Mild LJ feature annoyance.

[aruru]

Okay, so it's pretty stupid to bitch about something as ultimately trivial as this (especially since it's not being posted somewhere where it would MATTER), and I'm probably ignorant about the whole situation since I don't bother to read any of the LJ-related communities other than lj_maintenance, but I still feel the need to rant about it here:

Look, LJ-development folks - I really appreciate what you guys usually do. You work hard, and it shows. And I think that this little thingie that I just noticed you've added to people's info pages so you can quickly modify your interest lists to add/remove stuff to be a cute feature - a mostly useless feature, as I didn't really mind going through the few extra steps, but cute.

BUT WHY THE FUCK DO YOU GUYS FEEL THE NEED TO ADD THAT, THEN TAKE AWAY AN ACTUALLY USEFUL FEATURE LIKE GETTING COMMUNITY LISTINGS WHEN SEARCHING BY INTEREST?

Seriously, WHY? I actually FOUND several communities I thought interesting in that manner. And how the HELL do you guys expect people to find out about new communities like my poor and highly neglected fledgling sabbu unless I do some REALLY heavy whoring out promotion from the start (even before I think it's truly ready to handle that), huh?! And you know, on a boring day, it was pretty darn funny to see just how many comms (as well as people) shared the more "eccentric" interests listed on tws_support (which btw, found a fair number of its original wave of new members BECAUSE of the interests list).

Now, really, what's the POINT of a community listing ANY interests at all anymore if you can't find it when you search by those same interests they list? And honestly, if you guys did this because there are communities out there that don't want to be easily found for whatever reason, they can just take the simple route of NOT LISTING ANY INTERESTS TO BEGIN WITH.

Christ on a cracker, and all I was trying to do was find a community that distributed free LJ codes like the "codes" community on JournalFen does (I know they exist, I just don't know the names of the places offhand.) so I could answer a random stranger's question. Now I'm going to have to pick through individual users' community membership lists and hope I can locate one that way.

I sincerely hope that the people in charge of developing LJ's features don't intend to leave this crap as it is. Sheesh.

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Re: Wait, wait...

[aruru.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I remember that infamous drama about the posting limits (Now THAT was epic, yo.). He's REALLY lousy about keeping even the people who freakin' help him with this place properly informed about things, isn't he? Just... wow.

At least there seems to be a good amount of people willing to give him a thwack on the head or two to get him to pay attention. Oh well.