| The posts I'm talking about (from Denise) are second and fourth in this
| thread, and you didn't start the thread, so no, your description isn't
| older than them.
Then I'm not receiving emails in the same order you are (distinctly possible;
I'm on Comcast).
| It just does it in a hacky way and requires particular styles/themes.
As in it requires hacks, and the use of specific styles, with specific themes,
with added codes. That's not helpful to the majority of users, and I certainly
wouldn't describe that as a feature of the site. The fact that the LJ system
can be custom-coded to force it do what I'm describing doesn't mean it's what
most people have done or can do, or that it works all the time.
One primary example here is that a lot of people lock their views of other
people's journals to their own style for a variety of reasons, often having to
do with accessibility. When I don't view that particular community in their
custom setup, it's just a regular old set of tags like anyone else's. That's
the kind of kludgey nonsense I think everyone would like to see DW avoid
repeating.
| Or am I missing your point?
You do seem to be missing my original point, which is that I was responding to
someone talking about my older email *discussing the current LJ system*, not
what other people are proposing for DW's improved way of doing things. And that
what code jockeys consider to be a "feature," when it is in reality something
that a site can be wrenched into doing for some users some of time, is not a
feature to the average user.
If you want an unrelated example, I would not consider it a site feature of LJ
that I can put in custom CSS code to make it so that I don't have to read
LoudTwitter's output on my friendspage. If there were a box under Display
Settings that I could check to turn off LoudTwitter (just like I can turn off
link previews), that would be a site feature.
Alexis Carpenter
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