Friends Page redesign project

[news]

Over the past few months, we've been working hard to respond to all of your requests from the past year or two regarding what you want out of a social networking and blogging site. With that in mind, beginning tomorrow you will have the opportunity to opt-in to the beta test for our new Friends Page format. We'd like you to try it out and let us

Comments

[purkledragon]

We consulted with a cutting-edge market research firm and concluded that no one really wants to read more than 140 characters about what their friends are doing.

Says you. Personally, I dislike having to click a damn cut if I want to read something. If I have to wait for the site to reload up, it's not worth my effort.

[themadfish]

Hey, I get that lj has done some really stupid things, but I don't think they'd ever do something like this. The key here is that they said, "140-characters". Just think about it. It's not words, it's characters. The second sentence you wrote there? That's 130 characters with spaces, 104 without. That means that if they had implimented it, then just about everything would be cut. I find the 140-character part of it very laughable cause they essentially said that cutting edge market shows that no one wants to read more than a sentence about their friends. I think that does make it clear that this entire thing is a joke.

My entire comment here? 681 characters with spaces.

[wear_your_rue]

"I find the 140-character part of it very laughable cause they essentially said that cutting edge market shows that no one wants to read more than a sentence about their friends."

*nods* Yep, that, and they specifically picked "140" as the cutoff number in reference to Twitter.

[malone]

They have done this every year, if you don't like it then don't read it.

[scottrossi]

shut the fuck up you whiny cunt. let me introduce you to some real problems sometime. try turning on the motherfucking news instead of Twilight DVDs or whatever you goth sluts are into these days.

[jarbabyj]

I don't know about you baby, but I'm laughing my ass off. Srs business...we're all about it here.

this, basically

[postal152]

Ohoho, I laughed out loud.

[finding_helena]

They've been doing this for years.

[provetheworst]

fuck jokes

[denoftrolls]

[madrugadita]

Oh god your icon.

[vesleskjor]

THIS JOKE ISN'T FUNNY TO me! BAWW I WANT MY MONEY BACK.

[purkledragon]

Oh wow, aren't you cute?

Again, funny jokes aren't funny when it's normal for a site to screw it's patrons over with real life changes like this.

[vesleskjor]

Are people STILL bitter about old changes? God.

[purkledragon]

Some are, I could care less, just took my money elsewhere. Thankfully there is free enterprise.

[vesleskjor]

You seem to care enough to bring it up again over a simple joke.