by the way

[rone]

Those of you complaining about the new LiveJournal skin? WHINY BABIES. I mock your inferior value system.

That is all.

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

It's Just Bad Design. I'm going to wager that at least 75% of their hits on livejournal.com/friends/edit.bml are going to come from people who were trying to hit livejournal.com/users/foo/friends/ but who accidentally tagged the corner of the "manage" link on their way down from the "journal" link.

Xerox and Apple spent several million dollars and about 10k man-hours of user testing to figure out that drop-down menus were the most efficient way to present this kind of selection tree. There's not much excuse for re-inventing this particular wheel these days.

I'm refraining from indulging in a bitchfest on news or lj_devel only because they were kind enough to provide an option to use the original skin, which is merely ugly, but at least functional.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Xerox and Apple spent several million dollars and about 10k man-hours of user testing to figure out that drop-down menus were the most efficient way to present this kind of selection tree. There's not much excuse for re-inventing this particular wheel these days.

...especially using the super-non-intuitive mouse-over selection method, which reduces what should be a quick and simple method of choosing a task to an unforgiving contest of reflexes and hand-eye coordination.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Perhaps i'm inured to these bouts of Webmasturbation by now. As a longtime ESPN.com visitor, their efforts in "style" have given me much gastric grief. Compared to them, the LJ change looks good to AND works good for me.

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

Just because you're used to getting kicked in both nuts doesn't mean getting kicked in only one nut is good.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I wear a cup.

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I was wondering what was getting in the way.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for pointing that out.