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May. 15th, 2014 01:05 pmUgh. Do not like new default site scheme and look of profile and update pages. To me, it looks harder to read - less contrast or something? It seems light and bright and is kinda hurting my eyes. Choice of font seems like oo aren't we all slick and postmodern, rather than being, you know, comfortable to read. And check out all this wasted space: ( Read more... )
Also not keen that apparently now the site scheme cookie I set with LJLogin is meaningless (at least, I've only just noticed now that trying to set a site scheme that way has no effect; I think my choice of Horizon had previously held). I only hope that LJLogin itself will continue to work for the foreseeable future... And I think it's odd that they've dropped the term "journal" in favor of "blog" in some places (really? people think of these as blogs?), but not uniformly (e.g. number of journal entries on profile is still labeled such).
The thing that really gets my Frank-the-goat about this kind of stunt is that LJ just springs it on us, without so much as a warning in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news or some such place that any design change is even coming at all, never mind posting some preview mockups or, wow, actually involving users in development (like Dreamwidth does). You just log in one day and bam, it all looks different.
Also not keen that apparently now the site scheme cookie I set with LJLogin is meaningless (at least, I've only just noticed now that trying to set a site scheme that way has no effect; I think my choice of Horizon had previously held). I only hope that LJLogin itself will continue to work for the foreseeable future... And I think it's odd that they've dropped the term "journal" in favor of "blog" in some places (really? people think of these as blogs?), but not uniformly (e.g. number of journal entries on profile is still labeled such).
The thing that really gets my Frank-the-goat about this kind of stunt is that LJ just springs it on us, without so much as a warning in
news or some such place that any design change is even coming at all, never mind posting some preview mockups or, wow, actually involving users in development (like Dreamwidth does). You just log in one day and bam, it all looks different.
