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I open my friends page on Liverjournal to find the first five entries are reposts of boring tweets!

My page layout seems to have changed in the last couple of weeks to one I don't like at all. Is there any way to get back, or is all LJ universally the same now?

It appears that I can't even post this message without linking my facebook account to LJ. (Ah, it tells me that 'watervole' already exists on LJ, well, yes, that's me. But it still won't allow me to post to my own journal...)

and it only seems to want to post to a community. I try post post and it tells me I am not a valid community, but it shows no way for me to post to my own journal (this is coming via crosspost from Dreamwidth)

What the Dickens is happening?

I usually post via crosspost from Dreamwidth, so I've no idea how long LJ has changed its posting system.

Maybe this post will appear - I've no idea...

It seems to have linked my Facebook account to LJ, as when I posted a comment in Vera's journal just now, it showed my real name rather than 'watervole'. I have mixed feelings about this. I don't mind my name being known, it's always been there on my profile page, but I would rather have clearer options.

But basically, how the devil do I make a post on Livejournal?

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this is a really stupid point, so apologies in advance if this isn't it, but sometimes... i have been really upset about the friends list change, and it's because some freak accident has caused me to be signed out of my LJ.

as myself i force the f-list to look the way i want it to look, and if i am just looking at 'aralias's f-list' then it looks like LJ wants it to look. so i wonder whether you have managed somehow to log out of LJ. this means you are looking at your logged out f-list page. now you've logged in as your facebook self, all your comments are comments from your facebook self.

You were right!

I had problems logging in a few weeks ago when it seemed to have forgotten my password and I used Facebook to log in.

I've now managed to log out of facebook and back in as watervole.

This post should come from Watervole.

hooray!

yes, it did.