A very topical LJ poll

[foxfirefey]

So, I want to get a spread of opinions from people still reading their friends pages (hi!) about some things, because I can get into a bubble on topics like this and not really understand what people might actually feel about topics, but am really curious about reactions. So, without further ado:

Comments

[maladaptive]

My friend's page isn't "very optimized" but it's okay-- better than "I don't care as long as the posts are there."

Also my opinions on infinite flow: nice, except when I lose my place and then can't just go back a few pages when I know I'm 10+ "screens" down. Probably work better on LJ than it would on tumblr, though, since the volume of posts is lower, but I'm not a big fan. I mean it's cool but I'm mostly ambivalent about it, it's no strain to hit a back button for me.

[pne]

except when I lose my place and then can't just go back a few pages when I know I'm 10+ "screens" down.

This this this is my biggest problem with the feature.

Especially if I click on a link which opens in the same page and then go "Back" and end up somewhere completely other then where I had been, but also when returning later and not knowing I can just pick up at "skip=120" or whatever and getting to approximately the right place.

[tiah15]

I skip exactly like that - I type in the URL where I want to go. Not a fan of infinite scrolling on Twitter where it takes forever to load and I have no idea where I am after a while.

[yomimashou]

+1

[azurelunatic]

I used to force site scheme on other people's comment pages, but that was until the comment pages got fucked up. Now I loathe both other people's styles and site scheme

[gymx]

>>I used to force site scheme on other people's comment pages, but that was until the comment pages got fucked up. Now I loathe both other people's styles and site scheme.

This.

[kerravonsen]

(nods) Me too.

[cellio]

Me too. Now I have to force my journal style on comment pages, but my style has some flaws that I don't know how to fix. And my style is one of the few I find visually accessible. The site scheme, despite the painful white background, was still ok for comments until they shrank all the fonts and borked up the commenting interface.

If I can't control colors, font sizes, and page width (no LJ, your 1200px default width or whatever doesn't work for me), I'll be forced to drop LJ. That would suck. :-(

[sally_maria]

My journal style was mostly chosen so that I can have something closely resembling the old site scheme for reading other people's entries/comments in.

So while I would prefer to keep it the way it is - I like the ways I've customised it - it probably wouldn't be the end of the world as long as the individual entry pages look right.

I have no strong feelings about infinite scrolling - it works fine for me, but I don't feel a lack of it on LJ.

[foxfirefey]

Unfortunately, I think part of the eventual plan is to deprecate entry pages in the journal style, too. However, there's no telling when that would happen, or if they'll really follow through for it.

[sally_maria]

:-( That would be annoying (to put it mildly).

Given that they went to all the trouble to recreate something like the original site scheme, even if they only chose to attach it to one group of styles, it does seem counter-productive that they'd get rid of it so soon.

You also start to wonder what you *would* see in your journal style - just the recent entries view? It does seem rather pointless to have all those customisation options at all, at that stage.

[margi_lynn]

This. What's the point of doing all that customization if I'm not going to see it? I don't even care about anyone else. I chose my style so I could read LJ without dying from pain. :(

[isiscolo]

I force my layout on everything, because I don't like site scheme comment pages (what I used to use) any more, and I don't trust other people's layouts to be readable. I am an old lady with vision issues and an older computer. I like very subdued colors - my journal is entirely in greys and black and off-white - and I like my journal/fpage to be readable to me with the size and resolution of my browser window.

I tried to move to Dreamwidth but only about half of my friends did; and my current fandom is pretty much only on LJ (and on Tumblr, but I don't care about or use Tumblr at all).

Infinite scroll works well for me on Goodreads for the booklist, but it's slow-loading, and that would be my concern for something like LJ.

[lorax]

On my journal style - I actually was REALLY ATTACHED to my old custom style. It had everything where I wanted it, and it was simple and clean. But LJ's changes broke it, and the maker was no longer updating/available, so I recently changed to one of the site-provided schemes. But I'm still hunting for a new one that is similar to my old one and am deeply dubious about the idea of anyone forcing me into a singular style. Particularly since the redesign made the site skinned pages so awful.

I used to read most pages in site skin, but now I try never to. The new comment pages are atrocious.

[foxfirefey]

What was your old custom style like? What changes broke it?

[lorax]

It was a Flexible Squares custom style, with boxes at the top for tags/summary/etc. It was pretty simple, but I'm not savvy enough to know how to fix it, so I just swapped it out.

It wasn't aligning anything right anymore, and would display cut tags and such wrong.