In this community, LiveJournal staff will post polls, surveys, and questions, in order to get feedback from LJ users. Feel free to comment on entries here to let us know what you're thinking! If you have questions about how to use LiveJournal, or if you'd like to report a problem, please open a support request instead.

Based on the response we received to our release notes to lj_releases, we have removed the recent change which displayed the country & city information of commenters when IP logging is enabled. We want to note, however, that comment IP logging has been a feature on LiveJournal for a very long time, and that the city & country information has always been publicly available to anyone who has your IP address.

However, based on the concerns over privacy this issue has raised, we are reconsidering our stance on having an IP logging feature on our site, and wanted to get your opinions about this before making any further changes. Please note that while we are including a poll, well thought out comments which explain why you feel this feature should or should not be available will be given a great deal of consideration in any decision we make about this feature.

Poll #1751024 IP logging
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 1776

Should LiveJournal allow comment IP logging?

We're currently evaluating our Help Center and FAQs. We hope you'll take a few minutes to tell us about your experiencing using the FAQs. Your feedback will help us determine what changes are necessary to improve support on LiveJournal.

Poll #1611011 Help Center/FAQs
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 707

Have you ever viewed LiveJournal's FAQs?

If yes, what information were you looking for?

Were you able to find what you were looking for?

Were the FAQs you viewed helpful?

What did you find most helpful about the FAQs you viewed? Feel free to use a specific FAQ as an example.

What did you find least helpful about the FAQs you viewed? Feel free to use a specific FAQ as an example.

What do you like most about the FAQ system overall?

What do you like the least about the FAQ system overall?

What feature or features would you most like to see in LiveJournal's FAQ system?

What feature or features should be changed in the FAQ system?

If you'd like, give one example (or more) of a website whose FAQ or other self-help systems you find very useful and easy to navigate.

On a scale of one to ten, with one being the lowest and ten being the highest, how would you rate our FAQ system?

What was your main reason for giving the rating you gave?

Thank you for your input!

As you probably noticed, we recently redesigned the LiveJournal global navigation menu to improve site useability, based on input we received from both new and experienced users. Our goal is to make LiveJournal features and products as intuitive and easy-to-use as possible. At this juncture, we'd like to get your detailed suggestions on what you like and what you think we can do better. This will help guide additional modifications and enhancements. Please try to be as specific as possible, since we want to aggregate common issues. We thank you, in advance, for helping us improve the LiveJournal experience for all of our users.

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.