Title:
move journal title controls back to Edit Profile
Area:
Styles/Profiles
Summary:
Move the editing controls for journal title and subtitle from Edit Journal Style to Edit Profile.
Description:
Once upon a time on LJ, journal titles and subtitles were edited via the Edit Profile page, and everybody was happy. (There was a dark time previously when journal titles and subtitles didn't even exist, but we don't like to talk about those days.) However, one day For Some Reason those controls were moved to the Customize Journal Style page. Much consternation and confusion raged across the land, for the journal title and subtitle and in fact THE FIRST THING one sees on one's profile, so it seems pretty natural to want to edit it there; in fact, some journal styles hide the subtitle completely. WHY IS IT EDITED THERE. WHERE IS THE LOGIC. BUFFY QUOTE.
...cried the people.
Years later, Dreamwidth came to exist and forked off of LJ's existing code, and that was great. Even greater was the fact that DW was hard at work at correcting some of LJ's more questionable coding decisions. Great, great stuff. However, this fork included the illogical switch of title/subtitle control, and thus it still sits in Customize Journal Style, making way less sense than it would to be in Edit Profile.
Sadness, and also it just took me like two minutes to find because seriously, why is it there?!
I propose that Dreamwidth undo this illogical decision and restore title/subtitle to its rightful place under Edit Profile. The only drawback I see is that it may confuse people who have gotten used to it being under Customize; but since Edit Profile is really the natural place to look for it I think that will be the lesser confusion. Plus, there could be a link where that control used to be pointing people in the right direction (or at least that link to Customize could exist under Edit Profile so I never waste two minutes again). Also it might be hard to code or something. But probably it would be awesome and everybody would be happy again, and that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Poll #9086 move journal title controls back to Edit Profile
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 79
This suggestion:
View AnswersShould be implemented as-is.
29 (36.7%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
17 (21.5%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
14 (17.7%)
(I have no opinion)
18 (22.8%)
(Other: please comment)
1 (1.3%)