potentiality_26

I have- I think- successfully set up my LJ flist as a feed on DW, but we'll have to see if it actually works or not!

Update: nope, not working :(

I'm still figuring out certain aspects of DW, but as a platform I like it very much and I plan to try to use it more regularly.

I'm not going to delete my LJ (assuming that LJ doesn't delete me and none of the other things people are worried about come to pass) but I do plan to slowly transition to DW- especially once I figure out how to read my LJ flist there in addition to crossposting!  (I gather it can be done, the instructions just looked so technical that I've put it off a few times already.) 

I promise to keep up with you all as best I can, whatever happens!
  

My email has rather randomly decided that all emails from LJ are junk.

I can find them quite easily in the junk folder, so it's not that big of a problem, I just don't understand why it suddenly happened. 

So I'm sure the new "quick comments" feature has it's charms- it's probably convenient and all- but it's like they genuinely want this site to look just like tumblr or facebook.

I feel that my doubts about the "like" button have been borne out.  It's not really a very good way to communicate "Hey I've seen your post but I don't really have anything to in particular to say" when the person whose post you're liking has no idea who you are in the first place.

  

I'm still figuring it out- but feel free to come and see me there!

(Hopefully this will crosspost effectively!)

I haven't seen much more than the announcement, but it seems silly that they're all, "We can't wait for your feedback!!!" when I distinctly remember everyone already saying that they didn't think LJ needed likes because Facebook and Tumblr exist, and if we wanted LJ to be just like them we wouldn't still use it.

Like we all know that feel when you don't really have anything to say but you still want to show that you saw the post and are supportive or whatever, but we all also know that having a like/kudo option drastically diminishes communication.

I'm not saying it's a completely pointless feature (and anyone who likes the idea should go on liking it), I'm just saying maybe a site shouldn't undermine the one remaining thing that makes it special (that you basically have to comment on a post if you want interaction with the poster).
  

I'm not getting emails from LJ again.  Is anyone else with Outlook having this problem maybe?
  

So I was one of those people whose email provider decided to summarily block all emails from LJ this week.  I guess the problem has been at least semi-fixed since I can leave and reply to comments again now, but I'm still kind of pissed off about it.

Like why did Microsoft think it was such an A+ idea to just start deleting messages from a website without taking two seconds to check if it was a site their user base might want to still get messages from?  And it would have been one thing if it had changed the settings so the messages went straight to the junk mail folder (at least then we would have had some say in whether we even saw the messages or not) but no.  They just never arrived.

*growls*

Anyway, I wanted to get another email address that I would have to check regularly like I wanted a hole in the head, so I just kept hoping LJ would get it fixed, and lo they did something right.  The whole situation still aggratvates me, though.
 

On LJ posts, I sometimes embeded links with a little symbol next to them.  They're just like LJ User links (like potentiality_26), except that instead of the usual LJ symbol it's the AO3 symbol, or one for another website.  Does anyone know how that's achieved?

I'd try to look it up in the FAQ, but as you can see I'm not very good at explaining it and I don't know how I'd even starting looking.
  

LJ, this new tag positioning is legitimately the worst thing ever.  The ads pop up on top of my tags now.  Right on top.  And my comments live way at the bottom of the page now.

I was hoping this was just a hiccup that would go away on it's own.  Turns out I have to actively try to fix it.  Boo.

*grumbles*