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[technopatra]

As you may or may not know you are able to browse LJ in multiple ways by changing your preference here

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[trickery]

I use XColibur, merely because the colors of Dystopia don't appeal to me. *shrug* Orange and purple = not my thing.

[sinneahtes]

Same for me--if we could choose our own colors, I'd probably use Dystopia, myself.

[elynne]

Yah - I use Dystopia because I hate the mouse-over links with a rabid frothing frenzy, but the orange-and-purple color scheme is... yeeaaaaah. I don't *like* it, but I use it anyway. Being able to change the color scheme on Dystopia would be dreamy.

to clarify

[asciident]

To clarify what I like most about Xcolibur is more the result of top-side navigation rather than the location itself. I prefer viewing unstyled comment pages (and the rest of the 'main' site) at full browser width, rather than shrunk to fit a sidebar nav.

[geminigirl]

I always felt like such a luddite for hating it, but it's cleae I'm not the only one.

[nephthys8]

In all honesty, I didn't know we could go back to Dystopia, but if I had, I probably would have never started using XColibur. It took me a long time to figure out where things were and I still have problems sometimes... some of the sub-headings just don't make sense to me. However, I can say that I like that a lot of the menu is hidden by the mouse-over feature... it makes the page look less cluttered. When I am in a hurry, though, I always wish for Dystopia because it is harder to click the wrong link.

[sariel_di]

XColibur honestly looks really ugly to me. It has more direct links than Dystopia (to things like the /customize/ page, etc), but the entire layout seems ugly, and the mouse-over links are a pain. When I'm trying to navigate somewhere from an XColibur page, I usually have to try three or four times to actually get to the link I want, and I have a fairly steady mouse-hand.

It's a lot more convenient to use Dystopia for everything, since the links for everything I regularly use are right up at the top of the sidebar in a nice, stable location, or else they're in the top bar. I switched to the S2 style system, which makes editing my layout a little more annoying, but overall Dystopia is much better.

I also don't like looking at my default icon constantly, and I'd rather see blue/purple/orange/white than blue-and-white.

[burr86]

Hit the nail on the head. Complete agreement here.

[kamara]

Ditto.

[biscayne]

I think XColibur is horrendously ugly. I hate the mouse-overs as well.

[thisisnotmyname]

wow. i thought everyone used xcolibur but me lol guess i'm wrong. viva dystopia!

[monnie_doggett]

hehe i thought i was the only one, too!