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

[basileusphobe.livejournal.com]

Honestly this is probably the best idea unless LJ rolls this shit back. And even then, is that really going to be our long term solution?

[brbvirmire]

Do it.

If they don't roll back the changes, then what?

[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.

[checkthetapes]

I'm cool with changing it over.

/speedster lean.

[myownbestfriend]

It's 3:00am here. I can't handle long-term planning right now. :P

Regardless, we'll discuss it with players before making any radical decisions.

[eppy]

whatever gets minimum usability back is fine by me.

also yes this is eppy on her personal lj god i can't log into anything at the moment the site is running so slowly for me.

[edgeoflucidity]

I say do it. I can handle the new stuff, but I know plenty are having issues.

[myownbestfriend]

Not sure. I don't think we should start worrying about it until it becomes clear LJ's not fixing things. And certainly not while everyone's still freshly angry about it; that's just a recipe for bad decisions.

[fuckinghubble]

Best idea I've heard yet.

[cloverdaleboy.livejournal.com]

Has LiveJournal never heard of the saying "Don't fix what's not broken"? I, personally, would love to have the minimalist comments. I do not think LJ will revert these changes they've made, since they rarely listen to reason anymore. <-- bitter LJ user, I admit

[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.

[myownbestfriend]

Hah, I've had a personal account here since 2002. LJ has never had its act together.

[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.

[myownbestfriend]

Stupid UI decisions aside, there's so much client-end load in the new layout that people with older computers/netbooks are having a lot of problems.

[avengerofjade.livejournal.com]

I say go for it. This is painful.

[allshock-notalk.livejournal.com]

I'm okay with this. SO okay with this.

[selfkismesis.livejournal.com]

i'm game.

[fuknfreelancers]

>refresh page on right account to put in a +1 vote
>see changes already implemented
>sits back and sips a latte

|D ❤

[myownbestfriend]

Yeah, we were like "oh god this is so awful and everyone seems to be on board so far DO IT DO IT DO IT."

[fuknfreelancers]

I'm 99.9% sure that any changes implemented in the layout can only go up from there. The lack of eye-bright colors alone make me love the change.

So yes, ❤❤❤.

[cloverdaleboy.livejournal.com]

...I've just realised we have to look at the other whenever we log out of our RP journals. /quietly cries

[myownbestfriend]

Oh hell, I just noticed the title bar doesn't have the post title anymore. It's now the community heading. Because that's useful.

Well, I'm glad they didn't roll it out when everyone was asleep so we could manage a little damage control.

[these_fish]

Go sleep. I'm not leaving the game with my two boys, here or wherever it might go.

<3

[myownbestfriend]

Haha it's 3:30. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN. Yeah, bed seems like a good idea.

Vic and Nie are both farther west than I am, so they'll be up a little longer if anything else explodes.

[rustigedraak.livejournal.com]

Thank you for switching it over! I've got a paid for Ladon that allows me to use custom comments, but I was afraid I'd have to brave that crapfest with Dana.

Honestly if the comment page is the only majorly broken part of LJ, there's bound to be some fixes from outside sources. Though considering how much more buggy and bandwidth-eating the new style is, no doubt there will be other repercussions involving server overload and downtime that aren't so easy to work around.

I recommend the layouts on fruitstyle in terms of functional S2 styles that don't squish the hell out of comments. Let me know if you guys need help with tweaking the CSS. I'm kind of rusty but I can poke at things until they look nice.