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

[sopor_pies]

this is fine in terms of functionality, though i already miss the beautiful singularity custom layout :( i am more than willing to deal with that until they fix this.

Also, I know that it's too soon to be considering it, and I certainly wouldn't encourage a mass move, but I hope it's okay if I preemptively ask: would the mods entertain the idea of moving everything to dreamwidth?

[myownbestfriend]

I don't think any of us are dead set against the idea if LJ continues to be unusable. Importing communities isn't possible, however.

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

They're working on that right now, actually. (https://twitter.com/#!/dreamwidth/status/149568684871000065)

[myownbestfriend]

Good to know.

I feel like I need my custom dancing middle finger banana emote from plurk to express my sentiments about LJ right now.

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think we are all feeling that right about now :V I'm sorry if I'm coming across as pushy, I'm just trying to be helpful and I know a lot of us have already been preparing for a possible move so I wanted to make sure all the information I've got about this little debacle is out there!

[myownbestfriend]

It's all right. This is a mess for all of us. AND IT IS SEVERELY CUTTING INTO MY TAGGING TIME D8<

[sopor_pies]

True, comms won't be able to be imported...although if worst comes to worst, we could have some kind of off-site archive for all past posts. Though at the end of the day that still means you poor mods will have to manually transport everything.

Bluh. Leave that one on the back burner for now, I guess.