No I have nothing productive to say
(what do you want from my life...I'm waiting out a storm)
The more I use the new lj-cuts for various things, the more I dislike them. Part of the reason people cut things is to save you from long rants, long stories, long lists, and heaps upon heaps of photos. I don't want that just unfurling in my f-list especially if I have to scroll back up to the top of the entry to close the thing. I dunno know about other ppl, but sometimes I skim my f-list to see what I've missed since my last visit, then go back to the top and read whatever caught my eye. If something's really interesting, I'll read it immediately. But now that that means opening up a (potentially) humungous post, I'm less inclined to go back and read the things that didn't grab my must-read-now instinct the first time around. And, as someone pointed out on the lj-releases, I'm less inclined to go exploring their journal for more interesting things. Yes, I could open the cut in another tab but why should I have to? I usually have 2-3 tabs open anyway. Plus, they're my tabs. Whether there's space for 3 or 50, I shouldn't be forced to open more than I want to. (I realize that no one's "forcing" me to do anything, but seeing that the former way of using lj-cuts is no longer available to me even though that's exactly the way I want to use them, I am being "forced" to use a work-around.)
So. There's my rant. I am now off to cross-post it on lj-releases with the hope that, like those stupid scissors, this is a change that will either go away or actually be improved. Fingers crossed.
The more I use the new lj-cuts for various things, the more I dislike them. Part of the reason people cut things is to save you from long rants, long stories, long lists, and heaps upon heaps of photos. I don't want that just unfurling in my f-list especially if I have to scroll back up to the top of the entry to close the thing. I dunno know about other ppl, but sometimes I skim my f-list to see what I've missed since my last visit, then go back to the top and read whatever caught my eye. If something's really interesting, I'll read it immediately. But now that that means opening up a (potentially) humungous post, I'm less inclined to go back and read the things that didn't grab my must-read-now instinct the first time around. And, as someone pointed out on the lj-releases, I'm less inclined to go exploring their journal for more interesting things. Yes, I could open the cut in another tab but why should I have to? I usually have 2-3 tabs open anyway. Plus, they're my tabs. Whether there's space for 3 or 50, I shouldn't be forced to open more than I want to. (I realize that no one's "forcing" me to do anything, but seeing that the former way of using lj-cuts is no longer available to me even though that's exactly the way I want to use them, I am being "forced" to use a work-around.)
So. There's my rant. I am now off to cross-post it on lj-releases with the hope that, like those stupid scissors, this is a change that will either go away or actually be improved. Fingers crossed.