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So I'm sure most everyone heard about this right?

Honestly, because I was traveling, I missed most of the hoopla, but I saw Wil Wheaton post a link via Twitter, so I knew the shit was gonna hit the proverbial fan. So I opted to wait for official word. Since everyone was acting like it was brand-spanking-new official Amazon policy without any official announcements from Amazon itself.

Turns out it was a glitch caused by a coding error, and it affected more than just LGBT books.
They're working to fix it.
You know, based on the description, I can see one programmer making that sort of mistake. Its probably a pretty complex site on the backend. Shit happens.
Yeah so we can all take it down a notch now.

Automatic lj-cuts
One of the most common complaints we get is that even your best friends don't do you the courtesy of using the lj-cut on long entries. We consulted with a cutting-edge market research firm and concluded that no one really wants to read more than 140 characters about what their friends are doing. And with our new automatic lj-cut, you won't have to! From now on, all those wordy entries on your Friends Page will automatically be cut at the 140-character sweet spot.
Friends Page redesign project from

news

*sigh*
Bzzt. Bad timing LJ.
April Fool's Day isn't for another 4 hours yet over in the US, y'know?

I'd give them more slack, but their own post is timestamped as being posted at 7pm on March 31st. They could've at least artificially dated it to be on the 1st.