. I will never crosspost any of my posts or comments to either site. And please for $DEITY's sake I hope you will not post any comments you may make in my journal or on anything I've posted in a community there either.

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My husband did a little interesting historical digging here. Apparently the last time a news post got up to 5000+ comments of RAGE was when LJ decided to abolish the Basic Account level - almost two and a half years ago.

7042 and counting...