Alas, LJ's recent changes have made posting or commenting an exercise in frustration, so I'm not able to insert a nifty picture of my challenge prompt
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Ah, now for some reason I'd been thinking that JJ was her husband, although I'd had my suspicions - I didn't realise that JJ was definitely yet another Jane pseud... I shall look at that art with a new eye, when I come across it now!
Sadly, there's no current rush for the info to update palelyloitering - having just had to buy a new laptop after my lovely old one Fell Asleep, I've lost my old DreamWeaver programme too, and as I can't afford to buy a copy I'm going to have to look around for alternatives and get them up and running (and work out how to use them!)
Hmmn - is there a particular reason you prefer S1 to S2, for lj? I think you should be able to switch to S2 and then back if you prefer, because having checked my Journal Style page, there's an option at the bottom left hand corner to "Switch to old style system (S1)". I've never used S1, but I'm very happy with S2, and as Moth says below you can disable the changes and even get subject lines back for your own lj (and of course anyone else who's still using them), though I realise it's probably more an issue that other ljs you visit can't use them any more. I feel quite lucky that none of the comms etc I frequent depended on subject lines to make them easy to navigate... I wish I could pop over and help you get it sorted, I really do, I always like seeing you pop up on lj!
So um, after seven months or so of being here, is it too late to admit that I don't actually know what S1 and S2 mean? I deduce from this that I am probably on (or using, or in, or.. something) S1.
Oh, and yesterday I discovered that you were absolutely right - it *is* possible to tell my friends list page to show the last 20 instead of the last 10. Whether that is a new thing in the wake of the changes, I don't know, but hah, I has now dunnit. And now things are not falling off the bottom quite so fast.
Also, apparently we freebie account freeloaders can track 200 threads, which means there is no reason at all not to track interesting threads for ever and ever.
Ah well I only know cos I had to look it up at some point, and I still only know vaguely. "S1" is the old style system that ljs were designed in, whereas S2 is the new system and apparently comes with a "wizard" that helps when you want to change things - so I assume that in S1 you can only change layout etc via coding, though I'm not sure.
You've got a new lj, so you'll be on S2, because that was the automatic choice even back when I joined (though people can choose S1 if they want and know what to do with it!). Because S2 is the newer style, I think it's the one that's supported mostly by lj now, which I'm guessing is why the changes may have affected S1 users more horridly... I dunno, I've never had a problem with S2, I have a customised layout on it, and the changes seem to have made my lj no end speedier, so... I'm just sorry that some people are having so much trouble with them!
And yeay for both longer flists, and for tracking threads - I do like that function... *g*
Sadly, there's no current rush for the info to update palelyloitering - having just had to buy a new laptop after my lovely old one Fell Asleep, I've lost my old DreamWeaver programme too, and as I can't afford to buy a copy I'm going to have to look around for alternatives and get them up and running (and work out how to use them!)
Hmmn - is there a particular reason you prefer S1 to S2, for lj? I think you should be able to switch to S2 and then back if you prefer, because having checked my Journal Style page, there's an option at the bottom left hand corner to "Switch to old style system (S1)". I've never used S1, but I'm very happy with S2, and as Moth says below you can disable the changes and even get subject lines back for your own lj (and of course anyone else who's still using them), though I realise it's probably more an issue that other ljs you visit can't use them any more. I feel quite lucky that none of the comms etc I frequent depended on subject lines to make them easy to navigate... I wish I could pop over and help you get it sorted, I really do, I always like seeing you pop up on lj!
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Oh, and yesterday I discovered that you were absolutely right - it *is* possible to tell my friends list page to show the last 20 instead of the last 10. Whether that is a new thing in the wake of the changes, I don't know, but hah, I has now dunnit. And now things are not falling off the bottom quite so fast.
Also, apparently we freebie account freeloaders can track 200 threads, which means there is no reason at all not to track interesting threads for ever and ever.
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You've got a new lj, so you'll be on S2, because that was the automatic choice even back when I joined (though people can choose S1 if they want and know what to do with it!). Because S2 is the newer style, I think it's the one that's supported mostly by lj now, which I'm guessing is why the changes may have affected S1 users more horridly... I dunno, I've never had a problem with S2, I have a customised layout on it, and the changes seem to have made my lj no end speedier, so... I'm just sorry that some people are having so much trouble with them!
And yeay for both longer flists, and for tracking threads - I do like that function... *g*
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