Quick Mod Note

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

So basically LiveJournal broke everything overnight and so comment pages might not work for you the way you're used to, up to and including subject lines and icon choices.

Just an FYI - I did unilaterally set the community to enable customized comment pages for the time being so some functionality will return to some people, but until someone comes up with a style sheet or something to fix this, or LJ actually listens to its userbase for once in its Russian existence, things might be a little broken. Just don't blame us.

As you were!

Comments

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

The new changes weren't that bad, if we exclude the lack of subject lines that you mentioned, and the new way of choosing icons.

Apart from that, there were some pretty handy new options, like mass action on comments - for example one could click "Select all comments", then press "Expand", and this way they wouldn't need to click on every single sub-thread in order to expand it. It's very convenient.

The fonts are crap, I agree.

However, now that you've set the comm to "enable customized comment pages", I'm unable to find the "Edit post", "Edit tags", etc buttons. Now when I think of it, the settings you've put are removing most functional tools. How can I fix that?

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I had to type this in order to access the tag editor for this post...

http://www.livejournal.com/edittags.bml?journal=talk-politics&itemid=1278247

This could be a real pain.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

"'Edit post', 'Edit tags',....How can I fix that?"

never make mistakes?

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

I haven't found the "select all comments" option

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I'm most enjoying the feature that highlights the recently added posts (since the last visit).

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

But we like blaming you Jeff. It is always very convenient "D

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

Please remove this setting. It makes things even worse.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

FREE MARKET, etc

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Seems to be fixed now.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

I did unilaterally set the community to enable customized comment pages for the time being so some functionality will return to some people

I don't see a big difference, but thanks anyway.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

What I like in the comments though is that now you can just press Insert Photo or Insert Video and not bother remembering those pesky Html codes.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

not..seeing..it.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Two things:



^ I think this is brilliant, and long overdue.



^ I'm totally loving this. It makes things so easy my baby son can use LJ now.

But they shouldn't have removed the subject lines. I don't know why did that. It sucks. Chyort! (Rus.) ("damn"!)

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

He has extra buttons, OMG! Not fair!

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

There was an expand all before, so how is that new? And I thought there was an insert before too, actually.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I have an idea. Let's remove all the price tags and size labels before XMAS and see what happens.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

....with a little tweaking that'd be one of the best culture jamming ideas i've heard in awhile

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

I've seen complaints that with the lack of subject lines now we can't jump into the middle of an exchange of comments without having to expand said exchange.

But that's not true. We can still open a new tab by clicking on the "Expand" tag next to each comment, and we'll be easily right in the middle of said exchange. This is actually a fixed bug that existed before. Until today, when you tried to open a new tab by clicking on the "Expand" tag next to a comment, it wouldn't open a tag, but instead it would still perform the Expand command, which obviously isn't the purpose of opening a new tab. Now we can open multiple tabs displaying whatever parts of threads and subthreads we like, by simply clicking on the "Expand" tag next to the chosen comment. The only thing lacking is subjects of comments, which admittedly is a loss.

And opening new tabs is easy - either Ctrl + left-button click, or just click with the scroll button of your mouse.

[mikeyxw.livejournal.com]

The spell checker is gone! This is the end and I do blame you Jeff!

[stewstewstewdio.livejournal.com]

I can no longer cut and paste a post directly from Word 2007 and maintain the formatting. I will be trying Microsoft Live Writer next and see if that works.

[stewstewstewdio.livejournal.com]

Okay. I installed Windows Live Essentials 2011 (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials?os=other) with the Live Writer option only. It seems to work amazingly well and probably translates directly into HTML so that it doesn't do a crap job of converting XML like the Livejournal RTE does.

I would recommend it as an offline editor for anybody that has Windows 7.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I'm totally adoring this new feature "new comment" (which appears next to comments that I haven't read the last time I logged on to a thread). It makes my job like a walk in the park.