weird LJ hiccup

[ratcreature]

For some reason LJ set the number of entries displayed on my f-list to ten, which wasn't what I had it set at, and I haven't been fiddling with any settings there so, I can't accidentally have changed it. I corrected this again in the style settings, and now it displays more entries again, but I wonder why LJ did that. Has anyone else had this happen to them?

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[giandujakiss]

Me too. I had to change it back.

[ratcreature]

Huh, it's not just me then. Maybe they want to encourage less traffic generation via flist reloading by setting you back to a lower default?

LJ has the weirdest glitches recently. I still haven't gotten a response to my support query about the sometimes invisible comments either...

[cofax7]

I haven't seen that, but what LJ has been doing is logging my home laptop out every night. It's HIGHLY annoying and I have to believe it's intentional. Dunno why my work (IE6) login stays okay.

[ane]

It did it for mine too. Then it took a while for me to remember where to go in order to change it.

[ratcreature]

I haven't had login trouble, but random glitches in general are annoying.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I had to poke around a bit to remember where that setting was too. I haven't changed that in ages. I wonder why this glitch affected some people but not others. Maybe it depends on which cluster you are, or maybe it's layout specific? On LJ I use Smooth Sailing...

[pocketmouse]

They changed the number of default entries. So if you hadn't picked a specific number, but just set it to generic default, it changed it from 20 to 10.

[ratcreature]

Huh. I did have 20, but I thought that some time ago, I used to have set it to 25 and then set it back to 20, so it wasn't just the default. But I could be misremembering. Ah well, I now picked 30, because that's what I have here on DW.

[liviapenn]

Yeah, they just mentioned it in their LJ announcement email thingie. It's on purpose.

[ratcreature]

I guess they do post some things besides spammy photo contests in their news every once in a while. (I stopped following the news comm when they started the photo thingy.)

[liviapenn]

I hate the email "news" announcements so much. They all end with this gigantic run-on paragraph of ridiculous adventures of "Frank the Goat" that sound like they were written by a stupid, dull, eight-year-old who thinks s/he's incredibly amusing and yet, isn't. I cannot imagine who the target audience of this nonsense is and yet every time, there it is again.

I do worry about the automatic setting of flists to 10 entries. To me it just feels like the kind of thing you do when you're running out of money in your budget and the next paycheck is just a little too far off. Not really the feeling I want to get from a journaling service where a lot of stuff I care about is stored. (And I don't even mean *my* stuff, since that's all backed up. But I remember when yahoogroups started deleting archived messages of high-traffic groups and everyone was shocked about that, too...)

[ratcreature]

Yeah. I'm bad about backups. I mean, I do crosspost my entries, but I don't run a backup to have copies of comments and conversations in my journal all that often (I remember maybe every couple of months at best).

Overall the conversations and communities have patchy backups at best. And I mean, social networking services still go under all the time with little warning. Larger ones than LJ too, like Bebo.

[iamza]

Yep. I thought I must have accidentally changed the settings at some point and forgotten about it. Guess not.

[ratcreature]

It's frankly a bit worrying that apparently they have to resort to stealth-setting-resets to enhance their site performance.

[matgb]

(as I had your frontpage open)

Yes, it is worrying, and they did explicitly do it for site performance, and said it would only affect people that had never changed it.

Except I know I had changed it, when I upgraded my phone, I changed it from 10 to 20 deliberately as the newwer phone could handle larger filesize pages.

Annoying, frustrating, badly done and worrying. Par for the course these days :-(

[megastoat.livejournal.com]

I noticed your post while looking at my friendsfriends list and just wanted to let you know that it happened to me too.

[ratcreature]

Thanks! It's good to know it's not just me experiencing weird LJ glitches.

[sholio]

Mine did it too, though I didn't even realize it had happened 'til I saw this post of yours; I thought my flist had just piled up more than usual, so I was having to skip back more than I normally do! How weird.

[ratcreature]

I wonder why only some journals are affected by this strange glitch. Maybe all on a certain cluster? It just seems so random.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Yup, happened to me! So weird.

[ratcreature]

Their glitches get stranger by the week. I still haven't gotten an answer to my support request about the invisible comment weirdness, which was the last glitch that disrupted my LJ usage, either.