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LIvejournal about to commit GenderFAIL: Gender choices to be only male or female, getting rid of "unspecified". Gender field will be obligatory.


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[isitis.livejournal.com]

Woo Hoo!

I just sent in my complaint!

[virginia-fell.livejournal.com]

Got a response from Anjelika Petrochenko.

hi Virginia,

thank you for your feedback.
However, the code update that you refer to is not live and did not have any chance to go live. That was a beta release, we always push code to beta to see if everything works correctly. In many cases it does not and we either fix bugs or pull the code from the final release plan.
We were going to add a gender field to the sign up user flow, which is fine, but by mistake it became a mandatory "female/male" field for everyone. This is why this is not going live. And this is what beta releases are for, to see problems and solve them before any user faces a problem.

I would appreciate if you share this information with your friends that are also concerned. I am sorry that you were misinformed.

Best regards,

Anjelika Petrochenko

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

thanks!