If it Ain't Broke...
Aug. 21st, 2013 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayalaen... DON'T FIX IT!
Why do they keep fucking with good systems!?! Diigo... why!?!
I tried to stay with Delicious, hoping they'd realize their horrible mistakes, fix them. They didn't, so I abandoned them in 2011. I moved everything to Diigo, and recently have been adding everything to Evernote just in case Diigo pulled a Delicious. Though I'm not done with adding everything to Evernote.
Well, Diigo did a facelift last night. I groaned when I saw it, not because it was fugly (and it's not actually fugly, just lighter colors and not as easy to read), but because I knew they fucked with things.
I tried out a few things (breathing a small sigh of relief when all of my shit was still there). I even sorta liked how the search engine now lights up your search words in different colors.
Their Library page is now a bit more messy with "features," but everything looked okay, so I went to bed. Woke up this morning, tried to search for something, and found out that all of my bookmarks that had an ampersand now have the code for the ampersand instead of &.
Okay... that pisses me off enough. It fucks up searches and makes for messy-looking pages -- not the end of the world, but very aggravating. The coding must be a little off because editing a bookmark still brings up a box with an ampersand in it, so whatever.
Then I start to use the exact word/phrase search. And, hmm... it's not working. Sure it looks for the exact phrase in your bookmark description, and it even lights it up in pretty colors, but it's not searching the titles of the bookmarks.
It'll search the titles when you DON'T use exact word/phrase search, but not when you do use exact word/phrase search. Yeah, no one would ever have wanted to use that feature!
They've also changed the way you view your tags and the tag counts, which makes it so that you can't see the counts of all the individual tags when you search for more than one tag at a time.
What the fuck was wrong with the old way!?! I'm so sick of "improvements" and changing for the sake of change in computer programming. If you wanna look all spiffy and shiny new, change the artwork a bit. Don't fuck with the programming when it works!!!
And they'd like me to pay for other features (which they've always wanted), but then they change stupid shit like this. Why should I pay for something that can be changed without any notice!?!
I'm probably ranting about all this and either I did something wrong with the searches (so it's my fault) or they're in the process of upgrading and I jumped the gun.
I'm just pissed. I have over 5000 bookmarks that are very detailed and I've worked hard on them. And I have the bookmarks in the first place because what I'm bookmarking is for fun and something I do to unwind, which is reading.
I've wanted badly to move to Pinboard for about two years now. It's not the amount of money that's keeping me from buying an account. It's the fact that I've kept this name/account/email address as separate from my personal life as I could for years now, and I don't want it linked in any way. I pay for it with my credit card, this name gets linked.
~Maya
(Crossposted from LJ)
Why do they keep fucking with good systems!?! Diigo... why!?!
I tried to stay with Delicious, hoping they'd realize their horrible mistakes, fix them. They didn't, so I abandoned them in 2011. I moved everything to Diigo, and recently have been adding everything to Evernote just in case Diigo pulled a Delicious. Though I'm not done with adding everything to Evernote.
Well, Diigo did a facelift last night. I groaned when I saw it, not because it was fugly (and it's not actually fugly, just lighter colors and not as easy to read), but because I knew they fucked with things.
I tried out a few things (breathing a small sigh of relief when all of my shit was still there). I even sorta liked how the search engine now lights up your search words in different colors.
Their Library page is now a bit more messy with "features," but everything looked okay, so I went to bed. Woke up this morning, tried to search for something, and found out that all of my bookmarks that had an ampersand now have the code for the ampersand instead of &.
Okay... that pisses me off enough. It fucks up searches and makes for messy-looking pages -- not the end of the world, but very aggravating. The coding must be a little off because editing a bookmark still brings up a box with an ampersand in it, so whatever.
Then I start to use the exact word/phrase search. And, hmm... it's not working. Sure it looks for the exact phrase in your bookmark description, and it even lights it up in pretty colors, but it's not searching the titles of the bookmarks.
It'll search the titles when you DON'T use exact word/phrase search, but not when you do use exact word/phrase search. Yeah, no one would ever have wanted to use that feature!
They've also changed the way you view your tags and the tag counts, which makes it so that you can't see the counts of all the individual tags when you search for more than one tag at a time.
What the fuck was wrong with the old way!?! I'm so sick of "improvements" and changing for the sake of change in computer programming. If you wanna look all spiffy and shiny new, change the artwork a bit. Don't fuck with the programming when it works!!!
And they'd like me to pay for other features (which they've always wanted), but then they change stupid shit like this. Why should I pay for something that can be changed without any notice!?!
I'm probably ranting about all this and either I did something wrong with the searches (so it's my fault) or they're in the process of upgrading and I jumped the gun.
I'm just pissed. I have over 5000 bookmarks that are very detailed and I've worked hard on them. And I have the bookmarks in the first place because what I'm bookmarking is for fun and something I do to unwind, which is reading.
I've wanted badly to move to Pinboard for about two years now. It's not the amount of money that's keeping me from buying an account. It's the fact that I've kept this name/account/email address as separate from my personal life as I could for years now, and I don't want it linked in any way. I pay for it with my credit card, this name gets linked.
~Maya
(Crossposted from LJ)
