quinara: Wishverse Buffy in a white frame. (Buffy Wish white box)
Quinara ([personal profile] quinara) wrote2011-12-22 09:26 pm

New Comments Page

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, [personal profile] quinara (add me!! ;) ).
zellieh: kitten looking shocked, openmouthed, text: WTF? (What the fuck?) (STTOS Spock: holy shit!)

[personal profile] zellieh 2011-12-24 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
The changes they haven't told us about yet are over here: http://manonon.livejournal.com/6816.html Manonon (who is just a user, and nothing to do with LJ) took the prototype page posted in Russian at Tema's LJ and translated the pages into English.

The design is...weird. I keep getting Geocities flashbacks. For something that's meant to be new, it feels quite old-fashioned. I just want to say, "Tema, old fruit, Geocities 1995 called -- it wants its' frames back."

We've just moved to smartphones and tablets and netbooks ... and you're ADDING extra wasted space to your pages? Really? ::raises Spock eyesbrow at LJ:: "I find your ideas illogical."
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[personal profile] shapinglight 2011-12-28 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the link, and sorry I didn't get back to you earlier to say.