LJ Interface woes

Well, I know that I haven’t been using this for very long, but I already think that their interface is suboptimal.

• While the Friends List aggregates people’s posts, it doesn’t do a good job of showing me what entries and comments are not yet read… I have to wade through the list to find what might interest me, and if there are any unread comments.
• I want some connection between comments I leave on other people’s pages and on my entries here… I reply to something somewhere else that made me think of something, but I kinda want to crosspost it to a journal entry as it’s of general interest and what I am thinking at the time. Plus, if I have something to say in a comment somewhere, there’s a possibility that it won’t really get seen by people who don’t check the comments pages of my friends. Something just seems off here, and I’m not really sure what it is or what the solution is.
• There’s no link from my journal for me to post to it.
• The spell checker doesn’t understand contractions
• Journal entries display local time (Eastern); comments display server time (Pacific).
• There’s no preview-post feature for journal entries, although there is for comments
• Web pages are not valid HTML (just a minor pet peeve)
• And that’s just what I’ve found in half a day.

I want things to work more like my mail/newsreader, where only unread messages are seen, and threaded, and all my inbound communications is in one place.

Perhaps for some of these issues I simply don’t have the settings here set to what I want… Please let me know how others deal with these kinds of things or what bits I need to flip where.

In other news, tentative plan for this evening is to head over to the Wedge for the weekly Friday Night Wedge Gaming.