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

First, a personal note: I am on Dreamwidth as Innerslytherin, and if you are on DW please let me know what your username is. I'm not leaving here, but I want to improve my flist on DW since LJ has been sucking overall lately anyway and this new business pisses me right off.

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.

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

First, a personal note: I am on Dreamwidth as Innerslytherin, and if you are on DW please let me know what your username is. I'm not leaving here, but I want to improve my flist on DW since LJ has been sucking overall lately anyway and this new business pisses me right off.

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.

Real Life Update

First of all, I apologize for comments and emails I haven't responded to. I confess, I have spent some time being utterly depressed, and some time being utterly busy, and some time being frankly lazy. But I am going to try to catch up over the next little while.

So last week I had my telephone hearing about whether or not I was eligible for unemployment benefits. It was unpleasant and by the end of that day I had managed to stress myself into a headache bad enough I nearly took a migraine pill. Fortunately the next day I felt better physically, and despite occasional fretting about whether or not I said the right things, I managed mostly to put it in God's hands and stop worrying.

Yesterday I got a letter from the state, informing me that the judgment was in my favor and I was eligible. And it turns out what the HR person from the former employer said worked against her, and the state feels the company treated me badly. It's so nice to receive financial validation in that way, and it means I can stop applying for dingy $10/hour secretarial positions at the university and start applying only for the jobs I really want to have.

On a new note, here is something I didn't post about at first because we weren't sure it was real, and then because we weren't sure how it would work out, but now the arrangements are made, so I feel comfortable posting about it. In January, my mom and I are going to Trinidad and Tobago for a week-long birding trip! She randomly entered a contest with a birding magazine she reads, and at first we thought the award email was a scam, but then her name showed up on the magazine's website, and then she started getting calls from the magazine and the travel people arranging the trip, so it's real! Our flights are booked, our suitcases bought, and we're very excited.

Incidentally, we have something like a 6-hour layover in Miami on our way home, so if anyone is in the area and feels like coming to the airport to get us, we could hang out for a few hours. :D

I'm doing handmade gifts for Christmas this year, but sadly they are not in the mail yet, so no one will get Christmas from me until after Christmas. I suck horribly at getting to the post office. :(

Also, the first trailer and wallpaper and movie poster for Part 1 of The Hobbit movie is out! I am so freaking excited! See them here. Part 1 is out in a little less than a year, and Part 2 follows a year later. *flails*