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The State of Livejournal, Your Opinions and what YOU'D like to do

Dec 22, 2011 02:29

EDIT: PLEASE GO READ THIS IN REGARDS TO SUBJECT LINES.

Starting on December 22nd 1:00AM EST, Livejournal's New Site-Scheme (Update 88) was put online. The public outlash so far has been pretty vocal on their page (you can go read it here). A few hours ago LJ put up a new post regarding the update and what they are doing to fix it. However, we'd ( Read more... )

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monotreme_101 December 22 2011, 07:48:35 UTC

Eh.... considering I have almost a years paid on Sonny and Knuckles plus extra icons and a years icon packs on Jon it would be a pretty big waste of money on my part to just move. And I think there are some workarounds we could use maybe? And there's always the chance they'll change back.

I dunno. I understand people are frustrated - I am too, beleive me - but I know I'm not the only one who has spent TENS OF TENS of dollars on shiny paid accounts.

shootmedown December 22 2011, 08:22:59 UTC

I thought of a work around for the subject line thing in terms of topic threads. How about the thread's first comment just serving as the subject and every reply to it would be the actual contents. If HTML works, we can bold it and make it whatever size we want!

tribulune December 22 2011, 15:10:44 UTC

There is already a massive problem with that. With thread collapsing, you'd have to do a lot of tab opening or expanding- something most users can't do- as opposed to just seeing what you want to hear about straight in the subject line with no worries about collapsing. A lot of large communities need the subject line for this matter.

It doesn't mean a workaround isn't impossible, but this isn't a very good way to go about it. It doesn't satisfy the needs of all users. As much as I hate to address Anon Comm of all places, their workaround is much more efficient.

shootmedown December 22 2011, 17:39:23 UTC

Unless thread starters now collapse too, that is a problem with subthreads.

For the big everybody logs, I suppose the userme starting the subthread should hint enough who the thread is about.

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will_be_god December 22 2011, 07:59:20 UTC

I honestly want to see if all this feedback will kick them into shape. Sometimes they do listen, but it's hard to tell when they will. I sure hope everyone keeps on them, though! I'd rather not move, but I also don't want to stay on a site that doesn't fucking work.

Does anyone know what their customer service phone number is nowadays?

shootmedown December 22 2011, 08:19:33 UTC

I'm not a fan of moving. I will miss the subject lines and parent links but it feels silly to move an entire game because of that.

Livejournal did finally cave at some point when they first allowed people to post comments to other people's locked entries on facebook and made a half-decent fix. Maybe the unruly rage mob can score another win and at least bring subject lines back.

punchtheocean December 22 2011, 19:55:33 UTC

it's not just because of the subject lines. the dude who decided we don't need subject lines thinks this unruly rage mob is funny and that we'll get used to it eventually. i think moreso than the changes, people are outraged that the LJ staff simply doesn't seem to care about it's users opinions.

shootmedown December 22 2011, 22:12:41 UTC

In all honesty-though by no means of justifying this stuff, LJ users have a pretty bad reputation now for being an unruly rage mob. Meanwhile the otnd fans will eat anything dished out to them.

I still don't like having to move, but I do understand it may be inevitable after all these comments came in, and I will deal if need be.

sunfurry December 22 2011, 08:27:25 UTC

ollies outies

tribulune December 22 2011, 15:07:58 UTC

I would much prefer to move.

Allow me to reiterate my point here, my main point: The reason I want to move is not at all because of the design. I cannot express this enough and I still feel my reasons are being interpreted as something completely different by a few people. Yes, it is fuck-ugly- god knows it's fuck-ugly- but I'd deal with it if it weren't for my real reason to move.

The LiveJournal staff has always been bad, yes, but the past year or two, it has really gotten out of hand. Horrible treatment has been dealt directly to users. Complaints are ignored. Problems are pushed to the side for useless things like games and laggy updates. Not only that, but then there's the downtimes. The DDoS attacks. The people dealing with the results of the Russian government who really don't deserve to be the brunt of it. I mean, government interfering with fun times? Really?Let me just reiterate how unprofessional the site staff's customer service itself is. They ( ... )

ihateplumbers December 22 2011, 16:09:32 UTC

The LiveJournal staff has always been bad, yes...

Sadly this is untrue. They were actually quite good from, say, 2002-2004, and moderately good from 2005-2006.

Which makes all of this dicking around that much more frustrating.

HI, WHEN I FIRST JOINED LIVE JOURNAL YOU HAD TO HAVE A FRIEND CODE.

badasscopters December 22 2011, 16:53:27 UTC

Oh. OKAY I STAND CORRECTED ON THAT THEN.

I remember hearing that LJ only had 6 icons default in the olden days. 8Ua

usesearstofly December 22 2011, 17:02:13 UTC

Three, actually, if memory serves. x.x

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