Release 88 sneak peek, Mashable Awards nomination, Holiday promotions, ONTD Games

[news]

December 14th, 2011 - Happy December Holidays and welcome to the official LiveJournal newsletter! Bringing you system updates, community events, and other newsworthy nuggets from the world of LiveJournal. Here's a look at what's news on and around LJ:

Release 88 sneak peek
Our final site update of the year, Release 88, is scheduled to go live

Comments

[ceilidh]

That comment page redesign wouldn't happen to be this monstrosity would it? Because if it is, no thanks.

[bridgings]

As I indicated on that page, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't do this. This is one user who would seriously be getting paid time at LJ who seriously won't if this change goes through.

I'm so very very sure I'm not alone.

Also, using an RP journal and not ashamed of it, because THIS IS WHERE THE MONEY WOULD GO. RP journals are why I need icons in the first place and why I do most of my RP business currently over at InsaneJournal which might be buggy but which offers me 100 icons for free.

I have about eight paid / permanent accounts with icon upgrades; that's a lot of money you could have, LJ, if you'd just say no to this.

[universecard]

Just dropping by to say i have been rping on ij for a month or so now and i've seen no bugginess or problems at all. We had downtime for a few hours, weeks ago. Ij is awesome for rp and permaccounts are less than 30 bucks.

[bridgings]

Yeah, I know. There IS some bugginess, consistent errors when you first try to make a custom layout or first try to join a community with a new account, but it's minor. This is why I've been RPing on IJ for the last three years. (marinasylum is the game I mod there.)

[universecard]

oh man i hear about that game all the time! that's cool that you mod it :) i think you and sabra la tau are the only application-based rps on IJ right now, which is kinda sad, but at least they're both active!

[bridgings]

..../quietly lures you in (ninja)

But yeah, the general lack of games is what holds IJ back, I think.

[brotherskeeper1]

That is it in beta form :/
Lord, have mercy +

[tabaqui]

That is the ugliest, clumsiest thing i've ever seen. What in holy fuck....

[dishapeaches]

AW HAYL NAW!

[dahliablue]

Holy crap, my eyes. That's awful.

[patentpending]

It's probably going to be info pages all over again. LJ won't care, keep it as is, nothing users can do, lj waits for it to blow over, forever stuck with ugly pages.

[iamshunpike]

And we weep.

Urgh, I was just thinking about this recently - how I liked them the way they are, and, remembering the info-page nightmare, was glad that at least the entry/comment pages hadn't changed.
Weird, then, that they have. And unwanted. ugh.

[digitalized_]

URGH WHY OH WHY stop adding graphic designs that are not only ugly but slow down the speed of page loads. Nobody asked for them, simple text is okay sometimes you know. Also, HOLY SMOKES THAT IS UGLY.

JFC - NO. JUST-- NO. ALSO: KEEP SUBJECT LINES!!

[amhrancas]

That is the ugliest, clunkiest, most hideous comment layout I have ever seen in my life.

Seriously, your designers should all be fired if they they honestly think that that monstrosity is in any way aesthetically appealing or desirable, and your PR/User relations/development teams as well, for being dumb enough to think that LJ's user base would EVER want something like this.

[universecard]

it's just one designer

and he thinks people who don't like his designs are "morons."

btw, lj's designer is a russian who runs the whole site now!

[girlomega]

I don't often comment on these entries but HOLY MOTHER OF DO NOT WANT.

LJ, please don't do this to us. That is HORRIBLE.