Journal Sylver Dragon's Journal: Can I just write in my fucking journal? 4
Just got my first dose of the new Journal interface. WTF, over?
Ok, I know, change is good. Accept change. Wait, no, fuck you! Change which breaks a working interface just for the sake of change is bad.
So, first problem first, why is the "Write in Journal" button hidden away from view down at the bottom of the page? Seriously, I almost couldn't find the damn thing. If I just opened the page for my journal, I probably did so to either read a previous entry; or, more likely, to write in it. Why isn't there a nice convenient "I want to write in my journal because that's what a fucking journal is for" button up at the top? Ok, so it looks like that little panel at the bottom is supposed to float at the bottom of my browser window, and not be hiding at the very bottom of the page. Sorry guys, your shit's broke, and it stinks. Call me crazy, but when you're designing an interface, it's important to keep in mind that most romanized languages work top to bottom and left to right, which means most speakers of those languages (like English, the primary language this site works in) will expect a layout in that same vein. So, put the important things near the top and left. They seemed to understand this well enough to put the main menus on the top and left sides of the page; so, why is such an important button now hidden at the bottom?
Ok, so I did find the "Write in Journal" button, otherwise I wouldn't be abusing you with cursing and vitriol. And I get this new interface with greyed out text which I guess is supposed to help me figure things out. The subject line seems obvious enough. But what the hell do they mean by "describe your scoop here". Scoop? I'm writing in my journal not submitting a story. Of course, I do realize that I can publish this as a story, if I want to, but I don't think that may people really care about what I have to say. Also, why such a small box? When I start ranting, I like to have a lot of space to cuss up a storm in. And if that is the description of my "scoop" (of rasins maybe?), where does my actual entry go? I guess I'm just dumb, but at first it seemed like that box was supposed to be the summary box. It was small, after all, and was supposed to be a description of my "scoop" and not the actual "scoop" itself, despite my really only wanting to write in my journal, not go scooping shit.
Alright, so I did figure out that the "describe your scoop" box is where I am supposed to actually write my journal entry (yes, I've scooped you all on my own random thoughts! Don't you feel bad?), or at least that is what I am guessing; if I'm wrong I'll have to do some editing in the real "this is where you actually type the journal entry, sucker!" box. So, I start typing figuring that, either this little box is going to get bigger or I'm going to end up including a few lines about only having three lines to type in despite having a large web page full of fuck all. And what do you know, the little box that couldn't auto-magically grows. So, I am happily ranting along, and where did my text go? I know I just finished typing a hate filled sentence fragment with spelling and grammar errors. Why does it seem like it went off the end and I'm not seeing shit? Ok, maybe my cursor jumped, who knows. So, type the same poorly formed sentence with a few more curse words, because they add flavor, and the little box expands and there's my previous sentence fragment. Once again, this shit is broke and stinks. It turns out that the whatever system is being used to figure out when to grow the box if fucked up and by the time I am typing this sentence I am just about completing a line before the box grows so that I can see what the fuck it is I am typing. I expect that by the end of this I'm going to be typing blind which is going to make editing really suck. Oh, and by the way, where is my fucking scroll bar? You mean to tell me that the only way I can go up and down in the box is with the keyboard? What is this some "let's be retro?" change? I've had a mouse on my computer since the 90's, get with the fucking program! Yes, vim is cool with its keyboard commands to jump around in text, this isn't vim.
As for tagging my journal entry. Ok, that's close enough to the old system. I used to be able to select the topic from a drop down and that was that. I guess this nice for indexing. So, let's see, this post is obviously not news, so lets delete that tag and...fuck, no "delete news" Ok, we'll change it to "not news" after all, my ranting is not news. And, why do I still have a "News" tag? OK, maybe we'll just add a tag in the text box. So, type in "change is bad" and um, now what? An "Add Tag" button would be nice. Alright, well considering the "we hate the mouse" fuck up that is the "scoop" box, let's give the keyboard a go...<Enter> Ah ha! I have, um, three new tags, the fuck, over? Yes, my post now has an "is" tag (along with a "change" and and a "bad" tag. Back to the 90's again are we? Yes, Clinton gave us, "it depends on what your definition if 'is' is." And, it didn't work for him then, why am I getting an "is" tag now? Fuck it, I now have an "is" tag and despite the fact that it looks like I could delete it, it's there and I'm keeping it. Fuck you indexing engine, deal with it.
And now, I guess it's time to preview this rant. This ought to be interesting. <Ctrl>-A, <Ctrl>-C, paste into Notepad just to ensure that I got the whole thing since I can't see my entire post at once in the little scoop box which couldn't. Lest I end up losing this insightful, hateful, pointless post to some random fuck up of the new system.
Well, at least the preview seems to work the way it's expected to. And to think, I originally came on here to post a non-vitriolic journal entry to document my upcoming switch over to AT&T's UVerse, but this new journal system was so bad that it got derailed like a Metrolink train with a texting conductor. Thank you, Slashdot crew, you've just about given me the final push to sign up for Facebook and leave this deteriorating site behind.
Ok, I know, change is good. Accept change. Wait, no, fuck you! Change which breaks a working interface just for the sake of change is bad.
