Okay news, less okay news.

[healingmirth]

Once again, a hurricane came through and I didn't lose power at my house. Once again, there was a stiff breeze and power will be out at work for several days.

I drove underneath a for real giant tree (trunk was nearly 2 feet in diameter) down across the road and resting gently on power lines, so I think I'll be staying in for a bit longer yet.

On an unrelated note, the facebookification (or twittification, I guess) of livejournal continues: http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/79480.html

• Dynamic loading of earlier entries (infinite scroll).
  
  
• When new content is posted to your friends feed, a "New (#)" tab will appear which will take you to the top of the page when pressed and load the new content.
  
  
• Only one repost of any entry will appear even if multiple friends have reposted it, and it will be clear who reposted the entry.
  
  
• The lj-cut placeholder has changed to display a pair of scissors, making it more difficult to forge.

Is forging the cut tag really an issue?

I don't do a good job of reading news posts, but I'm fuzzy on the repost thinger. I know it, or something like it, has been around for a while

I enjoy the idea of the infinite scroll, in theory, but I'm pretty sure it'll kill browsing on my phone. I can't even get twitter to load on my phone.

Comments

[jebbypal]

my main problem with this is that the journal layouts on friends feed will go away. I like my journal layout. I enjoy seeing my header when I navigate to read it every morning. Losing it would make me sad...and figure out how to make dw feeds of the things I want to see.

[healingmirth]

It's just one more thing to chip away at community and chip away at journals feeling like home to people. It's sad.

I've had intentionally minimal layouts for a long time now, because I mostly browse on tiny screens, but that actually was my first thought - what's the point of custom styles, if you're not encouraging people to customize their browsing experience as well as how they present themselves.