New LJ Release WILL Burn Out Your Retinas
LJ Release #98 went live yesterday and some of you may have noticed the little bar at the top of your friends page asking if you want to switch over to the 'new look' that they are beta testing. Basically, this option makes ALL friends pages take the standard lj white and blue colour scheme, they have laid out the entries similar to a Tumblr feed, introduced a 'like'/reposting option similar to FB and Twitter, and now offer infinite scrolling instead of pages. The friends page will NOT be customisable, and while you can switch back to your current look during beta testing, once this becomes permanent you'll be S.O.L.
The comments on the release are almost uniformly negative, but if you hate this idea as much as I do, I encourage you to go and leave your thoughts about the unnecessary change on their release page. Maybe if we make a big enough stink, something might get done about this.
I'd hate to leave this place and all of the connections that I've made here since joining in 2005, but if they slowly keep chipping away at the qualities about lj that I love, what's the point, right?
The comments on the release are almost uniformly negative, but if you hate this idea as much as I do, I encourage you to go and leave your thoughts about the unnecessary change on their release page. Maybe if we make a big enough stink, something might get done about this.
I'd hate to leave this place and all of the connections that I've made here since joining in 2005, but if they slowly keep chipping away at the qualities about lj that I love, what's the point, right?