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jlhSpent fairly comatose day at work. Watched Moony have fun with animated smilies. Then went to Brooklyn to celebrate the end of Jaida's summer and proceeded to stay up until 2:30am talking about classical music and popular culture and lots of other things with Cyg and Ali. Cassie and Josh back tonight. Rene and Las here tomorrow. Cyg gone Monday, *sob*.
You know, we all hate unexpected change, and none of us pay as much attention to the LJ news page as we probably should. Now that everyone who hates the new format knows how to change their page back, a few comments.
I love it! I love the blue, I love the elegance. I love that the menu is at the top and not the side, so it doesn't take up as much real estate on the page; I have a laptop at home and don't have a vast screen. (And before you say it, if you saw my apartment you would know that I have a laptop because there is no flat surface that could accomodate a desktop computer, nor any room for a desk. As Alex always says, it is bijou.)
Anyway, I always found the old menu bar difficult to naviagate with a lot of links I never used and not links I did use. For example, to edit your friends groups you had to go to the View Friends Filter and then click on yet another link there. Does this make sense to anyone, because it took me forever to figure that out and unlike, say, our Josh, I do not memorize tricky urls. Now we have a "manage" page that I am totally in love with. LOVE.
As for the new style system and not being able to see the menus when in comment view: I like that my actual style is kept when in comment view. You only have to go back once to the "success" page, or click user info on the comment page, to get to the menus anyway. I hated that you would be on someone's very pretty LJ, and then as soon as you clicked on an lj-cut, or a comment link, BAM you were yanked out of their style and into the LJ style. It was jarring. This furthers the feel that you are in, say, ALI's space, ALI's journal, rather than just another page on the LJ site.
The ONLY things I'll say about S2 is that I miss the clever little names people made for the leaving a comment text, and I'm not used to the icons quite yet. I like them, but I can't remember which is which. But I'm sure I'll get used to them. I don't like that the mood of the entry carries onto the reply to someone else's comment; it's distracting. I also didn't like at first that my default icon was always in the upper right hand corner (though I'm pretty sure I remember how to change it) but now I like it. As an RPGer, I like the visual reminder of how I am logged in. Saves mistakes.
And now your (not so very) cryptic comment for the day: Clearly I have no problem with people having ship preferences, or even promoting a ship or shipping one ship exclusively and fervently. What I DO have a problem with is promoting one's ship preferences under the guise of canon accuracy. With very few exceptions (married couples, maybe Bill/Fleur, Percy/Penny for a while), ALL ships are a matter of interpretation. Only future ships of people who are now dead are out of the question. When you do such, you only give your own ship a bad name.
(I know, I know, spoken like a slasher-at-heart, a non-canon shipper, but come on. Until there is a kiss, it ain't a canon ship.)
You know, we all hate unexpected change, and none of us pay as much attention to the LJ news page as we probably should. Now that everyone who hates the new format knows how to change their page back, a few comments.
I love it! I love the blue, I love the elegance. I love that the menu is at the top and not the side, so it doesn't take up as much real estate on the page; I have a laptop at home and don't have a vast screen. (And before you say it, if you saw my apartment you would know that I have a laptop because there is no flat surface that could accomodate a desktop computer, nor any room for a desk. As Alex always says, it is bijou.)
Anyway, I always found the old menu bar difficult to naviagate with a lot of links I never used and not links I did use. For example, to edit your friends groups you had to go to the View Friends Filter and then click on yet another link there. Does this make sense to anyone, because it took me forever to figure that out and unlike, say, our Josh, I do not memorize tricky urls. Now we have a "manage" page that I am totally in love with. LOVE.
As for the new style system and not being able to see the menus when in comment view: I like that my actual style is kept when in comment view. You only have to go back once to the "success" page, or click user info on the comment page, to get to the menus anyway. I hated that you would be on someone's very pretty LJ, and then as soon as you clicked on an lj-cut, or a comment link, BAM you were yanked out of their style and into the LJ style. It was jarring. This furthers the feel that you are in, say, ALI's space, ALI's journal, rather than just another page on the LJ site.
The ONLY things I'll say about S2 is that I miss the clever little names people made for the leaving a comment text, and I'm not used to the icons quite yet. I like them, but I can't remember which is which. But I'm sure I'll get used to them. I don't like that the mood of the entry carries onto the reply to someone else's comment; it's distracting. I also didn't like at first that my default icon was always in the upper right hand corner (though I'm pretty sure I remember how to change it) but now I like it. As an RPGer, I like the visual reminder of how I am logged in. Saves mistakes.
And now your (not so very) cryptic comment for the day: Clearly I have no problem with people having ship preferences, or even promoting a ship or shipping one ship exclusively and fervently. What I DO have a problem with is promoting one's ship preferences under the guise of canon accuracy. With very few exceptions (married couples, maybe Bill/Fleur, Percy/Penny for a while), ALL ships are a matter of interpretation. Only future ships of people who are now dead are out of the question. When you do such, you only give your own ship a bad name.
(I know, I know, spoken like a slasher-at-heart, a non-canon shipper, but come on. Until there is a kiss, it ain't a canon ship.)
