A short one! dw_news and the new site scheme

[azurelunatic]

news: Check out the mad cool new site scheme! It's going partially live now, so people can use it and see it and switch to it if they like it. It's going default for everyone September 14th, so if you don't like it, make sure you pick your favorite site scheme now so you won't be inconvenienced!

slashdot refugees: "First Post!"
Belated slashdot refugees: "First Post! Um, first page? Damn, page 2."

Happy Users: "Sweet new site scheme here! Except for these small things that could be improved..."
LJ Developers: "Gee, those would have been nice to know when it was in beta, but good point..."

Disgruntled Users: "OMG why are you wasting so much time and money on crap like this? I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it. STOP SPRINGING THESE THINGS ON US, LJ!!!!"
Slightly More Clueful Non-Thrilled Users: "Ick. I'll be keeping my current site scheme, thankyouverymuch. Um, thanks for telling us in advance so we won't be nastily surprised some morning? Nice improvement there."
Disgruntled Users: *troll madly*
Everybody else: *ignores them*

Comments

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

I like the original site scheme. Now I have to decide whether to try the new one. The old new site scheme sucked golf balls, but maybe the new new site scheme will suck smaller balls, like boba. :D

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was really just an excuse to use the phrase "old new site scheme."

[azurelunatic]

Silly!

[azurelunatic]

The thing I like about the new new one is that the menus will go poppy when you go over them, but will also keyboard-nav, and will not stay up forever if you brush over them like the beta.

[thette.livejournal.com]

It's kind of convenient, actually. It made me move from Lynx.

[snark2]

Disgruntled Users: *troll madly*
Everybody else: *ignores them*

LOL. Yep, that's about it. ;)

<3

[azurelunatic]

These things are taken straight from the source!

[owlbutter.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish the real LJ developers were like that. :( The past three or so Horizon-related posts it's been:

Non-thrilled users: Yeah, don't like it. BTW, it doesn't do what you say it does, and there are problems with X, Y and Z.

LJ Developers: *ignore* *ignore* *ignore* *bad fix*

Otherwise the stereotypes have come out in force, making for another amusing news experience.

[azurelunatic]

This is more like what's going on behind the scenes, rather than what comes out in comments.

[owlbutter.livejournal.com]

Which is behind the scenes, yours or mine?

[azurelunatic]

Yours -- I'm in an IRC channel or two with some of the developers enough of the time to hear commentary, plus I follow some of the development communities. It's not getting ignored, exactly, just not all the comments are responded to, especially after page 2.

[owlbutter.livejournal.com]

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. :) I wouldn't mind if they didn't respond so much if they were actually fixing the problems. Seeing Horizon come out of beta with so much still wrong doesn't do much for my confidence in them.

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much fun it was spending two hours setting all my accounts and all the NPC accounts I'm responsible for till someone takes them over to Dystopia, no nav strip please, video placeholders and don't put it in google. NO IDEA.

The nav strip had somehow been turned back on in one of them. Dystopia is the only site scheme I really like because everything stays where it is. I don't really like drop down menus. I hate that thing in Xcolibur where if you aren't precise with the mouse (which my RSI means I never am) the menu you're on may change and you may click the wrong thing.

What is the obsession with making everyone's default userpic stare back at them? I hate that. And the big huge fucking Arial.

[azurelunatic]

:( That has got to suck.

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

I really don't like the attitude the new management seems to have, which is: "We're not going to just put this stuff out there, we're going to make changes to everyone's account unless you opt out ahead of time."

It's bad when being allowed to opt out ahead of time is an improvement over previous policy. (As opposed to the nav strip code pushes, which assumed that people were too stupid to know it existed even when other people had been given and chosen to use the ability to force others to see it).

Dystopia has an ugly colour scheme, but it has all the links and they don't MOVE. When you have an RSI and don't do real well at precise mousing this means a lot. Also, it worries me that options seem to be disappearing with each new change to the site map and menus. The Admin Console and the screen that you have to use to turn off the Rich Text Editor are not linked to on the Site Map any more and I really am afraid that they will cut off access to the Admin Console. You can still reach the Console from the FAQs, but none of the FAQs tell you how to get rid of the Rich Text Editor permanently, so I had to open up a support request. Very, very upsetting.

[azurelunatic]

You can turn off the Rich Text Editor? (Can you tell me how?)

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's actually fairly easy, but I scared the pants off my LW OOC people about doing it in the shared journals, anyway, because it requires the use of a page that's no longer in the Site Map, like the Admin Console, because they don't apparently trust us that much andy more and want you to have to look for it.

So, like the LJ Console, I put it in my firefox Bookmarks Toolbar, where I keep My Ebay, Etsy, Google, the LJ Console, LJ, the LOGO Schedule, OKCupid, my webmail, Vox and my TV listings.

Go here: http://www.livejournal.com/settings/

Click on Editor. Set it to Plain Text. The problem is, that when they installed the Rich Text Editor, they defaulted it to "Whatever I last used" but the way that ends up working is you use the RTE once, and then it turns up next time, and you click to change it for that post, but because the post started out in the RTE, you're stuck there.

And the RTE is so loathesome. Especially to people who use real browsers.

[azurelunatic]

Ah, that.

Because I am in the right place at the right time to hear these things, it is not "they do not trust people with this," it is more "Oh, shit, where the fuck are we supposed to put those? We forgot all about them!"

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

How I found this out is that one of the LW people decided that it would be cute if she turned the RTE on in therumormill and then nobody who didn't have IE could use it at all after her.