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[pensnest]

Oh, well done, LJ, well done.

The newest news post starts with: "You don't like how everything just suddenly changed with no warning or initial announcement."

No shit.

It doesn't affect my use of the site very much, since I mostly post here on DW and crossposting seems to work very well. But could they not have learned by now that such autocratic behaviour does not go over well? Seriously?

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[sperrywink]

It's not like its been a decade of people complaining about the same thing or anything. Sigh.

Although since I had "show in style mine" checked, I didn't notice a thing.

[pensnest]

It doesn't seem to affect me much either, as I have my own style, too. What dismays me is the great stack of log-in-with FB, Google+ etc that I have to get through in order to post a comment... when I am already logged in with LJ. Ridiculous.

[turlough]

I've stopped reading LJ News but I got a mail from them with the same content. I'm very glad I hardly ever have to visit LJ these days :-)

[rikes]

I don't mind the new layout as such - it's functional and I don't spend all that much time on LJ itself - but I have to say I was quite surprised!

[turps]

The change was really sudden, though like most of the above it hasn't affected my own layout.

I have to hold onto hope that they admit they've a bad track record with sudden changes and are trying to change that. Goodness knows if they actually will, but at least they're admitting it.

[ephemera]

I know - that really is a "stating the blindingly obvious" opener, isn't it?

[solariana.livejournal.com]

It would have been nicer if they ask what users would like to see and work on that. It seems like they spent a lot of time and effort guessing as to what people would like and *surprising* us with it. Then asking what we thought after the fact.

I hope they continued to allow people to use the old friends page version. I tried the new version out months ago and remember not liking it much, so I immediately switched it back.

I have a lot of trouble finding things in the new version. Things that used to be one click are now 2 or 3 clicks. That is bit aggravating! How did they think that was better?

[pensnest]

Right now as I type this comment I have a *stack* of buttons above the comment window. I can (apparently) easily comment on posts under my Facebook account, my Twitter account, my Google account, my Mail.ru account, my VKontakte account (none of which I have) or with OpenID. Which is all well and good, but I am logged in to my LJ account. Gah.

I don't use the new Friends page, though it keeps reminding me that I could. Doesn't strike me as worth the pain.