Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Friday, September 5th, 2008
news [ cj_news ]	4:10a	Budget getting tight As all of you from the United States know, things are getting mighty tough, even for those who were doing ok financially. Well, us owners aren't doing so hot financially. I know some of you are new so this will be the first time you read this. When we set up CommieJournal in the fall of 2007 (yes, we're almost a year old!) it was in direct response to the apparent censorship being displayed by Live Journal. Fandom was hit especially hard back then, and lots of fandom people said they'd be delighted to move if we put forth the effort to bring a LJ-clone site online. Well, we did, and there weren't very many people who made the move. Quite a few DID, however, find their way over here from GreatestJournal, which, as far as I know, is still closing down. A relative minority of folks here have paid and permanent accounts. If that doesn't change, we need to up donations. Even a dollar sent to our P.O. Box would help. With food and gas prices rising the way they have been, we, the owners, are pinched even tighter at home than we were when the server rent was $169 per month. Now, it's $89.95 per month, and even that is getting hard to come by. There are two things I'd like everyone to do: Please consider chipping in to keep CJ going, and Start telling your friends about CJ so they come over here and sign up. One of our biggest problems is a lack of advertising. In the meantime, we have no choice but to put advertising on the front page of this site. We don't want to have to run them on the pages of free accounts, but if things don't change pretty soon, we may be looking into that, as a way to keep the site up and running. I know we said we'd never do that when we started the site, but we have no gotten the response we expected to bringing it online and we don't want to desert those who DO have paying accounts. This is the reality, folks. Feel free to post suggestions if you have any. Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
Monday, September 1st, 2008
news [ cj_news ]	11:59p	A Few Important Changes The owners of CommieJournal have become the victims of stalking and harassment elsewhere on the Internet. Some of our staff has likewise had privacy issues. Because of these concerns, anonymous staff "identities" have been created, and will be used to answer support tickets, post to news , and other such official functions. In addition, I would like to address the subject of online harassment and stalking, and what protections you can expect from CommieJournal. It has recently come to our attention, on Live Journal, that their abuse staff refuse to pursue reports of harassment or stalking, unless personal identifying details are being used in the act. That means if someone is hiding behind the relative anonymity of their LJ username, they can pretty much say and do whatever they want, and LJ won't touch them. That is NOT how we will handle things here on CommieJournal. If someone is harassing you, and you have the links to prove it, submit a support ticket and include as much information as possible. Links to actual posts and comments are considered reliable evidence. Be aware, however, that each case will be evaluated independent of one another. If you feel your entire household is being targeted then indicate on your ticket that other members have filed tickets of their own. Including the ticket number(s) from your household member(s) is helpful. If things are serious enough, we may urge you to contact your local authorities. REMEMBER: DO NOT PUBLICIZE YOUR FULL NAME, ADDRESS, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER ON THE WEB. Doing so is very dangerous. We will not allow things to escalate to the point where you have a reason to fear for your safety. We will address it before personal information begins to be "outed". You have our guarantee on that. (Comment on this)
news [ magyar_saman ]	1:25p	We need staffers! Would you like to help CommieJournal grow and get better? Would you like a permanent account (who wouldn't)? Then consider becoming a CommieJournal Staffer! We need: Support/Abuse personnel Journal Layout creators Perl coders If you are interested, send an email to personnel at commiejournal dot com and tell us about yourself and why you feel you'd be qualified. Looking forward to working with you! Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
news [ magyar_saman ]	4:33a	In Case You're Having Troubles Just got this from the people hosting our server: Hi, Over the past 8 hours our servers have been experiencing package losses due to emergency maintanence work being carried out at the Savvis datacenter. Our server administrators are in constant touch with the datacenter staff and will keep you updated as soon as the servers connections come back to normal. Sorry for any inconvinience caused due to the packet losses. Regards, SmokyHosts Support Team ETA 3:03AM EDT: Hi, All the packet loss issues have been successfully solved. Regards, SmokyHosts Support Team (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
news [ magyar_saman ]	1:42p	DOG DAYS SALE! DOG DAYS SALE! From now through September 30, get a paid or permanent account at a special price! Paid, one year: $15.00 Paid, self-renewing: $12.95 Permanent: $40.00 Click here to get yours, before it's too late! Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)