Once again I find myself at the end of the day with no post, and a very uncertain schedule for the evening because Colleen is in the hospital again. But I ran across this intriguing piece of furniture elsenet:
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I may have found my next woodworking project.
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NaBloPoMo stats:
12558 words in 21 posts this month (average 598/post)
101 words in 1 post today
Unfortunately, rather than record another take on "Guilty Pleasures", I ended up getting sucked in to another LJ design trainwreck, (more at the link) this one having to do with revisions to the "update journal" page. This is supposed to be the basic, last-resort, guaranteed-to-work way of updating your LJ. And they broke it. It's prettier now, but some features don't work if you don't have JavaScript enabled! I should know better than to get sucked in to one of these flamefests, but I seem to have been the first one to discover -- or at least to mention -- the Javascript problem. So I guess I've done something of value.
Looking at some of these designers' userpics you can see the problem: they're young. Inexperienced. Arrogant. They think they're hot stuff because they graduated from a program in "web design". Whee. They'll learn, eventually, but meanwhile they'll make life miserable for us old curmudgeons who don't count because we're not in LJ's target demographic.
I need to stop going off on these tangents, amusing though they are, and get some work done. Tomorrow: turn in my sales tax account application, and hack some more on TiddlyWiki. That, at least, will be fun.
So, once again, the LJ design team screws up and chooses to ignore user protests.
While we will not be offering an option to switch back to the old version, I hope we can work together to make changes and improve what we now have. Please understand that we love you guys and admittedly, we sometimes do things without fully understanding what the community reaction will be.
In other words, "we screwed up, but we're not going to fix it because you experienced users aren't bringing in any advertising revenue compared to all those newbies who set up plus accounts."
Fortunately, there's a cure for this one:
emacs -f lj-compose
(Install from the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
ljupdate home page).
(Cross-posted to fucksixapart.)
