Social Times on the problem with LiveJournal's changes

[xie_xie_xie]

Interesting article in Social Times on why the changes to LiveJournal are not only NOT likely to gain a new userbase for LJ, but risk driving off current users by taking away the very things we like here:
Now that sufficient time has passed, and older social networks are seeing their once great services lag behind the new startups, the desire to

Comments

[gaedhal]

Cripes.

Every so-called improvement is a sharp pain in the ass!

[bodleian]

I hated the last change that they made but at least I had the option to revert to the old format. Change is not always for the best.

[kinwad]

Agree completely w/the article. LJ still hasn't heard, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

[buzziecat]

The article identified that lj has hired someone formerly from shitty, f'ing intrusive, forces-unwanted=changes-on-users-frequently google. Ahhh... no wonder lj has been slammed with an 'updated format' and no advance notice.

The changes to lj can be compared to the changes to google in how unwanted and unnecessary they are and will likely also compare in how feedback does nothing to change them. :(

Best not to believe the claim that privacy will be respected on lj and users will not be asked to reveal their identify. Not where google is involved.

Thanks for the article, Xie.

[ljtilford]

I hated the new format immediately. I am so glad people with much better skills at expressing themselves have commented.