Keep it up, guys....

[lizvogel]

I love how every time LiveJournal does something thick, Dreamwidth gets more traffic.

All other issues aside, that new comment page really is ugly, isn't it?

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[needled_ink_1975]

Heh. Wait till LJ implements all this fugly stuff (sometime in Jan, I believe).

Watch DW grow then.

–Nic

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[lizvogel]

It's... not as bad as I was expecting?

This may be a cunning strategy on LJ's part. If they keep lowering expectations, eventually they won't have to have a site at all.

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[needled_ink_1975]

The trouble with the new changes is that they're not dial-up and mobile view friendly. As in, none of them are dial-up/mobile friendly. Worse, they all have major accessibility issues, particularly as regards screen readers. The new comment box alone is very screen reader unfriendly. There's talk about fixing that, but who knows how long it'll take.

As for LJ shooting themselves in the foot (feet! I think they're a millipede!), I don't think they're in too much trouble as long as people decide to just crosspost to LJ from DW or whichever other site. You gotta delete your LJ to make a difference. Deleting it takes away the ads, reducing the pageviews for those ads, reducing the income LJ derives from those ads. If people start deleting their journals by the thousands per day, LJ will start to listen. But people are just making backup journals elsewhere, and keeping their LJs. Ergo, people complain and LJ just shrugs.

–Nic

(PS– I just remembered: I gave you a 'medal' once for giving me a handy link on a meta post. Thanks again!)

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[lizvogel]

That, and the new layout is giving people literal, physical headaches, and the userpic selection doesn't work if you've got high-security JavaScript settings, and comment subjects are a vital function in certain communities.... Let's face it, there are all kinds of reasons why this was Not A Good Idea.

I suspect you're right. Not that I can point fingers; I cross-post everything myself, because a large proportion of the people I come on-line to talk to are still LJ-only. But every time LJ does something stupid, a few more jump ship. Once the critical mass shifts....

(You're welcome, again!)