Notes on our new comment system

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  Thanks to all of you for providing your feedback and voicing your concerns about LiveJournal's new comment system. Please understand that we are taking your feedback seriously, and will continue to evaluate this new feature. In the meantime, we'd like to explain the reasons behind the change and the greater impact this has for LiveJournal.

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[ecctv]

Hopefully people can say what they don't like about the comments or whatever in a calm way, rather than threatening, yelling, or being over dramatic.
At the end of the day, it is a website and there are bigger problems to go HAM about.

[buildsconsensus]

see, this was my argument. initially my reaction was just "wow, you guys really don't get it, do you?" and now i'm just pretty sure they care even less

but that's still no excuse

i understand people getting upset. personally, i feel like they have the right to be when lj has pretty much given them no choice. i saw a lot of level arguments. granted i also feel like threatening to leave a service you're paying for is valid because you paid for a specific service and no one really listened to any of the users from really any of the countries that use livejournal

someone made a comment about how rehashing the code is valid. it is. but there still isn't any excuse for the code can't mimic the old system with some upgrades. so, really, lj is just shooting itself in the foot here

having someone who could field our concerns (or a group of someones) just so we understand we're being considered rather than ignored would help sooth people out, and i agree that management has lost it's mind

[numisma]

+1 for your well articulated reasoning.

Thank you.

[archangelbeth]

I just wish I had the feeling that my reasoning would be listened to. Instead, I have a rather depressed feeling that if any changes are made, it will be because of profanity, screaming, and dogpiling.

*sigh*