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Important Poll + Announcement Thing

Dec 30, 2011 09:40

As mentioned in our previous post, we're offering a poll to help decide whether to move the community or not to another site ( Read more... )

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WAIT I FORGOT TO PUT THIS IN MY LAST COMMENT supermistfrog December 30 2011, 09:16:30 UTC

LJ is planning an entire site redesign (clicking around will show more of the changes), and it's looking increasingly likely that they won't roll back these changes. Even with the custom comment pages on, there are issues. A bug that tends to happen with custom comment pages is that they break when the post reaches over 500 comments, as it did here (this is an S2 issue, not just my style issue). So it's either we can't have long posts such as these, or have to deal with the new comment system.

So, the storm's not really going to end, if you're looking at it from a site design perspective.

sauceytomato December 30 2011, 09:35:44 UTC

/drops in two profile override scripts

supermistfrog December 30 2011, 09:41:03 UTC

Oh, thank you!

Does it work in Chrome as well?

sauceytomato December 30 2011, 09:44:17 UTC

Yup! Tampermonkey is the Chrome equivalent.

supermistfrog December 30 2011, 09:49:09 UTC

I've poked around with it, and as far as I can see this only overrides the profile code, correct? LJ is redesigning the entire site, the user inbox included- to the style that is currently in the new S1 comment pages. There's a page detailing all of the changes planned, but I don't have it right now and will look for it.

sauceytomato December 30 2011, 09:51:29 UTC

Yeah, it's just for the profile pages. The ones I linked or several years old, but I don't doubt that others will eventually pop up (be it with Stylish or Grease/Tampermonkey) to tweak whatever else LJ wants to do, but. Eventually.

supermistfrog December 31 2011, 02:29:28 UTC

Again, "eventually". Some of our players cannot access the site now without multiple refreshings or at all. If the same style of coding is used for the entire redesign, then I can't imagine it will do anything good for their accessibility. The question is should we really have to install all of these scripts and codes to achieve basic functionality?

sauceytomato December 31 2011, 08:45:05 UTC

You don't really have to? Installing scripts is a choice, obviously. And no they shouldn't be needed but you can't win everything either.

And that is all I will say on that and bow out since I've never been comfortable discussing the issue.

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