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Update
I haven't been online all day yesterday. Went to Coventry for a motorway training course. It consisted of:
AM: [meeting room] This is what you need to know and do if you are going to work on a motorway and not want to be killed.
PM: [on the M6] This is a motorway. Now, do things without being killed.
Also learned "how to turn a police car into a Smart car, the quick way".
LJ's new profile page design itself doesn't bother me much. It's not pretty, but neither was the old one. And I find it an efficient way of displaying information. Also, it's quite cool that if I "close" one of the sections on a profile, then when I go look at another profile the same section would also be "closed". So in effect I can turn off the display of information I don't need to see in all the profiles, with just one click. But it's interesting to read the response. There's no denying what the owners of LJ wants to do - take on social networking sites - but I can always still do what I want as long as they keep the "write in journal", "friends list" and "commmunities" functions. That's what I'm here for. The rest are just graphics etc and although I'd be sad if I can't customise my profile page or the look of my journal, it's not really The End.
Urgh, I have writing to do. But I don't think I'll be able to write anything until I've finished playing PW. On the 4th case of the 3rd game now. I'm hoping Apollo Justice has no connections with PW, because then I wouldn't want to play it and I would finally be able to STOP. (And make Liz play the games so that she can fangirl Edgeworth/Wright with me.)
Um, so overall, hi, still here. Haven't been reading the friends list much lately, sorry.
[edit] Reconsidering the profile layout, I'd have liked the "basic info" to be where the "no. of comments" etc is, and then those statistics moved to the bottom. You know, the more important things at the top. Would also be good to have the journal title slightly larger. But hey, I didn't give them feedback during the beta testing, so I can't complain, whether they listened to the beta testers or not. It'd be like complaining about voting results when I didn't even bother to vote myself. But overall, I still like this profile layout. And my "bio" didn't break despite the amount of table codes used.
AM: [meeting room] This is what you need to know and do if you are going to work on a motorway and not want to be killed.
PM: [on the M6] This is a motorway. Now, do things without being killed.
Also learned "how to turn a police car into a Smart car, the quick way".
LJ's new profile page design itself doesn't bother me much. It's not pretty, but neither was the old one. And I find it an efficient way of displaying information. Also, it's quite cool that if I "close" one of the sections on a profile, then when I go look at another profile the same section would also be "closed". So in effect I can turn off the display of information I don't need to see in all the profiles, with just one click. But it's interesting to read the response. There's no denying what the owners of LJ wants to do - take on social networking sites - but I can always still do what I want as long as they keep the "write in journal", "friends list" and "commmunities" functions. That's what I'm here for. The rest are just graphics etc and although I'd be sad if I can't customise my profile page or the look of my journal, it's not really The End.
Urgh, I have writing to do. But I don't think I'll be able to write anything until I've finished playing PW. On the 4th case of the 3rd game now. I'm hoping Apollo Justice has no connections with PW, because then I wouldn't want to play it and I would finally be able to STOP. (And make Liz play the games so that she can fangirl Edgeworth/Wright with me.)
Um, so overall, hi, still here. Haven't been reading the friends list much lately, sorry.
[edit] Reconsidering the profile layout, I'd have liked the "basic info" to be where the "no. of comments" etc is, and then those statistics moved to the bottom. You know, the more important things at the top. Would also be good to have the journal title slightly larger. But hey, I didn't give them feedback during the beta testing, so I can't complain, whether they listened to the beta testers or not. It'd be like complaining about voting results when I didn't even bother to vote myself. But overall, I still like this profile layout. And my "bio" didn't break despite the amount of table codes used.
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If the user profile had looked that way when everyone first opened their accounts, I doubt anyone would have given it a moment's thought. And the best place for self-expression is in your journal content rather than graphics which are, very often, stolen from someone else anyway!
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I see quite a few people talking about how much they hate it, which surprised me because "hate" is a very strong word. Either they hate things easily or they don't know how to use the word "dislike" or they really feel that strongly about the changes. Whatever the case, I feel the reactions are far too OTT. I totally agree with you. And if LJ started out this way and changed to the way we're used to before, I bet people would kick up the same fuss. Not to mention I even see people saying "why do they display email address on profile OMG stalker alert" when it just takes one click on the Edit Profile page to turn that off. On the link above, there was even someone who said "it took me a long time to find the post option on the new profile" when it's right there on the top! Before people start to complain, they need to check if their complaints are really valid. Sigh.
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To be honest? The more I look at the new profile page design, the more I like it!
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I suppose the organised-ness probably make people feel that it's become a bit too impersonal. If they'd make the journal title and sub-title nice and big and look more important somehow, maybe less people'd have problems with it.
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I'm supposed to be writing but I keep on getting distracted by the internets. Yesterday I spent three hours on couchsurfing.com. Playing video games somehow sounds more productive? At least you get to save your progress and get further in the storyline XD
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Ha, don't worry about it, we're always supposed to be writing. XDDDD Video game is my fandom study!11! I have to play through the games before I can fic them. That is my excuse for procrastinating anyway...
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