DeadJournal Announcements

New Server Supported Mood Themes

2002-07-12T21:16:30Z

Moods

The following are new server-supported mood themes on DeadJournal.com

To change the icons in your journal, go to the modify
journal page and select your preferred icon set.

Negaduck9's
Lips

Aikaterina Moon
Sprites

Di's Ewanish

Chris Regard's
Dead Child

Situation Normal's
Faceless Hearts

The Jimmy's
Sock Monkeys

To keep updated on the status of
mood themes please join the community icons and add the community
to your friends list..

I will keep adding the new ones that
are in my inbox as much and as often as I can. If you do not see your icon/theme
up yet it is soon on its way. I am working on it. If you do not see it in the
near future it is because you either did not send a complete set as per what
your initial map specified, or it is violating someones copyright and we can
not put them up. I generally put them up when I get 5-6 new ones and do them
all at once because it is more efficient for me to do them all at one time.

*note* I just want to say what a good job everyone is doing. I only had 1 that
I could not map out. There were a few I had to tweak to make work but over all
everyone got it right and I was able to finish the maps for the servers.

dj_announce @ 2002-05-28T21:42:00

2002-05-29T04:43:43Z

**NOTICE! ** NOTICE! ** NOTICE! ** blah blah..

Upon completion of the California State Pharmacy Boards (ie: after July 1st) I shall:

1. Work with charity and eris to help rip out all of the english out of the webpages, in preperation of the code upgrade..

2. Install latest CVS LJ code onto our test server along with a copy of the database, and test, test, test. Then I shall test again!!

3. Upon working well, I might have to take DJ down for a few days to upgrade the code and the DB (all 10 gigs of it).. This might take a while, and i'm not 100% sure whats going to happen... Hence step #2..

4. Once the site is back up using new code (and I dont have to skip work to study, and have a real job) i'll judge buying a new DB server or a new webslave.. The new code is supposed to contain tons of speedups so we'll have to see..

5. Play it by ear.. I might have to turn on invite codes just to help curb the monsterous growth that we have been getting..

The reason for me not staying up with the code:

The old pre-cluster code required charity and I do retype all of the dynamic content ("welcome to dj, blah blah blah") every time the code was upgraded.. This was a major pain in the butt, so I only upgraded the code when some new groundbreaking thing came out.. Now Brad and the LJ crew (bless their hearts) have put all of the dynamic content into one file.. This means that I can upgrade the code without having to have charity and eris and I retype 30+ *.bml pages....

So, be a pal and post this in your own personal journal so the word gets out.. Im not abandoning DJ, and just because you dont see me posting in this doesnt mean that I have stopped working on DJ.. I'm just cramming for the state boards.. :) heh.. direct comments to corvus@vadept.com

Thanx everyone for your patience and understanding
-Frank

dj_announce @ 2002-04-29T15:40:00

2002-04-29T22:47:41Z

Moods
The following are 9 new server-supported mood themes on DeadJournal.com

To change the icons in your journal, go to the modify journal page and select your preferred icon set.

Negaduck9's Gawky Birds

EviLCory's Zomq

Damned Queens

Negaduck9's Cat Eyes

My Smiiles.com Smilies

To keep updated on the status of mood themes please join the community icons and add the community to your friends list..

I will keep adding the new ones that are in my inbox as much and as often as I can. If you do not see your icon/theme up yet it is soon on its way. I am working on it. If you do not see it in the near future it is because you either did not send a complete set as per what your initial map specified, or it is violating someones copyright and we can not put them up.

dj_announce @ 2002-02-13T21:09:00

2002-02-14T05:09:12Z

Happy Valentine's Day! Go here! http://consoleninja.net/vday/

dj_announce @ 2002-01-21T06:55:00

2002-01-21T14:59:30Z

The theme tinykao has been removed. If you were using them use another mood theme set. The person that originally mapped them out and gave LiveJournal and DeadJournal permission to use them did not own the copyright to these images. The owner of the copyright for those images contacted LiveJournal and they wanted them removed. So, I have removed them from DeadJournal as well as not to get in to any hassles with having their images up. This is why I make you all provide me with the statement that you own and created said images. This way the person that sends them in is responsible for any possible legal action for lifting copyright images. We operate on good faith and with your statement that you are the author/artist of your mood themes, you are ultimately responsible for any repercussions that might arise if you do not draw them yourself and/or have permission from the original author of those images. The author of those images has not contacted DeadJournal but LiveJournal has. I have taken it upon myself to remove them from our site as to respect the copyright holder of said images.

Please remember that nobody likes their images stolen, so do not just go out on the web and lift images. Please remember as well that if you send in a set of mood icons you are claiming them to be yours and if any legal action takes place you will be ultimately responsible. Some people take copyright very seriously and will sue you for every penny you have to your name.

