update to gender!fail

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I received a very courteous email back from Anjelika, saying basically that the code push is not going to go live, it was all a mistake, thank you for your support. Now, I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one, but I have to wonder how much of a mistake it was -- and how much of this is just response to users' complaints. Still, they are responding, the male/female mandatory gender option is not happening, and everyone lived happily after, for now. Thanks to everyone for your support and effort. Thank you, LJ, for being reasonable.


hi Charlie,

thank you for your feedback.
However, the code update that you refer to is not live and did not have any chance to go live. That was a beta release, we always push code to beta to see if everything works correctly. In many cases it does not and we either fix bugs or pull the code from the final release plan.
We were going to add a gender field to the sign up user flow, which is fine, but by mistake it became a mandatory "female/male" field for everyone. This is why this is not going live. And this is what beta releases are for, to see problems and solve them before any user faces a problem.

I would appreciate if you share this information with your friends that are also concerned. I am sorry that you were misinformed.

Best regards,

Anjelika Petrochenko
GM, LiveJournal US