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

[ruuger]

Yeah, I don't think the new comment box looks that bad, but it just doesn't work at all for me either. And I've had couple of people on my f-list say that there's something about the colours and layout that triggers their migrane, so really bad move LJ :(

[bogwitch]

I don't mind it either and I haven't had any trouble at all. I can't remember if I turned off NoScript or not though (damn thing was bloody annoying, even if it meant well).

[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.

[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.

[verity]

The whole thing is awful. I have custom comment pages so I haven't had to deal with it on my journal, but, um, I'm really not digging being trolled by zhzh. *sigh*

[shapinglight]

As you probably noticed, I don't like it. Hated being forced to change my comfy old S1 layout that I've had for years. But I couldn't stand the new comments page. It just looks horrible, and if it's any indication of what the other changes which they haven't told users about are going to be like, will ultimately make LJ pretty much unreadable.

Also, I have to change the look of my DW journal too. I seem to default to pale blue all the time, and I don't even like the colour that much.

[kazzy_cee]

I haven't seen any difference apart from a very few Lj layouts. Apparently S2 layouts are much better, and communities are more likely to be affected.

I actually don't mind the comment thingy as it seems to be much quicker to post a comment on it than the other method and my broadband appears fast enough to allow my icons to load very quickly.

I'm using chrome with the Lj add on (which I adore for speed!)