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So, the new profile pages have gone live, if you weren't paying attention. Let's see how the design process went:

First beta announcement in lj_design: ~650 comments, mostly helpful feedback.
Round 2 of the testing process: ~750 comments, mostly helpful feedback.
Final Round of the testing process: ~500 comments, mostly helpful feedback.
Announcement that the profile goes live: 4,800+ comments, all of them bitching and wailing that there was no announcement, no testing, "OMG YOU SUCK, LJ!", "DO NOT WANT", etc.

GOOD GOD, PEOPLE. It's ONE page. Now there's evidently a petition. Because those always work so well. Maybe there should be a Facebook group, too.
Speaking of whom, Facebook, Hotmail, and Yahoo! all change their sites, and I'm sure they don't give a crap how many people bitch about it. Why do LJ users believe NOTHING SHOULD EVER EVER CHANGE?

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This morning I decided to do the numbers. This was around 11:00am Eastern.

As of today, 1,880,805 active accounts exist on LiveJournal. If every comment on the the lj-design post about the profile update were a unique user* it would calculate to approximately .25% of active users.

4765 / 1,880,805 = 0.00253348965

*since I myself am partaking in a few threaded discussions with other users within the comments of that post, I know for a fact that all comments are not from unique users, but I feel that this knowledge further assists in making my point

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