Birthdays

[pegkerr]

Got a heads up on this from cheshyre:

Good news: With so many people adding years to their birthdays to bump up LJ's statistics, LJ has now added an option to display only month and day of your birthday without the year (even if you have entered the year).

Bad news: In so doing, they changed everyone's preferences to not display the birthday at all, even if you previously chose to display it.

Go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/profile/ to set the option the way you want it.

Edited to add: (Someone commented on cheshyre's journal: Thanks for the heads-up. Moreover, I noticed that they introduced a bug: If you enter only the month and day, and tell it to only display the month and day, it will only display the day (with a hyphen before it). If you enter the year, it will display correctly.)

Comments

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Peg!

Of course, when I tried the "Month and Day Only" option, it displayed my birthday as being:

-15

I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it's interesting...

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Someone commentd on cheshyre's journal: Thanks for the heads-up. Moreover, I noticed that they introduced a bug: If you enter only the month and day, and tell it to only display the month and day, it will only display the day (with a hyphen before it). If you enter the year, it will display correctly.

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I kind of like the idea of being born on -15.

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

Unrelated, but I thought you'd be interested in millerandcouch

[legomymalfoy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're looking into what made it not display. It wasn't intended, AFAIK!

[legomymalfoy.livejournal.com]

Actually, just got word that they are working on the first part (not displaying) but that the issue in your edit has been fixed! :)

[mereilin.livejournal.com]

I updated my preferences and every birthday on my friendslist disappeared. Before that it was fine.