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[tellytubby101]

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO LJ COMMENTS

SO UGLY and UNHELPFUL; I MISS SUBJECT LINES ALREADY

WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THIS REDESIGN WAS BETTER? SERIOUSLY, THEY SHOULD BE FIRED

OH MY GOD, DNW

It's bad enough that the Post Entry shit got changed a few months back so there's no "Clean From Word" feature, but this is just stupid. BLARGHY WTF ARGHY

My latest fic needs to be read in ?format=light mode, took me aaages (read: hours) to make it work, and the 'effing redesign has skewed the formatting just enough to bother me. asdfgjkl;lkjhgfdsasdfghjk,lkjhgfdsdfgjkjgfdsdghkjgfds RAEGGGG

JFC, now so very tempted to jump ship permanently to DW and move my crap to Ao3 (and FFn again).

Comments

[a8c-sock.livejournal.com]

Relevant to your outrage: http://moerlin.livejournal.com/22285.html

They are assholes. Dreamwidth is looking a better option by the day.

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. Reading that article has made me angrier.

I'd known vaguely that the changes were happening, but I thought it was for the default style only (kinkmemes, anonmemes, etc. being affected). But I was reading a fic on a paid account and I went to the next chapter and BAM! Face full of ugly.

SO, SO UGLYYY. Even the "leave comment" is ugly.

"18 pages of 100% negative feedback didn't sway them", omfg. Does LJ not care that a huge portion of their paying account users are here for the fandom and RP'ing, which, incidentally, really likes subject lines?

Fuck LJ. Thank God I didn't cave and get a paid account, jesus.

(Also, your disapproving!Merlin icon is relevant to my feelings rn.)

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

I KNEW I should have posted to you/on my journal about this last week when I heard about it. It came out on a Russian server so few knew about it. LJ staff doesn't give a wink what we think of them, but I think we already knew this.

Most people are moving to InsaneJournal though since it's like old LJ. DW is too strange for most.
You should look into it. I hate that freaky face guy that comes with it though.

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

No, I actually heard the rumours a few days ago, but the level of change implemented shocked me. I mean, I figured they'd just removed the subject lines, something easy to fix, but they overhauled everything. The stupid icon loady thing, the lack of comment previews... EUGH.

Still, the whole Russian secret release is some real BULLSHIT. Fucking hell.

And I'm importing my stuff to DW because InsaneJournal weirds me out. Also, I'm lazy and I conviniently already have a DW account that I'd just never used. :3

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they actually had a whole load of things coming but he only leaked it slowly as people bitched at him. But... I knew everything and anyone who was able to access the Russian beta server freaked out and was mad and they basically spilled all the dirty little updates.

I've never used my DW either, lol. Poor baby... Just sitting there all moldy lonely...

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

Can't they make the layout an option? Like security settings?
Tick the layout you wish to have:
a) Default
b) UGLY

Can you read Russian? :-O Or do you use the Almighty Google Translate? (Or Babelfish, either one.)

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

No options! Sorry, in Russia options screw you!

Some Americans could get on the beta-server, but there were a few Russians that spilled the beans earlier and were complaining/panicking about it. There was quite a bit of noise from the 1%...