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Mar. 17th, 2013 05:13 pmAnyone else not able to see the subjects of their posts? Or is it just me? B/c I'm on my friend's page (old skool) and ya'll look fine to me.
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Dec. 20th, 2012 08:52 pmYa know, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lj_releases maybe if you didn't keep trying to force me to use the other version of LJ w/o asking me first, I could actually post from the site. Thank God for Semagic!
Where's a "Fail!" tag when you need one?
lj_releases maybe if you didn't keep trying to force me to use the other version of LJ w/o asking me first, I could actually post from the site. Thank God for Semagic!Where's a "Fail!" tag when you need one?
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Nov. 3rd, 2012 07:36 pmYuletide assignments have gone out, NaNoWriMo music swap assignments have gone out, my work week of insanity is OVER, my phone is unbricked (longish, traumatizing story), I am semi-flopped on my couch watching k-dramas and it looks like LJ won't be screwing us over with the crazy f-list redesign. Life is good!
The Great 2012 Migration?
Oct. 30th, 2012 10:52 amIf you haven't seen the new lj_releases notice, the new Friends Page (aka Feed) is in beta testing now. Even for someone currently using a white background/dark text layout, I find it annoying. (It also makes me realize that I'm un-fond of FB's infinite scrolling, but since I don't use it nearly as much as LJ, it's only sorta mattered before.) If you haven't seen the new page, I warn you everything is big and bright. And this with my screen brightness set fairly low.
Anywho, mayhap you'll feel differently than other people. I feel like every time LJ releases something all everyone does is complain (oh, btw, they brought back the blinkin' scissors, but fixed the you-can-only-collapse-from-the-top thing with lj-cuts) which makes me have want to stop and ponder whether we're all just have a herd mentality knee jerk reaction. But people have been raising very good points about accessibility for those of us with sensitive sight, who are headache prone (raises hand), etc. Plus, there's that pesky thing where they won't let you opt out of anything. I remember talking to a girl, a couple of years ago, who dj'ed on the weekends. She was married to MySpace even though it seemed like a no man's land of social activity. I asked her why not jump to Facebook, home of all things hep and happening. Her reasoning? MySpace was ideal for artists wanting to customize and control the look of their pages. Facebook was a bland, stark white that she couldn't customize.
It seems like LJ is trying to be that person.
Anywho...
EDIT: According to a recent Daily Dot article, LJ is declining: http://www.dailydot.com/culture/livejournal-decline-timeline/. I was going to post that to the lj-releases site, but I've been blocked from commenting further. I'm going to chalk it up to some unknown-by-me commenting limit and not become paranoid about them wanting to limit the voice of desention.
lj_releases notice, the new Friends Page (aka Feed) is in beta testing now. Even for someone currently using a white background/dark text layout, I find it annoying. (It also makes me realize that I'm un-fond of FB's infinite scrolling, but since I don't use it nearly as much as LJ, it's only sorta mattered before.) If you haven't seen the new page, I warn you everything is big and bright. And this with my screen brightness set fairly low.Anywho, mayhap you'll feel differently than other people. I feel like every time LJ releases something all everyone does is complain (oh, btw, they brought back the blinkin' scissors, but fixed the you-can-only-collapse-from-the-top thing with lj-cuts) which makes me have want to stop and ponder whether we're all just have a herd mentality knee jerk reaction. But people have been raising very good points about accessibility for those of us with sensitive sight, who are headache prone (raises hand), etc. Plus, there's that pesky thing where they won't let you opt out of anything. I remember talking to a girl, a couple of years ago, who dj'ed on the weekends. She was married to MySpace even though it seemed like a no man's land of social activity. I asked her why not jump to Facebook, home of all things hep and happening. Her reasoning? MySpace was ideal for artists wanting to customize and control the look of their pages. Facebook was a bland, stark white that she couldn't customize.
It seems like LJ is trying to be that person.
Anywho...
EDIT: According to a recent Daily Dot article, LJ is declining: http://www.dailydot.com/culture/livejournal-decline-timeline/. I was going to post that to the lj-releases site, but I've been blocked from commenting further. I'm going to chalk it up to some unknown-by-me commenting limit and not become paranoid about them wanting to limit the voice of desention.
No I have nothing productive to say
Oct. 28th, 2012 08:08 pm(what do you want from my life...I'm waiting out a storm)
The more I use the new lj-cuts for various things, the more I dislike them. Part of the reason people cut things is to save you from long rants, long stories, long lists, and heaps upon heaps of photos. I don't want that just unfurling in my f-list especially if I have to scroll back up to the top of the entry to close the thing. I dunno know about other ppl, but sometimes I skim my f-list to see what I've missed since my last visit, then go back to the top and read whatever caught my eye. If something's really interesting, I'll read it immediately. But now that that means opening up a (potentially) humungous post, I'm less inclined to go back and read the things that didn't grab my must-read-now instinct the first time around. And, as someone pointed out on thelj_releases, I'm less inclined to go exploring their journal for more interesting things. Yes, I could open the cut in another tab but why should I have to? I usually have 2-3 tabs open anyway. Plus, they're my tabs. Whether there's space for 3 or 50, I shouldn't be forced to open more than I want to. (I realize that no one's "forcing" me to do anything, but seeing that the former way of using lj-cuts is no longer available to me even though that's exactly the way I want to use them, I am being "forced" to use a work-around.)
So. There's my rant. I am now off to cross-post it on lj-releases with the hope that, like those stupid scissors, this is a change that will either go away or actually be improved. Fingers crossed.
The more I use the new lj-cuts for various things, the more I dislike them. Part of the reason people cut things is to save you from long rants, long stories, long lists, and heaps upon heaps of photos. I don't want that just unfurling in my f-list especially if I have to scroll back up to the top of the entry to close the thing. I dunno know about other ppl, but sometimes I skim my f-list to see what I've missed since my last visit, then go back to the top and read whatever caught my eye. If something's really interesting, I'll read it immediately. But now that that means opening up a (potentially) humungous post, I'm less inclined to go back and read the things that didn't grab my must-read-now instinct the first time around. And, as someone pointed out on the
lj_releases, I'm less inclined to go exploring their journal for more interesting things. Yes, I could open the cut in another tab but why should I have to? I usually have 2-3 tabs open anyway. Plus, they're my tabs. Whether there's space for 3 or 50, I shouldn't be forced to open more than I want to. (I realize that no one's "forcing" me to do anything, but seeing that the former way of using lj-cuts is no longer available to me even though that's exactly the way I want to use them, I am being "forced" to use a work-around.)So. There's my rant. I am now off to cross-post it on lj-releases with the hope that, like those stupid scissors, this is a change that will either go away or actually be improved. Fingers crossed.
"Ultimately, even though I think the company has some serious issues that they must address, I like Livejournal. I like the platform itself, most of my friends are on it, and I'm not at all morally opposed to getting rid of the chan. It's the method and Livejournal's piss-poor customer service, the fact that Livejournal staffers have been patronizing and rude to their customers, and a general sense of Livejournal not getting the big picture that has left me very irritated."
You can read the whole article here, but Cygnet has basically crystallized my feelings about the whole mess, even a short blurb about the less-than-stellar side (the *facepalm* side) of fandom everyone is ignoring in this time of fannish-solidarity.
You can read the whole article here, but Cygnet has basically crystallized my feelings about the whole mess, even a short blurb about the less-than-stellar side (the *facepalm* side) of fandom everyone is ignoring in this time of fannish-solidarity.
