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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2011-08-31 10:29 pm
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LJ: comment interface kinda broken?

Is this happening to anybody else? Instead of the nice inline "post comment" interface when commenting on an entry page, I'm now getting a new page with a bunch of whitespace, assorted authentication options (just in case, while logged in to LJ, I want to post from my hypothetical Facebook account), and access to only the post/comment I'm replying to, not the whole page.

I filed a support request but wanted to see how widespread this is. Anybody else seeing this?

Oh, and the posting interface has some new and different bugs for me too: no userpic preview and no auto-complete on tags. I wonder what else is wrong. (I know they're having some issues with the RTF editor, which I do not use.)

Here's a screen shot:


Note the relative size of the scrollbar.
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[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/ 2011-09-01 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not seeing the missing post content (Opera 9, OSX 10.4). It could be something intermittent due to their adding in the huge list of account types. Vkontakte? Whatever. Someone needs to learn about combo boxes.

The posting interface doesn't show userpic previews for me either, and it looks like some of the buttons near the bottom are gone -- I could swear there was a button next to the spell check one and another next to the post one. It does now let you crosspost to two completely different places. Heck, this comment wouldn't even fit in a twit!

Add'l: after an initial posting the style sheet seems dead. Edits to the post look okay though. They really need a QA team. Maybe they could hire some Russian contractors... ;-)
Edited 2011-09-01 14:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] cellio 2011-09-02 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Commenting is now working for me, but the post-entry page still doesn't show userpics. And you're right; it does look like some stuff at the bottom changed too. Have you filed support requests for any of that?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/ 2011-09-02 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Nope; I figure with a huge userbase they'll get swamped with duplicate tickets. Oh, and the button next to "spell check" was "preview", and it's back.

The userpics started showing up for me a few hours ago.
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