Hatena's Diary

The URLs for displaying user profiles on Hatena's online services, known as "My Hatena", have been changed.

Starting today, profiles will no longer be displayed on www.hatena.com and will appear on profile.hatena.com instead.

• Click here to see how your profile is displayed: Profile

Profiles were formerly accessed at URLs with the following format:

http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/

After this change, the URL to access user profiles will now be in the following format:

http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/

Users who access the old profile URL, will automatically be redirected to the new URL.

The following URLs related to user profiles have also been changed. The new URLs for various parts of user profiles on Hatena's online services are as follows:

Page	Former URL	New URL
Profile	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/
Antenna	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/antenna	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/antenna
Favorites	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/favorites	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/favorites
Fans	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/fans	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/fans
Friends	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/friends	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/friends
Edit	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/edit	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/edit
Settings	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/edit.config	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/edit.config
Recent Activity	http://www.hatena.com/HatenaID/activities	http://profile.hatena.com/HatenaID/activities

We look forward to your continued enjoyment of Hatena's online services.

Due to the upcoming closure of the Flipnote Hatena service, we will be performing system maintenance on May 31, 2013 (Friday) from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm (JST).

During this time Hatena's online services will still function, however since this is a major update, some services may be intermittently unstable while undergoing maintenance.

• Time zone convertor
  • Kyoto, Japan (JST): May 31, 2013 (Friday), from approximately 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
  • Los Angeles, USA (PDT): From approximately 7:00 pm on May 30, 2013 (Thursday) - 2:00 am on May 31, 2013 (Friday)
  • Chicago, USA (CDT): May 30, 2013 (Thursday), from approximately 9:00 pm - 4:00 am on May 31, 2013 (Friday)
  • New York, USA (EDT): May 30, 2013 (Thursday), from approximately 10:00 pm - 5:00 am on May 31, 2013 (Friday)
  • London, UK (BST): May 31, 2013 (Friday), from approximately 3:00 am - 10:00 am
  • Berlin, Germany (CEST): May 31, 2013 (Friday), from approximately 4:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Sydney, Australia (AEST): May 31, 2013 (Friday), from approximately 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Affected Services
  • The entire www.hatena.ne.jp domain
  • The entire www.hatena.com domain
  • * Sub-domains such as h.hatena.com and d.hatena.com and their respective services will not be affected
• Customer Impact
  • Use of the features of the affected domains may be slow or unstable.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this situation may cause, and thank you for allowing us this time to make our services more reliable for all of our users.

Details about the closing time of the Flipnote Hatena service

As previously announced, the Flipnote Hatena website will be closing on May 31, 2013 (Friday) at 11:59 pm JST. For more information please our official announcement the URL below:

• http://d.hatena.com/flipnotehatena/20130521/1369132285

As we previously announced, starting from 30 March, 2012 at 11:00 JST Hatena Color Stars removed from entries can no longer be reused.

For more information about the reason for this change please see our previous announcements at the URLs below:

http://d.hatena.com/flipnotehatena/20120316/133187945

We look forward to your continued enjoyment of Hatena's online services.