Editing LiveJournal (section)

==Notable LiveJournals and users==
[[Oh No They Didn't]], also known as ONTD, is the most popular<ref>[http://www.livejournalinc.com/aboutus.php "Livejournal Inc. – About Us"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207105305/http://livejournalinc.com/aboutus.php |date=2009-02-07 }}, retrieved on 2009-02-27.</ref> community on LiveJournal, with over 100,000 members.<ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/profile "ohnotheydidnt – Community Profile"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110222412/http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/profile |date=2009-01-10 }}, retrieved on 2009-02-27</ref><ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/32794378.html?thread=4477264650#t4477264650 "Exact number of comments"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122152111/https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/32794378.html?thread=4477264650#t4477264650 |date=2023-01-22 }}, retrieved on 2009-03-04.</ref> The community's primary interest is celebrity gossip, and most of its posts are taken and sourced from other gossip blogs. At the end of January 2009, ''Oh No They Didn't!'' was the first LiveJournal to surpass 16,777,216 comments (2<sup>24</sup>), effectively breaking LiveJournal's previously undocumented limit on comments.<ref>Livejournal responds: [http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/122809.html "Minor database maintenance – ONTD!!!1"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201072438/http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/122809.html |date=2009-02-01 }}, 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-02-27.</ref><ref>Continually updated ONTD post detailing the issue: [http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/31879100.html "It appears that ONTD has reached an undocumented limit – journals can only have approximately 16.7 million total comments made to them before running out of room in the database to store more comments."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201214122/http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/31879100.html |date=2009-02-01 }}, 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-02-27.</ref> This resulted in almost a week of downtime for the community, while LiveJournal worked to fix the issue.

In April 2010, the Oh No They Didn't community was moved to its own database cluster to improve site performance for all users, due to its size and the amount of traffic it was receiving.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/128204.html |title=Website Performance – UPDATE |publisher=Community.livejournal.com |access-date=2010-08-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412063338/http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/128204.html |archive-date=2010-04-12 }}</ref>