Comments | blue_meridian: IMPORTANT (Under Reported) LJ TAGGING SYSTEM CHANGE

blue_meridian

IMPORTANT (Under Reported) LJ TAGGING SYSTEM CHANGE

Feb 08, 2010 19:15

HAHAHAAAA

Okay, so LJ has made a change to its tagging system. Before when you had multi-word tags, LJ would allow you to create it with a space (and that's how it would appear in your tags cloud/list) but would replace the space in the URL with a plus sign. That has changed. Now it leaves it as a space - which the URL automatically translates to ( Read more... )

livejournal, recs

Comments 16

juniperphoenix February 9 2010, 00:17:42 UTC

Hahahahahaha! Signal-boosting this.

blue_meridian February 9 2010, 00:20:25 UTC

I'm not sure whether to laugh hysterically or weep into an alcoholic drink. It's not like we ever, oh, ya know, link to tags on LJ or anything.

janedavitt February 9 2010, 00:37:51 UTC

That makes my head go 'splodey. Bad LJ.

blue_meridian February 9 2010, 00:40:05 UTC

I particularly like the part where they didn't hardly tell anyone and all you get is a standard error page. I know I've had several in the last few days and assumed they were bad links until I tripped over the information. Grr.

beagle1 February 9 2010, 00:54:39 UTC

ughhh the suckage!!! epic fail Lj!

blue_meridian February 9 2010, 00:57:42 UTC

Yes, a change to the tag error page explaining it would have been really nice. Sigh.

quiet__tiger February 9 2010, 00:55:18 UTC

Oh holy crap, what a mess for everyone.

blue_meridian February 9 2010, 00:59:25 UTC

Yessirree! We're gonna be running across 'broken' tag links for quite a while.

janice_lester February 9 2010, 04:25:58 UTC

That explains a few error pages I've run into lately around here. I've not been around long enough to have noticed in a conscious sort of way, though I do remember looking at an LJ URL that had %20 in it several times and thinking it looked odd. But I need my tags with spaces, I really do... I've only just managed to comprehend the purpose and utility of tags well enough to start making some--I hope--meaningful use of them. I can't deal with having to modify those tags.

I've only been here since, I dunno, September, but already it seems to me that the LJ PTB are pretty big on sudden, unilateral, and often unannounced changes. :-(

blue_meridian February 9 2010, 04:37:40 UTC

Spaces really are fine, and it does make them tons more readable in the case of long ones - generally, I'm more frustrated by completely untagged fic journals than the reverse, particularly when you want to subscribe to be notified that an author has posted a new fic in a series! I know in some cases I end up linking to a verse tag because the author doesn't put internal links between installments of fics (or does so sporadically). This change will even be a good thing overall - as I mentioned, better web standards and all that. The problem was 100% notification ( ... )