FAQ 304 has just been created in response to the many "stop e-mailing me" requests that have been on the board lately. It addresses users who have an account and haven't unsubscribed or deleted, as well as non-users who are getting spam about LJ accounts.

Please feel free to post to lj_userdoc or open a Documentation request if you see anything that can be improved.

Tags: site updates: faq changes

The new RTE isn't working right. (In other news, water is reported to be wet. We're still investigating.) Here is everything I've seen this weekend. There are older bugs too, but I hope this will help you when working in Entries to know what's been reported and what hasn't been.

Additions in comments are very welcome. We want to get this thing fixed, not just for the users, but especially because of the huge workload this feature creates for Entries volunteers.

* [LJSV-648] RTE doesn't load at all in Safari 4
* [LJSV-792] Nowhere to enter text for an lj-cut popup, many browsers
* [LJSV-796] HTML editor is loading instead of user's default RTE in IE7 and FF 3
* [LJSV-797] RTE spacing and indentation aren't working as expected in IE7 and FF 2 & 3

(On #2, theory is that they've got old JS cached and we should be doing advanced cache clear with them as a next step.)

Those are the main three I saw this weekend. Older stuff we're still seeing (again, feel free to add to this list):

* Multiple lj-cut tags can get added to a post (does anyone have the Jira # for this? I can't find it)

Fake AP Stylebook on Twitter provides useful writing tips. For example:

Use the term "free-range turducken" only if the turkey has eaten both the duck and the chicken.

fakeapstylebook

I made a "feed" for the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks: unnecessaryq

Current Mood: "quixotic"
Current Music: "The Dandy Warhols" - "You" Were The "Last" High

While I was working on this request, av8rmike told me about some unstyled layouts that were available, that could be relevant to the user's question. I thought it would be handy to include this information in a FAQ, probably 259 at this stage.

Very preliminary suggested wording:
Under the heading "Lynx Site Scheme & Styles", after the list of simpler styles, insert an additional paragraph:

You can also use an unstyled layout with certain journal styles. To find unstyled layouts, visit the Select Journal Style page and enter "unstyled" in the search box.

Slightly less preliminary wording:
Under the heading "Lynx Site Scheme & Styles", after the list of simpler styles:

You can also use an unstyled layout with certain journal styles.

Tags: cat-features, faq259, status-resolved

I'm trying to add newpost to my journal using curl,

curl -d"mode=postevent&.....&event=

Tags: client, client: flat, client: posting

Changed the wording of 302 "Tell a Friend" slightly - not only can it be used on any public entry, it can also be used on any protected or filtered entry you have posted, including protected entries in communities. (You can't use TAF on private entries.)

Tags: cat-notifs, faq302, status-resolved
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Sometimes gameboyguy13 and teshiron and a few others and I wind up in IRC bouncing stuff off each other, sometimes with copious use of pastebin and email and rapid-fire comments to transfer large chunks of draft-in-progress FAQs at each other (before posting a more polished version here, of course).

Recently, JD and I discovered using Google Wave for the same sort of drafting purpose, and we found that it was a very useful tool for real-time or near-real-time bouncing back and forth, particularly in concert with IRC.

Google Wave just started another round of invitations, and since I'm finding it useful for userdoc, I wanted to give lj_userdoc regulars first crack at my stash of invitations if you're interested.

The Wave is in no way actually going to replace lj_userdoc, and if people come up with stuff in there it should also get shared regularly and properly on here, but I want to make it available to anyone who could use it.

Tags: administrative

Updated 102 to add a reciprocal link to 259, because of Mobile View. (It works as advertised on http://m.livejournal.com.)

Apropos of http://news.livejournal.com/119641.html?thread=80034649#t80034649

Tags: faq102, faq259, status-resolved

I'm currently working on integrating Scrapbook in my LJ client. When downloading pictures, I got a 403 Forbidden error when downloading pictures that were under a friends-lock. That's (of course) exactly as it should be.
So my strategy is to get an LJ session cookie (through the sessiongenerate interface call) and send that along with my request for the pictures. However, I can't get it to work with the cookie I get back from the sessiongenerate call. To check, I extracted my ljsession cookie from Firefox and pasted that into my code -- and then it worked. So it's not my code that is broken. Tt seems as if the return value from sessiongenerate is invalid...

I inspected the two cookies a bit further, and saw an interesting difference. The one from sessiongenerate has the following structure:
v1:u[some number]:s[some number]:[11 alphanumeric characters]//Thanks+for+signing+in+/+LiveJournal+loves+you+a+lot+/+Here+have+a+cookie
The one that I picked from Firefox (that does work) is like this:
v1:u[some number]:s[some number]:[11 alphanumeric characters]:[41 alphanumeric characters]//Thanks+for+signing+in+/+LiveJournal+loves+you+a+lot+/+Here+have+a+cookie

The ones I get back from sessiongenerate are consistent in their structure, and they miss the second string of alphanumeric characters that my working cookie does have. What is going on? Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Tags: *unanswered, client, client: authentication, client: fotobilder, client: sessions
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