They brought a lot of features back or made them opt-in, like comment headers and the default layout. They had several sales for paid accounts, sent out emails about the "changes" (read: changes back) they made, and they have a few new features like Most Visited Posts and other crap. The only time I still use LJ is for ohnotheydidnt which is pretty much the last bastion of English speaking comms on LJ, but about a year after we all dipped out they started changing the main site to appeal back to us. It didn't work and I think they stopped trying?

I don't think we'll ever go back, tho. For all that LJ did pander to their Russian user base, dreamwidth is willing to appeal to just the DWRP player base. We have free comment editing, zero ads, and idk if you have checked out the support posts or news posts, but we and our icon addictions are literally the lifeblood of this site and DW knows it. They also have amazing customer service. I like it here.