rollback88

i have a comment to add. i'm currently a Basic user, but i used to pay for lj's services back when brad/America still owned the site (lol). i've been on lj since 2002 and have NEVER before been forced to submit to a layout change. that means that lj looked THE SAME for me in 2011 as it did in 2002, because lj's cosmetic changes have always been OPT-IN or OPT-OUT. i truly think they have crossed a line by forcing a layout change on everyone.

Agreed. I've been here since 2005, and the only layout change that I've ever gone with was Userinfo 2.0, when they started with a disaster and then modified it according to user feedback (still not great, but better than whatever THIS clusterfuck is). Up until this new company took over, changes were always with users in mind. Now it's "let's see how fast we can make this site disappear!"


. . . would anybody here be surprised if PUC actually bought LJ on Russian gov't orders and is TRYING to make it go under, so as to take away the platform for Russian dissidents?

Random thing I just noticed with this poll:

82 of 85 people is NOT (10.9%) (WTF? I'm not good at math and even I know that's closer to 98%)

Yeah, unfortunately it computes it out of the total number of answers as opposed to people answering. With larger numbers later, I can note where we are with the real percentages.

Also-- hey, do you mind if we use your RollBack88 icon, with credit? I mean, yeah, it'll be a bitch to load it if it's not our default (topical reference, ahoy!), but I think that it could be neat if a lot of people started using it as an additional little action of complaint.

Another specific complain I have is related to screened comments. They're completely greyed out now. The text is light grey on white, which is majorly frustrating because a lot of us do read screened comments. Screening them doesn't necessarily mean the comments aren't 'active' so to speak. In comms I'm in and mod for, screened comments are often used for contests so other people can't see what you've entered. Or for applications that are held private until they're voted on, etc. And a lot of us do have to read these screened comments. It's a complete pain at the moment, I can't even.

+1 (put int in both areas, just in case)

My "other complaint" is that it's not only impossible for me to comment with my mobile now, I can't copy&paste something from a comment, too, because I'm unable to select a text. All I can select is the whole "comment box", which is just useless.

THIS.

I hate that I can't now post a comment and then back out into the same spot on my friends page. II often comment at a post several pages in on my friends list, and it's simply easier to use the back buttons two times to return to the same spot where I had caught up to than to have to start at the most recent friends list page and then figure out by scanning posts where I had got to.

Now it continually asks me if I want to send a new form. Then I have to click OK, then back out three times (and it seems to take longer to refresh the page). Not the hugest deal, but annoying when you do it often.

How did you keep your comment page the same if this is no longer an opt-in/out deal? I want this one back!

Certain journal layouts (Expressive, Minimalist, and Component families) still have a setup tickybox allowing "customized comment pages". If you use one of those layouts and ticky the box, even if you don't actually customize your CSS at all, you get the old comment page back on your own journal.

Then you can add "?style=mine" (minus quote marks) to the end of any LJ page's URL to view the page in the old-comment-page style you've chosen. :D

It wasn't doing that to me last night. But it is today. Quite disappointed.

I liked the comment on if I wanted LJ to act/look like twitter or FB I would be on twitter and FB. For one, I HATE twitter. Cannot stand it.

I am on Facebook, but only because I got forced there. I remain on LJ.

However, I have a custom view. None of the changes impact my LJ experience. I just view everything in my own style.

Me, too, except that it doesn't work worth a crap on my mobile. It's slow to load or doesn't show some flist sites. It needs to be rolled back.

I've been on LJ since 2003 (on a different account, not this one), have paid a lot of money for RP and personal accounts over the years, and have stuck with LJ because I've liked this best out of all the social networking sites out there, despite the shitty customer service. My fault, I know.

But yesterday I threw up from the sheer nausea the new comment pages were giving me via migraine. I'm on a customized S2 comment page now as I type this, and I still have to tab away every minute or so because it makes me feel ill to look at LJ for too long.

Release 88 is literally unhealthy for me.

It's really infuriating they're ignoring that this causes MIGRAINES. I got a headache after five minutes of looking at the custom comment page the first time and it's happened ever since, and I knew that would turn into a migraine before long. That alone should be enough for them to roll back the goddamn thing.

I didn't answer the question about the new features because I loathe the 'New Comment' highlight so much that my honest answer would be, "I dislike, don't care about and/or won't use them."

Thank you for this poll. I hope that thousands participate in it so that you can get a good sampling of responses.

We're just about to hit 2000! Thanks for voting and sharing.

Yeah, so, let it be known I did this on behalf of my personal journal "gaulish".

My browser lags like a mofo on my laptop, phone, and kindle with this new syatem.

I'm an S2 user, and have already shifted to IJ for my fic posting so none of this has affected me - yet - and in fact I'm pleased that they've finally fixed the font problem that started with the last release - so perhaps you need a 'I use my journal for (uh) long journal entries' (and not for Facebook or Twitter-style notes).

