A new headache.

[theweaselking]

Livejournal's stupid-ass pointless ugly comment change broke my "expand all the comments all the time" setting.

How do I make that work, again?

Comments

[frith]

Here is something that might work: Click on the title of the post -> the address should appear in the form: user.livejournal.com/5858598.html Add ?expand_all=1#comments to the end of that address. Press enter. Profit?

It's a hack of a solution, but until something better shows up...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That's *insane*.

(Maybe I'll dig into the LJ AddOns code, and modify their "append style=mine to all livejournal.com URLs" switch.)

[frith]

I agree. It's also not working for me. Ctrl-Alt-+ is also supposed to expand all, but that did not expand everything for me either. (Might not be working for me because I refuse to enable Javascript here.)

[ashbet]

EVERYTHING IS BROKEN AND I HATE IT.

I just re-upped my journal (I've been a paid member since 2001) and re-paid for my two extra icon packages (because I have 210 icons), and now I can't fucking USE them because they're appearing in, of all things, UPLOAD ORDER (did no one thing "alphabetically" might be a logical choice?), as well as the fact that forcing all of them to load before I can comment is infuriating.

I had a "?style=mine" override that worked for YEARS (so that entries/comment pages appeared in my preferred style -- some people's font/color choices were actively painful for me to read), and now that's broken, too. Given that I just went through a freaking surgical procedure to deal with my migraines, it's making me CRAZY that the site I spend the most time on has just ACTUALLY MADE IT PHYSICALLY PAINFUL TO READ.

I'm not the only one -- a bunch of people with either vision issues or migraines were saying that these new comment pages HURT. I have my screen brightness turned all the way down, and it's still unpleasant -- before, I had it set to black text on a light grey background, and it was a lot more comfortable to read.

-- A :/

[dominitus.livejournal.com]

Having userpics appear in upload order is supremely stupid. :( Hope that one gets fixed.

[wyatt1048.livejournal.com]

Yeesh. Once again, LJ balls up by the simple act of not testing their code. Would it be too much to ask to have, say, an LJ_Beta community where users can sign up to test the new schemes before they are rolled out to everyone?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Apparently there was a beta program, but was only available to Russian users (the lead designer is Russian).

[tsunami-ryuu.livejournal.com]

OH AUGH WHAT HAPPENED. I had no idea the LJ comment system had changed 'til I saw your post. Then I clicked to reply and welp. This is... a new thing, all right. Yes. A Thing.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It's not pointless! Won't the new layout and look be amazingly snazzy on a tablet, where everything needs to have enough white space around it that you can be sure to hit the right bit of screen with a fingertip?

(Seriously, I'm getting a lot of the same impression from this as I am from GMail's new look. And yuck.)

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Hit reply just to see what you're talking about.

Nothing changed here -- maybe it's one of those things that propagates across accounts non-simultaneously.

Or maybe my script blocker screwed it up.