My stance

[hils]

Maybe I'm tired, or old, or just used to it but I really don't have the energy to get angry about the LJ Profile Page change.

I will continue to pay for my paid account and my icons. I would even like to get a permanent account but sadly I can't afford anything for myself until after Christmas. Maybe next time.

Comments

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm tired, or old, or just used to it

I offer "or sane" as one of the alternate explanations about your lack of anger. :D

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, thanks.

[blisstasteful.livejournal.com]

I haven't been around. Are people fussing? It's only a minor change!

[vichan.livejournal.com]

People are fussing, but I think the only legitimate fusses are (1) the information at the top - slight breach of privacy right there in plain view (time/date of when the last entry was posted, which also takes private/friends' only posts into account) and (2) the lack of protection against scraper-bots that was in place on the old profile. (Meaning spambots can pick up on your e-mail address now. Yay.)

hils, you mentioned you had beta-tested the profile page... could I ask when you were asked for feedback on it? A few other beta testers are claiming they were never asked for feedback, and I'm just trying to verify if that's true.

[hils.livejournal.com]

I was never asked for feedback specifically but I believe there was a forum for beta testers to post their comments

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a big kerfuffle as there always is when LJ does anything

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I looked at my profile page. I guess it changed. Not like I use it much.

Are people upset? It's not like they completely screwed everything up like Facebook did.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, people are upset. I'm not. I really don't care, but then new Facebook didn't bother me either

[mysticmoonstorm.livejournal.com]

I don't like it - but then I'm resistant to change. I think the old one was more user friendly and was nice and compact. I don't like having to scroll so much. But am I going to whine and piss and moan about it? Nah - too lazy.

I hated the Facebook change for the exact same reason - it took a nice 1 page spread and turned it into 4 or 5 pages. But then I don't have a ton of applications or anything so it wasn't an issue for me.
Again, annoying but I'll get used to it. Big whoop. *smirk*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe!

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

I don't like it and I posted about it in the community but I was polite. I just asked them to please change it back.

[lex-a-like.livejournal.com]

I've no problems with them changing things, they've not taken anything away, they've not really given us anything more - just arrange things. I don't see the invasion of privacy, things such as last post were always available, even for fonly/private messages - true it was behind a link, but anyone could see it.

I think people just reject change out of some random historic impulse to maintain homeostasis. Usually it takes upheaval, revolution to instigate change - but with websites a developer just pushes a button, and that's hard for people to accept.

Life goes on though - and they layout of a web page doesn't even qualify as a minor issue on the skein of life, people should just get over it and move on. If it's really that terrible go somewhere else, find a site that does things democratically - they don't last long. Other than a few blips, LJ's quite open. We all got to beta test the new stuff, everyone had the opportunity to provide feedback. If people cared so much, they should have cared then, not now.

I understand the problem when LJ decided to excise certain accounts based on subject matter they carried, that's an issue of freedom of speech. That comes down to the very core of what blogging on LJ about. That's something that's worth taking note of. A status page change, meh.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I was all ready to protest when LJ actually did something worth protesting about