things that annoy me today

[phinnia]

If someone "follows" me on Twitter, and they have protected updates, I can't see any of their updates to determine whether or not I want to reciprocate. There's something fundamentally wrong about this

Comments

[silverjackal]

The default setting for the "My Guests" thing is actually "off" (according to lj_news) so people don't need to worry about it unless they want to turn it on.

[brewsternorth]

Yeah, it's a sloppy coding thing - it "switches on" when you go to modify it, but it's off by default. Which is classy for LJ.

There's something fundamentally wrong about this.

I concur. And unlike LJ, Twitter is all-or-nothing; you can't *selectively* lock updates. That's why (with reluctance) I decided not to lock my updates.

[topaz_eyes]

Unfortunately that pop-up is set to "on," even while the feature itself is off. If LJers click through the pop-up, it gets turned on. Which--sucks.

[epi_lj]

I have to admit to having very limited sympathy for the fate of people who click to apply settings changes to their LJ in a pop-up without reading or understanding the pop-up at all.

[silverjackal]

Yes, that part is very silly and backwards on livejournal's part. Given that it's voluntary, and the default is off, then you should have to choose to turn it *on*, yes? Speaking personally there's no way I'd use it, so I just insured that it was really off, and left it at that.

[phinnia]

when you go to even look at the settings in that area it pops up a box which is "initially" set to 'on', so it kind of gives the false impression that it was already "on". (given LJ's past record of turning potentially undesirable features on by default, it's not the best impression to give, at least i thought so)

[silverjackal]

Yes, it's dumb. I don't like the idea of this as a feature at all, and having the interface default to on is... skewed of them. Given that the default setting is off, if you want the thing on you should deliberately have to turn it on. Not fiddle with the interface to turn it off. All I can say is that I'm grateful they've made the thing voluntary, because I *will not* use it.