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Release #98
Release #98 is now live.
New Features:
New Features:
- The friends page has been redesigned as a system page for all users, and is now available for Beta testing. There will be a link at the top of your friends page allowing you to switch between the new and old versions allowing you to switch back and forth between both versions throughout the beta testing ( Read more... )
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Same here.
The new version also appears to get rid of filters, which are how I navigate my reading. Separate filters keep individual LJers from getting lost among heavy-posting communities.
This new version is worse than useless to me--it would force me to return to reading journals individually, and not using the flist at all.
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On the correction angle: so we can access the five filters at the top directly, but if we have more than that it drops us on the Filter Friends page. That's far less useful than a simple pull-down list.
I would think rather than infinite scrolling, in-line commenting would be a more sensible update, so users don't have to leave their friends-page to add comments. That should at least be a part of the infinite scrolling experience--the point of that is to keep all activity in one spot, but here I'm diverted to go to filters, I'm diverted to comment and read comments, etc.
All in all, it makes the infinite scrolling seem like less of a thoughtful design overhaul and more like a codemonkey pleasing himself in the back room and trying to mimic the appearance (but not functionality) of Facebook/Tumblr/Twitter.
In short: Bah.
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