I've enabled the great TypePad Connect on this blog, it improves commenting a bit, notably by enabling threaded comments. You shouldn't be presented the CAPTCHA that often anymore too.
Some have been wondering if LJ datacenter move is related to the outage. I still investigate this, but I don't believe it does. So don't trust the word on the street saying you should change the ATOM endpoint. Atom stream and Atom endpoint are two different things (and the terminology is confusing, I know).
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