new LJ style: ow, my eyes!
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cellioThey changed the style for the individual-entry pages. The big thing everyone is complaining about is the new comment interface; that's butt-ugly too, but my real problem is that they shrank the font for everything. Browser zoom zooms the whole page (hello horizontal scrolling) and just isn't practical -- if I set a higher zoom for LJ it'll affect all my pages and things like profiles and help requests will be affected too. Ditto for Stylish; I don't know how to have it affect all and only individual entries.
Assuming that they're going to punt on my request to put it back (they usually punt on accessibility requests in my experience), could anyone reading this possibly, pretty please, write me a Greasemonkey script (or Stylish script, if you can figure out how) to put it back the way it was, or suggest some other browser customization that'll do it? Or an LJ style? (They claim they'll offer one in the future, but who knows how long?) I still have some old-style LJ pages in browser tabs so I'll harvest the source for one of them.
Big accessibility fail, LJ! Stop with the assumption that everybody in the world has 20/20 vision please.
Assuming that they're going to punt on my request to put it back (they usually punt on accessibility requests in my experience), could anyone reading this possibly, pretty please, write me a Greasemonkey script (or Stylish script, if you can figure out how) to put it back the way it was, or suggest some other browser customization that'll do it? Or an LJ style? (They claim they'll offer one in the future, but who knows how long?) I still have some old-style LJ pages in browser tabs so I'll harvest the source for one of them.
Big accessibility fail, LJ! Stop with the assumption that everybody in the world has 20/20 vision please.
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Date: 2011-12-21 03:09 pm (UTC)Once you set your style to include comment pages, adding &style=mine or ?style=mine (which I'm guessing your familiar with, or are using a script) should put you to your customized page.
Here's the options set to put your comment page to a style:
http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml
Display
Presentation
Basic Options
Disable customized comment pages for your journal Yes No
It's the 4th option under Basic Options, if you're having a hard time reading the page. Or you may need to hit the "Expand All" buttons (Find worked to get there), then do a find for "customized comment". I checked, and both sets of words are actually text that's Find-able (at least, in this browser).
I hope this helps, or that you can find what you need!
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Date: 2011-12-21 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:27 pm (UTC)From:
http://www.livejournal.com/customize/
There's a search box above the available styles on the right, you should be able to search for "Classic" to return things that look like they're the same styles (there are several color schemes), or you can search for "Everwhite" to get some that have the total whiteness of your current theme.
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Date: 2011-12-21 05:26 pm (UTC)I"m looking at the S2 styles, realizing that I don't love any of them, but could get used to no longer having my friends color-coded to the left of entries and such, but the flattened threading is irksome. I'm not tech-savvy; is there a way to modify a theme so the threading steps more obviously?
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Date: 2011-12-21 05:40 pm (UTC)Then, append the ? part to a page with comments, like
http://magid.livejournal.com/1615859.html?s2id=18783950
And you'll be able to see what the comment page for that style looks like.
It's annoying that there isn't an easier way, but I don't see one.
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Date: 2011-12-21 05:51 pm (UTC)Magazine in Everwhite: ?s2id=18783950
Minimalist in Travel Afar: ?s2id=18783950
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Date: 2011-12-21 06:51 pm (UTC)I really appreciate the time you've put into this; thank you.
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Date: 2011-12-22 03:35 pm (UTC)http://cellio.livejournal.com/909127.html?s2id=18783950
works exactly like it should for me.
I was having trouble accessing LJ at all last night (thus why I didn't reply last night), so perhaps they were having some server issues. I don't know.
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Date: 2011-12-21 07:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-21 07:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-21 05:48 pm (UTC)The new buttons, though? Huh? This is almost the least important feature they could be working on, and even if they did think it's important they could have tried to do a good job of it.
Let us not mention how the default 'what happens when you hit enter' when creating a post changed from saving the post to spell checking it.
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Date: 2011-12-21 06:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-21 06:34 pm (UTC)1. I click "post a new comment".
2. I type the comment.
3. I try to change my userpic from my default (Loiosh) to my WTF? icon. The pointer changes to "link:pointing hand" when I put it on either the name of the current userpic or the down-arrowhead next to it -- or anywhere in that icon box box -- but nothing happens when I click it. Check the NoScript icon -- right, whole page is enabled.
