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Bleach / Katekyo Hitman Reborn! / Prince of Tennis / Sailor Moon / Misc (Digimon, Final Fantasy, Shin Angyo Onshi)




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It's been a momentous 12 months here at LiveJournal. We crossed a capital T at Ten years young. And, like most precocious pubescents, we celebrated turning double digits by publishing our first book! Needless to say, we've experienced some major changes, both inside and out. Before we recap, we'd like to thank you for bearing with us as we've struggled through ungainly growth spurts, identity pangs, and, yes, the occasional blemish. We hope you'll continue to stand by us: We're gaining wisdom with maturity.

Stuff you liked

• Back in February, we placed a call for entries for our ten-year anniversary anthology in lj_turns10. In December (less than a year later!), we officially announced the publication of Live Journal: The First Decade. Featuring an inspired collection of writing, photographs, and artwork from the pages of LiveJournal history, the book has been selected by Blurb.com as a top staff pick! We are proud to have played host to so much talent over the years, and we thank our contributors for sharing their extraordinary work.
• We all love quirky surprises, but not when it comes to managing our account settings. This year we streamlined settings into one central account management area. No more pouring through FAQs to figure out how to control privacy settings, modify notifications, adjust mobile settings, or update contact information!
• Being users ourselves, we realize our own mothers couldn't find us on LiveJournal based on our usernames and userpics alone (*heaves heavy sigh of relief*). But since there are times when we actually want to be found, we created a search tool--Find Your Friends--to help locate people by email address (it's in the Friends drop-down menu).
• Spam counter-attack: The war against vicious malware and spambots reigns eternal, but we've been making serious inroads to ensure your online security. We've established new protocols, such as requiring email address validations. We've grown more savvy about ferreting out suspicious behavior. We've added features, like whitelisting, to help you protect your communities. Our valiant (i.e., overworked) spam avengers (a/k/a the LiveJournal ops team) are standing on red alert so you can sleep safely at night.
• After an intensive beta, we launched My Guests at the end of the year, which lets you see who's been hanging around your journal. A number of you have even discovered secret admirers (not all of whom are creepy)!
• Last, but by no means least, we want to thank our volunteers for providing invaluable support and feedback. Their Herculean efforts enable us to answer your questions more efficiently, identify spammers, reduce abuse, and deliver better features (through tireless testing). On behalf of the staff and the larger LiveJournal community, we are truly grateful for their diligence, intelligence, loyalty, and passion.

You got your fix

• We recently debugged a number of the oustanding issues with the rich text editor so your entries look great regardless of whether you know html. You can read more about text editors here.
• In response to user demand, we brought back international voice posting. For more info on voice posting, read here.
• At long last, we revived TxtLJ with Verizon. For more info on TxtLJ, check out the FAQ.

Paid features you enjoyed

• In December, we introduced My Stats, which provides detailed data on who's been viewing your entries as well as statistics on commenting, RSS requests, friending history, and more. Despite a few early glitches, the response has been extremely favorable.
• This year, we launched and improved Notes (i.e., the feature formerly known as Alias), which lets you add private comments on friends and commenters (it's in the Profile drop-down menu). This way you won't be caught red-faced when you strain to remember details about that wonderful LiveJournal friend who sent you a birthday vGift. For more info, read the FAQ.
• When we first announced View friends pages by date, we thought it would be a quiet, minor enhancement. The rave reaction floored us, which made us all very happy. We gave it a fine tuning in February of 2009, so it's even better!
• How embarrassing! It appears pingbacks have gone back to the shop for service. We’ll keep you posted. We didn't know just much you liked pingbacks until it went in for service. It's back and, judging by your irritation when it wasn't available, this is good news. FYI, pingbacks send instant notifications (via screened comments) whenever someone links to one of your entries on LiveJournal. For more info, read this entry in paidmembers or check out the FAQ.

Mixed reviews

• The search is still on. Some of you have reported getting more comprehensive results for keyword searches using the new Yandex search engine and like the ability to search within content categories (like entries or comments). Others have not been satisfied with the relevancy of search results. Please be patient. We're still tweaking this product.
• This past December, we wanted to try out a new holiday promotion. Given the crap economy, we decided to offer our Paid/Permanent users a stack of $10 coupons to send to Basic/Plus users for paid account upgrades. We hoped you would like it. And some of you did, but many were disappointed that we didn't offer Give More as well. We want to thank you so much for letting us know. Your input will help us plan better in the future. Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users can continue to send out coupons through January 15th. Coupons can be redeemed through January 31, 2010.
• We were pretty excited about Your Journal Your Money, which allows Paid/Permanent users to earn extra cash by displaying Google ads to Basic/Plus and logged out users. A number of you tried it. Some of you really like it. Others, not so much. (Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users who do not participate in this program will not view ads on journals. Participants will see ads on their own journal, but won't see them on other journals unless they specifically opt in.) For additional details, visit here.
• We relaunched m.livejournal.com, our mobile app. While it offers a nicer UI and enhanced functionality, some of you think we can do better on load times. Like most of us, it's a work in progress. You can customize your mobile settings here. For more info, please read the FAQ.

Missing Inaction

• We shudder to bring up the neon purple elephant squatting on our heads, but, yes, we didn't give you those a la carte userpics. We've been making radical improvements to our backend in order to support them. But no excuses. We know you want them. We cringe every time you mention them. We're sorry we dropped the ball on this, and we promise to do our best to get them to you in 2010.

