Navigation strip: support request 611095

[dougs]

Support request 611095:

No mechanism exists for permanently disabling the navigation strip

I'm aware of how to remove the navigation strip on my own journal. I've read FAQ 264, so pointing me at it once more won't be helpful.

I've read the recent post over in suggestions about how the existence or non-existence of the navigation bar doesn't respect

Comments

[trav28]

I have just spent ten minutes trying to do this...managed it in the end as I clicked the wrong link thing at the top. Not very user friendly really.

[johncoxon]

You can disable it on all your pages except for those on which a friend wants the navbar. For instance, the_major's journal has navbars on it because that's the way she has set her preferences.

It is a minor annoyance.

[dougs]

Your first paragraph is entirely correct.

Your second is not. It's a major annoyance, not least because (as you may have spotted) I often read LJ from a handheld device with a small screen. It severely compromises the browsing experience.

[johncoxon]

I can see how it would be if you do access it from other platforms.

[flick]

Do I have it turned on or off?

(Not a clue, here!)

[lexin]

Off - I'm not seeing it, anyway.

[dougs]

It's off, but (bizarrely) not because you've turned it off, but because they've turned it on for evereyone except the people who've clicked on "fuck off already" when it was mentioned on the suggestion-of-the-day feature. People who simply turned it off in the correct manner have had it turned on again in the last day or so.

[flick]

Huh: odd.

I initially turned it off, then i thought I'd turn it back on, so I did and found it moderately useful for added people/ communities, so I kept it.

I can't actually see any change to it int he last day or so: has there been one, other than the on/off settings?

[beautifulworld]

Argh! I turned the damn thing off once, ages ago, and it suddenly reappeared yesterday!

[dougs]

Yes -- now they've finished testing it they've turned it back on for everybody except if you qualify for the narrow case I've described in my reply to Flick, above.

[beautifulworld]

Why on earth would they turn it back on for everyone who already turned it off??

[dougs]

As part of the stock response to many of the complaints over in LJ support, jennifer writes:

Previously, the navigation strip was still being developed, and users were given a chance to opt into displaying it. Unfortunately, information on users who tried the navigation strip and decided they didn't like it wasn't stored, due to an error in recording user preferences. Because LiveJournal staff is now comfortable that the navigation strip is ready for production release, they turned it on for all accounts except for the ones that had actively dismissed the "Did you know" box about the navigation strip.

Or, in other words, incompetence.

[dougs]

I think that's probably coincided with the moment when they said "We've finished testing it, now we'll turn it on for everybody whether or not they've turned it off in the past".

[sarah_mum]

Can't understand why it's such a big deal, but apparently
http://deathboy.livejournal.com/874041.html?style=mine

[dougs]

That's turned it off for everybody who looks at his pages, yes. But I'll still see it -- and it'll still break my browser -- whenever I go to someone else's journal who still uses it.

You can play with my handheld tommorow, and you can see exactly how it breaks.

[sarah_mum]

Ooh, are you comming for Hot Meat at the church fete then? See you there.

[sarah_mum]

That was me, in case it weren't obvious.