LJ, Y U NO FIX CODE?

[lizbee]

Just as a heads up, LJ's new code push included some truly impressive bugs, the most notable being that people are finding themselves logged in to other people's accounts.  With complete access to locked and private entries, comments, everything.

At this stage it has been a known issue for almost a day (I think -- timezones are hard!) and has yet to be fixed, or even addressed publicly by LJ.

I try not to over-react to LJ fails, but that's ... kind of epic.  Even if it's a rare problem, it's still ... epic.  Would it be silly to delete one's journal until the problem is fixed?  I knew a few people who have done so, and I have to admit that I'm leaning that way.

Comments

[yukinoomoni]

Aaaaah! That's terrible! I'll keep an eye on that. I hope no one logs into mine and messes things up =/

As for deleting your journal, I would do this if I weren't afraid that the glitches might end up permanently deleting said journal. Even if it were a mistake on their behalf, I would still worry that they wouldn't be able to reverse it. I think the risk of hacking is better than the risk of losing it all. Or at least, until an import actually works for once =3

[umadoshi]

I haven't deleted my LJ accounts yet because I'm not sure it'll do any good. :/ I mean, don't you have to log back in to UNdelete them? So if someone accidentally gets access to your account, couldn't they do the same if they wanted to (for whatever reason)? But I'm not actually sure, never having deleted an account there.

[brewsternorth]

oursin proposed to delete their LJ pro tem until this was fixed, but someone in comments pointed out that unless the account is purged someone else could theoretically get in, since the journal won't be completely inactive.

I suggest checking login sessions for IPs that aren't yours, for a start.

24 hours without mentioning that, oh yeah, the new release has a few issues, is definitely not cool. (Wonder if this has cropped up on the Russian side? I haven't seen comments in Russian at lj-releases but I can't imagine they're not wondering what's going on too. Have SUP been more on the ball about notifying their Russian userbase?)

[lemposoi]

I'm not bothering deleting my LJ mirror, if only because it does seem to be a rare thing. I'm wondering why they don't just revert to the older code until they've fixed the problem.