The other thing I meant to mention - (maybe it's more a question) -

Are tags going to be phenomenally easier to work with?

example:  right now - tagging multiple entries is not possible (at least not
anywhere that I've been able to find), which is kind of a stupid
implementation to make 5 or 6 years down the road.  'Hi!  Have this cool new
organizational feature for tagging one entry at a time.  But if you wanna go
back and tag old stuff, well, you'll just have to do it the hard way.  Yes,
even if you have umpteen thousand posts.  Sorry.'  (total evidence of me
being from the same school of thought as Denise - if you're gonna put it
together, do it right the first time and make an effort to anticipate the
needs of the users, rather than having to go back and fix it 17 times later)

Love the tags feature, don't love that you can't go back and click a bunch
of tickboxes to tag all 170 fic posts as 'fic' or all 50 posts about
'fishing' or 'widget repair' or whatever all at the same time.

re: the profile page - I don't 'hate' it, I just don't 'love' it.  I like
the organizational idea of it, but I'm not sure I like where things live on
the page.  Granted, part of that is the way I work - my visual-kinetic
responses get tied to where things 'live', therefore, if it gets MOVED, my
hands don't know where to go to find it anymore and there's 'retraining'
involved.  I learn 'kinetically' (by doing) - so every time something MOVES,
it makes things that much more difficult for me to find.



On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Can I also suggest that the profile page not look like the LJ one?  I'm
> not
> > so much loving the new layout.
>
> The profile page will be the LJ one to begin with.  Denise has a few
> tweaks that she is going to have done to it, but overall, it will be
> the same.  I'm sure we will evolve and find our own path and
> direction, but for now, expect it to be what LJ has.
>
> Personally, I like the new profile page, the new settings page, and
> the other design work LJ has done recently.  I think that it's
> refreshing that they actually went with something radically different
> instead of just doing incremental changes on a broken system.
>
> But that doesn't mean it's forever.  :)  Keep in mind that DW is a
> different place and we will invariably go in a different direction
> than LJ has.  I can't promise you will always agree with everything
> that happens - that's how life is anywhere you get lots of people
> together - but I can promise everybody's feedback will be a huge part
> of what and how things get done.
>
>
> --
> Mark Smith / xb95
> [email protected]
>



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