Thanks for nothing, LJ

[saifai]

Just caught the latest update to the Facebook-Twitter kerfuffle. Seems LJ attempted to fix the cross-posting issue so that protected and screened items wouldn't be affected.

Except there's a loophole.

If you've opted into Cyrillic services, you'll still be able to cross-post protected and screened comments

*sigh* Rather defeats the purpose, no?

::head.desk::

The only good thing is that supposedly these items won't even show if you've not filled out your info. Which is good for me, but what about everyone else?

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I know...oy vey!


Gabrielle

[saifai.livejournal.com]

They really are a piece of work sometimes.

[cordykitten]

My thoughts exactly after I noticed that the code was alive and I've read the news post a second time. *sigh*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

I rather did a double-take myself. "Am I reading that right? OMG!"

[cordykitten]

PS: Not sure if you saw this, it's from the news' post (from LJ staff):

As for this particular feature, I will admit that the 'turn it off for non-Cyrillic' made basic sense to me in testing (not that I'm a primary tester or anything) because I didn't think really of the situation where the entry author and the commenter had different settings for the Cyrillic option. (Meaning, most non-Cyrillic users tend to have entirely or almost entirely non-Cyrillic friends, and vice versa.) So it made sense to leave it 'on' for the side of the service that isn't concerned about it, and turn it 'off' for the side that is. I think a lot of the staff looked at it the same way.

Now that I see that precedence is given to the commenter's 'Cyrillic services' setting and not the entry author's, I do personally agree that having the Cyrillic setting "follow" the journal owner's setting makes more sense for this feature. But whether that change will be made, I don't know.

Too bad the English LJ staff has no say in this. *sigh*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure what to think about that. It bothers me a great deal that it never occurred to any of them that there are inherent problems here. For one, they're assuming that only non-English users who don't care are using the Cyrillic options. For example, I myself use the Cyrillic services. Only reason I do is that it disables the god awful crap they stuff the homepage with, leaving me with only the necessary updates to my journal. So would that mean that anyone doing the same thing would automatically bypass the changes they made to the English services?

I'm honestly a bit confused about it all, and bothered that none of them cared to think things through.

[cordykitten]

I didn't think there was a reason to use the Cyrillic services at all if you're not from there (I'm not sure what it does to start with). I almost never ever use their homepage, the LJ portal is so much better.

They didn't think of fandom either that it connects the LJs through the world, too. And people like you that using it because it's better. Nor the ones you did it for the user heads.

[dusty273.livejournal.com]

It's just like LJ to do something like this. *sighs*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

Isn't it though? Damn you, LJ.