Running around changing my most frequently-used journals to the Minimalism theme so I can still have comment pages that make a certain amount of sense. *grumpy* This is ridiculous.
LJ's latest code release replaced the default comment pages with a fairly terrible mess that, among other things, was breaking a lot of people's browsers, removed the "thread" and "parent" links and replaced them with a less-useful "expand" function, lacked the subject line on comments and thus removed the ability to provide trigger warnings and the like in the subject line of the comment, proved to be nigh-unusable for visually-impaired users using screenreaders, and gave multiple people migraines.
And then it turned out that the developer who created this new comment system style, igrick, told people who complained about various aspects of the new design that they would just get used to it, rather than addressing their concerns. Also he got rid of subject lines because he and his friends don't use them, so why would anyone else need them? A lot of users are extremely pissed at the relative lack of responsiveness on the part of the LJ staff (although they did release a patch to deal with some of the issues
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And then it turned out that the developer who created this new comment system style, igrick, told people who complained about various aspects of the new design that they would just get used to it, rather than addressing their concerns. Also he got rid of subject lines because he and his friends don't use them, so why would anyone else need them? A lot of users are extremely pissed at the relative lack of responsiveness on the part of the LJ staff (although they did release a patch to deal with some of the issues ( ... )
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