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The new commenting system on LJ sucks, I think we can all agree (and all the other prospective design changes seem to be speeding it down the path of no return). Knowing LJ, it's probably not going to change no matter how much anybody complains, and as this comm is heavily based on user comments, it's probably time to consider moving. Dreamwidth is the closest to LJ's old format and has a large fandom base, and seems the best alternative for now.

So -

[Poll #1804842]

Other thoughts?

(As a note, I'm completely willing to either stay or move. Updating the comm is easy enough for me either way.)

ETA - It's not only about subject lines. Others have written up potential problems better than I could:
http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html?thread=7005874#t7005874
http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html?thread=6261682#t6261682
ETA 4 - http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html?thread=7952050#t7952050

ETA 2 - For those worried about possibly needing to make DW accounts to comment, if a move happens: you don't need one! OpenID will let you comment as an LJ user (in the same way Facebook users can comment on LJ).

ETA 3 - For those worried about missing updates: I can crosspost to LJ to let you know a post is up, I don't mind that (it's like a minute of extra work, no problem) - if the DW move happens though, the comments would be over there.

ETA 5 - Apparently, this is what we're getting next year.

Comments

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

Well, the thing is, if one is only wanting to read/comment on certain secrets, the way one figure out which comment thread goes with which secret is by checking through the comment headers for the relevent threads. Heck, even in the old days, before each secret had its own dedicated thread (and that's a great idea, btw, Technophile, I really like it a lot), the headers would be used to indicate which secrets one would be replying to.

So instead of wasting time and my extremely limited bandwidth (I know, what am I even doing here then, right? XD) in reading through literally thousands of comments when I may only be interested in 10% of them, I just make a note of which secrets I want to follow up on, scan through the headers to that secret's thread, and away we go.

---Which LJ just completely annihilated. Awesome. Thanks, guys. That helped a lot. >

[aethre.livejournal.com]

Except Technophile uses the body of the comment to label the secrets, not the subject line - that is left blank. It's not like the starting comment of a thread automatically collapses or anything like that, so it's quite searchable. Cuz, yeah, I write down the numbers of the secrets I'm amused by in notepad and then just scroll until I find the comment thread as well.