latest LJ fail

[cellio]

You 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?

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

What Sambeth said, pretty much. And infinite scroll is not something I want on LJ. Nor the return of those awful scissors with lj-cuts.

(You were the first person I thought of when I read the post, wondering if you'd be able to read at all.)

I'm already on DW, same username. I've mostly been posting there and cross-posting here (just because I can set up the defaults so I only have to post once), but tending to read on LJ, since that's where my friends mostly are. I'd regret losing not only some friends, but communities and feeds I've set up.

Why fix what isn't broke?

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's not a "fix" so much as a "What are some easy things we could do that might let us capture users from other social media sites?" with not enough attention to what they'd lose.

[cellio]

(You were the first person I thought of when I read the post, wondering if you'd be able to read at all.)

They've made some of the same design choices they did for the individual-entry pages, which forced me to spend too many hours then to get those pages readable for me. That's when I switched to forcing my style on individual entries; until then I was reading journals and the reading list with my style but using the site style for individual pages because the threading was easier to see. I'm not up to writing my own style, so I settled for this one where the only clue is subtle indentation.

I've got you on my DW list.