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dw_maintenance2022-02-01 05:15 pm
denise) wrote in dw_maintenance2022-02-01 05:15 pm
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Update on the crossposting to LiveJournal issue: it appears it may be possible they've blocked all third party client access, period, not just us. Until we can track down accurate information they've posted publicly or LiveJournal is willing to provide us with guidance, at some point later today we'll be disabling the ability to crosspost to LiveJournal entirely, as it's clear this is not going to be a quick resolution or a "wait out the block" type situation.
I dearly hope we'll be able to re-enable it in the future, but if the situation hasn't resolved itself by now, it's clearly a longer term issue and there's no point in continuing to try something that is guaranteed to fail.
We will be leaving the import feature enabled for the time being, as some users have reported having intermittent success with import attempts. I can't guarantee that imports will work, though, and if they don't, we may turn that feature off as well.
I'm very sorry it's come to this, y'all, and I very much hope this crosspost disabling will be only temporary.
EDIT: Sorry, I was unclear while writing the above, and have fixed the bit that was potentially confusing! We will be disabling crossposting to LiveJournal: any crosspost attempts to LiveJournal will immediately fail and you'll get a message in your inbox saying that LiveJournal is currently unavailable as a crosspost source. Crossposting to every other site will be unaffected. We will also be pushing the fix for crossposting to InsaneJournal at the same time, so that will start working again.
I dearly hope we'll be able to re-enable it in the future, but if the situation hasn't resolved itself by now, it's clearly a longer term issue and there's no point in continuing to try something that is guaranteed to fail.
We will be leaving the import feature enabled for the time being, as some users have reported having intermittent success with import attempts. I can't guarantee that imports will work, though, and if they don't, we may turn that feature off as well.
I'm very sorry it's come to this, y'all, and I very much hope this crosspost disabling will be only temporary.
EDIT: Sorry, I was unclear while writing the above, and have fixed the bit that was potentially confusing! We will be disabling crossposting to LiveJournal: any crosspost attempts to LiveJournal will immediately fail and you'll get a message in your inbox saying that LiveJournal is currently unavailable as a crosspost source. Crossposting to every other site will be unaffected. We will also be pushing the fix for crossposting to InsaneJournal at the same time, so that will start working again.
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I am especially mad at LJ because of how *happy* we were to watch Russian speaking LJ grow back in 2002-2005. We built a place that became so global there was an entire other half of LJ most people from English speaking LJ never saw! It was AMAZING and I was so HAPPY to be even a little tiny part of making it. Even if I got teased about my very very bad high school Russian. 🤣 (I could never spell in Russian. At ALL.)
And now it's this. And I am just sad, and angry, and I wish I could do more for you all.
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No ads, no stupid Facebook-like policy, great admins. Keep going, please!
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