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moerlin at As of tomorrow, no more subject lines in comments on LJ
In case you didn't know, on 12/12 they first announced sneakily on the Russian journal of LJ's design guy that with new changes being implemented tomorrow, there will be no more subject lines in comments and that this change was "non-negotiable" (good round-up and translation here). I'm sure you all realize that this will basically make fandom and RP communities unusable. LJ's staff, however, doesn't give a shit. At least 18 pages of 100% negative feedback didn't sway them.
They've backpedaled some and will make keeping comment subject lines optional in some S2 styles, but the default (that 99% of communities are running right now) will decidedly be subject-less! Not to mention that their new and frankly, fucking ugly design will take forever to load and make the site a pain to use on mobile browsers.
And oh, it looks like they might be taking away the drop-down menu to select icons as well, so you'll have to load all your icons as pictures to select them. Lovely. (I will beta-test tonight to see if this is actually true.)
Really, I don't know why I'm surprised. LJ is always fucking with the parts of the site that actually work and breaking them, so this is just another instance of that. Because seriously, who are subject lines hurting by just being there? (And no, it can't be a matter of server strain, considering the new "graphic" interface will definitely be using up more resources - so much fun when there's DDoS attacks!)
As far as I know, they've never once listened to their customers, so those thousands of comments already posted probably won't do shit. I've left a message expressing my concerns about the new comment pages here anyway; so if you want to do that too, go for it! If anything, it helps with the rage. ;)
FYI: Dreamwidthis feeling Christmasy has reacted to LJ's bullshit and has open account creation (no invite codes needed) for the rest of the week. Might be a good idea to get your back-up or new home, whatever the case may be, up and running now.
~I guess this will be what finally causes the mass exodus of fandom from LJ and they can become just a Russian political site. As such I have finally created a crazed_delusion Dreamwidth feel free to add me http://crazed-delusion.dreamwidth.org/profile
moerlin at As of tomorrow, no more subject lines in comments on LJIn case you didn't know, on 12/12 they first announced sneakily on the Russian journal of LJ's design guy that with new changes being implemented tomorrow, there will be no more subject lines in comments and that this change was "non-negotiable" (good round-up and translation here). I'm sure you all realize that this will basically make fandom and RP communities unusable. LJ's staff, however, doesn't give a shit. At least 18 pages of 100% negative feedback didn't sway them.
They've backpedaled some and will make keeping comment subject lines optional in some S2 styles, but the default (that 99% of communities are running right now) will decidedly be subject-less! Not to mention that their new and frankly, fucking ugly design will take forever to load and make the site a pain to use on mobile browsers.
And oh, it looks like they might be taking away the drop-down menu to select icons as well, so you'll have to load all your icons as pictures to select them. Lovely. (I will beta-test tonight to see if this is actually true.)
Really, I don't know why I'm surprised. LJ is always fucking with the parts of the site that actually work and breaking them, so this is just another instance of that. Because seriously, who are subject lines hurting by just being there? (And no, it can't be a matter of server strain, considering the new "graphic" interface will definitely be using up more resources - so much fun when there's DDoS attacks!)
As far as I know, they've never once listened to their customers, so those thousands of comments already posted probably won't do shit. I've left a message expressing my concerns about the new comment pages here anyway; so if you want to do that too, go for it! If anything, it helps with the rage. ;)
FYI: Dreamwidth
~I guess this will be what finally causes the mass exodus of fandom from LJ and they can become just a Russian political site. As such I have finally created a crazed_delusion Dreamwidth feel free to add me http://crazed-delusion.dreamwidth.org/profile
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-21 08:52 am (UTC)How did you transfer all your LJ stuff over here? I would love to do that too
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Date: 2011-12-21 08:57 am (UTC)You long into your lj and then check which things you want to import. I did everything and it took about 45 minutes to do it, though it was during peak hours so it might go faster. But it's automatic and you don't even have to stay on the page so it doesn't really get in the way of anything.
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Date: 2011-12-21 09:40 am (UTC)I never like it when any site makes changes or disregards what their users want, and their users do NOT want this.
So yes, now I have a nice DW and now a passable layout on it lol
I don't love how DW works, but LJ is really starting to bother me with how they are doing buisness.