LJ and friends' styles

[cellio]

Yesterday's updates to the LJ code base removed the "s2id" argument that you could (previously) add to URLs to get your friends' comment pages to display in the default style. However, they've added a profile option to do what I really wanted anyway: you can now cause your friends' comment pages to display in your style (not an arbitrary one). The new FAQ entry is here.

(Too bad they didn't announce this in the maintenance post; I had to bother the folks in support to find out about this.)

I know there are people on my friends list who will be interested in this, so here you go.

Comments

[jducoeur]

Lovely! While this hasn't been as much of a problem for me as for you, I have to admit that I just plain don't like some peoples' styles. So being able to look at their comment pages in my own style is very convenient.

Thanks for the pointer...

[cellio]

You're welcome. I've since noticed that this works for the comment links but not for cuts. You can get around that, for posts that don't have any comments yet, by reading via the "post" link.

[jducoeur]

That's actually how I usually read cuts. When you click on a cut, it positions the browser right at the cut, which annoys me -- nine times out of ten, I want to see the context, which means seeing the message from the top.

So I generally click on the "read comments" link if there is one, or "post comments" if there aren't any yet.

[cellio]

I always take the "read comments" link option if it's available, because I do sometimes go back through entries I've read to pick up new comments, and the only way that's really feasible is if the URL does some of the work for me. (In other words, I use the option that puts the number of comments in the URL itself, so if there's nothing new I'll see the visited link.)