03/03/2003
This is a review of muffinbean.diaryland.com.
Content - 30/65
[-]Execution - 15/35pts. Well, you yourself professed that you wanted to alleviate the terrible boredom of teenagedom. Against boredom even the gods contend in vain. You're not a god, but you're contending in vain, hon. You're boring us to pieces. (Or "me" anyway. I always seem to be alone and very alone at that.) You're probably boring yourself to pieces, which I believe is a reason for all the playing around with layouts. A person who creates a meaningful diary will find herself lacking the time to change layouts since writing is much more interesting. And the entries in which you referred to your surgery? You said "Ahh! I have to get a surgery!" (or something of the sort). Are you scared? Happy? Excited because your anesthesiologist resident is a cutie? Do you even care?
But what you do well is zip through things. You want to get done with everything and move onto the next boring bit of your life. And you do that with your diary too! It's a wild ride, or something. It's excitingly fast. It's frighteningly fast. You don't bore everyone for hours on end, I mean. That's grand, and I appreciate it.
Additionally, your ascension into teenage angst-hood is amusing. Good luck!
[-]Grammar/Mechanics - 8/10pts. Mostly all right. It doesn't get in the way of being able to understand what you say, which is really what matters anyway.
[-]Readability - 5/10pts. I can't follow you sometimes. The references... too many people or something. What are these, the notes of your life? Boo! I can't be a proper voyeur if I don't understand what you're saying! You're alienating me with your clever inside jokes, and I can't and won't stand for it! For example, take your "semi-date". What was that? Why wasn't I invited?
[-]Style - 2/10pts. You are all over the place. Are you full of angst? I can't say. I've read most of your diary, but I can't say. It sounds like you want to be full of angst. But you sound chipper too. Excited about life. Or something. Maybe bored. Uh. Whatever.
Layout - 19/20pts.
[-]Aesthetics - 10/10pts. Pretty. (I don't really have much to say about layouts. It's pretty. Well done. Woohoo.)
[-]Navigability - 5/5pts.
[-]Legibility - 4/5pts. On your older entries, your font's white on peach. Ahh. (Check the errors section for more details on this weird trick your diary's pulling. It's not really your fault, it's really a bug in Diaryland. But it's annoying. Fix it, darlin'.)
Contact - 5/5pts. Notes for the Diaryland user and AIM for the non-Diaryland user. Oh, sure, there might be a non-Diaryland user who lives in Lithuania and therefore uses ICQ instead... But not any reading your diary.
Updates - 5/5pts. Yep.
Errors - 3/5pts. One of Diaryland's most annoying bugs is that if you change your entry template, it sometimes doesn't change the template for the entries you made before you changed your template. Let's say you start your journal on Sunday. On Thursday, you decide you want to switch to a different template. Well, the entries for Sunday through Wednesday still use your old template. *shrug.* Check out your first few entries if you don't believe me.
Total - 62/100pts. That makes you a Mediocre, and that means you are not alone, but well on your way to pretending to be alone, as the angst-filled teenager you aspire to be. Good day, and keep safe!
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