Eh. To me it's no trouble keeping the friends page open next to the DW reading page. I have about a half-dozen real-life friends who don't seem to want to move to DW and whose updates I really care about, plus some other folks who aren't crossposting yet but probably will be eventually, so I click over to that tab once a day or so. (A far cry from how it used to be when I might see 50 non-community entries a day!) It'll be painful when I go to comment, but really, the most painful thing is how it's a ghost town compared to the good old days, and a small redesign won't change that.
It'll be painful when I go to comment, but really, the most painful thing is how it's a ghost town compared to the good old days, and a small redesign won't change that.
I found this out when looking at my old LJ entries last night to remember the name of something I ran across in 2006. I saw all those postings in 2006. Wow! I thought I owed an apology when I hadn't posted in a month! The sad thing is that I actually feel like I had much better conversations and a better community with folks on LJ than on Twitter or Facebook where I feel like I'm just throwing sentences into a blackhole... Who would go back to a facebook post of 5 years ago to find links and names?! I don't even think you CAN go back that long on twitter.
PS. The worst feature is that your browser doesn't remember what you typed into the comment box when you go back and forth on pages
Here's something fun. I don't know if this is a paid-only thing or not. But you can see your friends page from any date in the past with a URL like http://leftyjew.livejournal.com/friends/?date=2006-02-08 . My version of that URL is amazing. So shocking.
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PS. The worst feature is that your browser doesn't remember what you typed into the comment box when you go back and forth on pages
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