4. Since this is really the third time I'm trying this, COPY AND SAVE THE WHOLE TYPED COMMENT.
5. Click "Post a new comment" button at the bottom of the comment section.
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Date: 2011-12-21 06:44 pm (UTC)1. I click "post a new comment".
2. I type the comment.
3. I try to change my userpic from my default (Loiosh) to my WTF? icon. The pointer changes to "link:pointing hand" when I put it on either the name of the current userpic or the down-arrowhead next to it -- or anywhere in that icon box box -- but nothing happens when I click it. Check the NoScript icon -- right, whole page is enabled.
4. Since this is really the third time I'm trying this, COPY AND SAVE THE WHOLE TYPED COMMENT.
5. Click "Post a new comment" button at the bottom of the comment section, as opposed to the differently colored "Post a new comment" button at the TOP of the comment section.
ETA: Hey, whaddya know, this time it worked.
6. Before adding the ETA line, observe that the Edit Comment button and the Delete Comment button have, IIRC, been SWITCHED from their old positions, so I have to click the rightmost button to edit comment; the leftmost will delete it. Or maybe it would have started the "you sure you wanna delete?" dialogue, but either way, .
7. Heyyyyy, where's the PREVIEW button. Is that the empty checkbox up top that says "check" next to it? If it is, Dumb Dumb Dorothy, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR A HOMONYM!! Save again and try it.
8. All it does... well, it's not clear what the purpose is, but it doesn't give me a preview. So...
9. Hey, there's a HELP button under the userpic box. ... Nooooo, that just tells me about USERPICS nothing I don't already know.
10. OK, copy again and save again, and click "Post a new comment" again. The one at the bottom; the one at the top has disappeared, maybe when the comment was successfully posted. But now there's another "Post a new comment" link OUTSIDE the comment box, at the bottom. Maybe that's in case I want to post a DIFFERENT new comment before posting this one, and risk screwing them both up. I think I will avoid that one.
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Date: 2011-12-21 06:49 pm (UTC)1. I click "post a new comment".
2. I type the comment.
3. I try to change my userpic from my default (Loiosh) to my WTF? icon. The pointer changes to "link:pointing hand" when I put it on either the name of the current userpic or the down-arrowhead next to it -- or anywhere in that icon box box -- but nothing happens when I click it. Check the NoScript icon -- right, whole page is enabled.
4. Since this is really the third time I'm trying this, COPY AND SAVE THE WHOLE TYPED COMMENT.
5. Click "Post a new comment" button at the bottom of the comment section, as opposed to the differently colored "Post a new comment" button at the TOP of the comment section.
ETA1: Hey, whaddya know, this time it worked.
6. Before adding the ETA line, observe that the Edit Comment button and the Delete Comment button have, IIRC, been SWITCHED from their old positions, so I have to click the rightmost button to edit comment; the leftmost will delete it. Or maybe it would have started the "you sure you wanna delete?" dialogue, but either way, .
7. Heyyyyy, where's the PREVIEW button. Is that the empty checkbox up top that says "check" next to it? If it is, Dumb Dumb Dorothy, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR A HOMONYM!! Save again and try it.
8. All it does... well, it's not clear what the purpose is, but it doesn't give me a preview. So...
9. Hey, there's a HELP button under the userpic box. ... Nooooo, that just tells me about USERPICS nothing I don't already know.
10. OK, copy again and save again, and click "Post a new comment" again. The one at the bottom;* the one at the top has disappeared, maybe when the comment was successfully posted. But now there's another "Post a new comment" link OUTSIDE the comment box, at the bottom. Maybe that's in case I want to post a DIFFERENT new comment before posting this one, and risk screwing them both up. I think I will avoid that one.
ETA2: And what *it did was POST THIS EDITED COMMENT AS A REPLY TO THE FIRST ONE. "Obviously" I should have re-clicked the edit icon for the previous one, which is ABOVE the comment input box, at the point of an angle. But as I was looking at my text and getting it centered on my screen, THAT UNEXPECTED PART WAS SCROLLED OFF MY SCREEN AND OUT OF SIGHT.
(Where am I, what number?... OK.) 11. Now I will scroll up again and click that edit icon that the arrowhead, or wedge, or notch, is pointing to. After of course saving again.
