May 23, 2012 - The official LiveJournal Release 92 has been deployed. Here’s what you’ll find in this latest site update:

NEW

• Particularly long comment threads now collapse with the alert “...and [#] more comments.” Just click on that alert to see the rest of the comments. Here’s what this looks like:


• Notification emails now hide any content that was already placed inside an lj-cut instead of displaying the entire entry.


• Social Capital is now displayed for all communities on the profile page.


• You can now embed the Spotify player into your journal or community style.


• Personal userheads are now available for purchase. A personal userhead is of your own design and is unique to you, unavailable to anyone else. Purchase as many personal userheads as you like; each costs 5,000 LJ FunBux™, and is good for five years. Learn more.

BUGS, FIXED

• Scheduled entries should no longer return errors or double-post.


• Domain mapping should no longer force redirection to the LiveJournal login page.


• The format=light URL modifier works on entry pages again.


• Comment notification emails will send even if the entry has a poll.


• The "Music" section on the edit entries page will let you delete the entire text field.


• The help link next to “Do not add to friends pages and RSS” on the update page now links to the correct FAQ.


• The list of journals and communities added by default for new users has changed to news and lj_releases for non-Cyrillic users.


• Missing navigation items in the Classic journal style have re-appeared.


• Notifications about expiring add-ons will now have correct subject lines.


• The bold/italic/strikethrough buttons in the site default commenting scheme should no longer cause cursor positioning problems in Chrome.


• The Calendar feature will now update properly when you edit an entry and change its date.

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The launch date and time for Registration, Hotel, Dealers Den and the 2013 website is *June 1st at 3pm PST!*

Check this link for more information http://furcon.livejournal.com/695175.html

...and sorry you can not reserve the hotel rooms until this launch date and time (calling wont work either). The availability listing on this page http://www.furtherconfusion.org/fc2013/hotel will be updated as soon as it can. You just have to wait until the new themed site goes live!

-Over and Out Space Cadets

May 21, 2012: Three weeks ago we officially announced the plan to overhaul Scrapbook, LiveJournal’s exclusive photo-hosting feature for Plus, Paid and Perm accounts. Today we’re letting you know that the new Scrapbook will release this week; in anticipation, we want to give you a bit more information on some additional changes that have been made. The newest additions to the FAQ are under the cut; the original FAQ about the new Scrapbook is in the previous news post.

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This is a pretty big announcement for Further Confusion 2013: The Furbidden Planet!  On June 1st, 2012, we will be launching Hotel Registrations, Membership Pre-Registration, Dealer’s Room Applications, and our Themed Website.  Please take a moment to read through this announcement for the most important points and be sure to take a look at our updated and themed site when it launches on June 1st, 2012 for more specific and detailed information regarding each of these important announcements.

UPDATE: We will make a follow-up announcement with the exact time that all of this will go live at the begining of next week.

1. The updated and completely themed web site for Further Confusion 2013: The Furbidden Planet! will Launch on June 1, 2012

Our themed site will have much more information regarding all of these announcements when it launches on June 1, 2012.  We will, of course, make sure that we announce it the second it goes live via our Twitter, FaceBook, Google Plus, and FA accounts.

2. Membership Pre-Registration Will Open on June 1, 2012
The doors will fully open for pre-registration for Further Confusion 2013 on June 1, 2012.  We know that it has been a bit of a delay but we’ve been doing a lot of work on the back-end to make things move more smoothly for our attendees and our staff.

Pre-Registration fees for memberships at FC2013 will be:

Attending:  $45 until 6/30/2012, $50 until 12/31/2012
Sponsor:    $100 and above
Patron:       $200 and above
Supporting/Non-Attending:    $25

3. Hotel Registration will open on June 1, 2012
After a bit more of a delay than we would have liked we are pleased to announce that we will be open registration for Further Confusion’s hotels on June 1, 2012.  Our hotels for this year will be the San Jose Marriott and the San Jose Hilton.  Room rates will be as follows:

San Jose Marriott:
King/Double-Double - $128 per night
Junior Suite - $299 per night
Executive Suite - $349 per night

San Jose Hilton Pricing:
Standard King/Standard Double - $128 per night
Executive King/Executive Double - $128 per night
Hospitality Suite - $349 per night
Executive Suite - $349 per night

Note - As with Further Confusion 2012, guests will be billed at the con rate for one night (plus tax) for each room reserved immediately upon completion of your reservation. This will be considered a non-refundable deposit and will not be returned in the event of cancellation.

