latest LJ fail
Oct. 30th, 2012 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioYou may have seen that monstrosity of a reading page they're getting ready to unleash on everybody. (If not, click on the link in the blue banner at the top of your reading page.) In a nutshell, they're getting rid of individual-journal styling for the reading page. The new style does not work for me. Profoundly.
But that's not the main thing I wanted to post about. I've had an unused journal at Dreamwidth all along, so between this and the fact that LJ backups have been broken for a year or so (that is, I can no longer back up my journal to my own machine), I decided to import my journal to DW (keeping all the security groups, of course). Before doing so I changed my LJ password to a temporary one, and then changed it back again when the import finished 37 minutes later (wow, fast!).
That's how I found out that my original LJ password no longer meets their password requirements. It's not too simple; it's too complicated. Apparently the system is perfectly capable of storing and applying a password containing assorted punctuation characters, because I've been doing that for a while, but the "change password" form will no longer accept any punctuation. Letters and numbers, folks. How 20th-century.
Really, LJ? Security means that little to you?
But that's not the main thing I wanted to post about. I've had an unused journal at Dreamwidth all along, so between this and the fact that LJ backups have been broken for a year or so (that is, I can no longer back up my journal to my own machine), I decided to import my journal to DW (keeping all the security groups, of course). Before doing so I changed my LJ password to a temporary one, and then changed it back again when the import finished 37 minutes later (wow, fast!).
That's how I found out that my original LJ password no longer meets their password requirements. It's not too simple; it's too complicated. Apparently the system is perfectly capable of storing and applying a password containing assorted punctuation characters, because I've been doing that for a while, but the "change password" form will no longer accept any punctuation. Letters and numbers, folks. How 20th-century.
Really, LJ? Security means that little to you?
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Date: 2012-10-31 12:12 pm (UTC)I'll be miffed, though, if they remove the old option after beta testing - what's the point of customising your journal if you have to read everything in pale blue anyway? I mean, my own journal will stay the same, but I'm not usually reading my own journal - I already know what I've said! Much more often, I'm reading my friends list, so that's the page I want customised.
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Date: 2012-11-01 12:43 am (UTC)Apparently the folks in charge believe that we choose our journal styles as a means of self-expression, and what matters is how the world sees our individual journals. Um, no, or at least not for me -- I know that some people think my style is ugly, but its primary purpose in life is to make it easier for me to read (while not being too much of a hinderance to others). Besides, LJ users have the option to force their style on it, same as I force my style onto everybody else.