New Friends Page again

[cindergal]

lj_releases has now posted publicly about the new friends page redesign which is now in beta testing. It appears it will be mandatory from the wording used ("The friends page has been redesigned as a system page for all users

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[mech_bull]

I have no real opinion on the format to be honest, except to say I loathe infinite scrolling. What I find most obnoxious about things like this (and the same goes for other social network sites) is they never listen to users anyway. Maybe very occasionally or under specific circumstances, but most times they do what they want. Even if they make most of their money off of ads and not paid users, they still have to have people using the site. When did "the customer doesn't get a say" become an acceptable business model?

[cindergal]

I know, it's infuriating. As is, you can't even change the font with the new page! And I just heard that they are doing away with paid accounts soon, so we won't even be able to say, hey, we're paying customers! :-p

[goldenusagi]

Where was this?

[cindergal]

I saw it in the comments to the release 98 post, but I don't have a link or anything. More than one person mentioned it, and I tend to believe it because it's one more way to be like tumblr/FB.

[goldenusagi]

Goodbye icons, then. LOL, icons would be my only reason for staying.

IF they do that, they'd be be refunding the partial year I have left.

[cindergal]

Here's the link - someone else on my FL just posted about it: http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/79480.html?thread=9725048#t9725048

[goldenusagi]

Ugh. This is actually really stressing me out.