An Important Note Regarding The Hilton - The rumors are true, we are returning to the Hilton as one of our hotels for Further Confusion 2013.  We have spent a lot of time talking with the Hilton about your experiences with their service during Further Confusion 2012; we literally walked through every issue that was brought to our attention by our members during our discussions with them.  At times the conversation was difficult but we feel very positive about the outcome.  

Some of the key outcomes from these discussions that will benefit our fans are...

1. The General Manager the San Jose Hilton has issued an open letter to all members of Further Confusion who stayed with them in 2012 or may be staying with them for 2013.  This letter has been/will be sent to all hotel guests who registered email addresses with the Hilton at check-in.  For those who did not, you may find a copy of the letter at the following link - http://goo.gl/JFTlx
2. A member of FC staff and/or FLARE will be on-site at the Hilton at all times to quickly address any issues in the unlikely event that they occur.
3. Upon check-in, there will be no special requirements for FC attendees, such as extra policy forms to sign.  FC attendees will be treated as any other hotel guest, as it should be.
4. The staff of the San Jose Hilton will receive additional sensitivity training and information about us and our event to better help them understand and relate to our community.
5. Executive Level rooms rooms will be available at the regular con rate however Executive Level amenities, such as the Executive Lounge, will be closed to all guests staying at the Hilton regardless of whether or not they are staying under the convention’s room block.

We are confident that attendees staying at the San Jose Hilton for FC2013 will be treated with the utmost respect and have an enjoyable experience.

An Important Note Regarding Fursuit Floors For Further Confusion 2013 - We’ve thought this over long and hard but came to the conclusion that offering fursuit floors is not very workable any more.  With the volume of con goers donning costumes at our event, demand for rooms on fursuit floors has vastly outstripped supply.  After blowing through our inventory set aside on the lower floors we tried as best as possible to arrange excess requests onto as low a floor as possible but still ended putting fursuiters up on the highest floors.  There really are that that many of you at Further Confusion!  Simply put, it is no longer practical for us to offer fursuit floors at Further Confusion.

4. Dealer’s Room Applications Will Open on June 1, 2012
We will begin accepting applications for dealer’s room on June 1, 2012, via on-line application process which will be published on that date.  Backup contingencies have been put in place so regardless of what happens, we’ll be able to begin accepting dealer applications on June 1, 2012.

Dealer’s Room rates for FC2013:

Half-Table:            $100
Full-Table:            $150
Double-Table:        $350

These prices above include one (1) full membership to the convention.

Please note, there are a very limited number of double tables, they will be available by special request only. To request consideration for the purchase of a double table you will need to enter your interest in a second table using the words "I would like a second table" in the Special Requests field on the application form when it becomes available on June 1, 2012

Furry Marketplace - Space in the the Furry Marketplace will be available for $80.

5. Art show applications will open on July 1st as mentioned in our previous news letter
Art Show applications will become open on the 1st of July. Watch for the opening announcement on the FurCon website.

SmackJackal
Chairman
Further Confusion 2013: The Furbidden Planet!

Tags: fc2013, furbidden planet
Current Location: Space Station 4

Hello everybody, this is the first of several important announcements for Further Confusion 2013 that will be coming out over the next week or so.

Please mark your calendars for the Further Confusion Job Fair and Staff Meeting this coming June 16, 2012. It is our staff that makes this thing happen, so come...help us make this thing happen!

We have a number of open positions for Further Confusion's 15th year and we're looking for great people to give us a hand filling them. We have many exciting rolls in Events and Programming, Convention Operations, Gaming, Dealer's Room, Marketing, and A/V, many of which require only a small investment of your personal time before or at the convention itself. In exchange for your time as members of convention staff, you will receive a deeply discounted registration rate, a special staff only gift, and some other cool perks available only to members of Further Confusion's staff and volunteers such as access to food and beverage via the Staff Feed.

What: Further Confusion 2013 Job Fair and Staff Meeting
When: 1PM, June 16th, 2012
Where: San Jose Convention Center, Room K
( 150 West San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA 95113 )

As with our last several staff meetings I hope to see many familiar faces and as many new face there!

SmackJackal
Chairman
Further Confusion 2013: The Furbidden Planet!

Tags: fc2013
Current Location: Space Station 4
Current Mood: excited

We are glad to announce a new version of the LiveJournal client for the Android platform.

With the latest version of the application you can:

• read your friends page;
• manage your friends' list ;
• read comments and participate in discussons;
• read journals and communities.

With the next update, we plan to improve Facebook and Twitter integration, bring LiveJournal ratings to your device and more.
You can leave your feedback and suggestions in the comments to this post. For technical support issues, please contact the LiveJournal support team.

Tags: android, update