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Why, LJ?
Why? Why why why why? Why take away the ONE THING that made you better than other community sites?
I. Don't. Get. It.
Edit: And you know the really SHITTY thing? They only made the announcement on a Russian language community, a couple of weeks ago. The latest
news post, from 12/14, makes mention of "changes to comments coming soon!" with no details. It's like they knew they were going to have to sneak it by the user base. Feh.
The change: taking away subject lines from comments. Which is vital for users like fic memes. It makes them impossible to read or track. Disaster for fandom, and you all know I don't use that word lightly.
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I. Don't. Get. It.
Edit: And you know the really SHITTY thing? They only made the announcement on a Russian language community, a couple of weeks ago. The latest
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The change: taking away subject lines from comments. Which is vital for users like fic memes. It makes them impossible to read or track. Disaster for fandom, and you all know I don't use that word lightly.
Son of edit: Looking to leave feedback? This seems to be the best place.
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If so, it is time to massively migrate all the FF and DA fans over here pronto.
:/
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This is truly the year of Internet fail. Google. Delicious. LJ.
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...at least the year is almost over and there isn't time for any more fail? Especially since the SOPA hearings have been pushed back to January.
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The past few months of fail have really changed my mind about the kinds of tools that I will use for content posting/archiving when participating in fandom activities.
Unless a tool is specifically designed for fandom (ff.net, AO3) or has a very large percentage of its users in fandom (DW), I'm no longer going to be so open to the tool. :/
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Yeah. It's becoming more and more clear that this is the best policy.
Look at this fucking amazing subject line!
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But it's still too ugly for me. And good lord, those rounded enormous buttons, and the plastic-and-jelly color scheme: do they want us to feel like we're in kindergarten? Or is it really true that, difficult as I find to believe it, that's the kind of design scheme that all the cool kids are using these days?
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I can only imagine how terrible the icon picker must be over a cell phone connection, especially for those of us who have over a hundred userpics.
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At least DW's got open signups from now till the end of the year, but I'd be amazed if it led to a mass fandom migration. D:
I kind of feel like I should enter a subject line just because it's there.
Gratuitous use of subject line
At least according to that Russian post, the claim was that fewer than 1% of LJ comments included a subject line, which was supposedly the justification for taking it away. (My source for that piece of data is commenters on
I do wonder about the timing of these open DW signups... Clever strategy, if so.
Nope, don't think it would ever change now :D
Shortly before they announced the open signups I offered up a bunch of my invite codes, during one of the DDOS attacks, and I was surprised how many of the resulting journals had Cyrillic in their test entries. I think LJ's starting to lose some of their core audience, even if fandom's still clinging to it.
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Not to mention that if one percent of comments used subject lines, WAY MORE THAN ONE PERCENT OF USERS have used subject lines. But really, since when do we take away features that people regularly use? Why is this a thing?
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I don't know, but we've seen it again and again this year -- Google Reader, Delicious, now this. So frustrating.
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