We can post autoplaying videos on our blogs now? WTF? When Livejournal mentioned the other day that they’re going to be backporting the YouTube functionality from Vox (nice to know Vox is giving something back rather than just as well as shamelessly cannibalising all LJ’s code and community features) everyone was all ‘don’t let video clips autoplay, pleeeease, we don’t wanna be MySpace!’ And LJ were like, ‘yeah, well, obviously we’re not going to let them autoplay because that would be completely antisocial’.

Congratulations guys, wordpress.com is now officially further downmarket than Six Apart’s Cinderella service that they’re dismantling for spare parts. Let’s look at the evidence. You have no paying customers. Your only customisation options are changing the headers on selected themes. And now you’re letting the teenybloggers inflict random videos on dial-up users without a by-your-leave. Seriously, people are not severely inconvenienced by having to click a play button. Was there any thinking behind this decision whatsoever?