Customized comment pages turned on, for now

[sg_fignewton]

It's been so quiet lately that I haven't tried to comment on LJ since the changes to the comment pages was implemented. Now, I find that I can't choose an icon when I comment in Firefox. ARGH

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[campylobacter]

Yeah, I'm sad that LJ's imploding because of poor business decisions. I just can't give them any more of my money if they continue to decrease functionality, interoperability & accessibility without regard to people who pay or otherwise support LJ through content creation that drives traffic for advertisers.

If anyone knows of some kind of patch that will allow me to use the dropdown text menu in regular comment pages

Here ya go:
LAYOUT POST | Minimalism: "Basic Functionality" by stoppedhiding
http://stoppedhiding.livejournal.com/1903.html

[sg_fignewton]

Thank you so much for the link! I'm going to have to play around with it a bit to try and make it work. We'll see how it goes.

I do wish LJ would stop making poor business decisions, sigh. But I'm still much too fond of the people I've met here to go anywhere. :)

[campylobacter]

I'll go where ever my fandom friends are, be it DreamwWidth, Twitter, Tumblr or WordPress. And right now, DW seems to be doing more things right than LJ is -- including finally finding a way to IMPORT COMMUNITIES.

w00t!

patch and spackle

[lolmac]

I did a post early on in the fracas that's a round-up of the fixes I could find at the time: http://bethinexile.livejournal.com/18180.html

There are links to both advancing and stoppedhiding; each has useful tips. And I was able to identify the layout families that seem to work the best. I haven't been able to stay currernt on the topic, though, and better solutions may have been developed since then.

Ironically, I find DW visually uncomfortable because the layouts there don't have the narrow margins. I finally realised that the sense of visual discomfort was the biggest thing keeping me from switching over myself: my journal is home online, and if home looks and feels wrong, and I can't get it to look and feel right, it's just not worth it to switch. (And yes, I've thoroughly explored the options to get it to look and feel 'right' to me, and ended up burning out and going offline completely as a result

Re: patch and spackle

[sg_fignewton]

Oh, thank you so much for all these links! Now to see if I can figure out enough to actually use it. :)

I have no idea why I'm not comfortable on DW the way I am on LJ. Strange thing, that.

Hope your days smooth out. :)