Stumbling points

• Back in early August, we experienced outages related to a series of DDoS attacks. We are proud to report that we were down a total of one hour over the course of a few days. We thank our heroic ops guys for getting us up sooner and more consistently than any of our less fortunate social networking friends. We apologize for leaving you temporarily stranded.
• A couple of months back, we offered a free, unrestricted vGift, which induced a snowflake cookie avalanche. This resulted in backed up/delayed notifications, which, in turn, led us to reboot systems, rendering scrapbooks unavailable. It took a while to shovel free. Apologies for the inconvenience. We learned a valuable lesson that should keep us calamity-free in the future (fingers crossed while knocking on wood).
• That darn Best Buy ad. First off, we're sorry about the audio auto-play (we got it turned off as quickly as possible). While it's true that we'll continue to show this type of ad to accounts that normally see them (never to Paid/Permanent accounts), we'll make sure the sound defaults to off moving forward. We promise to do our very best to keep ads to a minimum on LiveJournal, while keeping a roof over Frank's head.

Full steam ahead!

As we plunge headfirst into the next decade, we want to take a moment to look back and thank all of our employees, both past and present, who have worked so hard to create our unique and magical universe. We couldn't have made it this far without you: Your contributions brighten our path everyday. We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you. Whether you've been around for ten days or ten years, your humor, intelligence, talent, and creativity are what makes this the most vibrant global community on the Internet (the best place on the Web, in our humble opinion). Here's hoping that 2010 will be the greatest year yet! We thank you for joining us as we embark upon another glorious decade of LiveJournal history!

This week's theme is called Red. Basically you can doing anything you think is right with this. You could have tifa wearing something red, you could write in red, the background could be red. Go wild! As long as Tifa is the main focus and there is something red to do with red on your icon, your all good.

I have a habit of disappearing right around voting time, don't I? haha I hope everyone had a lovely break! I just started my final quarter of school *A*

Also, for new theme... sometime between now and Friday? If not up by Friday I'll get it, but she was probably just waiting on me 8D and soon we can return you to your normally scheduled Friday themes

Votes will be weighted (3 points for 1st, 2 points for 2nd, 1 point for 3rd).
Pleas also vote for one icon for each of the special categories: Best use of space, best show of emotion, and Best fit lyrics

Alternatively, here is a pre-made template you can use:
First: #00 Second: #00 Third: #00 Best Use of Space: #00 Best Show of Emotion: #00 Best Fit lyrics: #00

Remember, anyone can vote, even if you didn't submit an icon! Don't vote for yourself and don't get others to vote for you >O Also! Only vote for an icon once!! Don't vote for one for special category if you voted for it for regular placing!!

Voting Ends: Saturday, January 9th

( I put their wings into my mouth )

Like I said, we'll see when the new theme goes up. Sometime between now and Friday. See you all again on Friday, January 9th.

If you were in your room and you had a card you drew or paper's of your favorite digimon and you wrote down your perfect digimon with strength and everything the way you would want one and one night while your sleeping you wake up to a loud noise and there's a portal in your closet and your perfect digimon was standing at the doorway and he or she asked if you would go to the digital world with them. But if you did you could never come back and never see your family or anyone ever again. Would you o_O ??? and you would have your own place but the risk of you and your digimon always being attacked would be high.

We currently have 4 pretty icons for the week. As always, we'd love to see more. If you haven't already, please go submit before the deadline on Friday!

Submissions Post

I'm sorry, but I didn't have time to post up the tiebreaker yesterday. |D

There's a tie for third and for best crop.

VOTE FOR ONE FAVORITE ICON:

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VOTE ONE FOR BEST CROP:

001	002

Rules:
- Voting will end whenever an icon has 3 votes.

With The Will have put up scans of the Digimon History: 1999-2006 All The Best CD that came out on the 1st Jan 2010. As direct linking isn't allowed they can be found here

lols at Taichi's face

Sorry these are so late; my internet went out this weekend and I just got it back tonight. Argh! There are loads of ties but it's too late to worry about breaking them.

( winners )

Congrats and thanks for the votes on mine! margerydaw_s2 is the banner maker for this week. Let me know if you need help with this massive number of banners!

No one has submitted an icon this week. Submit here.

21 Icons In All

[21] Kingdom Hearts

Teasers:


Here @ xsugar_guitarx!

Would you like to travel with your digimon and transform them with your digivice and stand on the sidelines or would you like to use your digivice and be one with your digimon and use all their powers? But you have to think about the consequences to you feel what they feel lol

Hey. I'm giving you a really depressing song for some reason.

+You must use the song I provide and nothing else
+You must have three consecutive words, and they must be legible
+You may enter up to two icons
+Icons must adhere to LJ's rules! Under 40kb and no more than 100x100 pixels
+Don't post your icon anywhere else or the clowns will eat you.
+This contest will end Monday, January 11th @ 10:00 PST.

( 13 Horses )

[ Listen to the song! ]

+ KH2.CO.UK -- only one of THE best out there.
+ KH Gallery at Anime Paperse. I think you need to have an account to view them? I'm not sure, I don't remember... but you can't download the uber high-res unless you have lots of 'papers', but the smaller ones are pretty good
+ KH Gallery at Aethereality
Also, if you want screen caps, go to places like cap_it or KH VIDS and cap it for yourself :O it's always good to have caps also~
+ Shatter Heart

Icons are due by Monday, January 11th~

Hey. I'll be putting up results later tonight so any last-minute votes need to go here~ I am sorry for the delay, but I've been caught up in New Year stuff and now starting my last quarter. So, as I go read some Yeates, you go vote!

Results for Week 126!

( Nothing ever ventured, then there'll be no gain at all )

Winners, please head to custom_banners for all your banner needs. Thanks to everyone who participated. ♥

Hey everybody, just a quick reminder to vote for Week 57- Faceless if you haven't done so yet :)) The voting post is over here. Voting ends Tuesday, January 5th @ 5PM EST (tomorrow).