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[tellytubby101]

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO LJ COMMENTS

SO UGLY and UNHELPFUL; I MISS SUBJECT LINES ALREADY

WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THIS REDESIGN WAS BETTER? SERIOUSLY, THEY SHOULD BE FIRED

OH MY GOD, DNW

It's bad enough that the Post Entry shit got changed a few months back so there's no "Clean From Word" feature, but this is just stupid. BLARGHY WTF ARGHY

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[a8c_sock]

Relevant to your outrage: http://moerlin.livejournal.com/22285.html

They are assholes. Dreamwidth is looking a better option by the day.

[tellytubby101]

Oh my God. Reading that article has made me angrier.

I'd known vaguely that the changes were happening, but I thought it was for the default style only (kinkmemes, anonmemes, etc. being affected). But I was reading a fic on a paid account and I went to the next chapter and BAM! Face full of ugly.

SO, SO UGLYYY. Even the "leave comment" is ugly.

"18 pages of 100% negative feedback didn't sway them", omfg. Does LJ not care that a huge portion of their paying account users are here for the fandom and RP'ing, which, incidentally, really likes subject lines?

Fuck LJ. Thank God I didn't cave and get a paid account, jesus.

(Also, your disapproving!Merlin icon is relevant to my feelings rn.)

[unjaundiced]

I KNEW I should have posted to you/on my journal about this last week when I heard about it. It came out on a Russian server so few knew about it. LJ staff doesn't give a wink what we think of them, but I think we already knew this.

Most people are moving to InsaneJournal though since it's like old LJ. DW is too strange for most.
You should look into it. I hate that freaky face guy that comes with it though.

[tellytubby101]

No, I actually heard the rumours a few days ago, but the level of change implemented shocked me. I mean, I figured they'd just removed the subject lines, something easy to fix, but they overhauled everything. The stupid icon loady thing, the lack of comment previews... EUGH.

Still, the whole Russian secret release is some real BULLSHIT. Fucking hell.

And I'm importing my stuff to DW because InsaneJournal weirds me out. Also, I'm lazy and I conviniently already have a DW account that I'd just never used. :3

[unjaundiced]

I posted something up on a couple of comms when I first heard about this during the week asking people to protest. It was rolled on out fucken RUSSIAN Livejournal and announced here by the person who decided he wanted to do it because he thinks seeing (no subject) in the subject line is ugly.

Also, all previous subject lines have been moved within the body of the text itself and all further use of subject lines are disabled FOREVER unless you get special permission... And they're also rolling back S1 entirely so everyone will be stuck with S2.

Let's kick someone in the teeth.

[tellytubby101]

What. Appearance is not more important than functionality. WTF.

Most kink/anon-memes are changing to S2 layouts to get the subject lines back, but it's not the same. Still, it's better than the fugly-ass default setting, which just ruins everything.

[unjaundiced]

The problem with S2 is that it eats your comments sometimes and
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among other things. Same with customised comments which is his other offered fix.

Also, you have to expand/collapse all threads individually (or auto-all at the bottom) and it loads FOREVER because it's java animation so #1 you're stuffed if it doesn't work #2 you're stuffed if your computer is slow #3 it's slow no matter what.

[tellytubby101]

I swear I read this somewhere, but aren't the LJ evil overlords designing a layout that looks like the old one to use, to be released soon~ Dumbasses should've made sure it worked before instigating this godawful change. Fingers crossed some users who have layout comms are working on tweaking the code. :/