Argh, livejournal, what the FUCK did you just do to my style and settings? My page looks good, my friends page looks fine, but any individual entry looks NOTHING like what it should!
It's quite sterile and white. I can live with it, but it's annoying that I have to break my 'no-Javascript on LJ rule' to render the Profile page functional. I've resorted to enabling AdBlock there. 9_9 They've also increased the number of clicks it takes to get where I'm going on the Profile page ("interests"). Also, the "Post a new comment" radio button has the same text regardless if you are commenting on the original post, as I am here, or whether you are commenting on another reply. Thanks for the opt-out tip. I believe I'll implement that.
So I resorted to an all caps support ticket and got a prompt friendly reply. The answer is pretty awesome in terms of obtuse site design:
When viewing any system page that shows the standard blue header banner (such as the home page), there will be a link labeled 'Post in blog' near the right side of the banner, a blank space, and then an envelope icon. Click on that blank space between 'Post in blog' and the envelope icon'.
I tried this and it worked. Here is where you need to click:
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Date: 2014-05-16 02:46 pm (UTC)I SO needed this to improve my migraine-ridden day.