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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*

Current Mood: sick

Don't Panic. And be nice to Rah, 'k?

LJ is going to be playing around with the default site scheme soonish. After the code push, the default for new users and for looking at the site when not logged in will be the new thing. It'll go site-wide as the default in a couple weeks. Since the code is stupid, it can't tell the difference between "I like XColibur" and "I haven't picked a site scheme, so I'm just seeing the default." This means if you're viewing the site in XColibur now, you're suddenly going to go from seeing LJ like this:

to seeing it something more like this:

If you like the new one better, great. If you don't, starting tomorrow after the code push where LJ will remember the difference between "I like XColibur" and "I don't care what bloody site scheme I see", visit the Browse Preferences page and explicitly pick the site scheme you want.

Oh, and

lj_releases is your friend for shiznit like this.

Current Mood: informative
Current Music: "High-Speed Train" in my head

Quoted in full 'cause I'm lazy.

Let's get serious for a moment here, folks.

It's fine and dandy that we can sit over here in LJ-land and whine about how people are stupid and terrorists are stupid and the TSA is stupid and expecting us to keep flying the friendly skies when they take away everything that keeps them 'friendly' rather than 'homicidal' is stupid, but let's be honest: it doesn't do anything. It legitimately changes nothing, because our voices, loud as they seem to us, are entirely unheard by the people who matter in this.

How do we get heard?

We make them hear us.
( TSA Contact Information )

Wait a week or so for things to calm down, and then, if they haven't realized that they're being idiots, start contacting people. Tell them 'this does not make us safe; this just creates a new arena for road rage to explore'. Tell them 'I would rather have my tax dollars spent in avenues which actually increase security, rather than creating the illusion of security'.

And don't stop there. Write to your Congresspeople. Write to the Department of Homeland Security. Spend a few dollars on stamps, and make them listen. All the whining in the world won't change things.

This may.

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