I doubt it gets "fixed". I don't believe the owners think it's broken. Realistically, when the Russians bought LJ the owners repurposed it as a social media platform for Russia, like Facebook--evidently facebook isn't accessible there. The vast majority of lj users now are Russian, and if you check your homepage you'll see things like "top posts" and buying tokens to put your lj higher in weekly ratings. It is definitely a status social media platform--the poster who gets the most "votes" wins kind of thing. LJ's owners have very little interest or investment in keeping US, UK, Canadian, European, or AUS users, much less fandoms, happy. We're a tiny minority of their membership.

They've changed formats and presentation to accomodate the new purpose. I'm just grateful they haven't changed more about LJ itself and made it even less accessible and workable for fannish folk like me.