If you too dislike the navigation strip

[hummingwolf]

Found in an answer by jennifer to this request on the support boards:

Thank you for your feedback. The "navigation strip" contains useful links that make navigating through LiveJournal easier, and was designed and implemented because data indicated that people had problems locating frequently-used links from individual journals. It's also designed to help make it easier to see if you're logged into LiveJournal from an individual journal, which was one of our most frequently-requested features.

Previously, the navigation strip was still being developed, and users were given a chance to opt into displaying it. Unfortunately, information on users who tried the navigation strip and decided they didn't like it wasn't stored, due to an error in recording user preferences. Because LiveJournal staff is now comfortable that the navigation strip is ready for production release, they turned it on for all accounts except for the ones that had actively dismissed the "Did you know" box about the navigation strip. I'm sorry that your preference to not display the navigation strip wasn't stored; this is a one-time situation, and it won't be turned on for your account again. You can control your viewing options, including whether or not the navigation strip is displayed, at http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/

#~@<|%& ugly useless piece of clutter... (mutter, grumble, something something about kids these days)

Comments

[aekiy.livejournal.com]

Nya, unfortunately, I think you may be a minority these days in actually memorizing and typing things out. And who knows, maybe the nav bar just ate that last little smidgen of memory your computer had, which made it cry. I can't say though, since I don't have dial-up to test the difference. (And to me, it wouldn't make much of a difference anyway, since using dial-up again would make me cry. I got stuck with it during the year+ I spent in NJ after living off the T1 lines at college in FL).

Hopefully, people will be kind enough to un-check the 'always on' option for other users, though personally I only check my own friends page anyway, and don't usually browse to other peoples' journals.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not so much that I memorize things to type them out, but that as far as I can tell the nav strip doesn't get me anywhere that the typical links on a typical journal page won't take me just as easily.

though personally I only check my own friends page anyway, and don't usually browse to other peoples' journals

Same here, usually, but if someone has their journal set up so that the comments page displays in an S2 style, then the nav strip will show up there too.

[aekiy.livejournal.com]

Aa, that's true I guess..

And oh, well I used to actually memorize URls and type them in all the time. In fact, I still do. The only things I bookmark are things that I won't actually need on a regular basis, but want to check up on or be able to get back to some months from now randomly.