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You know what grinds my gears?
16 years ago
People who have auto-headers and footers in their FA journals that are like 17,000 times longer than the actual journal text.
Which means that I have to scan through tons of rehashed garbage text of what commissions they're working on or who's their FA crush or why furries suck before I get to the point of the journal post to begin with.
And then when that journal post is sandwiched in between EVEN MORE rehashed, auto-pulled commission/FA crushes/furries suck comments, it's almost impossible to see why I clicked on the journal to begin with.
FA's journal engine already sucks, so don't make it worse by filling in the header/footer fields with unnecessary crap.
This has been another episode of Peter Griffin's You Know What Grinds My Gears.
Which means that I have to scan through tons of rehashed garbage text of what commissions they're working on or who's their FA crush or why furries suck before I get to the point of the journal post to begin with.
And then when that journal post is sandwiched in between EVEN MORE rehashed, auto-pulled commission/FA crushes/furries suck comments, it's almost impossible to see why I clicked on the journal to begin with.
FA's journal engine already sucks, so don't make it worse by filling in the header/footer fields with unnecessary crap.
This has been another episode of Peter Griffin's You Know What Grinds My Gears.
the FA engine i think it is VERY outdated and just has been patched with nice things like HOVER! Footers i get, headers I dont!
Not pushing in the clutch before shifting? :V
You're a robot!
Then I like putting my own footers in for getting me to draw more. Curse my laziness. I need to pick up a pencil and draw. I did get a female toy figure today. Very realistic looking.
Imho they're just a decoration. Ok, sometimes I did journals updated on whose comission I'm working on, but looks like I'm getting bored of it too.
Although I don't mind one liners at the end of the message, so long as they're only a few words not a paragraph, or a run on sentence!)
It bugs me when journals are only one word long like;
Woot!
*faints*
*dances*
I dunno why folks think we need a prelude to a real journal they're going to post at some later date.
I do hear you on that one though sir duncan!
I've watched somebody who listed all of his friends in his header & footer(with icons), which always took more space than his short entries(often Youtube links). After he got lots of complaints, he preceded the footer with "THIS IS WHERE YOU START", ended it with "INTERMISSION :D", then started the footer with "Almost done...", ending with "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNND DONEEEEEE." That just added more clutter. Many of you already know who I'm talking about.
Although, probably worse are the ones where you think the header is the entry.
BUT AT LEAST WE DON'T HAVE PER-COMMENT FOOTERS LIKE DA!!! I still read those like they're part of the comment, followed by slight confusion. Especially when it's an angry footer.
My header is "WILLYUMS (Garrett) says...", because FA doesn't tell you whose journal you're looking at, except sandwiched in the window title. Avatars change(in style AND characters!), plus are poorly-aligned.
My footer is a well-formatted short list of links with an extra line above it. I might add some bullets to them, now that you have me thinking about better design. Ideally, I'd like to change the background color.
I recommend everybody surround their headers & footers with [quote] & [/quote]tags to give them a border.
Anyway yeah it's not too interesting. People should start using celebrity pictures. :)