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[snowgrouse]

As LJ's been sold again and they've been messing up the site with yet another set of "improvements" that aren't improvements at all, I do wonder whether I've been saved a *lot* of heartache by just using Semagic to post and edit my entries and using a customised version of Component for my layout. I use Component for my entries, comments and

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[gordon_r_d]

I only see the new LJ layouts when I comment on posts, as I'm doing now. I deliberately left my friends page on my original layout and colours and I've no idea what the posting page is like, since I post on Dreamwidth and let them automatically crosspost over to LJ.

It's not that I'm against change, but at least have an option to leave things the way they were.

[snowgrouse]

Are you replying through email or my journal page? Because all I ever see is the purple thing on here.

I stopped crossposting to/from DW because after the trazodone fucked up my short-term memory, I'm constantly making really embarrassing typos and it's tiring enough to go back anf fix them in the LJ versions of the posts and fixing them in two journals was too much hard work. It's a shame DW is just so quiet and that fandom's moved on to Tumblr, because I still prefer to be able to have decent conversations here. But ah well.

[gordon_r_d]

On the journal page, didn't even know you could reply by e-mail.

It might be a recent update but when I edit a post on DW to fix my typos, it automatically edits the LJ post too. Inevitably it usually happens when I'm posting the podcast details so I have to fix about five or six different posts anyways. :)

EDIT : just realised, the editing both posts thing may be just if you use the web interface.

[snowgrouse]

Just replied to Therru and yeah, it's not something you can do via Semagic :(

[rob_t_firefly]

Speaking as a wanky nerd, hurf durf Linux for everything but I cared about and really miss what LJ used to be like. :-P

[snowgrouse]

But you are never that sort! I mean that type who pushes stuff involving coding and/or with no GUIs or hard-to-use GUIs on innocent grannies and everyone else less tech-savvy, thinking that if you don't have coding skillz you're scum. You know, the type of arsehole who sees someone ask help for a question about something embedded deep in the bowels of Windows with a "get Unix/Linux/a Mac". Which is so helpful when you're fixing your old mum's computer. I've never seen you do anything of the sort.

I really do wonder if LJ would still be a big power in fandom beside Tumblr if they hadn't fucked it up. I miss the discussions, damn it.

[cavefelem]

I have Semagic but I've never really used it more than a couple of times, for two pretty stupid reasons: one, because I got it when LJ's custom filters were broken for a while and got yelled at for having custom filters in the first place, so I stupidly associate Semagic in my mind with being yelled at, and two, because I hate it when I need to download more stuff to be able to use stuff I got with the assumption that it was usable as is.

So it's not that I hate Semagic or anything, I'm just stubborn and associate it with strife and trouble.

[snowgrouse]

Yeah, I know what you mean about hating having to get extra stuff to be able to use something you thought was usable out of the box. LJ's kind of forcing people into using stuff like that, though.

And whoever tells you custom filters are bad can fuck off. They've saved my sanity so many times Semagic is a really good way for wrangling those, too; it immediately shows you who's in which group so that you don't accidentally let someone in or leave someone out.

And Semagic requires a bit of poking before I can sort its layout and its window size and whatnot into a shape that pleases me, but thankfully it's really customisable in that you can just drag the windows and buttons around.