Worst LJ Changes EVER!
Release 88.
Honestly, I can't believe LJ: a. thought these changes were a good idea, and b. made the changes despite the fact that when the details leaked, people told them in droves that they didn't want them.
Honestly, I'm not so bothered about the design. In fact, I kinda like it. However, there are a few things I don't...
1. Removing the comment subject...I rely on this in the running of my graphics community and my offers on other comms, as do many other designers. It is important in anonymous memes - I dread to even look at mlbanonmeme right now. And most importantly - it is an important tool for people to warn for triggering content in comments. I don't even know what possessed them to remove such an important organisation tool. Which brings me to...
2. Removal of the 'Parent' and 'Thread' links. Just...way to make reading collapsed comment content harder to read. Because this disabled person who has bad days with their hands really needed to have to click on each comment separately to read them.
3. The new userpics browser. Great idea in concept but I'm guessing no-one at LJ bothered to consider when forcing this on all users that this requires all the userpics to be loaded and not everyone has access to high speed Internet, meaning for some users, the load time will mean more time waiting for content to load and less time contributing to the diverse LJ community. Also, it would be nice if they were in alphabetical order by tag.
Honestly, I can't believe LJ: a. thought these changes were a good idea, and b. made the changes despite the fact that when the details leaked, people told them in droves that they didn't want them.
Honestly, I'm not so bothered about the design. In fact, I kinda like it. However, there are a few things I don't...
1. Removing the comment subject...I rely on this in the running of my graphics community and my offers on other comms, as do many other designers. It is important in anonymous memes - I dread to even look at mlbanonmeme right now. And most importantly - it is an important tool for people to warn for triggering content in comments. I don't even know what possessed them to remove such an important organisation tool. Which brings me to...
2. Removal of the 'Parent' and 'Thread' links. Just...way to make reading collapsed comment content harder to read. Because this disabled person who has bad days with their hands really needed to have to click on each comment separately to read them.
3. The new userpics browser. Great idea in concept but I'm guessing no-one at LJ bothered to consider when forcing this on all users that this requires all the userpics to be loaded and not everyone has access to high speed Internet, meaning for some users, the load time will mean more time waiting for content to load and less time contributing to the diverse LJ community. Also, it would be nice if they were in alphabetical order by tag.