LJ Version 89

[nookiepowered]

...is live. There's no news post for it yet, but the lj_releases post is now up. We don't know all the changes it brings, bad or good, but what we do know is this:

If you have a Paid or Plus account (at this point it doesn't work for Basic, but we don't know if that will change because see above per staff, that's a bug and will be fixed), then

1. Go here and

Comments

[wasthecuteone]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I switched all my journals over already, and one (for some reason, just one) got 'display all in my own style' magically turned off in the process. So anyone who's switching over might want to double check that.

Also, I don't know if it's some sort of thing y'all have done or just weirdness, but in the trips comm, the timestamp is displaying under and to the right of the userpic, eating vertical space1. I was about to go into the lj-releases post and start shouting file a complaint, but it wouldn't load for me, and then I noticed that on another post I was looking at that wasn't happening at all. So I thought it might be a loading thing and refreshed like five times and it's still happening, but just in trips.

1Speaking of eating vertical space, go check out what this release has done to your profile. I really don't like that, but that's another story.

[nookiepowered]

It's not just in Trips, unfortunately - it's everywhere you don't want to be that has a subject line on a comment. If you mean this thing. Which yeah, is annoying, and seems to be universal, so feel free to report it. (If you can point me to a page with subject lines that doesn't display like that, please do, and I'll see if I can duplicate the settings and figure out a fix to tell people.)

(I'm not seeing the profile issue? Bo's seems ok. But I also don't really mind vertical space on profiles in general, so I may just not be noticing it because it's not something my eyes are conditioned to register.)

ETA: Ah, the layout of the stats at the top? I agree it's aesthetically dumb, but in the scheme of things, it doesn't bother me, unlike comment and entry display issues.

[wasthecuteone]

Sorry, I went AFK right after I posted that, and I wasn't awake enough when I posted to realize the difference was subject lines/no subject lines. LJ REALLY wants comment subject lines not to work, I swear.

Yeah, that's what I meant. It's not the last straw or anything, but it was unobtrusive and not obnoxious before and now it's just THERE and wasting space that you have to scroll past before you get to the parts of the profile anyone cares about. Sigh.

[trigons_child]

They seem to have broken "Show userpic on friends page" because right now I can't tell who posted what on my friends page. I see the entries but no icon or user name indicating who posted it.

[childhood_taunt]

I had that issue with the Randomness theme. I switched to a different theme and they all reappeared.

[mpoetess]

T'isn't working for me. Every Minimalism theme I try still doesn't show user-pics or usernames on the flist. (I've reported it along with everything else, on the lj-releases post.)

[trigons_child]

I switched to a few different ones and they never came back. Annoying.

Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[nookiepowered]

But feel free to use this thread to tell me happy things or show me pretty pictures. I could use it.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[nookiepowered]

Yup. Happens here too.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[icecoldfrost]

Thanks for all the testing ya'll are doing for those of us who are afk today. Have pretty!

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[nookiepowered]

Heeeey, pretty!

[need_no_moon]

You know, at this point I actually prefer the new style. Their fix that lets you load subthreads makes things easier and the combination of my stylesheet and the subject add-on makes me happy with it right now. I just hate the Minimalism layout for my personal journal so I'm glad to be rid of it for now. At least, for me, the issues that were making me loathe tagging on lj seem to be gone. I'll see what happens when I play more.

[nookiepowered]

I'm non-sarcastically glad you've been able to make the new-style comments work for you. I agree that Minimalism is... not the most appealing layout, and it's all about what makes each person most visually comfortable for playing!

[need_no_moon]

It is. It's kind of sad that the classic style is suffering from the bugs they now fixed in the new one.

[dressedinblood]

Oh, does anyone know if there has there been any kind of update on when they're going to fix whatever hellacious thing they did to prevent "some Firefox users" from being able to use the new comment form? Because I respect that some people like it or are able to work with it enough they don't want to switch, but unpaid journals can't turn on "View all in my own style"...meaning I have had to not ping Anna into a couple of posts I would have otherwise, because it is literally impossible for me to comment without, apparently, downloading a whole new browser, and that's made me sad.

[need_no_moon]

It was never their fault that FF people couldn't comment. It just happened to people who were using the Greasemonkey script "DisConnect" (they got rid of the feature that script was blocking). Speaking from experience here, the instant I turned it off, it worked again.

[dressedinblood]

Actually, it was their fault, because there was never a problem with that script before release 88, so something in release 88, something they still haven't found and fixed, must have caused the problem.

Additionally the very first thing I did when I discovered I couldn't comment the day 88 was released was turn off all my scripts and addons--which, I don't use DisConnect in the first place--and I still couldn't comment. I don't doubt that some people's problem was caused by DisConnect, but considering my personal experience, I cannot believe it's the only cause of the problem.

[need_no_moon]

My bad, anyone I read with the FF problems seemed to be dealing with that issue.

I don't agree on the script, though. They've messed up third party's before (like ljarchive and ljlogin), but I don't think it's fair to expect them to support all user scripts out there. That script was to remove a feature people didn't like (posting to twitter/fb), LJ decided to remove the feature (one of the few things I was not sorry to see going) which is their right. That it broke the entire page is painful, though, I agree there but it's also a risk you take when using user scripts that inject JS.