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Bring back the old site schemes!
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Please start supporting XColibur and the other old site schemes again.
Full description of the ideaThe old site schemes are very much liked by a lot of people for various reasons. Even though we can still choose them (if only with a trick) they aren't updated anymore, or
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Plus, the new features that were added lately seemed to drive more people away than recruit them to the site, despite all development efforts.
As fiddlingfrog already said, happy users usually stay longer.
In the case of XColibur (I've only ever used that site scheme, so I don't know about the other old ones) I've experienced that a lot of people I've urged to join LJ didn't like the site (too overwhelming, too complicated) until I've showed them how to use XColibur. They told me they still think LJ is too complicated, but at least the menu wasn't constantly in their face anymore, but just a small strip, not jumping all over their page when searching for something.
And judging from what I've heard over and over again in news posts for many years the old site schemes are still very popular and used by many people, DESPITE the annoying hide-and-seek game LJ is playing with those users who'd like to have them.
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Very true. I think the ability to see your existing tags as you type is the only real improvement we've seen in ages.
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