dealing with the latest round of LJ Fail
ETA3:
If your own journal layout allows for custom comments pages, you still have full commenting features in your own journal. Layouts in the following groups are apparently still fully functional: Component, Minimalism, and Expressive.
If you have a Paid or Permanent account, you can tick the box at the top of the page that says 'View in my style' (which appears when you're on other journals, including comms), and the commenting features will carry over into other journals and comms.
If you have a Basic or Plus account, you might not have the ticky box. In this case, type the following code at the end of the URL to restore commenting features:
?style=mine
Thank you, dbskyler!
(Please note that this trick, again, only works if you have one of the layouts that retains full commenting function.)
ETA4: As of 12/22/11, I'm told that at many if not most of the journal with custom commenting have had it magically and globally disabled -- that is, the default setting has been switched from No (not disabled) to Yes (disabled). (Aren't double negatives fun?)
If, between yesterday and today, the shit hit your fandom, do this:
- First, go to http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml (you must be logged into LJ).
- Under Presentation --> Basic Options, make sure that "Disable customized comment pages for your journal" is set to "No". Save the settings.
- If you control multiple comms as well as your journal, there will be a drop-down box allowing you to make the same check for all of them.
- If you're using a layout that does not give you this option, you must choose: either switch to one that does, or stop complaining about it forevermore.
* * * original post begins here * * *
This post is for actual solutions, workarounds, and coping mechanisms. It is not for any of the following: rants about LJ, invitations to DW, or reminders about the no-invite-code joinfest DW is having right now. All those topics are adequately covered elsewhere.
For anyone late to the ragefest: LJ's most recent release has broken a new set of features, this time in the commenting interface. At present, there are some fixes, and I'm hoping to learn of more. 'Scream and leave' is a reaction, not a fix; take it as already expressed and let's move on and look at fixes.
I'm still trying to find out the scope of the problem; according to some sources, Paid and Permanent accounts currently still retain most of the lost features. Plus accounts seem to be mostly screwed. Basic accounts are truly screwed, which hits most comms.
Best fix I've found so far: I have a Paid account, and my comment features are currently untouched. If I go to another journal or comm and check the box at the top 'View in own style', it restores all my commenting features to me, and the restore (currently) applies wherever I go.
I'm told that there are custom C2 comment pages that can be used as long as this feature is enabled, and if anyone can point to a source for a custom C2 comment page that has all the old features and is easy to direct others to use, please tell me about it and help me spread the word.
ETA: here is a magnificent round-up post of links and advice and links to advice. Apparently the layouts in the Minimalism family escaped the carnage. Guess which family I use for pretty nearly everything? Whoa, I fibbed there! But it means that other layouts from other families work. Mine are Bluetiful (Component), Desert Fire (Minimalism), Vector Drips and Writer's Block (Expressive). rda_daily, alas, is a highly customised variant of Smooth Sailing, and I haven't been able to quite get a hold on it to be able to customise it further without breaking it, the original work having been done (probably) two rounds of mod turnover ago. It doesn't help that it's a Basic account.
ETA2.1: This page has more sophisticated coding-level solutions.
ETA2: here's another post, with Greasemonkey scripts that allow you to override the local journal style with your own. It's an old post, from 2005; they didn't have the 'view in my style' box available then, and the guy who did the post commented in 2009 that his work was obsolete. However, the comments thread has a section where they discuss how to restrict it to sections of journals, such as the comments pages -- so his work might have just become valuable again.
ETA2.9: I'm moving the summary of the best fixes to the top of this post, and putting most of it behind a cut.
If your own journal layout allows for custom comments pages, you still have full commenting features in your own journal. Layouts in the following groups are apparently still fully functional: Component, Minimalism, and Expressive.
If you have a Paid or Permanent account, you can tick the box at the top of the page that says 'View in my style' (which appears when you're on other journals, including comms), and the commenting features will carry over into other journals and comms.
If you have a Basic or Plus account, you might not have the ticky box. In this case, type the following code at the end of the URL to restore commenting features:
?style=mine
Thank you, dbskyler!
(Please note that this trick, again, only works if you have one of the layouts that retains full commenting function.)
ETA4: As of 12/22/11, I'm told that at many if not most of the journal with custom commenting have had it magically and globally disabled -- that is, the default setting has been switched from No (not disabled) to Yes (disabled). (Aren't double negatives fun?)
If, between yesterday and today, the shit hit your fandom, do this:
- First, go to http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml (you must be logged into LJ).
- Under Presentation --> Basic Options, make sure that "Disable customized comment pages for your journal" is set to "No". Save the settings.
- If you control multiple comms as well as your journal, there will be a drop-down box allowing you to make the same check for all of them.
- If you're using a layout that does not give you this option, you must choose: either switch to one that does, or stop complaining about it forevermore.
* * * original post begins here * * *
This post is for actual solutions, workarounds, and coping mechanisms. It is not for any of the following: rants about LJ, invitations to DW, or reminders about the no-invite-code joinfest DW is having right now. All those topics are adequately covered elsewhere.
For anyone late to the ragefest: LJ's most recent release has broken a new set of features, this time in the commenting interface. At present, there are some fixes, and I'm hoping to learn of more. 'Scream and leave' is a reaction, not a fix; take it as already expressed and let's move on and look at fixes.
I'm still trying to find out the scope of the problem; according to some sources, Paid and Permanent accounts currently still retain most of the lost features. Plus accounts seem to be mostly screwed. Basic accounts are truly screwed, which hits most comms.
Best fix I've found so far: I have a Paid account, and my comment features are currently untouched. If I go to another journal or comm and check the box at the top 'View in own style', it restores all my commenting features to me, and the restore (currently) applies wherever I go.
I'm told that there are custom C2 comment pages that can be used as long as this feature is enabled, and if anyone can point to a source for a custom C2 comment page that has all the old features and is easy to direct others to use, please tell me about it and help me spread the word.
ETA: here is a magnificent round-up post of links and advice and links to advice. Apparently the layouts in the Minimalism family escaped the carnage. Guess which family I use for pretty nearly everything? Whoa, I fibbed there! But it means that other layouts from other families work. Mine are Bluetiful (Component), Desert Fire (Minimalism), Vector Drips and Writer's Block (Expressive). rda_daily, alas, is a highly customised variant of Smooth Sailing, and I haven't been able to quite get a hold on it to be able to customise it further without breaking it, the original work having been done (probably) two rounds of mod turnover ago. It doesn't help that it's a Basic account.
ETA2.1: This page has more sophisticated coding-level solutions.
ETA2: here's another post, with Greasemonkey scripts that allow you to override the local journal style with your own. It's an old post, from 2005; they didn't have the 'view in my style' box available then, and the guy who did the post commented in 2009 that his work was obsolete. However, the comments thread has a section where they discuss how to restrict it to sections of journals, such as the comments pages -- so his work might have just become valuable again.
ETA2.9: I'm moving the summary of the best fixes to the top of this post, and putting most of it behind a cut.