tangentially related to the current brouhaha

[isiscolo]

After looking at the tests of various people who have tried the 'crossposting comments to Facebook and Twitter' thing, I am not particularly fussed about LJ's decision to implement this.

1) If someone posts their comment here on elsewhere, so what? It doesn't connect me (

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[primroseburrows]

Yeah, I'm not too worried, either. It's just another LJ drama as far as I'm concerned. Tempest, meet teapot.

I'm bookmarking Better Facebook until tomorrow when I'm not too tired to comprehend such things (I don't understand greasemonkey, either, and I really should look into it). It looks like a good thing, though.

[isiscolo]

Greasemonkey's great and there are lots of useful scripts for it. There is also a version that goes directly into Firefox as an addon if you don't use greasemonkey.

[sori1773]

The Better Facebook script. oooooh. I'm going to install and see if I can make all the Farmville updates DIE FOREVER. :D

[isiscolo]

Hee, I have not seen Farmville (or Mafia Wars or etc etc) in so long I am kind of bemused when people rant about them. You can make them go away! Yay!

[china_shop]

I am not leaving LJ, I am not leaving DW, and I am still reading and commenting at both sites.

\o/ Me too. I mean, I'm not reading at DW, but I'm tracking the journals there that I want to follow.

(I need to update this icon to "platform". ;-)

[isiscolo]

Argh, you are part of the problem, though (the one I'm not posting about yet :-) because you crosspost and people comment in both places and I miss some of the discussion unless I read it all! (Um, I am part of the problem, too.)

I love these icons.

[china_shop]

and I miss some of the discussion unless I read it all!

Yeah, and I keep wanting to tell people to go read the comments at the other site, because the conversations take quite different directions sometimes. *sigh* But it still seems like the best solution.

I wish more people would put links and comment counts in their footers.

[iibnf]

I am getting weary of these 'the sky is falling' dramas every few minutes. Truly, they are starting to make me hate dreamdwidth, and that's totally not dreamwidth's fault.

[nomadicwriter]

Oh, so seconded. People, we know it's there by now, we've checked it out and made our own assessment of whether it fits our needs or not, and regular flurries of a dozen posts on my flist in a row going "OMG disaster LJ evil look look look look DREAMWIDTH CODES" are frankly not building my goodwill.

It's getting near the stage I'm at with Mac evangelists. Yes, I know my current platform has its flaws. I'm capable of deciding whether they're deal-breakers or not all by myself, thank you, and I've already looked at your beloved superior platform and decided that the balance still favours the original for me at present. So when you keep blowing every problem you can find up to epic proportions and asking me if this is the issue that's going to make me change my mind - no? How about this then? ...Well, it's really not LJ that I'm starting to get fed up with.

[iibnf]

I got such a grin from your comments. You may have seen this site?

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

I've used macs, they're really good. I loved it when they came in pretty colours. But if I want to get a computer I'll get one that does twice the work and costs half as much and doesn't require specialist support every time the logic board blows up, thank you very much.

I've been with LJ for ten years. I didn't leave for journalfen, ujournal, blurty, deadjournal, greatestjournal, or insane journal. In the past decade, the sky STILL hasn't fallen far enough for me to shift.

[thistle_chaser]

My issue is different than most other people are having. I neither like nor use Twitter and Facebook, so it annoys me to have to see their icons/names all over LJ. The codemonkey script has fixed part of the problem, so now I just see the Facebook login option when replying to comments, but I can live with that.

[isiscolo]

Hee! I have to say it irritates me to see the Facebook logo EVERYWHERE these days. I mean, I like it and use it, but I don't like the stupid linkback thingy.