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[stakebait]

I haven't been around LJ much lately, but even I do not live sufficiently under a rock to have missed strikethrough boldout Whatever '07, wherein Livejournal decided to pre-apply the Miller obscenity test. Except where it decided to do something else.

I finally got the LJ PDF tool to work tonight, but my backups are still a work in progress, so I am going to defer my full comments a little while longer. Should I be deleted, you can find me at the as-yet-unpopulated journals stakebait at journalfen.net and insanejournal.com.

Comments

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

I hate to sound INCREDIBLY ignorant, but... What is the bolding people are talking about?

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

You don't sound ignorant at all!

I'm told that LJ has recently discontinued the use of strikethrough to indicate these involuntarily deleted journals and replaced it with a non-linked bold. It is not clear to me whether that is to distinguish them from voluntarily deleted journals, or to distinguish suspended from permanently deleted, or whether LJ has replaced strikethrough with bold as a signifier of all defunct usernames. (This probably has been explained somewhere in the official posts, but it wasn't the part that concerned me so I didn't check.)

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

That strikes me as... right on par with some of their other decisions.