Why so fail, LJ?

[teyla]

This is probably the seven hundredth post of this kind on your f-list, but just on the off-chance anyone hasn't seen it yet... the new profile page is live, and it's extraordinarily fugly. Also, there is no opt-out option, which means you can't make the fugly go away.

If you disapprove, go here and bitch at LJ to let them know that this is really not okay.

ETA: If you feel like rebelling in more ways than just posting a bitchy comment, go here.

ETA 2: Or here. We can has petition.

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[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

By the way. I know you have a paid account as well, so you may not have seen this. I discovered it when I viewed the profile of a plus account while I was logged out:

There were ads in the "Basic Info" section, i.e. a section that is often rather useless for people. ("Name," birthdate, contact info, schools.) I tried collapsing the "Basic Info" section to make the "Bio" section more visible.

No can do. I mean, yes, the actual INFORMATION in the section collapses. But the ads? Do not, of course. Which means that collapsing that section does nothing in terms of physical space. It just hides the info. And the ads (which in this case probably took up 20 times more space than the actual info) still push the bio down the page.

Not that we didn't have to scroll past ads before (for people who aren't paid). But now we have collapsible sections, and the ads are positioned so as to make that effort useless in a prominent spot.


...Took me a few minutes to come to terms with that level of epic fail last night, so I needed to share that with someone.

[teyla]

That is... a lot of fail. The ads on the old profile, if I remember correctly, were positioned on the top right. They were annoying, but didn't really take up any actual space that you would have had to scroll past.

Oh LJ. When will you ever learn? Just get rid of these terrible profiles already; nobody wants them.