They did say in the latest post that the infinite scroll will be an opt-in in the final released version. Well let's hope *sighs* I'm less annoyed by their choice of colours (which they also said will be adjustable, weeeeeell, I want to see it happen first) as by the fact that the page summary is gone (my flist is still pretty extensive here, so I need this thing not to scroll past entries, something that otherwise happens to me scarily often, I FAIL as scrolling ...)
I have learned to never believe anything they say. I hope it's opt-in. I hope it's customizable. But I don't know that I trust them to follow up on that anymore.
It's just a bad idea. I learned within the first two months of using Tumblr that infinite scrolling, while nice when you're following maybe 5 people who post sparingly, is not as nice when you're following over 150 people who post multiple times a day, sometimes spamming your dashboard with things. Then infinite scrolling isn't nearly as cool. >(
Same here. I tried it just to see how bad it was, but that was it. Made a face and changed it back, y'know? I like my layout. If I wanted something different I'd change it.
I mean, I get the tumblr vibe. There's something to be said about that kind of minimalistic simplicity for browsing, and goodness knows I hate going to other people's tumblrs and finding their layouts are impossible (one I check sometimes has a drop shadow and all caps for its body font, and it's basically impossible to read. I haaaate it.) but when I'm checking my LJ f'list, it's all in my style, anyway. I can read it. I guess I just don't get the point of it, in this case. For Tumblr, that was their thing. For LJ, it's not, and there's no sense or point in trying to make it their thing.
The comment pages, at least, have kept the spirit if not the letter of the old versions. There are bad changes in it, but the look is still similar. Just...younger modern.
This is true! Tumblr works because it's not meant to be about walls and walls of text (even if some people like to do that anyway) but LJ was originally designed to handle that kind of format.
There's nothing inherently wrong with the comment pages, IMO, because they function about as well as the old ones do. I can't get the icon drop-down to work to save my life, no matter what computer or browser I use, but that's not a terribly big deal to me since I tend to use my default icon most anyway. But they're designed in a way that I think clashes with the rest of the site - there's something young-feeling about them, but not in a good way.
It's been very gradual, but it's still different. It's like growing up - day to day, you don't feel much different, but suddenly you look back at photos from three years ago and realize you look, feel, and act different than you did before. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. The latest LJ changes have been predominately bad, IMO, at least from the perspective of an American user
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They did say in the latest post that the infinite scroll will be an opt-in in the final released version. Well let's hope *sighs* I'm less annoyed by their choice of colours (which they also said will be adjustable, weeeeeell, I want to see it happen first) as by the fact that the page summary is gone (my flist is still pretty extensive here, so I need this thing not to scroll past entries, something that otherwise happens to me scarily often, I FAIL as scrolling ...)
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It's just a bad idea. I learned within the first two months of using Tumblr that infinite scrolling, while nice when you're following maybe 5 people who post sparingly, is not as nice when you're following over 150 people who post multiple times a day, sometimes spamming your dashboard with things. Then infinite scrolling isn't nearly as cool. >(
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I mean, I get the tumblr vibe. There's something to be said about that kind of minimalistic simplicity for browsing, and goodness knows I hate going to other people's tumblrs and finding their layouts are impossible (one I check sometimes has a drop shadow and all caps for its body font, and it's basically impossible to read. I haaaate it.) but when I'm checking my LJ f'list, it's all in my style, anyway. I can read it. I guess I just don't get the point of it, in this case. For Tumblr, that was their thing. For LJ, it's not, and there's no sense or point in trying to make it their thing.
The comment pages, at least, have kept the spirit if not the letter of the old versions. There are bad changes in it, but the look is still similar. Just...younger modern.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with the comment pages, IMO, because they function about as well as the old ones do. I can't get the icon drop-down to work to save my life, no matter what computer or browser I use, but that's not a terribly big deal to me since I tend to use my default icon most anyway. But they're designed in a way that I think clashes with the rest of the site - there's something young-feeling about them, but not in a good way.
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