Something that makes me despair about LiveJournal

[philmophlegm]

Generally I like LiveJournal and wish it was more popular. But there are one or two things that I don't like. One of those seems to be by far the most popular community on LJ - 'ohnotheydidntI don't know if this works for all possible configurations of friends feeds, but on mine, there is a section on the right hand side of the page called LiveJournal Today

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[parrot_knight]

Happily, I have never seen ohnotheydidnt...

[prester_scott]

Switch to one of the older style formats and you won't have to see that garbage as long as you're logged in.

[jusummerhayes]

Bang on my friend. It feels like your entering some weird game show where you get rewarded for posting the most ridiculous material you can think off. For me, the best bits of Livejournal are the Friendsfeed, the ease of writing and the integration of social (a rudimentary form of dashboard). I know it will get better but in the meantime it's not the most attractive place to invite new members, particularly when you have platforms like Medium, Tumblr, Wordpress and Ello to compete with.

[matrixmann]

Notably, and shamefully, it seems to be one of the only popular communities which there's regularly written in. This and the Jpop / Kpop groups.

[slobodar]

At first, I saw ONTD as some sort of guilty pleasure or one of convenient ways to stay in touch with what goes for popular culture these days. However, after a while, it became quite tiresome for most of the reasons mentioned in the original post.

[philmophlegm]

Yeah, I'm not averse to celebrity gossip. It's not something that interests me especially, but it's useful to know who famous people are so that I can have a view (or have a view on whether I want to have a view). But ONTD is beyond that into something like camp bitchiness.