Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Hmm

LiveJournal's beta site

I didn't like it very much. But then I'm resistant to change, or so I've been told...

8 comments:

  1. Me too no like LJ's new non-talkread/talkpost system

    I think I'll now go beta test :-).

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  2. The existing site definitely looks better than the beta.

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  3. Not bad from what I've seen so far. Don't see any woohoo-ness about it, but not exactly a step lower either.

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  4. Same here buddy


    somehow I'm too used to the existing interface and I wish I could just stick to that

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  5. More improtantly, its not as functional as the present one.

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  6. Me like the cleaner URLs.
    Me no like the colours in the beta.

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  7. I don't like the fact that the beta test cookie didn't work the next time I started galeon - I was back to the old boring LJ.

    There's one definite thing I liked about the beta LJ - that the old blue options menu that occupies 25% of my 800x600 screen is gone, leaving the real content a larger space to work with.

    Also, I think I like the fact that talkread and talkpost have been eliminated...... but the cryptic HTML page names should also perhaps be changed. Since they seem to have created a restriction on number of posts per LJ user per day, maybe they can start identifying the posts and entries by, say,

    20030322_2.html

    or some such decodeable name.

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  8. That's because post ids are not per journal. They are per cluster. So your username identifies what cluster your data is on, and then the post id is a sequentual number for all users on that cluster.

    I'm just guessing this though. I haven't seen the database schema.

    And IIRC, the limits on posts never came into effect.

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