Allow Changing of Comment Links in S2 for Free Users

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Title

Allow Changing of Comment Links in S2 for Free Users

Short, concise description of the idea

Currently the S2 system allows free users to change many features, but not the comment links.

Full description of the idea

There isn't a lot to add. Free users are allowed to change font, override userpics, use an external stylesheet, change colours,

Comments

[lyspeth]

Please!

Free users can do this in S1, it's a very basic customization, very commonly desired, puts LJ under no load at all that I can think of, and would encourage migration to S2. I don't think it currently persuades anyone to upgrade who wouldn't anyway. It's completely silly to restrict this to paid users.

If this is gonna happen (or even if not), I'd also like to see the interface for changing the comments links improved. AFAIK it still uses some bizarre // to separate the singular and plural comment link text instead of just having two different boxes for them.

[timwi]

Having only two boxes would upset Russian users. That's the whole point in the "//" system.

[troworld]

really? why would it upset the Russian users?

Sorry if this has been asked before. Maybe you could just give me a url where I can read about this?

thanks.

[timwi]

Well, because not every language is like English. Not every language uses just two forms (singular and plural). In Russian (and, in fact, most other Slavic languages) you have three.

[troworld]

Thanks.

But I was wondering more about the technical side of this. What are the boxes or "//" for?

[timwi]

Didn't we already say that? They're for singular and plural.

e.g. "1 comment // # comments" says: If there's 1 comment, display "comment"; if there are several, display "comments".

In Russian, it would be "# комментарий // # комментария // # комментариев", and the system would know when each is to be used.

[troworld]

Great. That's what I wanted to know.

Благодарю, сударь.

[lyspeth]

Multiple boxes, then...shouldn't there be a clever way to do that for each language?

But if not multiple boxes, then at least an explanation of how it works. I don't think it's completely self-explanatory.