Writer's Block: Bah Humbug Day!

[zotmeister]

"Take a deep breath. Now rant about something."

LJ made this easy to answer: the new comment page design! Usually site updates get about 100-200 comments on lj_releases. There was one awhile back that got just under a thousand, and admin reverted the point of contention. The update that rolled out today? 6,100 and counting as of this entry, with none of it undone.

I just signed up for a Dreamwidth account. Serendipitously enough, their usual invite requirement for doing so is waived this week. I get the feeling they're going to get a LOT more business out of that than they planned on! I will wait and see how things go on both sides before I make any decisions as to where I maintain my journal. - ZM

Comments

[alex-victory.livejournal.com]

What new comment page design? I don't see any difference.

[zotmeister]

Your journal - like mine, now - has a custom comment page set up (your comment pages are in the same style as the rest of your journal). Go somewhere where that isn't the case - such as that community I linked to - and you'll see the folly. Among the new "features":

• A new visual design taking up twice the space for the same amount of information!


• Picking your icon means waiting for all your choices to visually load!


• No more subject lines!


• NO MORE PREVIEW BUTTON!


Personally, I give the new design a coolness rating of negative seventeen Beckers. - ZM

[alex-victory.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I do like how much easier the new interface makes it to link videos. No more manual lj-object tags, etc. I can see how some people might not like it.

It always makes me sad when users of an Internet service will get angrier over changes to it than they do about, say, genocide. So I try not to look at those threads.