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[kseenaa]

changeitback--A community for those dissatisfied with the new LJ profiles.

Please join this community. Even if you like the way the profiles currently are, please join and support those who are upset. This is about more than how profiles look: it's about the lack of respect LJ has been showing its users by not respecting their opinions and listening to their complaints. We just want to be heard, acknowledged, and have our thoughts taken seriously.

Join it. Or go read there. There is a lot of info in the only post on whats been going on. It is a head-count community, so there is no need to post anything, if you do not wish to.

Comments

[stealmybike.livejournal.com]

Hmm really? Is it that big of a problem? I think it looks fine and/or extremely similar just better organized - coming from a website maintenance pov. What is the argument against it? Just because they changed it all of a sudden without letting the users know?

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

That would be one of the things I have a problem with, yes. They did annonuce that they were working on it. It was in Beta. Beta-testers responded, with what they thought needed changing. No response. Team say, it ain't ready, it will take time before realease. We are working on it. But still realeases it. And they do not respond to any of the angry comments in a new post. Only ONE has had the guts to jump in the fray of the LJ-team.

But hey. If you like it, that is fine. :-) But there are a ALOT of people that don't. I don't find it very user-friendly at all. It takes up twice as much space as it used to. You can collapse parts of it, but if you do it will stay collapsed when you look at other userinfo's. It don't look finished to me. Cluttered with info, that really isn't needed. Especially not at the top of the page.

So... Support the once that don't like it? You just have to join, not do anything. :-P

[stealmybike.livejournal.com]

Understood, I mean I personally, don’t really care about what it looks like or not. I’ve been on LJ since I was 13 (about 8 years now) and I don’t plan on leaving because they introduced a new format for something. I’ll support though, I have nothing against whoever dislikes it.

But coming from experience with this not only from maintaining websites but and also from what happened with Facebook – I know it will not be changed. Facebook's old version was not easy to use but was considered "easy to use” because it was Facebook’s original format. Once Facebook released its “optional” new version, people complained about it being too much and too complex. After a week or two of release, Facebook completely converted to its new format, which included collapsible sections (which a lot of people liked if they didn’t care about looking at certain aspects of a profile) along with different groupings of links, etc. Since then, no matter what petition was signed – Facebook has not changed. Why? Because they can do it and the higher ups know that Facebook is one of the most used networking sites on the internet - no one’s going to leave if they have friends or networks on there.

Expect the same from Livejournal because Livejournal hasn’t been about the users in years.

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. (Even if I never did join Facebook... I am weird like that.)

I know they probably won't change it back. But to at least acknowledge that, yes, they have unhappy users. That would be a HUGE step forward. And they did take away that annoying LJSeek button on the profile. Also a huge step forward.

I am kinda in the same spot as you are. I have only been here for 5 years. But still. Thats alot of friends I have gathered. Alot of posts I have posted. A big part of my life I don't wanna lose. Hence I bought a Permanent account some time ago.

I am not going anywhere. But I can still be annoyed, can't I? ;-)

[stealmybike.livejournal.com]

Yup, yup. You have ever right to be annoyed. I'll give you that!

[pktaxwench.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that so long as I get LJ for free (which I do, I tolerate the ads, which, 90% of the time, are for PotC ringtones or costumes) I'm not ever going to complain about the website design that someone else does so I can play in this world. But that's just me.

Honestly, the new homepage isn't all that different. I didn't even notice it until I saw your post last week, then went back, and was like "Oohh.. it is different!"

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

To me, it is mildly annoying. But that is not what annoys me the worst. What annoys me the worst is the blantant ignorance from the LJ-team. Ok, so they might not change it back or even make any changes to it as it is. BUT! They could acknowledge all the people that are annoyed and unhappy. At the moment, they don't.