So, first problem first, why is the "Write in Journal" button hidden away from view down at the bottom of the page? Seriously, I almost couldn't find the damn thing. If I just opened the page for my journal, I probably did so to either read a previous entry; or, more likely, to write in it. Why isn't there a nice convenient "I want to write in my journal because that's what a fucking journal is for" button up at the top? Ok, so it looks like that little panel at the bottom is supposed to float at the bottom of my browser window, and not be hiding at the very bottom of the page. Sorry guys, your shit's broke, and it stinks. Call me crazy, but when you're designing an interface, it's important to keep in mind that most romanized languages work top to bottom and left to right, which means most speakers of those languages (like English, the primary language this site works in) will expect a layout in that same vein. So, put the important things near the top and left. They seemed to understand this well enough to put the main menus on the top and left sides of the page; so, why is such an important button now hidden at the bottom?
Ok, so I did find the "Write in Journal" button, otherwise I wouldn't be abusing you with cursing and vitriol. And I get this new interface with greyed out text which I guess is supposed to help me figure things out. The subject line seems obvious enough. But what the hell do they mean by "describe your scoop here". Scoop? I'm writing in my journal not submitting a story. Of course, I do realize that I can publish this as a story, if I want to, but I don't think that may people really care about what I have to say. Also, why such a small box? When I start ranting, I like to have a lot of space to cuss up a storm in. And if that is the description of my "scoop" (of rasins maybe?), where does my actual entry go? I guess I'm just dumb, but at first it seemed like that box was supposed to be the summary box. It was small, after all, and was supposed to be a description of my "scoop" and not the actual "scoop" itself, despite my really only wanting to write in my journal, not go scooping shit.
Alright, so I did figure out that the "describe your scoop" box is where I am supposed to actually write my journal entry (yes, I've scooped you all on my own random thoughts! Don't you feel bad?), or at least that is what I am guessing; if I'm wrong I'll have to do some editing in the real "this is where you actually type the journal entry, sucker!" box. So, I start typing figuring that, either this little box is going to get bigger or I'm going to end up including a few lines about only having three lines to type in despite having a large web page full of fuck all. And what do you know, the little box that couldn't auto-magically grows. So, I am happily ranting along, and where did my text go? I know I just finished typing a hate filled sentence fragment with spelling and grammar errors. Why does it seem like it went off the end and I'm not seeing shit? Ok, maybe my cursor jumped, who knows. So, type the same poorly formed sentence with a few more curse words, because they add flavor, and the little box expands and there's my previous sentence fragment. Once again, this shit is broke and stinks. It turns out that the whatever system is being used to figure out when to grow the box if fucked up and by the time I am typing this sentence I am just about completing a line before the box grows so that I can see what the fuck it is I am typing. I expect that by the end of this I'm going to be typing blind which is going to make editing really suck. Oh, and by the way, where is my fucking scroll bar? You mean to tell me that the only way I can go up and down in the box is with the keyboard? What is this some "let's be retro?" change? I've had a mouse on my computer since the 90's, get with the fucking program! Yes, vim is cool with its keyboard commands to jump around in text, this isn't vim.
As for tagging my journal entry. Ok, that's close enough to the old system. I used to be able to select the topic from a drop down and that was that. I guess this nice for indexing. So, let's see, this post is obviously not news, so lets delete that tag and...fuck, no "delete news" Ok, we'll change it to "not news" after all, my ranting is not news. And, why do I still have a "News" tag? OK, maybe we'll just add a tag in the text box. So, type in "change is bad" and um, now what? An "Add Tag" button would be nice. Alright, well considering the "we hate the mouse" fuck up that is the "scoop" box, let's give the keyboard a go...<Enter> Ah ha! I have, um, three new tags, the fuck, over? Yes, my post now has an "is" tag (along with a "change" and and a "bad" tag. Back to the 90's again are we? Yes, Clinton gave us, "it depends on what your definition if 'is' is." And, it didn't work for him then, why am I getting an "is" tag now? Fuck it, I now have an "is" tag and despite the fact that it looks like I could delete it, it's there and I'm keeping it. Fuck you indexing engine, deal with it.
And now, I guess it's time to preview this rant. This ought to be interesting. <Ctrl>-A, <Ctrl>-C, paste into Notepad just to ensure that I got the whole thing since I can't see my entire post at once in the little scoop box which couldn't. Lest I end up losing this insightful, hateful, pointless post to some random fuck up of the new system.
Well, at least the preview seems to work the way it's expected to. And to think, I originally came on here to post a non-vitriolic journal entry to document my upcoming switch over to AT&T's UVerse, but this new journal system was so bad that it got derailed like a Metrolink train with a texting conductor. Thank you, Slashdot crew, you've just about given me the final push to sign up for Facebook and leave this deteriorating site behind.
Try this link (Score:2)
http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=edit [slashdot.org]
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You like AT&T's Uverse? (Score:1)
I keep hearing rumors of its awesomeness but despite it being a partnership with Microsoft (or at least it used to be) it is nowheres near the Pacific Northwest.
Go figure.
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