And my first reaction was...

[loriel_eris]

[Aside from, "How the hell did a news post appear on the bit of my flist that I'd read goaddamnit?"]

Hell no!

Italics included. And that was only the first improvement.

Friends Redesign Page

That this was my first reaction actually says a lot about my expectations of LJ now. [4 years ago, well, my first reaction would have been a lot different...]

Comments

[theemdash]

As soon as I saw your post I was like, "Oh, April Fools, right?"

And then I read and was actually amused. Mostly because I'm amused by how Facebook keeps trying to be Twitter and I just read an article yesterday about how YouTube might be huluified, and I'm amused by the number of online services that see something else and go, "Ooh, I want to be that" instead of being what they are.

[loriel_eris]

I think my disconnect was that I saw it wile my brain was still on Tuesday and the date stamp on the post was 31st (I do actually notice these things!). Once it pinged, I was highly amused, especially as I had been waiting to see what LJ did. *g*

I'm amused by the number of online services that see something else and go, "Ooh, I want to be that" instead of being what they are.

Yes. This. Sites need to realise that people will like them better if they do their own thing rather than try to be the same as everyone else. *headdsk*