LiveJournal servers moved to Russia

[darkoshi]

(info originally via someone else)

There's a flood of new Dreamwidth accounts being created:
https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/233944.html?thread=1301156056#cmt1301156056

Which is likely due to the LiveJournal servers having been moved from California to Russia during the last week:
https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/73907.html?thread=2581171#cmt2581171
https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/73907.html?thread=2577075&style=mine#cmt2577075

Meaning that Russian authorities now have much easier access to user data, and are blocking many accounts:
http://en.news-4-u.ru/within-days-after-moving-servers-lj-in-russia-ilv-blocked-almost-100-entries.html

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdolboeb.livejournal.com%2F3078638.html

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I've also had problems loading certain LJ pages, especially ones that use the default style. For example, the comments don't display, the drop-down list by my username at the top-right part of the page doesn't work, and on Profile pages, the Bio & Interest sections are blank. Oddly, this is only happening to me when logged in. When I log out, those same pages display ok. So I'm not sure if that is due to server issues or something else.

I am seriously considering no longer cross-posting protected entries to LJ. If you are currently only on my LJ Friends-list, and if you create a Dreamwidth account, let me know and I'll give it access.

By the way, if you use Firefox and want an add-on for translating selected text and/or full web pages (including Russian), I recommend this one - it works pretty good for me:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary-anywhere/