Meh-day

[winter]

3K words before I left for the day, and still no sign of a plot. Conflicting information about when my exam is. And now, my domain and e-mail are both down, since AH managed to hang the entire server well enough that they're restoring everything from backups, so if you sent me e-mail in the last twelve hours or so, you might want to resend it tomorrow.

Since I'm in a whiny mood already, a meme ganked from sleepykelvina: Livejournal Pet Peeves:

1. The semantics of Friends, Friending and Friends-Only. Some people on my f-list, I've never talked to. I subscribe to feeds of their journals and I restrict the access-list to some of my posts. I like the term "Locking" better; when I finally make the "this journal is partially locked" graphic for bwinter, that's the word I'm going to use.

2. Cryptic entries. I'm guilty of it at times, but... if people don't get it, what's the point of posting?

3. Lurkers. For the n-th time: if you friend me, tell me. Feel free to comment on my posts if something interests you. That's what I do when I friend other people, and I think social conversation isn't that much of a burdern.

4. Lack of focus among the LJ developers. I'm by far not the only person to complain of it, but come on, people. You're a surprisingly decent bunch of human beings, but give us functionality. Editing comments would be nice. Instead, they're working on a built-in icon editor for some reason. I doubt it'll have more options than MS Paint or the Mac equivalent.

5. Drama. I know, I read Fandom_Wank for masochistic pleasure and writing fodder, but come on, people. Maturity. I hate senseless drama in real life too. If you want dramatic gestures, you don't need a permit to buy a chainsaw, you know.

Wait, thought of something better:

5. Indecipherable layouts. People, you need others to be able to read what you write. Some people's layouts are neat, so I don't have an automatic style=mine on my f-list. Instead, I struggle with pages where the text - especially, for some reason, in comment boxes and comment-icon dropdowns - is one shade different from the background, or not at all. Same for default small fonts. Ugh.

Comments

[sleepykelvina.livejournal.com]

Partially-locked. I think I'm going to steal that term. *ganks it*

[winter]

Feel free :) I like to think of it as making efficient use of LJ features without being too paranoid...

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Agreed on the cryptic thing and lurking thing. Both seem entirely pointless to me, though admittedly, my flist is huge and I seldom post in anyone's journal, though I do keep up with them.

[winter]

I don't comment on most of my f-list's posts, but when I have someone friended for the first time, I usually pick a post I can say something coherent on. I think it's about equal to exchanging a few civil words about the weather and traffic and so on with someone sitting next to you.

Then again, I'm weird like that :)

I'll get the markup right one of these days...

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Tiny Teen Font in general needs to die, really. The <small> tag and its brethren are there for contrast with normal-size text, not to enable twits who think it's cool to make all their posts in illegible sizes.

Re: I'll get the markup right one of these days...

[winter]

I'm not too bothered with tiny font if the contrast is decent - hell, at work I write my fics in 8-point Verdana just to make sure no-one can look over my shoulder and read anything incriminating. But when you have other combinations than black and white and small fonts, you shouldn't expect anyone to read it, period :/

Re: I'll get the markup right one of these days...

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but in your case other people not being able to read it without major effort is precisely the point.