Fuck You Too, Livejournal

[andraste]

After their update, the default comments page on livejournal is now migraine-inducing for me.

I assume it's caused by the light blue boxes floating on a white background or some other colour-combination thing, but I wasn't going to stick around to analyse it. Fortunately I clicked the back button before it could do worse than cause me a momentary feeling of vertigo and eye-stabbing.

It's not as if I comment much there anyway, but now clicking on the 'comment' button anywhere unfamiliar is Russian roulette. Needless to say the chances of my ever activating comments on my livejournal again have just dropped to zero, unless they roll this back. Does anyone know of somewhere I can complain that isn't likely to cause me horrible, horrible pain? I can hardly ask everyone I know on livejournal to implement a non-default style for their comments page just so I'm not inconvenienced!

Comments

[andraste]

Lots of people seem to be getting headaches from it, literally. I'm not, which is odd given what too-bright screens usually do to me. What's getting to me is the new default font. I'm not quite sure what they did to it, but the new one is just... wrong. Like, mildly nausea-inducingly wrong, in large quantities.

Yeah, there's definitely something the matter with it. I just don't want to stare long enough to figure out what.

I think it says it all that LJ rolls out a new layout that nobody asked for and disregards the complaints, while DW gets an influx of new users and rolls out a new webserver to keep the load from inconveniencing people. Not without issues, granted, but by god they tried.

I got a journal here in the first place because of dissatisfaction with livejournal's customer service, but DW have really impressed me over the last couple of years. It's not that they never get anything wrong, but they consult with their user base and try really hard.

[lizvogel]

I just don't want to stare long enough to figure out what.

This, yes. ;-)

Rumor has it that there's a way to get comments in your own style even for Basic accounts, but it's apparently dependent on you using one of a very small set of themes/layouts/whatever. I find myself disinclined to invest the time and effort, possibly screwing up my current settings along the way, for something that LJ will probably sabotage in another release or two anyway. :-P