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

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
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

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, 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!

Here's a little excerpt from Prince Animage Autumn 2009.

For the fans!!!

http://debit-x-jasdero.deviantart.com/

For the fans!!!

http://soujirou-x-yuki.deviantart.com/
http://rui-x-tsukushi.deviantart.com/
http://tsukasa-x-tsukushi.deviantart.com/

█ 17 KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN!
█ 4 ONE PIECE
█ 11 PERSONA 4
█ 50 POKEMON
█ 8 SUMMER WARS
█ 10 TALES OF GRACES
█ 8 TALES OF THE ABYSS
█ 4 OTHER (FMA, SUPERNATURAL)
█ 109 TOTAL



Here @ halare!

...This is going to be a looong image-heavy post. 8)


( + 47 more )

He definitely looks best when he's all :DDD ♥

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.

Hello, Dramione community! :)
Here's something to refresh your day!

Title: I Can't Quit You, Baby
Category: Harry Potter
Character(s): Draco M. & Hermione G.
Words: 5,566
Genre(s): Humor/Romance
Rating: Rated: M
Summary: We're shagging. -Just- shagging?

A/N: After calming down from my HydexJackie fever and then resurrecting my Dramione love, I've decided what if I fuse some of that witty 70's banter with the UST of Draco and Hermione? ;)
Check out if you can spot the parallel scenes and characters! :)

It took me a while to finish this one seeing as how I only did this in between university life, and now I finally got it out.
ENJOY!

(Note: I'm not going to spam everyone with all 100 chapters here. I might announce at every 25 or so.)

Chapter Title: 1. Introduction
Characters/Pairings: Hiwatari Satoshi and Niwa Daisuke
Rating: Varies from chapter to chapter. Nothing above PG-13 as of yet.
Warnings: A good portion of the chapters will at least hint at the SatoshixDaisuke (or DaisukexSatoshi) pair, though not all are this way and not all need to be interpreted as such.
Summary: Written for the 100 theme challenge, chapters will focus around Daisuke, Satoshi, or both. Various genres and ratings will be explored.

(First impressions are a strange thing, aren't they?)
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The rest of the chapters so far can be found (HERE).

Hello~~~
Due to some minor real life setbacks, the scans will probably be a little later than usual this time, so in the meantime, here is a summary of chapter 40^^ Wow...40 chapters already! :D 

Anyway, summary! (beware, spoilers ahead!)

(  Summary  )

I'd love to hear everyone's impressions/theories on what's gonna happen next cos this chapter really set my mind racing :P haha

Author: baru01h1
Title:  Never let you down
Pairing: Toshiro Hitsugaya and Momo Hinamori
Rating: PG
Spoilers: SS Arc
Summary: just a hort song fic to the song never let you down by frankiej. set after aizens betrayal about what hitsugaya was going though with hinamori being hurt.
Author’s Note: this can also be found on fanfiction.net here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5501432/1/Never_let_you_down

( I promise i wont let you down )

Persona 4 ☆ 10
Pokemon ☆ 65




lots more here @ hamburgers!

Some new adorably cute scans decided to pop out ;)


( & more under here! )
Source: Bumsso, of course.

Even cuter than the one before because we see Jang Geun Suk pondering! ...what, you ask. I wouldn't know since I don't speak korean :'D We'll wait for translation! LMFAO. (I love the scarf ~floating~ it's like the cricket chirping LOL)

Source: niclaudia4@yt + Bumsso

I has ficcage. Just friendship, but thought you people might like it.

Title: Jazz it Up

Summary: Kanda's hair is getting very long and keeps getting in the way. Lenalee decides to help him fix a hairstyle, since he seems clueless about what to do with it himself. Oneshot.

Pairing: None. There doesn't have to be one, does it? :D

Genre: Friendship/Humor. Not sure which comes first, lol.

Rating: K+

Warnings: Well... A tiny bit of Kanda's foul mouth? But there really isn't much swearing. XDDD Just "damn" and "hell". (Oh, and keep in mind that they're like... 14 and 12 or something like that in this piece, should just state that). Nothing to warn about, really...

Disclaimer: I wouldn't mind owning DGM, but I don't. So there.

Kanda sighed and put on a blank expression as he lowered his hand again. "Yes, Lenalee," he said in a monotone.