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Beginning today, you'll be shown an interstitial asking you to select a visibility setting for an upcoming feature called My Guests. The default setting is for My Guests to be turned off, but the dialog box will keep appearing until you make a selection.




Even though this feature won't be released for a few more weeks, we wanted to give you the ability to make a choice now and provide you with information on how My Guests will work.

• My Guests will show you a list of all of the logged-in users who have visited your journal directly, except for those who have opted out of this feature
• It will not show users who view your entries on their friends page; only those who have navigated to your journal, entry, or comment pages
• The list will show only the last 100 users; information older than that will not be stored or viewable
• My Guests will be updated hourly
• It will not show the same user multiple times; only the last view by any user will be displayed
• If you choose not to be visible in the My Guests view of other users, you will not be able to view your own guests; participation in visibility is required in order to use this feature
• In order to prevent "gaming" of this feature (as in, someone turning off the feature just long enough to view someone's journal undetected and then turning it back on), the setting takes up to 24 hours to update once it's been changed.

My Guests is part of a larger project to bring you more information on who is viewing your journal. If you have questions or comments about this interstitial or the settings, or general questions about how My Guests will work, this is the place!

For those of you who browse LiveJournal when you're on your mobile device, we've got a new interface for you! We'd like you to give it a try and let us know what you think.

From your mobile browser, just go to: http://m.livejournal.com/

In the next build we'll be adding:

1. Selection of security level when posting
2. Viewing of your syndicated feeds on your friends page

If you find things you like, don't like, or things you'd like changed, please feel free to share in comments to this post. Developers will be reading them as they update this feature.

Coming Soon: The Find Your Friends Feature!

LiveJournal users love the way their Friends page serves as a single location for all the latest updates from the people they care about. For new users, however, it can be hard to find people to add to their Friends page because they don’t know anyone on LiveJournal yet. Often they have friends already using LiveJournal but don’t know they're here or how to find them.

We're working on a new Find Your Friends feature that will make it easier for new users to find existing friends using their web-based email contacts list. Once found, they'll be able to quickly add those journals to their Friends page or send a note telling the person about their new journal. Note that only logged-in users will be able to use this feature.

However, we know that your privacy is important to you -- not all users want to be found, even by people they already know in "the real world" (sometimes especially by people they already know in the real world). So we're working to ensure that this feature provides a variety of security settings to reflect the various ways in which someone would want or not want to be found.

( The way email searching currently works )

The Find Your Friends feature will search your web-based email contacts to see if there are any matches on LiveJournal. With the new tool, we're divorcing the concepts of searchability and visibility. You will be able to have your email address searchable without actually displaying it anywhere on LiveJournal, or you can choose to display your email address without it being searchable by the Find Your Friends feature.

We're asking for your thoughts and feedback to help ensure the available settings for this feature have the level of privacy that you want.

The new setting will be "Allow others to find me by searching for my email address:" and it will have these options:

• Yes -- show my username in the search results


• Yes -- but don't show my username in the search results. Only show my email address and allow users to send me a notification about their new journal. I can then choose to add them as a Friend if/when I want to.


• No -- don't allow my email address to be searchable.

For new users, their email address will be searchable and their username shown through this feature until they make a selection otherwise - but during the signup process (specifically, the Find Your Friends portion) the option will be presented and explained. Existing users will be presented with an opt-in page after the feature is launched so they can make the specific choice that best fits their personal preference. If no choice is made, existing users will have the option defaulted to "No."

Please comment to ask questions or suggest ways in which this feature could be improved -- we want to ensure that your privacy is protected while making this feature as useful as possible. Thank you!

See this post in lj_design for details.

We've been having some conversations about how to avoid a co-maintainer removing other maintainers. As part of that, we are looking to expand the rights of community moderators - so that maintainers can appoint moderators to help them with a community, instead of co-maintainers. What do you think a moderator should be able to do in a community?

Poll #1216070 Should moderators be able to:
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 830

View and change the community's settings

Change the community's customizations

Invite and remove members

Ban users

Approve or reject requests for membership (if it's a moderated-membership community)

Delete entries or comments

Freeze or screen comments, and see screened comments

Create tags for use in the community

Edit and delete entry tags on community entries

Also, what about a feature that would not let a maintainer remove a maintainer who had been appointed before them (like a seniority of maintainers)?

Poll #1216071 Maintainer removal
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 719

Make it so that maintainers cannot be removed by newer maintainers

We'd like to hear what you think - comments are welcome!

What comment below do you think best represents your position? (Click "Link" that's right after the time and date in the comment you like best, and cut and paste the URL here. You can change your response at any time by clicking on the poll number, and then clicking the [ Fill out Poll ] link at the top of the page.)

Poll #1216072 Goat vote
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 115

Link (URL) of comment you most agree with