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

[tay_21]

Copy and pasted from glofigs...

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 stupidity 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, 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.)  ARRRGH!!!!!

Really, I don't know why I'm surprised. LJ is always screwing 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 anything. 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. ;)

Comments

[tay-21.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm going to head over to Dreamwidth and see what it's like. I don't have to leave completely, I can just go set up an account over there and not renew my paid one here. I can still be a part of stuff over here with out giving those IDIOTS my money.

I'm done. Especially after reading the "They'll get used to it" comment over on Twitter. Arrogance will piss me off faster than you could imagine.

[samueljames]

The import function on DW works really well.

I saw the twitter link too. It's so completely dismissive. I'm paid up here till 2014 (so I could get my loyalty userpics now) so they've got my money.

[fredbassett]

We have a version of Denial on DW as well, but the problem is that most of the fan activity is still on LJ.

And it's a bit like banks in my view. They all end up as bad as each other eventually. There have been instances recently of people getting pissed of with DW over things they were getting pissed off with LJ over a few years ago, so what goes around tends to come around, unfortunately.