Livejournal News of the Argh: Friending Edition

[nookiepowered]

Hi, folks.

We spam the OOC comm interrupt your rare non-event weekend to bring you an unfortunately not so rare update on unhelpful Livejournal shenanigans

Comments

[harpy_daughter]

Oh LJ.

*uses appropriate body-swap icon*

[holy_daughter]

Is there any chance that this fucking nightmare of OCD is going mean we don't hit caps on how many people we can friend in 24 hours, or would that be hoping LJ didn't put in nice things with their suck?

[craftyladyparts]

I have to say, it's been over a year since I've run into an issue with friending caps. That might be because other people have friended my newbies first. I can't say for sure. But if you wait just a day (maybe even a few hours, really) after the friending list goes up, you should be fine.

[solo_sword]

I've run into the cap, but it could just be considered a welcome break in the nightmare of OCD then.

[holy_daughter]

It's happened to me a couple of times. It's not a huge thing by any means; this is just me wondering if they've compounded their suck or if one shitty policy cancelled out another.

[monkeymonkeydie]

I'm just throwing this out there, and you all can yell at me if you want, but... At what point do we revisit the "jump ship to Dreamwidth" question?

[solo_sword]

This should so not be something we revisit that question for. It's something minor we're going to complain about and then be used to inside of an app period.

[apocalipped]

I think that should be something for the administration to decide. Plenty of people are going to complain and get used to it. Others are still waiting for the next thing LJ takes away, and the next- LJ is a significantly less workable interface for this game without patches and fixes and duct tape than it was even a couple of years ago. And there are still people with complaints about how manually adding hundreds of names just won't work- Not all computers or user situations are created equal. What seems like a non-issue for one person, for several others clearly isn't.

Maybe this is something to revisit that question for. Or maybe we should wait to see what impact this has on applications. I don't know, but N's question is just as valid as anyone else's concerns, Natalie, and probably shouldn't be vetoed immediately.

[solo_sword]

I'd appreciate if you could try to come off less condescending, if you wouldn't mind

[hoorayimrich]

Meh. Inconvenient but not unworkable.

[craftyladyparts]

Agreed.

[robinonadderall]

mte.

*uses your favorite icon again*

[hoorayimrich]

HE'S SO PRECIOUS.

[dollpocalypse]

Thank you guys for investigating this for us and letting us know! Also, setting up all those links had to be a pain, so thank you for that too. :)

[nookiepowered]

<3 Though the links were actually pretty easy -- just used the glory of Search & Replace on the existing friending list.