Seriously, wtf LJ?

[kyrielle]

So, LiveJournal has a new "infinite scroll" type friends page with lots of white and blue (more white than blue). And a new update page (which, uh, I've never seen as I post from Dreamwidth, so I can't comment on it), which is leaving beta and will be the only way to post there soon as I understand it.

And now a new profile page which, by the way, has gone beta with a bug...namely anyone viewing any profile in the beta right now can see community memberships of people who have set it so that community memberships aren't supposed to show in their profile.

So much for privacy until that bug is fixed, if you were in a community you didn't want anyone to know, as anyone can see that view of your profile at the moment. Mine weren't anyway, but...not cool, LJ.

Also, why the bio is below schools, I don't know. I'm not sure whether I like interests above the bio - as a first impression I often care about that - schools not so much.

I know some people have completely left LJ to remove their content to protest. I'm not going to, nor am I going to stop reading at this juncture. I have too many friends who are still there, and I gain nothing and lose connections if I walk away.

But I am thoroughly disgusted with the whole look and feel of the site. It looks like a crappy mash-up of other popular sites done badly, and they're largely not addressing the repeated comments from some users that the site layout and colors they are standardizing on are *literally* migraine-inducing.

Comments

[retsuko]

I'm really disgusted with LJ, too, but like you, I don't feel ready to up and quit. What really bothers me is that LJ owners seem to think that people want FBxTumblr, when what most users really want, and say that they want, is just plain ol' LJ. I don't have a FB or Tumblr because I don't want to! :( Argh. It's so frustrating. LJ won't get another penny from me unless things go back to some semblance of normal, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.

I had heard that you *could* switch infinite scroll off, and I sure as hell hope that you can because I am part of a LOT of long-winded, big coms at the moment, and infinite scroll will make finding specific entries next to impossible.

[kyrielle]

I haven't poked around much as they haven't forced me to the new friendscroll. I'm still using my page as long as they let me, but I know some day I'll go over there and it'll be gone.

I may have to embed some custom css in my browser then to try to make the page less eyeblinding, though.