LJ continues to work toward it's early death

[ceagle]

Welp, I tried to comment on a comment tonight, and was greeted by an obnoxious GIANT space-wasting over-coded box, trying to show me all my icon choices at full size (instead of the standard list), and, an Add Comment button that doesn't work right. ;P
It appears they are trying to follow the Facebook and Twitter coding trend by breaking their own working code.
So far I can still read the Friends Page normally, but I have to post links into Internet Explorer to comment...

bleh.

Comments

[wildbilltx.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at what you're describing right now. I guess they were trying to make some people happy with a larger window, but I agree its too big.

Its working for me on my home computer with Firefox 8. Are you viewing it with something else?

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

I use a previous version of Firefox (one I've found that practically never crashes, and that is like Gold to me.

So I've been testing this rotten new site interactivity in a newer browser, and it still stinks. Big Time. :|

Finally bit the bullet and made a DreamWidth account... we'll see if I have to use it (if LJ isn't fixed) ...

[atkelar.livejournal.com]

Sometimes such breaking changes are the result of too much caching. i.e. new html with old js and older css. I'd try clearing the browser cache... though I'm not at home now and can't really try myself. (mobile LJ here)

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*nod* I've been reading about it in LJ news and LJ releases ...

[makovette.livejournal.com]

I don't see that crap at all. Please install AdBlock Pro in Firefox or Chrome to make all the BS go away: https://adblockplus.org/en/

Mako

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html

http://news.livejournal.com/140511.html

I don't think Ad-Block can stop this nauseum... this is re-coding... they say...

:(

[makovette.livejournal.com]

All I can say is I don't see any of it here, at least, not yet...

Clickenzie Here...

What is missing is the Preview button, which is a huge wtf...

Mako

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info in the other entry too, me friend!

So, in your snapshot and in the LJrelease news, did you see the
- Subject area missing?
- New "add Comment" button code?

These are both pretty significant in my world, and apparently in many others' for a variety of reasons.

The code is (it appears to be) an attempt at "Google Plussing" up LJ. The leading spaces are now twice as wide (and desolate in appearance), but more mportantly, functionality is gone in my older Firefox (which I love because it essentially never crashes, and using NoScript is even nicer than using AdBlock imho.

I now have to go to Internet Explorer (or another later chancy browser) to get the LJ interface to work, and I hate that.. mainly because Firefox is the BEST in the way it saves files, in that it names them better than the other browsers, PLUS, it remembers my last setting (html or full or text), which the others don't.

Plus the missing Subject area is a major loss for many. I know mammallamadevil is an extremely dedicated user of the subject box, for example.

I'm glad you noticed the Preview button gone too. I'm fairly certain they are trying to Google-ize and FaceBook-ize and Twitter-ize LJ. Next will come the ENDLESS scrolling page code I'll bet.

Plus hey, go to your main page www.livejournal.com and check out the nifty we now get to see as PAID users. ;/

[tyrrlin.livejournal.com]

I just see the old system, but I use Safari. Dunno... did they change it back?

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Methinks not. It looks the same to me today.... Maybe I should check it out in Safari at some point.... thanks fo the note! (p.s. been thinking of you a lot, while encountering my own odyssey of idiocy in the unRealEstate market)... *hugs*