I trust the LJ development team. Do you?

[azurelunatic]

I trust LiveJournal's development team to have LiveJournal's best interests at heart, to lead LiveJournal in a good direction, and to listen to constructive feedback.

I will do my best to make the feedback I leave for LiveJournal developers constructive in nature.
If you wouldn't do it in fandom, don't do it to the devs. I know that this is the

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[selenite]

I trust the developers. But I'm seeing them make the same mistake I've seen in other projects, one which I'm prone to myself: focusing on the programmers' priorities instead of the customers' priorities. The new update screen isn't bad, it only took me a few seconds to find the stuff that moved, but that's not what I'm objecting to. The old one worked. People were content with it, so any change, no matter how much of an improvement, would get objected to. And there's not much improvement between the new and old one, it's just fine-tuning

[cmwinters]

My biggest problem is that they add things that people don't seem to want, and ignore the things people do want, and then seem quite put out when people aren't delighted with the new stuff they didn't want in absence of the useful stuff they did want. (I.e. - "no you can't have full-text searching but LOOK! New hideous bright green and fuschia styles!!! That makes the WHOLE SITE better!") *shrug* It's why I don't even bother posting to suggestions anymore - it's a great idea but it's the black hole of nothingness at LJ, and I don't need false hope because it's frustrating and demoralising.

Neither, however, do I bother ranting and screaming. Not any more. :P

[azurelunatic]

I'm dubious of the quality of the stuff at suggestions because a whole lot of the stuff that's being suggested is so very ... I guess the word is "naive". There's so much stuff that's suggested that you look at it and you know that either it's going to be impossible to code, or it's going to have so much more social resistance than the average thing and probably not do that much for many people, or else it would be really actively bad.

They are combining the openID logins and RSS feeds for vox/LJ friendings, and that's one of the things that got partially explored in suggestions a while ago.

[selenite]

My problem with suggestions is that it's damn hard to find if something's already been suggested. My one suggestion was shot down with "that's already been discussed, check the memories" which was very annoying since I'd spent 3-4 hours digging through the memories looking for anything similar.

[azurelunatic]

I wonder if I could suggest "a better indexing system for suggestions stuff" in suggestions?

[selenite]

Recursion always frightened me.

[museumfreak]

I feel like that's a support_ideas suggestion

[vvalkyri]

Worse, things getting shot down as already suggested when it's not really the same thing, or, as with my request to make it so I could view my own journal by security level, "tags will take care of this." Okay, tags didn't, but then I got rejected as already suggested.

And it took a heck of a lot of effort to get a suggestion through about the security hole in the notifications system, -- since one way to fix it would be to NOT automatically unscreen comments I was gettign rejected as already suggested. Feh.

[kunzite1]

i'd like a message more like "already suggested, check the memories under this category or the tags under this tag to find it. if you think it's been rejected in error, please email suggestions@livejournal.com with your thoughts on the matter."

[selenite]

If they know the original well enough to find its label, why not just provide a link to the post with the original suggestion?

[azurelunatic]

Stuff in suggestions is a lot better-indexed now, and I can now usually find stuff since I'm in charge of indexing it. If you have suggestions and you're not sure if it's been seen before, one of the special features that I extend to support and the people who go way back is searching to find duplicates myself.

[kunzite1]

i posted an entry to my journal about it earlier. i wasn't able to figure out how to exactly draft a suggestions post.

if you'd like to, go right ahead.

and after reading the entry, you already commented on it! XD

[azurelunatic]

I just got my inbox down to under 75 messages, and I'm pretty sure I see a comment from you back then about it. It's been on my to-maybe-do list...

[kunzite1]

not a problem.

i contributed a couple more comments to this entry.

came here from a post in a comm that i babysit. hopefully people do read the note and don't do what i did.

have a good day! ♥! :D

[azurelunatic]

User participation is encouraged, as long as everybody is at least courteous! :D

(and, um. I hope everything is OK with you, because I just went to go look at your journal and, well, you probably know what I didn't see there.)

[kunzite1]

yep! you've been featured in a recent post over at no_lj_ads with a note not to crash the party over here.

did the link to the entry not work?

this should do it.

and then there's the idea i had to the OMGLETUSEDITCOMMENTS issue.