This week I had planned to write a diary to release some emotional stress I have been going through but the tech people at DKos decided it was a good week to release another bad update to fix problems with the site that I did not find problematic. In short, they have decided to eliminate the way the mobile version lists diaries.
I do want to say the previous update of the mobile version was fairly good. You could still get the old list with three choices of categories (Main/Front Page, Recommended, Recent) at the top and the large font listing of the diaries. After the update, pressing the diary title brought up the new mobile version which had most, if not all, the important functionality of the site (writing diaries, commenting, etc.)
Yesterday, I came to Dkos to begin catching up on news since I was busy all day. When I pressed the back button on the diary I had been reading to get back to the list page, the page looked just as it does on the desktop version. Thinking maybe the mobile version had reverted back to the old/new nonsense from last year, I tried switching. Wouldn’t you know it, the well function and easily readable list version where I could switch between the three categories was gone. Now it was either use the main desktop version with the categories where you only see about 5 diaries in each category or the old version which is nearly impossible to read and has rec list on the right. You can switch to the list view to eliminate the enormous amount of completely unreadable above-the-fold text, but it makes the title font even smaller.
It is bad enough I am dealing with bad emotions and circumstances currently. To have another stupid site update making my life worse just pisses me off further. TO THE TECH PEOPLE: Bring back the old way the mobile version listed diaries and had the three category buttons on top!
/end rant
Next week I will either write the diary I intended this week or cover something more positive.
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