My other immediate complaint is TAGS, they switched from being at the top to being at the bottom. I tag RPs regularly and we keep tags of who is writing in the post. If I'm scrolling through entries in one of my communities/journals and I need to figure out what's been tagged, that's really annoying. They were easier to find in general at the top, and it's a weird stylistic choice to put them at the bottom.

This!

It serves no useful purpose to move them to the bottom and removes a hell of a lot of functionality. Having the tags at the top of the page for immediate viewing made flicking through comm posts simple, either making sure they're tagged, or checking tags to see if this is a post you want to read.

My only gripe tbqh is the lack of subject lines. I actually like how it looks/works for the most part.

But with how many issues it's giving people, it needs to be rolled back. :\

Just a random $0.02. |D

My main complaint is that I can't even get the homepage to load on my phone, let alone trying to log in/choose a userpic/browse posts and leave a comment.

Seriously, did they not test this stuff at all before rolling it out?

igrick said it was in beta for a whole week!

Under 'general complaints' I ticked every box but 'I have a complaint not on this list' /amused

I can't wait to see what the response is to this. If it's anything condescending, I might just have to explode.

This isn't an issue for me directly, but my biggest concern about the updates are the fact that they are triggering migraines for a number of people. If users need to stay away from not just a page or a section of the site for trigger problems, but the entire site because it causes them physical problems, then something is wrong. And even if it doesn't cause migraines for everyone, I doubt many people will find the site the way it is to be comfortable to look at for long- and isn't the point of something like this to make it easy on the eyes?

Note:

I marked this --> Didn't even notice them, too busy with my RAGE. <-- because I didn't not notice that function at all, but not because I was filled with rage, but because I do not nor have I ever made use of that service.

I want to try them and see if they work all right but- I haven't had a chance with all this bull. I really debate on that answer for a bit and wished there was a 'don't know' to select.

I don't get migraines so I didn't click the migraine one, but I have gotten headaches the last two days. I can deal with them, but I still shouldn't get headaches from using a site that I've used 9+ years with no issues.

I'm taking a break from any news/release post or anywhere else that has that commenting system to see if I get no headache today.

Me Too! I'm visually impaired, and I find that the pages are hard for me to read and maybe because I straining so much I'm getting headaches.

My biggest issue with Release 88 is the removal of an easy way to warn for triggers, the migraine-inducing design and Livejournal's (especially igrick) abysmal customer service.

A friend told me I ought to say something on here as well. I made a similar comment on the lj_release but that was like comment 8,000+ so I'm sure it's been overlooked and my netbook I'm now on can't handle opening the new system with that many comments so I can't copy and paste what I said there to here. Basically:

They told us the old comment system was available if you turned on custom layouts for comments, so many of us obviously did that. I then coded a template for one of my LJ games that made the comments look more like the default style. It seemed to be working fine until someone pointed out one of their entries their comments stopped loading after a certain point. After some investigation I discovered that, at least on Flexible Squares, if there's one thread that goes on for a certain length ANY comments after it, both in that same thread or any new threads after it, disappear. (If the post has more than one page the second page will load fine until there's another thread of length.)

Someone else told me this is a problem that's been around for ages, which is one reason why many people had custom layouts for comments disabled in the first place. So, basically, LJ told us if we weren't happy with how things currently were that we should switch to another system that they HAD to be aware was broken but never fixed.

I didn't test to see if other templates had similar problem because I don't own these communities and didn't want to start messing around with them like that (plus I have other things to do on my vacation from work haha), but just the sheer fact this system is broken on Flexible Squares means it would be broken for a lot of communities that use this template as a base for their custom layouts. It probably won't be an issue if your journal or communities don't have long discussion contained in one thread, but for RP games and discussion comms this could be a huge problem.

Flexible Squares works okay for less comment-heavy applications, but the ones that seem to work best are the Minimalist layouts.

My biggest problem is that the new pages give me a headache. And I know it's the comment pages, because if I check another website, my head starts to clear up. Even if I liked all the other changes and was okay with them (which I'm not), it physically hurts me to look at the site now, after only a few minutes.

Along with all the things listed, I'd like to say I miss being able to search by comment, not just keyword, in my icons for my RP journals. Like, I had them organized so I could type "suit" and every suit icon would come up or "happy" for the happy ones, etc. But now I can't. :(

Just wanna add: I would be a paying user if not for this. I was planning on buying accounts for friends on LJ too. Lots of money lost over this nonsense.

/USES THIS BEAUTIFUL BROWSE BUTTON

/IT'S SO NICE YOU GUYS

/AND LOADS SO FAST

The Notes function is now useless.

This! What the hell is the point of it if you can't see the notes you've written for individual accounts? :\