Remember the
Sponsored+ announcement in
news: "A note about styles: If you've customized your layout using overrides, your journal might not display properly. This is because your overrides might no longer apply to the new style code. If this is happening to you, it's not because ads are broken -- you just need to correct your overrides. If you
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i thought it was weird that they'd offer support for that in the first place but the idea was something like "well, it was our bad, so, we'll help with it."
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Ads on journal pages: needed to be coded into the individual S2 styles and somehow into the S1 styles, made harder by years of calcified S1 override styles history that never took them into account, harder by trying to put skyscrapers in good view positions even when a given layout does not work well with them. Very ambitious, pulled off remarkably well given the constraints, but still very prone to quirks.
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"Doctor, I fear the end is near! Is there any hope for me?"
"Only one, sir. You need extra LJ icons... and fast!"
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"Hello? FDA? This is no_lj_ads. We have reason to suspect that LJ is adding heroin or nicotine or something to their LJ icons in order to help fuel their evil ad pushing empire, to which we are violently opposed and from which we are vigorously oppressed. Any way of having an inspection?"
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It used to be that when I scanned my friends list quickly, I could see at a glance who had posted because I recognized their icons. Now I have no idea who is who -- and worst of all is when people share/steal icons so three people on my FL are using the same icon. Sometimes I'll be 2/3 of the way through a long entry before I realize I'm not reading the person I thought I was -- it has created some serious confusion on my part.
I know I'm the odd man out here, but I only ever use one icon. What can I say? I believe strongly in branding. ;)
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And ?format=light which I actually prefer on someone else's journal for some reason. I have more than a few friends that are sponsored+, and they layouts on some of them are terrible. Ah well.
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It doesn't seem to affect your journal, for example.
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You can find a plain friends page in the mobile site section.
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*cough* Speaking as an everything_lj co-maintainer and overridehelp maintainer, we've been doing that all along and fielding complaints that Support didn't help any, anyhow (though that's not entirely their fault, due to the policies they have). But I'm disappointed, because LJ screwed it up, so why is it the job of everyday LJ users to fix it?
Coincidentally, today we've had a spike in the number of people asking for help. Unfortunately most people have the misconception that they can make their layouts work with S+Plus.
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We've got a way to build a sidebar layout with overrides that has no table stuff in it, so it works with everyone. But telling people that they have to recode their layout from scratch for it to work isn't so fun.
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