Ardath Rekha

On being rudely booted

5/17/09 11:01 am - On being rudely booted

Okay, so I've been trying all of the different journaling media, right? And I've found something that really annoys the fuck out of me, that keeps happening lately.

I often leave windows open for hours, even days, while I do other things. Which means that I'll have LJ/IJ/DW windows open for a long time... and sometimes during that time period, my login expires. Big whoop, right?

So why is it that, on LJ and DW, if the login has expired, any link I click on on those pages -- even a bloody profile with no adult content, sends me not to the page in question but to a generic "log on if you want to see our shiz" page? WTF is up with that?

I'm sorry but if a service wants to attract outsiders into using it, it won't succeed by cockblocking people from passively viewing content that's supposed to be public. I complained about this to LJ a few months ago and they insisted it was impossible, but it kept happening. And now it's happened on DW too. So I don't know what to think about it. It's not a huge deal but it is a turn-off when I think about where I want to go and what I want to browse. I don't like barricades, especially ones that people keep insisting don't exist, no matter how many times I trip over them.

Interestingly enough, this has never happened to me on IJ (or, I think, JournalFen, but I'm not quite as sure). The worst that happens when my login expires is that f-locked content becomes inaccessible, and I think "oh yeah, I'd better log back in." But I can browse away quite comfortably without having to log in there.

Which, I'm sorry, adds to the edge it currently has over DW, in my book.

(LJ, in my opinion, is a total waste and I don't care if they try to fix it at this point; too much else is wrong with it.)

Current Mood: annoyed

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5/17/09 07:40 pm (UTC) - mathteacher

i noticed the change in behavior on LJ a while ago and was (still am) annoyed by it, but hadn't put much thought into it. glad to know i'm not alone.

5/18/09 03:54 pm (UTC) - kymscrazy

Drop a comment for Denise and Mark about this. It's probably one of the bugs that they're working on or that they don't know about and will want to fix.

5/19/09 05:20 am (UTC) - immortalje

I never really paid attention to it on Livejournal (assuming that the pages where I wasn't on the direct content where marked adult). I was more busy complaining about being thrown out whenever I closed the browser (despite hitting remember me) which seems to be solved now. I guess whenever I'm logged out now, it might be a session expiring... but I love that about IJ. I'm never thrown out.

Although, I find it arrogant to tell somebody who's reporting a problem, that the problem supposedly doesn't exist. My first reaction would be to find out what could have caused it - asking tons of questions and trying to figure out if it's a problem caused by the user through an adjustment in the browser (- how I enjoyed a new add-ons for security when I run into a page I deem safe and forget to tell the add-on that the page is safe) or if it's caused by the code on the page.