MOD ANNOUNCEMENT -- OH, LJ

[singularitymods.livejournal.com]

Bonjour, Carolyn ici.

As you may have noticed, either by your plurk timeline exploding, or by, I don't know, attempting to use the site, LJ has put their foot in it again. One hopes they'll roll back the changes, but until then, if we switch to the Minimalism style with custom comments on for the comms, we can get halfway-usable comment pages back. (Example Paradisa thread.)

But we don't want to spring this on anyone, so discuss in comments. Good idea? Glaring flaws? Just not too much discussion, or the threads will collapse and then we'll be in trouble.

ETA: Okay, there we go. Hope this helps at least somewhat.

ETA2: With the help of stoppedhiding and our own Larissa, we've got a style in place that maximizes use of screen real estate and doesn't hurt to look at. It should work for both Paid and Plus accounts.

Comments

[articletwelve]

The Minimalism layout is a-okay by me just for the basic functionality back. The way they're collapsing threads is hideous, and not in the fun way.

As far as long-term solutions go, I'm willing to help out with any CSS coding that pops up -- I'm not familiar with how LJ does stuff because I've stayed the hell away from it for the most part, but I can probably muck something up if we need it.

[myownbestfriend]

I don't know how much of this godawful crap we can circumvent clientside, but I'd certainly be willing to give it a try.

[articletwelve]

Yeah, I know. Not much we can do right now but wait and see if there are any changes and then go from there. Still, just in case.