Ardath Rekha

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.)