Things from Russian LJ
Sunday, May 10th, 2009 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmianLooking at Russian LJ is pretty interesting. However, I can't speak Russian and am not v. up on current events and contemporary culture in Russia, so there is a lot I don't understand. For one thing, a lot of people don't subscribe to the Russian news comm (ru_news), and there are remarkably few comments there. 0_o Why is this so? Also, there is another comm (lj_ru_support) which seems to function as a combined PSA/maintenance/suggestions comm. The comm is moderated, but has 2000+ members who can post asking for help or suggesting things. Wow, if this was on English language LJ, that comm would be chaos.
This is a post talking about the bug where when you turn off images in Firefox, indentation in comment threading is lost. I have often wondered why this is so; I hope someone does submit a patch and fixes this.
Also, is this for real? Or is a satire/joke? If it is for real, it claims that the user asked SUP for permission to run his own advertising on his LJ, and SUP sent him an agreement to sign as part of their trial program.
This news article also claims that SUP will allow Cyrillic users to advertise in their LJs. SUP will be willing to work with external advertising agencies.
There are follow up articles here and here. The second article is difficult to read through the machine translation; however, it does have some interesting facts. On Russian LJ, the average user is a twenty-six year old male, for example.
Another article on Russian LJ, which I really don't understand, but which may be connected to the above events. It also seems that there is covert advertising going on in Russian LJ against LJ rules. (By which I gather that people are flouting LJ's rules and running ads in secret anyhow?)
This is a post talking about the bug where when you turn off images in Firefox, indentation in comment threading is lost. I have often wondered why this is so; I hope someone does submit a patch and fixes this.
Also, is this for real? Or is a satire/joke? If it is for real, it claims that the user asked SUP for permission to run his own advertising on his LJ, and SUP sent him an agreement to sign as part of their trial program.
This news article also claims that SUP will allow Cyrillic users to advertise in their LJs. SUP will be willing to work with external advertising agencies.
There are follow up articles here and here. The second article is difficult to read through the machine translation; however, it does have some interesting facts. On Russian LJ, the average user is a twenty-six year old male, for example.
Another article on Russian LJ, which I really don't understand, but which may be connected to the above events. It also seems that there is covert advertising going on in Russian LJ against LJ rules. (By which I gather that people are flouting LJ's rules and running ads in secret anyhow?)
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Date: 2009-05-10 06:22 am (UTC)Eeep; hope it doesn't explode too badly when the time comes for fixing it.
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Date: 2009-05-10 06:30 am (UTC)