Some help please
Dec. 21st, 2011 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightOkay, so LJ seem to have ignored the outcry and gone ahead with the changes to the comments page. God, it looks hideous!
However, from what I've been told, if you have a paid LJ and the right journal style and tick to see other LJs in your own style, you can still see the comment subject lines and drop down boxes on the comments page. But since I've stuck with an ancient S1 LJ style, I don't think that applies to me. Looks like it's time to get another style whether I like it or not. :gloom: :(
Can anyone suggest one that looks something like what I have?
However, from what I've been told, if you have a paid LJ and the right journal style and tick to see other LJs in your own style, you can still see the comment subject lines and drop down boxes on the comments page. But since I've stuck with an ancient S1 LJ style, I don't think that applies to me. Looks like it's time to get another style whether I like it or not. :gloom: :(
Can anyone suggest one that looks something like what I have?
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Date: 2011-12-21 12:18 pm (UTC)While I don't like the changes at all the icon drop down box does let you see which icon you are using, which isn't a totally horrible idea.
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Date: 2011-12-21 12:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 12:39 pm (UTC)My style seems unaffected at the moment, and your comment page looks okay (for me anyway). I've seen the new style on other LJ's though, and I really, really hate it! Hope mine doesn't change.
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Date: 2011-12-21 12:43 pm (UTC)That's what happens when you meddle with things you don't understand, I suppose. :(
I don't even know how to change the layout so I can see my tags on the front page (though I currently only have one on this LJ).
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Date: 2011-12-21 12:46 pm (UTC)I think the new layout's pretty cute :)
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Date: 2011-12-21 01:34 pm (UTC)Yes, that's why. Apparently, some S2 styles support the old comments page, but that may change in the future.
:grumps:
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Date: 2011-12-21 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 01:51 pm (UTC)Anyway, I seem to have managed to hit on a layout that still supports the old comments page, so that's something I suppose.
This is a comment!
Date: 2011-12-21 02:09 pm (UTC)Icon chosen because LJ makes us stay on our toes as we weeble and wobble while they mess with our equilibrium. Again. ::sighs::
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Date: 2011-12-21 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 02:17 pm (UTC)On this comment box I would appear to have the familiar drop-down icon menu. This may be beacuse I am using Firefox with the LJ Hook addon, which also gives me a nifty "randomise" button.
Why must they insist on buggering about with what's not broken?
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Date: 2011-12-21 02:22 pm (UTC)Also, purply-blue? It looks grey to me, or do you mean you're looking at my LJ in your style now?
And yes, what is this mania for fixing things that aren't broke? Is there really no one in Russia who wants subject lines for their comments?
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Date: 2011-12-21 02:22 pm (UTC)But honestly, just go and choose a new style - it's only one click...
And hopefully, to be honest, you pick one where the writing in the leave a comment box is big enough to read, it's one reason I don't often comment, because the tiny grey writing on white is so hard to read. (You may regard this as a positive, of course!)
I have to say that on that one community the icon pictures loaded remarkably quickly - but the main problem to it for me is that they are in, not alphabetical order, but the order you uploaded them, which is just a hotch-potch.
ETA - actually s2c has just found the picture thing on a comm he belongs t - and has pointed out that it has a search function - put in the first letter or two and you're there. If that's the case, and I only meet it now and then, I think I'll stop complaining.
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Date: 2011-12-21 02:33 pm (UTC)Is that because you're viewing my LJ in your style or because I've changed my style to an S2 one?
it's one reason I don't often comment, because the tiny grey writing on white is so hard to read. (You may regard this as a positive, of course!)
:( I seem to have picked the wrong one for you, then. Maybe there's some way I can make the font bigger? As I said to BGF, wish I wasn't such a Techno Amish. Will have to ask
I found that icon box very slow to load and horribly jerky to scroll down.
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Date: 2011-12-21 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 03:44 pm (UTC)As long as you like it, of course...
The existence, or not, of the drop down and the subject doesn't seem to be related to whether I view in 'my style' - because I don't, I rather like the different 'looks' on the whole (although, thinking of it, if I did view in my style, whilst boring, it would avoid the problem I have on a number of journals with the tiny font). It is all something of a mystery.
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Date: 2011-12-22 10:10 am (UTC)Hmm, there must be something weird in the way you're viewing LJ, I think. I agree that the font was small on the first S2 style I chose, but my original one always looked normal size, I thought.
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Date: 2011-12-21 02:55 pm (UTC)It's quite ugly, but I have to say LJ is working more swiftly for me now than the last couple years. Normally I'd have to reload a page 2-3 times before it would show. :-/
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Date: 2011-12-21 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 03:29 pm (UTC)No idea. It'll probably revert back to its clunky, slow form in a day or so.
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Date: 2011-12-21 03:40 pm (UTC)Anyway, I changed my style again because someone said the font on the other one was too small. Does this look okay to you?
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Date: 2011-12-21 03:58 pm (UTC)Font looks fine to me.
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:57 pm (UTC)I wonder why they have done it? Does anybody know? It seems an odd change to make.
Are you happy with what you've picked? We can talk about how to tweak things tonight if need be, although honestly it is all pretty self explanatory once you are using S2 - just play with whatever options they are offering you until you get what you want.
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Date: 2011-12-22 10:08 am (UTC)No idea. And it's not the only change they're contemplating. If you follow a link from the comments on the latest news post, you can see the whole new LJ design, which is just as hideous as the new comments page.
And apparently there are plenty of Russian users who hate the changes too, so it's not just us whingeing Westerners.
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Date: 2011-12-22 02:28 pm (UTC)Actually, no. The more I look at it, the more I hate it. :(
Hate the colour, hate the layout. Meh!
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Date: 2011-12-21 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-22 10:06 am (UTC)no subject
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