For some of us, it's sort of appalling how long we didn't realize it was there. It makes us feel terribly inobservant. :-)
Yup. I'm finding stuff, and I've been hacking around looking for tricks for ages. But the fault isn't with the users, it's with LJ—the usability of LJ sucks, and sucked for a long long time.
A decent feature shouldn't be something that you need to know to look for, it shouldn't be something you find buried on a page deep in the site map.
It should just be there and work. Because most users won't ever go and look for it—a lot of my friends still don't know about reading or posting filters, let alone Default View, or that you can publicly link to your filters by name (my main viewing filters are in my LJ sidebar deliberately).
So what we all need to be doing is getting all the nifty stuff linked in the right place in the site schemes, which means tracking it.
Personal top of the list for me is the "your styles" page, hidden under advanced, but it saves all your customisations from previous layouts after you switch, I'd completely forgotten it existed on LJ, found some old link code I'd lost in switch and other cool stuff.
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Yup. I'm finding stuff, and I've been hacking around looking for tricks for ages. But the fault isn't with the users, it's with LJ—the usability of LJ sucks, and sucked for a long long time.
A decent feature shouldn't be something that you need to know to look for, it shouldn't be something you find buried on a page deep in the site map.
It should just be there and work. Because most users won't ever go and look for it—a lot of my friends still don't know about reading or posting filters, let alone Default View, or that you can publicly link to your filters by name (my main viewing filters are in my LJ sidebar deliberately).
So what we all need to be doing is getting all the nifty stuff linked in the right place in the site schemes, which means tracking it.
Personal top of the list for me is the "your styles" page, hidden under advanced, but it saves all your customisations from previous layouts after you switch, I'd completely forgotten it existed on LJ, found some old link code I'd lost in switch and other cool stuff.