This might be a good lesson to let you all know that if I find out that any of the images you have sent in for mood themes are ones that you did not draw or do not have permission to distribute, I will help the copyright owner by directing them to you that sent in the particular theme set.

If I have reasonable proof that you did not draw any images or that they are not royalty free I will NOT map them out and put them on the server. For me to do so would open us up to tons of legal hassles and would be a terrible waste of my time and resources. If your e-mail with the zip file of your theme you want put up does not contain a statement from you that you own the copyright or permissions to put them up on the server I will not map them out and put them on DeadJournal. I will also not put them up for people that do not have a validated account. So, if you are not validated you are out of luck as far as submitting any mood icons.

So, if anyone happens to know of or have proof that any themes that anyone has sent in or created belong to someone else, or that they are not royalty free please let me know so that I can remove them from the server.

Thank You,
Charity.

dj_announce @ 2002-01-14T12:47:00

2002-01-14T20:51:28Z

If you are having problems with a password prompt that comes up when viewing your journal, Please go to the following FAQ and read how to stop this from happening.

http://www.deadjournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=104

We have recently had a lot of e-mails and support tickets opened due to this. We are working on another solution. If you want to take care of the issue now and not have that pop up password prompt then please read the above FAQ to take care of the problem right away.

Do not put your username or password in to the password prompt. Just close it and read the FAQ on how to get rid of it.

Thank You
Charity

Important Reminder

2001-12-10T17:55:26Z

I thought this should go here as well. This post is per scsi on his DeadJournal in this post.

Be sure to cut and paste the following information in to your own journal and pass the word on that DJ will be down for a few days or so.

Here is the post to cut and paste:

Reminder that DJ will be taken down next week (starting probably 12/15/01) for code and machine upgrades.. Nothing will be lost.. Only bummer is that you wont be able to post to your journals..

New Server Supported Moods

2001-12-10T08:38:52Z

Moods
The following are 6 new server-supported moods on DeadJournal.com that I drew, uploaded and mapped to the server this weekend.

To change the icons in your journal, go to the modify journal page and select your preferred icon set.

To keep updated on the status of mood themes please join the community icons and add the community to your friends list..

New Moods on the server

2001-12-03T17:14:33Z

Moods
The following are 7 new server-supported moods on DeadJournal.com sent in by fire4ice that I uploaded and mapped to the server this weekend.

To change the icons in your journal, go to the modify journal page and select your preferred icon set.

fire4ice'ss blonde anime girl

fire4ices's blue anime girl

fire4ices's bright faces

fire4ices's deathkittens

fire4ices's eyes

fire4ices's goth anime girl

fire4ices's rainbow faces

To keep updated on the status of mood themes please join the community icons and add the community to your friends list..

dj_announce @ 2001-12-02T17:46:00

2001-12-03T01:50:42Z

I just mapped out the bml maps for 7 new mood themes that were sent in to me last night. They were sent to me in the correct way that I have posted on how to do it before. This allowed me to add the code I needed to each theme gif so that it could go up on the server in a timely manner. I also put them on the server and am now waiting for them to push before I can make them public. Once they push on the servers then there will be 7 new mood themes for all DJ users. So, keep tuned in for further developments on the mood theme front.

dj_announce @ 2001-09-23T13:09:00

2001-09-23T20:12:32Z

The devil icons are now public. You can go here to view them

for the benefit of those with flash photography

2001-08-28T02:49:04Z

if you have not already seen at /create.bml we're as of now not accepting any new accounts

what this means is anything look wise about the site is being pushed a tiny bit to the side while i(we) try to figure out how to generate revenue to keep us going.
we're not as bad off as livejournal, but then again we're actually working for $0.00 and we can't just beg for more members.

the advantage of being the red-headed step-child to livejournal is that hopefully we can learn from them and be able to anticipate problems before it slows us down to the point of only be able to access the site a couple times a week. which in this case meant turning off new accounts till we can figure out what the fuck we're going to do if we keep growing this fast

to let you know what we're tossing about right now:

the idea is to make our own version of free and paid, in which the only limitations the free accounts will have is 10 pictures instead of 15, and there will be banner ads, other than this the functionality of your account will not be limited. you will still have access to all the existing styles, to create your own styles, text messaging, etc.
be advised that this is NOT OFFICAL, the terms of this may change many times before/if it's actually implemented.
but our intent is to never make you feel like you HAVE to pay to use our service

but the bottom line is DeadJournal needs money, if you want to donate huge amounts of money that's damn cool with us, but that's not what i'm aiming at here
we'd really prefer to find a way to be self-sufficient because, frankly (excuse the pun scsi) begging for money SUCKS and we don't want to do it

