
The gist is that ESN, the global Event Subscription/Notification system for LiveJournal that's been an idea for much of the site's life, has gone live in its initial form, enabling users to subscribe to notifications of new comments on a particular thread or post, and receive notifications of all kinds of things, such as when a user friends you, or when a user uploads a new userpic. The only problem with the timing of the public launch of this system was that it coincided with the launch of a similar system by "rival" networking site Facebook.
Going back to the

Now, it's not these users' job to know the history of the ESN idea and on-again, off-again implementation over the years, and that the public launch just happened to occur in the same week of another site's launch, but that doesn't excuse the numerous assumptions and so-called "predictions" made out of sheer ignorance. While not impossible, it's really quite tricky to see one site announce a feature, then within a week program, test and roll out a similar feature on a mass scale that's more robust and respects people's privacy.
In all honesty, it requires all of my willpower not to leave multiple "STFU" comments in
