As of tomorrow, no more subject lines in comments on LJ

[lar_laughs]

I should think about DW more seriously. I'm not one to just jump ship for no reason but I'm getting really exasperated by all these tiny little nuisances that LJ seems to be implimenting without care for what damage their doing for how people USE their product. Do they care? They don't appear to and that bothers me more than anything.

Originally posted by moerlin at As of tomorrow, no more subject lines in comments on LJ

I was gonna update this with much happier stuff, but for the past week I've just been so enraged with LJ's asshattery that I've had it to here.

In case you didn't know, on 12/12 they first announced sneakily on the Russian journal of LJ's design guy that with new changes being implemented tomorrow, there will be no more subject lines in comments and that this change was "non-negotiable" (good round-up and translation here). I'm sure you all realize that this will basically make fandom and RP communities unusable. LJ's staff, however, doesn't give a shit. At least 18 pages of 100% negative feedback didn't sway them.

They've backpedaled some and will make keeping comment subject lines optional in some S2 styles, but the default (that 99% of communities are running right now) will decidedly be subject-less! Not to mention that their new and frankly, fucking ugly design will take forever to load and make the site a pain to use on mobile browsers.

And oh, it looks like they might be taking away the drop-down menu to select icons as well, so you'll have to load all your icons as pictures to select them. Lovely. (I will beta-test tonight to see if this is actually true.)

Really, I don't know why I'm surprised. LJ is always fucking with the parts of the site that actually work and breaking them, so this is just another instance of that. Because seriously, who are subject lines hurting by just being there? (And no, it can't be a matter of server strain, considering the new "graphic" interface will definitely be using up more resources - so much fun when there's DDoS attacks!)
As far as I know, they've never once listened to their customers, so those thousands of comments already posted probably won't do shit. I've left a message expressing my concerns about the new comment pages here anyway; so if you want to do that too, go for it! If anything, it helps with the rage. ;)

FYI: Dreamwidth is feeling Christmasy has reacted to LJ's bullshit and has open account creation (no invite codes needed) for the rest of the week. Might be a good idea to get your back-up or new home, whatever the case may be, up and running now.

Comments

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'm reluctant to open a DW account, simply because I have so many social networking accounts going already. Though I've seen many others over there and have been thinking about it...

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about it. That's about it at this point!

[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

I've been happy with DW. The only thing that would make it better is if more people would migrate. I automatically mirror everything here because that is an easy option, but base of operations is over there and has been for a couple years now.

I've seen the new comment interface and the loading icons preview. Not so bad if you have only 10 or so like me...otherwise it would be awful I think.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I really should move my base of operations over there but I have two problems. (1) I belong to a lot of communities that don't exist over there, not mention the ones that I run that I would have to come back here to work on or mirror (which makes my head spin to think about). (2) I would have to play around with it before I was comfortable with it because I've been there a little in the past and I just sort of stumble around. I don't know if I'm ready to learn something new just yet.