New "nudge" feature on LJ

[triadruid]

For those of my friends who missed the announcement on this, you may want to read the new F.A.Q. on "nudge", which allows you to prod mutually friended journals if they haven't posted in a week. It just sends a "personalized" form email though, so I can't really see the point, but it apparently drives site traffic or something.

After implementing it last week, they've finally implemented a console-based way to opt-out of it.. see link.

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[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Arghhhhh!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to wager cold hard cash that the three emails starwyse got upon her return were probably from the new nudging system...

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Allow me to state up front (even though I've already disabled the function) that any so-called friend who attempts to "nudge" me will be bludgeoned mercilessly with a blunt instrument. I'm just saying.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Yep. And they still haven't fixed the memories feature so that's it's reliable....I'm always getting errors every time I try to use it. Bah.

Anyone else forced to change their password yet?

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

That's actually for a good reason. Turns about some hackers sneaked in through Firefox and copied a buttload of passwords. Check out this article:

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/01/account_hijacki.html

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Huh. Good to know, that.

Of course, that's not what they said to me when they forced me to change my password. They said that the old one was based on a commonly used password, not that it had already (or might have already been) hijacked via the cookie thing.

And I'm still not 100% convinced they've fixed the cookie loophole, so what's to prevent hackers from using it or other loopholes that livejournal does not yet know about, to get ahold of my new, supposedly safer password?

Maybe it's just that I've got a knee-jerk reaction against doing things when someone tells me only that I must, without giving me a convincing reason to do so.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I've been getting the reminder, but they've never forced me to do it. I resisted until I found out someone might actually have my password. Because what I write is so sensitive and profound, you know.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

*guffaw*

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I've been getting intermittent "Memories feature is currently down" errors too; reloading the page usually fixes it.

Dunno what's up with that, but I decided to join some of their development/feedback communities to keep abreast of this crap...