[ SECRET POST #2176 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2176 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Sorry for late, busy day.

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 075 secrets from Secret Submission Post #311.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I expect they're bitching about the people who are bitching about the newest Livejournal changes. Which, if you want a Tumblr style format, then wonderful for you. But this is not a cosmetic change like the last ones were, it's a change in the way the site actually functions, which pretty much erases the reason most of us signed up in the first place. *shrug*

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, just Tumblr specifically. Livejournal's usability is being broken with each new update and I blame no one for complaining about that.

Tumblr benefits from the "oh shiny" approach because, unfortunately, that's what it's being geared to.

Livejournal on the other hand, is a journal service, where posts and comments are the meat of the social experience, and that attracted its mostly niche userbase. The administration is clearly pushing to change that to a Facebook-est experience, to attract a more mainstream userbase which wants that social experience. (And also because money.)

I said "Livejournal-y" -- and that's where this confusion came from? -- because there are users trying to use Tumblr as their journals of sort, and the website has never lent itself well to that use. (It can be done, sure, but it's very inconvenient as a way to get organized feedback or a discussion, like you would in Livejournal.) So they're forcing a use out of a website whose administration has never shown an interest in providing with that specific experience.

The lesson to be learned into all this is that this "oh shiny" trend of social networking cannot be over soon enough.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you in that I wish people had never *tried* to use tumblr as an alternate LJ, and that it lends itself better to pics and gifs, but the fact remains that it's the main place to find fics and discussions for some current fandoms, so the new setup makes that frustrating.

My question is, as always - why not include a toggle, so people who the new layout works for can use it, and people who could more easily browse the text-based list can do that? (I will forever adore Grooveshark for doing just this - even though, ironically, I *like* their new version and don't need to toggle back.)

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Agree so hard!

One of the things I liked about tumblr was how flexible it was. If I was feeling all text-y (one of my main fandoms is pretty much /made/ of text posts, for instance, and it's very much focused only on tumblr), I could get texty; if I was feeling in the mood for fanart/gif squeeing, I could get that too.
Now it's all ... blah. Grr.
(I also find the new tags page layout very non-intuitive, for some reason, which increases my frustration greatly.)

OP

[(Anonymous)]

That, I don't know. Maybe keeping both implementations working consumes too many resources inside their servers?