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UGH, LJ. I'm not even there but for one music community really, but they modified something in their code so that LJ-Login (and all derivatives) no longer works with their site, w/o letting the coder or anyone else know, and will now not release what it is they changed so that he can fix his add-on.

Squeaky, PLEASE don't follow suit. :( I left you a little love in ~announcements in hopes that you won't, and because this site is generally great and my interwebs RP home.

EDIT: After

thebodypolitic commented, I thought I'd PSA this -- the most recent push also introduced a bug that is logging people into the wrong account at random. She found herself logged into an account she's never owned, able to see all of their private entries and bio information. Since she's not evil, she promptly logged out, but then has been left wondering: if she wound up in someone else's journal, who wound up in hers? Longstoryshort, if you have any identifying personal info in any livejournal accounts (name, location, credit card info from payment pages, etc.) even if it's set to be private, should someone accidentally wind up in your account, they're viewing it. For more info, check out Unfunny Business on journalfen.

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I'm annoyed, too, but haha oh my lordy the vitriol on that lj_releases thread about LJlogin!!! I just cannot deal.

That said, it just makes me relieved that all of my RP happens on IJ and that I'm barely tuned in to LJ anymore. I'm trying to get back into the swing of blogging there, but it's sure hard when everything is so slow and unreliable and argh.

People are mad! People are always mad; they get mad here when the site goes down for like, 8 hours. But that's v. temporary, and LJ-login is not, and holy crap if there are people randomly able to log into someone else's account... DODGY to say the least.

Nerdrage is the most ridiculous overblown kind of rage. Like. I think the privacy/security issues are far far more worth complaint, rather than the tirade of profanity directed to the LJlogin issue. But then again, I am the eternal polite flower 8(

Right? I posted this just be like, blerg, broken thing. I'm not all "FUCK YOU, MARK, I HOPE YOU WATCH YOUR MOTHER DIAF, YOU HAVE RUUUUUINED MY WHOLE LIFE WITH THIS CODE PUSH." Nerdrage gets scary.

Ughhhhh exactly. And the anonymity of the internet just makes things worse, making it so easy for flamers to forget that there are real people on the other end. Like: Yes, sir, I get that you're upset, but there are ways to express that disappointment in a constructive manner rather than resorting to calling everyone "fuckasses". 8|