Notes on our new comment system

[news]

  Thanks to all of you for providing your feedback and voicing your concerns about LiveJournal's new comment system. Please understand that we are taking your feedback seriously, and will continue to evaluate this new feature. In the meantime, we'd like to explain the reasons behind the change and the greater impact this has for LiveJournal.

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[okay]

first off
pokemon

also, your copy/pasting is showing, LJ...

[okay]

"In the past, code was being piled upon old code, which turned out to be messy and unstable."

but it worked for everyone......

"which is meant to improve performance and user experience."

But it hasn't whatsoever

-Pages no longer need to refresh after adding comments, which helps reduce load times
Except it still does. Not only that, but I still have the problem of being redirected to the first page every time. I've sent support numerous messages about it and I still haven't heard back. Not even a "thank you we redirected your shit somewhere else"

-There's a new, more visual icon selection tool
That doesn't work for most of your userbase

Seriously, everyone was quite happy with your old form. Yeah, messy, but like I said it worked for everybody. Also, subject titles. Why won't you bring them back?

[othellia]

"In the past, code was being piled upon old code, which turned out to be messy and unstable."

but it worked for everyone......

Well, I work as a web programmer/designer so I can understand the need for complete code rehauls. Old developers sometimes don't leave comments and people don't know how things exactly work you start adding stuff to fix old problems and more stuff to fix the stuff that fixed the old problems but caused something else to break. And then someone creates a plugin that does a function in one line that used to take up a whole page... so yeah.

Though that's still no reason to completely redo the features. It's perfectly doable to mimic an old model with new code. Easier even probably, given new releases/technology.

So essentially, it is a valid excuse, but not for the subject they're trying to defend.

[okay]

Yeah I figured as much. I mean, yeah valid excuse but I think they came up with that to defend why this style "is better!!" when the majority disagrees. Kind of like a guilt trip.

[beartalon]

What does this mean in the context of this news post?

[nikoshinigami]

Roll it back.

[slayedaking]

lol perfect icon.

[ecctv]

Hopefully people can say what they don't like about the comments or whatever in a calm way, rather than threatening, yelling, or being over dramatic.
At the end of the day, it is a website and there are bigger problems to go HAM about.

[ecctv]

I hate ending a sentence with a preposition, but I did it there. Please forgive me at.

[conuly]

You didn't end a sentence with a preposition, you used a phrasal verb.

I wish people would get it right already!

[tisoi]

^like :-)

[shangri__la]

[celtic_thistle]

mte

[reverie_shadow]

+1 for Misfits, aw yeah.

...sorry, I got nothing constructive to add.

[reverie_shadow]

Oh, nice. And I am still unable to pick anything but my default icon!

Awesome show, great job, guys!