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[niniblack]

DEAR LIVEJOURNAL,

YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK.

I'VE CREATED THIS GIF MONTAGE TO SHOW YOU HOW I FEEL. I'M NOT PUTTING IT UNDER A CUT. SORRY FLIST.

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THIS IS A SUBJECT AND IT IS PRECIOUS

[niniblack]

LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL SUBJECT LINE RIGHT THERE

[miggy]

OMG IT'S SO BIG AND RIGHT OUT THERE.

[niniblack]

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OH GOD JUST LOOK AT THEM THEY'RE SO THICK THAT IS QUITE A FONT WEIGHT

[miggy]

Ahem. Thanks for offering to help at GAM, too. :)

[merkintosh]

Your feelings are my feelings about this change. What's sad is that there are good things buried underneath this horrible, horrid, unnecessary crap like having the option to expand all and not needing to go to a new page to switch users or enter a captcha. But why did they have to make it so ugly? Just. Why?

I ♥ SUBJECTS

[niniblack]

Because they made it look like web 2.0. I'm not even kidding, that's the style of that comment box with the stroke and the buttons and the horridness I can barely stand to look at. It's just plain ugly. Clearly, no one with a design degree is working for them.

And now I'm going to be spending my lunch break tomorrow trying to fix k_bl's comment pages. Which really means I'll be trying to code them to look as close as possible to the S1 style as I can.

Just... fuck.

[merkintosh]

Why would you get a design degree if you're going to design a massive project for general use on the Internet that people have to look at day in and day out? Instead, they let computer programmers make the Internet look pretty. LOL, ;A;

Yeah. Apparently if you enable custom comment pages the subject line comes back but it's stuck in your theme style thing (I'm tired, this ugliness is making me cranky.)

Re: I ♥ SUBJECTS

[miggy]

I think it's hilarious they they did clearly go "we must be web 2.0 with our comment boxes, not because of a specific design need but because OMG WEB 2.0!!!!" and, appropriately enough, wound up with something that looks five or so years out of date.

I remember that mindset well.

Subejct lines are awful, apparently. I rather think they are gorgeous

[shadowedkit]

So, it looks like Delicious was ahead of the ball game with giving the whole baby style, and LJ decided to replicate? Except that Twitter has tried it to. So this is apparently, the new style that is taking over the websites?

Like someone else has said -- you know it's bad when Tumblr looks like the best medium to host fic.

(Once again, thank you, and it's so nice to see subject lines!)

[alter_alterego]

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? "WEB 2.0" IS TRENDY. "WEB 2.0" IS HIP AND TOPICAL AND ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE ENGAGING IN THIS NEW-FANGLED USER CREATED CONTENT THING. WE MUST EMBRACE THE "WEB 2.0".

(To be fair, my workplace was all over this topic.

Four or five years ago.)