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

[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.

[quinara]

Yeah, I saw! (Meant to comment, but I still hadn't used the page, so I didn't know what I thought of it! Too much driving around doing Christmas things etc.) I feel like the essentials of the aesthetic aren't that different from old LJ, but I really, really don't like the functionality of it. Maybe it'll bring in a new generation hungry for comments, but it really doesn't gel with what I want from a journalling experience.

Hee! Yes, I don't really think of you as pale blue. I should have realised long before that I was finding mine hard to read. I much prefer a higher contrast grey-on-grey - and brightly coloured links (which sink back into the main text once you've visited them).

[shapinglight]

I'm not really sure what I prefer, to be honest. Will try and hunt down a DW layout that's like my current LJ one, which I quite like now, provided I get to keep the old comments page.

[shapinglight]

Okay, changed it, though have to say I'm not madly keen on this one either. It's the best of a bad lot IMO.

[quinara]

Have you played around with the customising options? You can play around with the colours and fonts and things...

[shapinglight]

I did look at it, but my head threatened to explode. Maybe later?

[quinara]

Heh! It's always useful with that sort of thing to keep a tab open with the options you had on it originally (so open two tabs of the customisation page and then fiddle with the second one, save changes and look at your page to see what's happened). Then you can always revert it with one click of 'save changes' on the first options page.

[shapinglight]

Good idea, especially as I'm already beginning to dislike this theme I've chosen.

[zellieh]

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."

[shapinglight]

Thanks for the link, and sorry I didn't get back to you earlier to say.