Minor point

[quinara]

What the hell has LJ done to LJ cuts??? Why do they hate me so and change everything I am comfortable with??? Now there are scissors everywhere! I find it off-putting.

Comments

[ruuger]

I know! I just noticed it when I read my f-list and it was very difficult to see what was a cut and what was a regular link anymore because the visual cues were all wrong.

I don't usually complain about simple visual changes in the layout, but they've been marking cuts in the same way for ten years, so to suddenly change it is just confusing. Also, it looks really weird when you have cuts in the middle of the text (e.g. to hide spoilers).

[quinara]

It's really weird, isn't it? I'm used to parsing cuts as being part of the journal entry where it's very easy to click through and get to more content, but now they seem much more static and less obvious a path to click through, like a link, and the scissors feel like an inserted image and out of place.

I'm sure I'll get used to it, but I don't know what was wrong with the formatting before?

[evilawyer]

It sounds like something that's intended to get people to stop using cuts, which would (I think would be the hope) lead to very short, blurb-like entries rather than ones where the poster is actually talking about something.

[quinara]

I don't know, I'm not sure it's anything so sinister. The mechanism hasn't changed, after all, so it's still only one click to get through to the extra stuff, even if it feels different. I think it's just yet another design tweak they decided would be amusing. I wouldn't be surprised if what they're actually trying to do is strengthen the identifiability of the site and make people's various customised pages look more like they're on LJ, rather than potentially being on any journalling site.