The Pain of Delete
Nov. 4th, 2002 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aThis afternoon, LiveJournal totally spazzed on me. I tried to post my 6:10 entry and it freaked out. It spun. It wove. It complained. It bitched. It reported errors. It started. It stopped. And when it was done it had posted my entry precisely 19 times.
Pray this never happens to you. Sing hymns. Light candles. Sacrifice chickens on altars. Avoid stepping on cracks. Give a wide berth to ladders. Buy lucky rabbits' feet and try not to think about the three-footed rabbits hopping about the wild. Do whatever it takes.
Because, if you don't, you'll be in a world of hurt. It took approximately 15 minutes to delete all those entries. 15 minutes of pure tedium. Hit "edit entries". Choose "most recent entry". Select all the text. Hit "save". Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
To date Livejournal has really impressed me with the way that some of the code works in the background. The integration of journal entries into friends lists. The hierarchical comments, invisible from the top page of a journal. Good thought and implementation all around.
The User Interface (UI) on the other hand leads something to be desired. Here's some of the top things I'd like to be able to do, but can't right now due to poor UI decisions:
* Click a button next to an entry to edit it.
* Click a button next to an entry to delete it.
* Click a button on my livejournal page to add a new entry.
They'd all be quite easy to implement, and would offer tremendous ease of use.
Sure I could download one of the clients, but that just ignores the benefit of totally web-based UIs.
Ah well. I'll do the front end differently when I write my own blog system, and hope that I can write a backend that's half as good. And that's work that I plan to start this Friday ...
Pray this never happens to you. Sing hymns. Light candles. Sacrifice chickens on altars. Avoid stepping on cracks. Give a wide berth to ladders. Buy lucky rabbits' feet and try not to think about the three-footed rabbits hopping about the wild. Do whatever it takes.
Because, if you don't, you'll be in a world of hurt. It took approximately 15 minutes to delete all those entries. 15 minutes of pure tedium. Hit "edit entries". Choose "most recent entry". Select all the text. Hit "save". Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
To date Livejournal has really impressed me with the way that some of the code works in the background. The integration of journal entries into friends lists. The hierarchical comments, invisible from the top page of a journal. Good thought and implementation all around.
The User Interface (UI) on the other hand leads something to be desired. Here's some of the top things I'd like to be able to do, but can't right now due to poor UI decisions:
* Click a button next to an entry to edit it.
* Click a button next to an entry to delete it.
* Click a button on my livejournal page to add a new entry.
They'd all be quite easy to implement, and would offer tremendous ease of use.
Sure I could download one of the clients, but that just ignores the benefit of totally web-based UIs.
Ah well. I'll do the front end differently when I write my own blog system, and hope that I can write a backend that's half as good. And that's work that I plan to start this Friday ...
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Date: 2002-11-04 11:40 pm (UTC)