Release #119

[theljstaff]

Release #119 is live!

Friends feed customization

The Friends feed page can now be more fully customized! Many new customization options have been added, and you can see each change you make while you're still on the page, making it easy to see what your changes will look like.

Comments

[frotcake]

I like the friends feed customization! Well done and thank you :)

[softpaw]

Does the community need to be a paid account as well as the owners account to view the top commentators?

[fredbassett]

Just tried it for ones I mod and it only works if the comm is a paid or permanent account.

[nookiepowered]

I greatly appreciate the expansion of the the color choices and the links list being added as a widget!

Other things that would improve the visual customization:

* Allowing a header graphic, or at least allowing the background image to be placed at the top of the page, either above or below the sitewide and journal navigation bars.

* Allowing customization of the colors on those top navigation bars. All the background and link-color tweaking in world won't help the layout if we're stuck with a big clash of columbia and cadet blue across the top of the screen.

* Allowing users to adjust the width of the content and/or widget columns. Good lord is that a lot of wasted space on the right, while the main reading content is crammed into a narrower than necessary block.

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Not directly related to the layout but definitely a visual thing: the graphic LJ cut works fine if one's just using it for a cut, aka typing

[fiddlingfrog]

* Allowing customization of the colors on those top navigation bars. All the background and link-color tweaking in world won't help the layout if we're stuck with a big clash of columbia and cadet blue across the top of the screen.

Agreed. The "Show 5 More" button at the bottom of the Twitter widget also uses that color. And none of the color options had any affect on the "Retweeted by" text in the widget, meaning it's still showing as grey when everything else around it is orange and green.

Edit: Oh, and there's a line at the top of the calendar widget that refuses to be anything other than white.

[erinm_4600]

* Allowing users to adjust the width of the content and/or widget columns. Good lord is that a lot of wasted space on the right, while the main reading content is crammed into a narrower than necessary block.

I second this request, whole-heartedly. For what little is in the "new" sidebar, it doesn't need that much space. I can't imagine it needs to be much more than 20% of the screen, if that.

[dragonheart97]

+1 on the header. If the header on my journal also showed up on the Friends Feed, I might actually consider using it.

But the bigger question is: All this customization is very close to what we can already do in our journal style, and everything matches across the board in our own custom styles. Why, again, are you even bothering with the second version at all? What is the point of it? I don't understand why it was even needed, to be honest.

[werewolf_hacker]

One bug I'm still encountering is that the icon selector in long threads is pushed too far over to the left and I can't see all my icons. This is a giant pain in RP. I go around it by hitting the "link" button and putting the comment back up at the top of the page, but I shouldn't have to.

[bandicoot]

My old friends page is already customized to display things the way I want them. The new "feed" sucks, and I'll continue to avoid it as long as it's possible.

[vikingprincess]

Agreed - I avoid all of your "new and improved" (read: less customizable and more annoying) changes like the proverbial plague, and will cling to my S2 style forever plus one day more.

[rabidsamfan]

Me too. Give me a link that says "my style" for my friends feed, because that's what I need. It lets me set up the most comfortable colors, etc. ONCE, instead of trying to finagle a bunch of different things in multiple places.