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[tellytubby101]

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO LJ COMMENTS

SO UGLY and UNHELPFUL; I MISS SUBJECT LINES ALREADY

WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THIS REDESIGN WAS BETTER? SERIOUSLY, THEY SHOULD BE FIRED

OH MY GOD, DNW

It's bad enough that the Post Entry shit got changed a few months back so there's no "Clean From Word" feature, but this is just stupid. BLARGHY WTF ARGHY

My latest fic needs to be read in ?format=light mode, took me aaages (read: hours) to make it work, and the 'effing redesign has skewed the formatting just enough to bother me. asdfgjkl;lkjhgfdsasdfghjk,lkjhgfdsdfgjkjgfdsdghkjgfds RAEGGGG

JFC, now so very tempted to jump ship permanently to DW and move my crap to Ao3 (and FFn again).

Comments

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

What. Appearance is not more important than functionality. WTF.

Most kink/anon-memes are changing to S2 layouts to get the subject lines back, but it's not the same. Still, it's better than the fugly-ass default setting, which just ruins everything.

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

The problem with S2 is that it eats your comments sometimes and
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among other things. Same with customised comments which is his other offered fix.

Also, you have to expand/collapse all threads individually (or auto-all at the bottom) and it loads FOREVER because it's java animation so #1 you're stuffed if it doesn't work #2 you're stuffed if your computer is slow #3 it's slow no matter what.

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

I swear I read this somewhere, but aren't the LJ evil overlords designing a layout that looks like the old one to use, to be released soon~ Dumbasses should've made sure it worked before instigating this godawful change. Fingers crossed some users who have layout comms are working on tweaking the code. :/

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

Yeah supposedly there's S3, but who knows wtf is going on because I swear they've said that before and they actually don't want to go to S3. They like S2 better and think it looks nicer.

Right now he basically said "some communities may keep their old layout" but it's probably a few select PAID communities. Also he said less than 1% of the LJ userbase uses the subject title so he figured issuing a non-negotiable proclamation of change would be fine.

Fine like an unwanted parking ticket maybe!

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

Also S2 loads perilously slowly and eats the hell out of bandwidth so most people (and mobile app users) either won't be able to use LJ at all or will have severely limited useage.

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

S3... Yeah, not hopeful for that considering what they're doing right now.

Some companies just appear really out of touch with their userbase. Delicious ignored all the complaints from fandom-users, so there was a mass exodus to Pinboard. However, LJ has been so deep-rooted in fandom, it's almost like FFn at this point. Everyone will turn up to the party, but even when it goes sour, no one really can find it within themselves to leave.

As far as I can tell, paid communities/users are affected, too. Ugh.

RE: Other comment

If even their Russian userbase has shown signs of discontent with this BS and they haven't budged, I don't think they will. asdfghjkl;;;

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

See what you did there? You made your own subject title within the body of the comment text... Just like igrick prefers! *slow clap*

Russians do their own thing so whatever, but if a lot of their paid users leave they'll probably have to rethink what they're doing. Technically though, with 18 pages of comments... That's not a lot of the LJ community. I want to see where it goes by the end of the week or month when more people have seen it.

They've been screwing us over with basically all their updates anyhow. I stopped editing/updating a ton of stuff because I was getting so pissed off with the text editor and the way the cuts kept eating all the content. It would take me 3 hours to add 5 lines of text.

It was that bad.

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

I hate the fact that they've instigated this one change due to the aesthetic tastes of one user against the protests of many more. If I knew how to sufficiently hack, I would hack her account.

For me, I can posts short posts easily enough, but fics are a pain in the butt. For the current Avengers fic I'm posting, I use the "Clean to Word" thing on DW, copypasta the HTML to LJ and then manually edit the places where DW coding doesn't match with LJ. THEN, because LJ is fucked, I have to preview a million times and catch the thousand tiny discrepancies WHICH HAVE NOW REAPPEARED WITH THIS HORRIFIC UPDATE. DDD:<

Oh yes, I second the fact that editing posts is more difficult now. Editing posts with LJ cuts are a pain in the ass now. I bet learning Ao3 coding would be a good investment at this point in time, blarghy.

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

I believe igrick is a guy, but yeah... Use this and release your rage.

Coding is a huge bitch because copy-pasting into LJ doesn't work with OpenOffice anymore. Now I have to copy into GoogleDocs and copy from there into LJ.

I just don't like typing in code because it's a huge pain! It would be easier for posting integrity yes, but a bigass pain! D<

The other thing to do is pirate Dreamweaver and make it do the work for you. :/

P.S. The responses from the Russian community are GREAT. I'm glad to see them so angry. Though I'm not happy that the beta only ran for Russians and that you had to get special permission to get in there. >.>

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

Okay well like one person said they liked it because it made their page navigation easier (wtfffff?!?!) but other people may not be so happy with it.

Also apparently they're rolling back banners to try to get rid of ads... Huh? I mean, yeah that's nice but can they afford to do that?!

[tellytubby101.livejournal.com]

Ohh, whoops. I really should stop making gender assumptions. "Igrick" read in my mind for some unknown reason as "Ingrid" and therefore I assumed they were female. Their custom user icon only showed in my email.

I can type basic code. Like, super duper basic, enough to get by, but nothing close to what I need for fics.

I kind of like that they're cutting down on ads, but I'd rather keep them than lose a lot of the nice features in place.

It's kind of weird, seeing Russians annoyed at the change. Normally it feels like they like them whilst the Western/English-speaking side don't. Huh. UNITED AGAINST THE EVIL OF LJ!!!

[unjaundiced.livejournal.com]

Lol Igrick has a post about his name saying people called him Igor so I'm guessing it's a guy... (but it also says Ilya which is a woman's name so who knows) and the little icon is a Musketeer with a beard so I'm really leaning towards guy, lol.

For fics, most of the code is going to be for italics, line/paragraph breaks, and possibly bolding/header tags. I just hate typing them out and it messes it up visually to see it. That and loading to FFn gets all messed up if you have html in it..

Yeah a lot of Russians seem happy but there are a bunch of pissed off ones so I'm hoping more pissed off people will speak up because I am seriously annoyed.

Subject titles and comment loading... Such a little thing! BUT SO AGGRAVATING!