rionaleonhart: final fantasy xiii: lightning pays intense attention to you. (speak carefully)
Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2011-12-21 10:01 am
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Think About What You're Saying, And Then Don't Say It, And Then Just Run Away Somewhere.



Merry Christmas! Lightning has a present for you. It's a punch in the face. You can have it now, or on the day itself, or both. You don't get to decide. She's thinking.

(I wrote this yesterday, and now I think it may be addressing Livejournal rather than You, The Reader. LIVEJOURNAL. I can happily put up with a lot, but the new font on the default entry pages is really difficult to read! Reading is sort of the point of this website. And I don't want to switch over to Dreamwidth, because, the fuss of uprooting aside (this is my home! all my fandoms live here!), I find the default pages there difficult to read as well. All I want is to be able to read things! I didn't realise this was so much to ask!

Is there some sort of magical scripty thing one can employ in Chrome to make the font on Livejournal default pages change itself to Verdana? I - I don't understand magical scripty things, as may be apparent. If not, I suppose I might have to find the most easy-on-the-eyes custom layout I can and enable custom comment pages.)

Ahem. I really do hope you all have a wonderful Christmas or other seasonal holiday! Except you, Livejournal. Coal for you.


So this entry isn't too negative (because, hey, it's nearly Christmas), how about a fun meme? Here's one of my favourites.

Ask any character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

Ask away!
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[identity profile] dev-chieftain.livejournal.com 2011-12-21 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really know/understand their reasoning, per se, but I would guess it's an attempt to keep livejournal "fresh" and new to try to acquire new users in a market where a lot of people are going for pithier sites like twitter and facebook at the moment. The thing is, I think they aren't considering that the market they have is people who like to talk at length, in text, and prefer not to have to swim through walls of macros and soundbytes and crap. Additionally, I suspect that they probably think they're making the site 'easier to use' by removing some of the choices. It is true that when you can't do anything, it's very easy to use a site.

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2011-12-21 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I know Tumblr is a big draw for Livejournal users. Possibly they're assuming that people really like it when it's incredibly inconvenient to comment?

[identity profile] dev-chieftain.livejournal.com 2011-12-21 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably. I HATE Tumblr. You're probably right though. Gah.

[identity profile] dracothelizard.livejournal.com 2011-12-21 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I have tumblr, and I do like but OMFGSOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO COMMENT. FFS.

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2011-12-21 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's the basic mistake made by social networking sites - if something new pops up that's different and popular, everyone starts copying that instead of doing their own thing well. They're apparently under the illusion that they can get people to only participate in one service for everything, instead of grasping that people usually want different kinds of social networking for different things.
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