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Stop fucking changing my UI on me!
On my login page, there's a little text field which says "Find". Next to it is a drop-down list of fields you can search on. Used to be that the top, and therefore default, field was "Site and User", meaning that I could just type an LJ username into that field and hit find, and go to their journal. Easier for me than editing the URL, by a little bit -- fewer keystrokes.
Then they changed the top and therefore default field to "Interests". Perhaps people more typically search on Interests, but it kept -- and keeps -- throwing me.
Used to be that, on my login page, the first thing on the dropdown menu under "Friends" was "Friends Page". Now, if you just click on it, you go to your friends page, plus there are two other links on the page that go to your Friends Page. Which is easier. And the first thing on the dropdown list is "Filter Friends."
Now, in all honesty, this UI DOES make more sense. But I still find myself staring at the "Filter Friends" page EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN' TIME I log in, without understanding how I got there.
I'll get used to it, and, like I said, this actually IS a better UI. But stuff like navigating LJ is something I do unconsciously, habitually. It doesn't go through my conscious mind, and so it takes me time to re-train.
On my login page, there's a little text field which says "Find". Next to it is a drop-down list of fields you can search on. Used to be that the top, and therefore default, field was "Site and User", meaning that I could just type an LJ username into that field and hit find, and go to their journal. Easier for me than editing the URL, by a little bit -- fewer keystrokes.
Then they changed the top and therefore default field to "Interests". Perhaps people more typically search on Interests, but it kept -- and keeps -- throwing me.
Used to be that, on my login page, the first thing on the dropdown menu under "Friends" was "Friends Page". Now, if you just click on it, you go to your friends page, plus there are two other links on the page that go to your Friends Page. Which is easier. And the first thing on the dropdown list is "Filter Friends."
Now, in all honesty, this UI DOES make more sense. But I still find myself staring at the "Filter Friends" page EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN' TIME I log in, without understanding how I got there.
I'll get used to it, and, like I said, this actually IS a better UI. But stuff like navigating LJ is something I do unconsciously, habitually. It doesn't go through my conscious mind, and so it takes me time to re-train.