LiveJournal

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I love lj. I’ve had a journal since high school and I’m 29. But this app is a joke. I really miss how they used to have a passcode you could put on it so that if someone found your phone they at least wouldn’t be able to read your journal. Well, now you can just get right into it. Also, this app lacks a lot of things that the website allows like changing journal styles, uploading icons, searching for other journals. It’s way too basic. Today when I went to update my journal, the page wouldn’t scroll and my keyboard was covering my text where I was typing. I couldn’t scroll down far enough because it wouldn’t let me and even if I keep typing it still stays below the keyboard. Now I have to write my entries in Apple notes and paste it to my journal. Come onnnn lj!!! You’re better than this!!!

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I had the same experience as the commentator before. I’ve been using LJ since middle school and I’d love to continue and keep everything together, but the user interface is abysmal. The app is bare bones with features. All you can do is post a short entry and then the text won’t scroll so you’re typing blind- so that’s actually useless unless you paste it from a text app. You can’t change or upload icons or even look at old friends journals. It’s clunky and difficult to access your archive. It’s sad for me to think that so many of my memories are just stuck in this mostly defunct site. I can only hope someone makes a better client for LJ, because the official one doesn’t seem to be doing anything.

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I’ve been using my LiveJournal account since 2006. As said in another review, I can't even use this app, because when writing in the text box for posting an entry, the spot where I’m writing the text is way up off my screen. I can't see what I’m typing. I can't scroll to see what I typed. If the composition feature is barely navigable, than that means this app fails at its most basic component. It’s much easier to just use LiveJournal on a browser than this app, so why bother? Whoever designed or approved this app should be ashamed. A fully-functional composition feature is an absolute must, and a passcode protecting one’s journal and more robust community features are also necessary.

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LJ's app has always been basic. Simple. Yeah, it's wasn't the best of the best, but at least I could use the official app to check my favorite comms without being bombarded by weird third-party advertisements. Until now. The last redeemable quality of the app has just been flushed down a toilet. I'm not surprised by the origin of the ads. Yeah. They're Russian. Don't care about that. What I care about is that I've been using this app since the iPhone 4S and I don't *ever* recall there being ads of any kind. Inline or pop-up. This is the first time I've seen them and I promise it'll be the last.

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I didn’t care about the bad reviews the app had because I just needed this to make simple posts. omg, it manages to screw that up. While writing, text will disappear. I don’t mean it goes missing (although this did just happen to me; I lost so much). I mean you can’t see it. Your screen is blank. But if you touch the screen properly you may get to see your text again. Maybe not. At a certain point it also refuses to scroll. If you write more than a paragraph you’re both unable to view it and unable to scroll. Nearly worthless.