Until LJ corrects this god-forsaken update.bml...

[wolfwings]

...you will all have to add googlewolfwings to your friends list. I don't believe I'm going to post directly to LJ again because I have almost never except for experimentation posted to LJ with anything but the web-interface, and their new web-interface severely breaks my workflow.

shatterstripes? I know what you were talking about with what Flash did every version or so now, though admitedly to a lesser extent.

Everyone else? Come, join me. Let's show LJ we mean business. Mass exodus to Google! Who needs invites? :-)

Comments

Re: Well... s'just avoiding repeating yourself, I believe.

[otana.livejournal.com]

What I disagree with is your belief that the page is fundamentally broken. It works just fine for me and any number of other LJ users that are not complaining about it. I also do not see the problem with downloading a client (not necessarily WYSIWYG; Deepest Sender for example can easily be configured as an HTML entry client), and that "because I've never had to before" is not particularly a convincing argument against that.

It is your choice what you do, I just think it smacks very much of "I'm taking my ball and going home".

Re: Well... s'just avoiding repeating yourself, I believe.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

It's not 'fundamentally' broken, but is broken enough it shouldn't be left on the production environment until several of the issues are addressed. There is existing infrastructure (added however recently) to allow users to opt in to beta-testing features, and let them switch said features on and off en-masse for testing.

A lot of my complaints really boil down to Fitts' law and Accessibility concerns, I'll admit. Not many web designers even understand the former, and the latter often only gets passing investigation, and in this case I believe the redesign is a huge step back in both categories which is why I'm so annoyed.

And when you're paying for a service (Hi! Paid Member here. =^.^=) and suddenly that service makes a change you find distasteful, what other choice do you have than to 'take your ball and go home' and let the service-provider know why you did so?