Some help please

[shapinglight]

Okay, 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?

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The only place it has changed for me is one community I belong to - so it doesn't seem to have effected most journals. I have the drop down menu here on your journal, too.

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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I have the drop down menu here on your journal, too.

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 dwyld.

I found that icon box very slow to load and horribly jerky to scroll down.

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Okay, I've changed the layout again, this time to a style called Minalism. Is the font easier to read in the comments?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh - I rather like that one - it suits you! And thank you, yes - the font is bigger than in both your original and the in-between one, at least for me. And I seem to still have my drop-down menu and the option of putting a header when I comment.

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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And thank you, yes - the font is bigger than in both your original and the in-between one, at least for me

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.