hogwarts gone wild

So. kenboy linked me to the latest Goatpuppet post at lj_biz, and against my better judgement, I read it.

I was almost mollified on some level, until I hit this:

One last note: This new process might have changed the way that two members were recently permanently suspended without warning.

Well, if it might have changed things, and LJ is truly hoping to make amends for the utterly clueless blundering we've endured since May, the obvious step would be to reinstate Ponds and Cara's journals. And as pointed out in this comment, the next obvious step would be to answer the questions femmequixotic asked in her open letter. As a fandom member, I would like a response. As the moderator of a fandom community that deals with adult content on a regular basis, I need those answers.

Until both of those things happen, I am not interested in anything LJ has to say. About anything. At all. Ever.

[ETA:] Evidently, Cara's journal has been reinstated. I have to admit, I didn't even check. I didn't expect LJ to do the right thing. Not that quickly, anyway.

( cut for waffle about Support, and how that's another thing LJ's taken away from me )

I answered a Support ticket at InsaneJournal today, and it felt good. ♥

Speaking of InsaneJournal, those of you fence-sitting might take heart in this announcement. They've expanded the links list: 15 for free users, 50 for paid users, and 100 for permanent accounts. They've also raised the friending limit again. Paid and permanent users are allowed unlimited friending, and the cap for free users is now 1000. That's more than LJ gives anyone, regardless of account status.


With that, I'm off to do hogwarts_today, which is another reason I'm hacked off at LJ. Had they made the post I linked above when fandom asked for it a week ago, we might not have been forced to change the way we handle the newsletter. Our new system is probably safer, but still. It's the point.

The really dreadful thing is, I'm not writing. I have three rather tenacious bunnies nipping at my heels, but I'm too bogged down with administrative nonsense to even think about them.

In other news, I threw my name in the hat over at the Epilogue Meme. ♥

I spent most of the day pottering around InsaneJournal. I joined a couple of communities, friended a few people, and fiddled with my layout. I don't particularly want to move from LJ altogether, but if I did, InsaneJournal is probably where I'd end up. My only issue is that currently, it won't recognise my tags when I post through Semagic. I know some people don't like it. The free-user friending limit is a bit of a rub, but for $20 a year, you get 250 more friends that LJ will give you, ever. And yeah, the default site scheme is ugly -- and the alternatives aren't much better; I know because I checked -- but if you have FireFox, hope is not lost.

Also, if you're in the neighbourhood, check out the finding_hp. It's specifically for HP fen looking for their buddies on InsaneJournal.

Since I'm on about the other sites: there is a hogwarts_today at GreatestJournal. It's empty, and it will probably remain so. At least for now. There is also a hogwarts_today at InsaneJournal, but that's not us. Well, it's not really us. It's an RSS feed of LJ community. Only, it doesn't seem to be working. The read info on the profile page says the entries are too big, but I think it has more to do with the nature of our posts. RSS feeds are meant to read normal HTML; lj-specific tags make them choke and spill raw code everywhere. I did nab hogwartstoday over at InsaneJournal, and while I've archived about 2 weeks worth of posts from 2005, I have no plans for its immediate future.

Sleep now, I think.