what we're looking for is:
* viable banner add solution (no popups), that has a pretty good pay off, per view is preferred, clickthrough would be considered (a lot nicer to beg you to click on things than to send money)
* anything we can do or sell that will generate revenue OTHER than paid accounts things

and lastly, please post this everywhere, link to it, whathaveyou
it's been difficult to make sure all members are aware of what's going on

stuff

2001-08-27T02:59:03Z

discovered that /support is live
whoops

fixed the 'known issues' box to explain why the FAQ is all screwy
/support will be limited to only certain people answering it and the support deadunity anyone can respond

so i need knowledgeable volunteers to answer questions in the support FORUM

dj_announce @ 2001-07-07T15:34:00

2001-07-07T22:35:12Z

Im downing the server tonight (saturday) around midnight-1:00am to install the ram.. Be down for about 15 min or so..

dj_announce @ 2001-06-19T16:01:00

2001-06-19T23:02:51Z

Made some Skull icons really quick for Dead Journal. There will be better detailed sets in the future that will be more fitting with Dead Journal. I just mapped these out and made them public for anyone to use if you choose to. There are several others that are up to the challenge of making themes. I know we will all be looking forward to when these are available.

Static Skulls

Animated Skulls

If you want to use them you can go to the modify page and change to them.

More Moods

2001-06-17T02:06:04Z

Put up 4 more sets of mood icons today. I am still waiting for permissions from a few others to add their themes to the server. It has about reached the point that there will not be too many more themes that were on LJ to add here. Yeah, sure they keep adding more new themes to the open source but it is time that we start to build our own sets that go with the dead journal spirit. We need skulls, gargoyles, witches, bitches, etc..... I have a few themes I have already started that are not any of the above that I will finish and probably add them. Then it is time to get busy and start to draw some themes for pissed off people. Here is a breakdown of the themes I added today.

	Neko's Kao Kitties
	Opiummmm's Foxies
	Classic Smiles
	Nolegs

You may go to the modify page and change to any of them if you wish.

dj_announce @ 2001-06-15T12:34:00

2001-06-15T19:35:51Z

Over the past couple of days I have been mapping out and installing mood themes on to the server for public use. Yesterday I spent 12 hours glued in front of the computer and another 6 hours this morning. I have to build fresh maps for the moods that were on live journal so it takes a little time to do them. I am working as fast as time permits me to dedicate to having all of the mood themes working on the server. Here is a summery of the past 2 days with all the moods. I had to get permissions (out of courtesy) of some of the other authors of the art work. These new ones are in addition to the others I mapped out before we got the icons to show dynamically on the server. In the future if you would like to see updates on what is going on the server as they are worked on you may put icons on your friends list.

These are all the mood themes that Punquin created.

These are all from Moonsis

And finally some that I drew.

If you would like to use any of these icon sets you may modify your look here

dj_announce @ 2001-06-11T04:13:00

2001-06-11T11:14:21Z

created a simple page at /download to download the livejournal windows client and a patch

ahem

2001-06-11T10:25:04Z

as per suggestion
links to here, new_shit, support and suggestions added to the "support" section on main page

Fixed userimage problem

2001-06-03T21:24:17Z

Fixed it Fixed it!

Fucking apache.. I hate it.. It wasnt seeing the userpic perl proggie as a executable script.. BAH!

Oh well

Now i can work on other shiznit..

Update On Userpics

2001-06-03T21:01:13Z

I broke down and asked on lj_dev for help on that image uploading problem... Hopefully the'll be able to help me..

They also announced a new portal page for LJ as well, I dont think im going to update this server code until they make things generic for non-LJ sites (a lot of code has paths and stuff hardcoded in, which makes it really hard to update, plus if I update, i'll have to redo all the HTML tweaks that Ive done, ug!)

Of course if there are any security issues I'm going to update.. :)

Im waiting for the LJ people to say "YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT!"

heh..

DeadJournal Announcements

New Server Supported Mood Themes

dj_announce @ 2002-05-28T21:42:00

dj_announce @ 2002-04-29T15:40:00

dj_announce @ 2002-02-13T21:09:00

dj_announce @ 2002-01-21T06:55:00

dj_announce @ 2002-01-14T12:47:00

Important Reminder

New Server Supported Moods

New Moods on the server

dj_announce @ 2001-12-02T17:46:00

dj_announce @ 2001-09-23T13:09:00

for the benefit of those with flash photography

stuff

dj_announce @ 2001-07-07T15:34:00

dj_announce @ 2001-06-19T16:01:00

More Moods

dj_announce @ 2001-06-15T12:34:00

dj_announce @ 2001-06-11T04:13:00

*ahem*

Fixed userimage problem

Update On Userpics

ahem