Hee!

[hils]

Everyone is complaining about the new profile page but I've been beta testing it for two months so I'm used to it now

Really, folks, it's not that bad.

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I've been beta testing it too, and I like it. Especially as you can hide sections of it to just leave specific bits and pieces. That's the best part IMO.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like it too :)

[tonkpils-girl.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even noticed we could hide sections, thanks for that. :D

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! :D

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

People don't like having things done to them without their permission. It's quite shocking when you go to bed with something one way and you wake up and someone changed it. You feel jerked around and manipulated, even if later you either come to like it or just adjust to it.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Oh, LJ didn't tell people it was changing? I never pay any attention to these things. LOL!

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Well, personally I find it ugly, but that might just be the fact that I am so used to the old profile page. Maybe it'll grow on me, I don't know.

What annoys me, though, is the news post they announced it in. First they talk about how they are going to make new features opt-in, because people complain - and oh, by the way, here is a new profile page that you can't even opt out of. Kind of a mixed message.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understand that. I didn't realise they'd thrust it on people with no warning

[eleclya-m.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't even know it had changed. Dunno whether I like it or not... I mean, I don't dislike it... bit random that they didn't tell anyone it would be changing tho.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think this seems to be the main issue. Yet again LJ fail at communication

[goth-clark.livejournal.com]

I used it for a while, but it prevented me from downloading my entries. I'm not sure why, but it seemed to interfere with my lj add on. Hopefully they fixed that.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know about that. The only lj add on I have randomises which icon I use in a post

[goth-clark.livejournal.com]

I just checked and they did fix the problem. Yay! I like the new look. It makes more sense and things are grouped and I can hide my communities lists. Cool!

[hils.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[goth-clark.livejournal.com]

It looks like communities hidden is now a default setting for me. I checked a few other profiles and all their community lists are hidden. That's kind of cool. It shortens the page and looks so much cleaner. There is wank already over this.

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1185562.html

[hils.livejournal.com]

Oh FFS. This is so not worth the wank

*ignores it and makes pretty icons instead*

[danceswithgary]

I like that the info I use all the time is at the top (I'm nosy about newcomers to my flist and the people who comment). The rest I don't care about one way or another. I'm used to software changing underneath me - used to be part of my job. :-D

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like the info at the top too. Very handy :)

[yavannauk.livejournal.com]

My main complaint about it is that if you have long lists of interests or friends they're all really cramped together and so much harder to read than before. Blech. And so much for being able to opt out of stuff.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Really? I don't think it looks that much different, but like I said I've been using the new version for a while

[lux-astraea.livejournal.com]

Personally I like it. I changed over about a month ago, and prefer it... loots better and makes it easier to find memories faster etc.

I see from the comments though - and a couple of posts elsewhere on the flist - that LJ have switched everyone over without informing them? Although... wasn't it on one of the 'news' messages a while back? *shrug*

<3

[hils.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. I never read the news pages. LOL!

[awehla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's OK except my website merges into my schools but that's probably the ad squishing it together.

Lisa
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[hils.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, I have a paid account so there is no ads for me

[awehla.livejournal.com]

I used to have a paid account but I hardly used the polls and phone posts so I downgraded.

Lisa
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[hils.livejournal.com]

I like all the extra icons *g*

[ryo-girl.livejournal.com]

I don't like it because the section breaks mean I have all this extra white space where it isn't needed, and I actually have to scroll down quite a bit now, where before I didn't have to.

Ignoring even that, though - I find it incredibly unsettling that LJ was ignoring people's comments. A handful of people were having trouble with their HTML after the change, and LJ went and fixed it - which means they were reading comments, they just were ignoring ones that had any opinion at all. People don't think of it that way, but Livejournal does have customers, and that is extremely poor customer service.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, communication has never been great on LJ sadly

[ryo-girl.livejournal.com]

Apparently. :/

Honestly I think I'd like it a whole lot more if there weren't those lines separating the sections. If the sections weren't broken up like that, it would eliminate a whole lot of extra space. You could still have the arrows if you wanted them, of course, but the sheer amount of unused space just confuses me.

I do like the 'edit' feature, I don't like the stats on the top.

[hils.livejournal.com]

I actually like the stats at the top

[ryo-girl.livejournal.com]

Eh. I'm a bit too paranoid, so personal stats like how many comments I've posted, etc, to me should be like my birthday - I can display them if I want, and hide them if I want.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we shall wait and see

[drbillbongo.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure I like it yet, but I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. I'm just glad it doesn't mess up my bio formatting. :)

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Well, that's good

[tonkpils-girl.livejournal.com]

It's no big deal to me either. Your icon is awesome! :D

[hils.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I got it during the last LJ kerfuffle. LOL!

[salymander.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I checked out the beta testing a few days ago, I didn't leave it turned on, but if I hadn't looked at it at all the shock would have really thrown me. I almost never use the profile page though, so I don't see it as a huge thing. People are silly.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yes, people sometimes are.