New Comments Page

[quinara]

So, here's the thing. I don't actually think the new comments page looks that bad. I think the border around the 'post new comment' box is too thick, but otherwise it looks to me like a fairly new-webby updated version of the old page, which I don't overly mind. [ETA: Although, the margins are soooo buggered. What is with that?? I thought new-webby design remembered that people tend to have widescreen laptops these days and margins are important! *sigh* ]

HOWEVER

Trying to use it for the first time, I've discovered that with my NoScript add-on enabled, I cannot actually use the post button unless I allow all the page to work - even though the only site I have unticked to disallow is facebook.net. (This isn't a particular problem with Facebook, but everything's unticked by default and I've never had a need to let facebook.net run, so I don't see why I should let it.) Even though it's only really because of the general paranoia brought on by using NoScript in the first place, I find it makes me twitchy that I can't see what site/script I'm allowing to run.

Also, I cannot get the stupid icon browser to work at all, even with allowing all the scripts on the page to run.

Generally, the whole thing is being a massive pain in the arse, so I'm going to try out only allowing comments on DW for a bit. I never thought I would, because I would far rather be dual platform for everyone's convenience and don't really care about having all conversations less than a click away from each other, but since my style and basic account mean I'm stuck with that stupid page on LJ, I would really rather avoid it as much as possible.

Yours grumpily, quinara (add me!! ;) ).

Comments

[rahirah]

That's the thing - I don't actually care about the esthetics of the redesign. I practically never look at the site pages anyway. I look at my journal and my flist, which I see in my style. It's the fact that so far, it's buggy, has accessibility issues, and is missing several useful features that the old form had that I find dubious. Plus the fact that they beta'd it for a whole week. It just seems likely that they're going to bork up everything else in a similar fashion as they proceed to the rest of the planned changes.

[quinara]

Yeah. I have the problem that I don't have a paid account, so while I think it's possible that I could see my own comment pages in my own style if I twiddled with it, I like my own old custom Component style (mostly for reading my flist, which it's mainly set up for; I don't think it's particularly hot generally, and my skin-changer button stopped working when my account lapsed). Since I made that in the days of my paid account, I'm not entirely sure I could even get it back if I switched and decided I didn't like the new one. And I resent having to switch! I'm definitely not paying LJ to get past their mess.