AAARGH, lj screws up again!

[beandelphiki]

Okay, so just in case you guys need the links:

Go here to complain about the new design of the profiles.

Go here to put protest buttons in your profile instead, if you'd like to just move your profile to an entry. (If you want to know what that means, feel free to look at mine for an example.) There's also a petition going around here, which is admittedly probably useless...but then, when the comments are full in lj_design, people will still be able to sign the petition, so no number of complaints will be capped, I suppose.


But what I REALLY made this post for was to ask this:

Why did lj do this? I'm not just asking in an outraged, OMGMAHPROFILE sort of way. I really want to know what the reason was for going ahead with this despite warning that there would be a big backlash against it.

Their story, of course, is functionality for new users. But they say that every single time, and never really mean it: it's always their cover story. (You'd think they'd realize that's pretty obvious by now.)

So what REAL reason did they have for making the profiles so ugly, creepy and less functional? It doesn't really make any sense.

Comments

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

They're probably extra super optimized for moar ads in some way.

[walkinthenight.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I just got home and didn't realize until I saw your entry. The profiles are hideous.

Off to complain...

[cmot-dribbler.livejournal.com]

Meh, I don't find em that bad.

[fanelia.livejournal.com]

Eh, looks more or less the same in terms of information to me. So I don't care.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

It's the same information, yeah. Just ugly, rather creepy (most people hate the post count and whatnot at the top), and for a lot of people, less functional. It totally messed up my profile, which is one reason why I removed it.

Hence the 153 pages of complaints they've gotten over two design posts so far. *shrugs* It doesn't bother some people, and some people even like it...but they're outnumbered approximately 500 to 1 right now, if we're going by the nature of the comments in lj_design.

I don't mind a couple of the things they've added, but I would have preferred they add it to the old design.