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

[mad_brilliant]

They're looking into the icon browser issue. Also, they posted this:

"We will be making an S2 commenting style that mimics the display of the original/previous S1 commenting pages. This new style will retain the ability to use/display comment subject lines. It will also not have the display issue that arises for long threads in the current S2 customized comment pages, where long threads are very 'squished' (a few words per line, etc) -- threads will display as they did in the previous commenting scheme. We are aiming to have this available within a few weeks."

Not sure if that will help you, but it means I can go back to my original style if I wish. But I kind of like the changes, aside from the smaller font. So I might just keep it as it is now.

[quinara]

That might be good, but for me it'll mostly depend on whether you can apply it in conjunction with another style and whether basic users can use it. I really don't want to change my journal style generally, because I customised it a lot when I had a paid account and like how I've got my flist page looking! (A lot better and more navigable than on DW, annoyingly, which I'll have to look into at some point and sort out custom colours for...)

[zellieh]

It won't have comment subject lines available for anon users, and possibly not for basic users, so that could still bork a lot of the fic memes, unless the owners/mods manage to find a work-around. It's not clear if, if the owners/mods use the new "old" style, that means that anons commenting to those memes will have the subject line option in the comment box. ::scratches head::

Oh, LJ. ::sighs::