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teyla ([personal profile] teyla) wrote2008-11-07 03:44 pm
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Friends Lock - I can has?

Found this link on [livejournal.com profile] jantalaimon's journal - thank you!

You know how the new profile advertises the Search option with a nice blue-colored spelled-out link right next to your entry count? Well, this search option was on the old profiles as well, but it was a little magnifying glass that nobody ever seems to have used, judging from the frowny-faced posts about the 'new' search option I see cropping up everywhere.

This search option might make it possible for people to view your friends-locked entries even if they are not on your f-list.

ETA: Or maybe not! LJ is being as confusing as always. Go here for some clarifications.

If you don't want that to happen, go here and follow the instructions.

[identity profile] debris_k.livejournal.com 2008-11-07 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, I think spreading around false panic rumours about things that other folks actually find useful on a regular basis is not a good thing - I read that post you linked, and the poster admitted to not even testing all that much before their panic-post.

Dude. You should hear me cuss when some person or another whose journal I want to search to find *that one thing I really want/need to find* has turned the ljseek searching off. Seriously, unless it's states or personal secrets and the poster is not wise enough to f-lock right off the bad, ljseek does no more harm than google (the satan) which I might also point out *also* caches the pages it parses. But we don't see any options to lock out search-engine searches, do we? *huffs*

er, yeah, editing since I saw your newly edited post

[identity profile] debris_k.livejournal.com 2008-11-07 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but. Your post is still just as or more panic-raising than the one you linked to - if you know now what you didn't know then, could you at least please edit it?

Because I really like ljseek, as useless as it can sometimes be (read: more often than I'd like), and if there's a mass blocking of it on lj due to folks spreading false facts, I'll be one even more unhappier panda.

Because it's always that *one* author with that *one* story that has the search banned that I need to find in a clinch, or something, and, seriously? Let's just campaign against real informations abusers the likes of google or idiots like the lj PTB, but not half-decent if not particularly smart sites that try to make lj a more useable place.


Nevermind, you already did it. Sorry for the rant. Am not a happy panda today. grrrr stoopid lj design-blind team grrrr

[identity profile] debris_k.livejournal.com 2008-11-07 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh heavens, is it ever fuglier than fug - I had to view a profile just now to find a link, and my poor eyes are still in shock.

There's a room in heaven where all good horizontal lines go to, and right now they're all crying in misery over the abuse going on down here. D:

[identity profile] debris_k.livejournal.com 2008-11-07 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a 'Private Message' link right under the 'contact' header on the right; your lj email is under it. So, you have it, you just don't know it. :-)

Maybe you should check out someone else's profile for the "real" view - apparently, now users see their own profiles differently than others. Though why *I* would want to see the list of comms I have posting access to and no one else is allowed to is beyond me... @.@