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Date: 2011-12-21 06:55 pm (UTC)1. I click "post a new comment".
2. I type the comment.
3. I try to change my userpic from my default (Loiosh) to my WTF? icon. The pointer changes to "link:pointing hand" when I put it on either the name of the current userpic or the down-arrowhead next to it -- or anywhere in that icon box box -- but nothing happens when I click it. Check the NoScript icon -- right, whole page is enabled.
4. Since this is really the third time I'm trying this, COPY AND SAVE THE WHOLE TYPED COMMENT.
5. Click "Post a new comment" button at the bottom of the comment section, as opposed to the differently colored "Post a new comment" button at the TOP of the comment section.
ETA1: Hey, whaddya know, this time it worked.
6. Before adding the ETA line, observe that the Edit Comment button and the Delete Comment button have, IIRC, been SWITCHED from their old positions, so I have to click the rightmost button to edit comment; the leftmost will delete it. Or maybe it would have started the "you sure you wanna delete?" dialogue, but either way, .
7. Heyyyyy, where's the PREVIEW button. Is that the empty checkbox up top that says "check" next to it? If it is, Dumb Dumb Dorothy, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR A HOMONYM!! Save again and try it.
8. All it does... well, it's not clear what the purpose is, but it doesn't give me a preview. So...
9. Hey, there's a HELP button under the userpic box. ... Nooooo, that just tells me about USERPICS nothing I don't already know.
10. OK, copy again and save again, and click "Post a new comment" again. The one at the bottom;* the one at the top has disappeared, maybe when the comment was successfully posted. But now there's another "Post a new comment" link OUTSIDE the comment box, at the bottom. Maybe that's in case I want to post a DIFFERENT new comment before posting this one, and risk screwing them both up. I think I will avoid that one.
ETA2: And what *it did was POST THIS EDITED COMMENT AS A REPLY TO THE FIRST ONE. "Obviously" I should have re-clicked the edit icon for the previous one, which is ABOVE the comment input box, at the point of an angle. But as I was looking at my text and getting it centered on my screen, THAT UNEXPECTED PART WAS SCROLLED OFF MY SCREEN AND OUT OF SIGHT.
(Where am I, what number?... OK.) 11. Now I will scroll up again and click that edit icon that the arrowhead, or wedge, or notch, is pointing to. After of course saving again.
ETA3: But that only posted the partially edited comment, only up to 10.
12. So I hit the LOWER post a new comment button, and that ... put in a NEW comment, with all I had typed so far. I suspect that if I now hit the EDIT again, ... I don't f*kin' know.
ETA4: Yup. It posted what I had typed before. Basically, I THINK, if you hit edit you get one chance to change it. After that it has to be a new comment. I think.
13 (uh-oh). And although I THOUGHT I'd hit edit, I'm in Post a New Comment, and I don't know what difference the upper and lower buttons that say that -- both in the color-coded same area -- will make. Save and hit upper button.
ETA5: It did NOTHING!
14. I will try clicking the lower post a new comment button.
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Date: 2011-12-21 06:58 pm (UTC)- editing comments
- the distinction between replying to comments and commenting on the post
- the userpic interface
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Date: 2011-12-21 07:20 pm (UTC)I can see the interface that you're complaining about, when I remove ?style=mine from the comment page, so it's not a browser issue either (on this computer, which is running IE7 and I can't fix that, display problems are often browser issues).
I seem to remember that support for the default comment page was only added back in grudgingly, so TBTP may have decided to update the code for it.
It looks like it was designed by whoever designed the new google sites, and I hate those as well. Yuck.
Signal boost: Fixing Livejournal. For real. And then getting away from it.
Date: 2011-12-22 07:44 am (UTC)Re: Signal boost: Fixing Livejournal. For real. And then getting away from it.
Date: 2011-12-22 02:23 pm (UTC)And I do cross-post from DW.... except in the middle of a DDOS attack, when cross-posting doesn't work.
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Date: 2011-12-22 01:12 pm (UTC)(Unrelated aside: for some reason, on my Macbook Pro, occasionally when I use two-finger scrolling, the browser interprets this as command-plus or command-minus, and I effectively zoom in/out. That's what I thought happened at first -- but I need to increase the font size by two for things not to be microscopic. WTF?)
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Date: 2011-12-22 03:37 pm (UTC)