Mind the Friends Page Gap

[sireesanwar]

Account Status: All
Actions: Gap on the Friends Page
Theme: Flexible Squares

This is what your journal looks like...

Comments

[london_fan]

Hi, sorry for the random comment here, but I stumbled upon this entry during a google search for this issue, so I hope you don't mind me adding some important information?

Well, the gap is a placeholder for messages to the journal owner, presumably the "please switch to our new friends feed" one, because the gap has been there, ever since this message was displayed months ago. LJ has removed the message, but never the gap for it!

And that's the reason your provided solution comes with a catch: It'll move the content of the friends page upwards, no matter who is watching the friends page, but the gap is only visible to the logged-in owner of the journal. Therefore the control_strip will now overlap with the content or headerimage by the number of pixels specified in your code for everyone viewing your friends page who isn't logged-in as the owner of the journal! It's probably no big issue assuming that very few people actually click other users' f-pages anyway, but I wanted to mention the issue, so people applying your code are aware of this side effect.

Ultimately I've tweaked the source code itself instead to remove the gap only if the viewer is the owner of the journal, but since that solution requires a theme layer it'll only work for a paid account. Therefore your code is still the best solution for anyone who can only tweak the custom CSS.

That being said, I really want to thank you for all the neat tutorials you've compiled here! I'll surely take a look around here in the near future!

[sireesanwar]

Huh! I didn't know that. Thank you for sharing that. I'll make sure to share this with other viewers of this post!

LJ always seems to so half the job they should.

[london_fan]

I only accidentally noticed this issue, when I logged in to my test journal and all of a sudden my own f-page displayed the controlstrip overlapping my headerimage. That's when I started to look into this problem and a different solution again.

This. I assume they just can't be bothered to fix any issues with the old friends page anymore, because they want people to switch to their annoying feed. Not that they're any better with other issues, though. I'm still waiting for fixes to several other staff-acknowledged issues I've reported over the last months.

[sireesanwar]

It is just disgusting. Give people what they want not what you want.

The level of arrogance boggles the mind.

Well hat's off to you and all your issues you've reported.

[london_fan]

Lol at the icon! Yeah, I know.... especially if people pay for the service!

Honestly, I've made it my personal challenge to work out solutions to circumvent most of the changes that annoy me by working out a fix on my own. I don't even complain about those. But there are quite a number of issues related to Javascript bugs and users can't really fix those!

Honestly, I'd pay to finally get the userpics in the contextual popup to link properly to the userpic page again! It took ages for someone from the staff to actually confirm that it is a more common issue and not something screwed up on my end!

Oops, accidental ranting! Sorry! ;)

[sireesanwar]

No problem. It is nice to see I'm not the only one annoyed with LJ. Feel free to point stuff out to me anytime.