I like it better than LJ's, because LJ's never made sense to me -- it looked like a pile of locks (okay, so it is, but yeah), and I kept thinking: what was wrong with just having a single lock? What's with this multiple lock stuff? Is my post extra-extra-locked now?
At least the tag makes some kind of intuitive sense, that the lock itself has been tagged in some way, just like filtering basically locks the post but does so via a tagging-method (tag: group1, tag: bestfriends, etc).
Which means to my mind, it's close enough to LJ's style that it is somewhat familiar/comfortable to folks being introduced to DW, but it's just far enough away (and helps that it's silk icons, unlike LJ) that it's stylistically different, plus being more intuitive. That really helps in the learning curve, when similarity can be helpful so long as the basic intention is roughly the same -- like going from shift-on-the-column to shift-on-the-floor in a car. Not quite exactly but close enough you're halfway there in learning it.
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At least the tag makes some kind of intuitive sense, that the lock itself has been tagged in some way, just like filtering basically locks the post but does so via a tagging-method (tag: group1, tag: bestfriends, etc).
Which means to my mind, it's close enough to LJ's style that it is somewhat familiar/comfortable to folks being introduced to DW, but it's just far enough away (and helps that it's silk icons, unlike LJ) that it's stylistically different, plus being more intuitive. That really helps in the learning curve, when similarity can be helpful so long as the basic intention is roughly the same -- like going from shift-on-the-column to shift-on-the-floor in a car. Not quite exactly but close enough you're halfway there in learning it.