new LJ style: ow, my eyes!

[cellio]

They 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.

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

It looked fine to me, and I couldn't find something in S2 that was similar, so I never bothered to change. Do you know of a style similar to the old default?

[alienor.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at your journal, and it seems that anything in the Classic series (perhaps Everwhite?) would work. Magazine is another that I seem to remember from teh old days that looks to be revived.

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.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

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?

[alienor.livejournal.com]

I'm not really familiar with S2, I've always solved that issue by picking a theme that has step threading. I don't see an easy way to figure out if a theme does that or not. You may have to obtain the theme id number (by clicking on the +magnifying glass icon in the selection screen; the address bar will be something like http://magid.livejournal.com/?s2id=18783950

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.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

It looks like Magazine or Minimalist may work for you:

Magazine in Everwhite: ?s2id=18783950
Minimalist in Travel Afar: ?s2id=18783950

[magid.livejournal.com]

This is so strange: when I look at this page of comments via Cellio, it's stepped. But when I look at a preview of the styles you recommend, and all the others, actually, none of them are stepped. No clue whether there's something on my machine that's making it all weird, or something else.

I really appreciate the time you've put into this; thank you.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

That's really odd. I see you have a post about this on your journal, so I'll start a comment thread there so as not to keep cluttering cellio's box with notifs.

[cellio]

No worries about the conversation here (I'm learning from it too), and thanks for all the help!

[alienor.livejournal.com]

No problem and I'm glad it's helpful! I just wish they hadn't changed things so that we HAD to scramble to find new styles - a warning would have been nice. *sigh*

[cellio]

Are you able to see my journal in those styles? When I add either of those suffixes to the URL for either my journal or this page I don't see any changes. I tried in a browser in which I'm not logged in, too.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

That's odd. This link:

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.

[gingicat]

I do get color-coded icons in the style that I use, for what that's worth.

[magid.livejournal.com]

In S1, a rectangle the length of the post was in whatever color I'd chosen for the person; it looks like in S2, it's just their name in a colored box, which is much much smaller. Time to adjust....