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Help us steer site navigation!

Mar 16, 2010 15:30

As you probably noticed, we recently redesigned the LiveJournal global navigation menu to improve site useability, based on input we received from both new and experienced users. Our goal is to make LiveJournal features and products as intuitive and easy-to-use as possible. At this juncture, we'd like to get your detailed suggestions on what you ( Read more... )

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elyssa March 16 2010, 23:37:44 UTC

Bundling ScrapBook into "My Stuff" was a fantastic way to hide it, but a terrible way to enhance usability -- you must now navigate through submenus and poorly constructed pages on the pixplace server to do anything on ScrapBook. I would like to re-voice my previous requests to keep ScrapBook in its own menu.

Although "My Stuff" is better than "Me" or whatever it was originally, the header is still ambiguous and uninformative. It feels like you've just lumped stuff arbitrarily into a "miscellaneous" category and hoped no one would notice.

elyssa March 17 2010, 00:03:39 UTC

Yeah, I'd also like to voice my concern about the v-gifts. Is it intended behavior that if you remove one you will get the next one down in the queue? I've had hundreds of v-gifts sent to my journal and I liked the way they eventually disappeared. I'm not keen on having that gigantic wall of terribly upsized pictures as a permanent fixture on my journal's profile, but neither am I pleased by the prospect of manually clicking through hundreds of v-gifts to ask them not to display.

trixieleitz March 17 2010, 02:45:53 UTC

I'd like to add that I may be able to control how many v-gifts appear on my own profile, but I have no way (short of hiding them all site-wide) of stopping them from cluttering up other people's. This is a problem when the info I am most likely to want from a user's profile is their bio, or some idea of which interests or friends we have in common.

intrepia March 17 2010, 19:59:02 UTC

Maybe collapse the vgift section on other people's profiles?

trixieleitz March 17 2010, 20:39:44 UTC

That would be one solution, yes, but I quite like seeing one row of v-gifts on profiles :)

If (and I'm guessing here) this is a change intended to make v-gifts more visible, forcing users to hide them altogether would be counter-productive. I would prefer one or more of: capping the number displayed at five, so that they are more likely to fit on one row; reducing the dimensions of the gift as displayed on the profile, and getting rid of the text underneath; moving the v-gift section down to at least below the bio.

annella March 17 2010, 06:44:19 UTC

Seconding this. Having them disappear after 2 weeks was a good way of doing things - but it's a bit irrelevant to me to have v-gifts from last year's birthday re-appearing on my profile. And remember the snowflake storm? People were absolutely inundated. Someone got about 15,000 before it broke LJ.

lied_ohne_worte March 17 2010, 06:53:43 UTC

Is it intended behavior that if you remove one you will get the next one down in the queue?

They do what? *goes to remove one* Oh. Yes, that is seriously silly. Granted, I've "only" got 160, most of them Blinkies from that one crazy day, but I'm still not going through that manually. So I'll have to hide all, it seems? Pity.

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