Dear LJ
Dear LJ,
When I read my flist, I would really like it if you, you know, showed me the entries time-ordered like you say you do. This business of sometimes not showing the entries when I first look at the page, but them appearing at a later date but amidst entries which you had previously shown me is not on. Because I stop reading my flist when I get to an entry I had previously seen. So, if there's a new-to-me entry beyond that I won't see it (unless I go looking backward for something and happen to notice it). This does not please me.
And, actually, speaking of things which do not please me at all (and are even more important than that), here's some belatedly:
That whole thing with the gender field and its options? Your actions were fail, all over the place. And there were plenty of people who took the time to explain why (which is above and beyond the call), so it is clear that 'well-meaning but ignorant' does not apply here. Which means you willfully disregarded. I didn't say anything at the time because all I had was outrage and lack of coherency. And plenty others were saying things coherently. But right now I don't terribly mind the lack of coherency and I do mind that I am outraged. So, have my outrage.
And the stuff with malware-ish ads (in direct conflict with your TOS)? That's not on, either. I am lucky, my personal journal is basic, so when I am logged in or when people view my journal in my style, there are no ads. But my recs comm is sadly 'plus' level. And I cannot control if people are using proper protections ([see aithine's post for a quick summary]) and I really do not want to be party (however indirectly) to harming people's boxes.
(If you don't know what I'm talking about,
thingswithwings has a [summarising post]. Sorry for the lack of a proper linkspam here, but I am tired and figure that this is better than nothing.)
This all rounds out to I am quite happy at Dreamwidth and shall keep my LJ only as long as I have friends there (speaking of, why not come over to DW? :) I'm out of codes right now, but check
dw_codesharing). I've decided I'm going to move my recs comm over to DW somehow, even if I don't yet know how I'm going to do it. I am quite sad that (a) comms can't be imported over wholesale like personal journals can and (b) I didn't move over to DW when I first started thinking about it.
No love,
Fish
ETA: Until I can get fish-recs moved over to Dreamwidth, here's a Dreamwidth feed
fish_recs_feed, courtesy of
starlady.
This entry was originally posted at http://fish-echo.dreamwidth.org/46317.html.
When I read my flist, I would really like it if you, you know, showed me the entries time-ordered like you say you do. This business of sometimes not showing the entries when I first look at the page, but them appearing at a later date but amidst entries which you had previously shown me is not on. Because I stop reading my flist when I get to an entry I had previously seen. So, if there's a new-to-me entry beyond that I won't see it (unless I go looking backward for something and happen to notice it). This does not please me.
And, actually, speaking of things which do not please me at all (and are even more important than that), here's some belatedly:
That whole thing with the gender field and its options? Your actions were fail, all over the place. And there were plenty of people who took the time to explain why (which is above and beyond the call), so it is clear that 'well-meaning but ignorant' does not apply here. Which means you willfully disregarded. I didn't say anything at the time because all I had was outrage and lack of coherency. And plenty others were saying things coherently. But right now I don't terribly mind the lack of coherency and I do mind that I am outraged. So, have my outrage.
And the stuff with malware-ish ads (in direct conflict with your TOS)? That's not on, either. I am lucky, my personal journal is basic, so when I am logged in or when people view my journal in my style, there are no ads. But my recs comm is sadly 'plus' level. And I cannot control if people are using proper protections ([see aithine's post for a quick summary]) and I really do not want to be party (however indirectly) to harming people's boxes.
(If you don't know what I'm talking about,
thingswithwings has a [summarising post]. Sorry for the lack of a proper linkspam here, but I am tired and figure that this is better than nothing.)
This all rounds out to I am quite happy at Dreamwidth and shall keep my LJ only as long as I have friends there (speaking of, why not come over to DW? :) I'm out of codes right now, but check
dw_codesharing). I've decided I'm going to move my recs comm over to DW somehow, even if I don't yet know how I'm going to do it. I am quite sad that (a) comms can't be imported over wholesale like personal journals can and (b) I didn't move over to DW when I first started thinking about it.
No love,
Fish
ETA: Until I can get fish-recs moved over to Dreamwidth, here's a Dreamwidth feed
fish_recs_feed, courtesy of
starlady.
This entry was originally posted at http://fish-echo.dreamwidth.org/46317.html.