LiveJournal Release 91 is Live: New Features, Bug Fixes and More

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MODERATOR TOOLS AND STYLES TOP THE LIST OF "NEW" IN THIS LATEST LIVEJOURNAL SITE UPDATE

LiveJournal Release 91 is live! Let’s just dive right in, shall we?

WHAT'S NEW
Moderators: Edit tags BEFORE approving an entry
Any of the thousands of mods on LiveJournal communities can attest to the hassle of editing tags after they’ve approved a post. Release 91

Comments

[liashi]

The commenting fixes and such looks good--not that I had a lot of problems with what these fixes addressed, but fixes to users' functionality problems are generally always welcome.

However, am now waiting for some smart programmer outside of LJ to make something that overrides this scissors business. Why do you do unnecessary things WITHOUT asking the people who use this place every day? (Or is it "Heaven forbid the users actually like the way the site looks, quick, change it!")

It's not like you're lacking for space on the front page now, right? How about some polls for these kinds of changes instead of just enacting them?

I don't mind the dotted line+scissor halves in the rich text edit, but changing parentheses to THAT, reducing visibility, compatibility, and logic?

No. No. No....

And no.

[openidwouldwork]

Where do I find my stylesheet? I really want to add that!

[zweiundzwei]

http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml?group=customcss

Put the code into the Custom CSS box.

[openidwouldwork]

thank you very much!

[velshtein]

Thank you!

[storyfan]

You are beyond brilliant. Thank you.

[beathen]

I tried adding this to my stylesheet, but it's giving me a compiler error:

Compile error: line 308, column 1: Unknown token encountered while parsing layer: [TokenPunct] = .
S2::Layer, S2/Layer.pm, 67
S2::Compiler, S2/Compiler.pm, 27

It then copies the code, but the first line is in italics: .ljcut-link { color:transparent; margin-left:-25px; }

Can you help me figure this out?

[zweiundzwei]

Hmmmmm. Are you putting this in the Custom CSS box or somewhere else? Do you have any other CSS there? There might be an issue with that. Show me the entire code you submitted?

[beathen]

I use a custom layer, so I'm adding it at the end of the style sheet, which is here. I tried adding it to the Custom CSS box, but it's didn't change anything.

.ljcut-link { color:transparent; margin-left:-25px; }
.ljcut-link:before { content:"( "; color:#cbd3d8; padding-left:25px; }
.ljcut-link:after { content:" )"; color:#cbd3d8; }
.ljcut-link a { margin-left:-25px; }

ETA: I guess the link isn't going to work, but if you need to see the rest of the code, let me know where to send it. (Link Fixed!) But, the layer compiles perfectly until I add the code above.

[zweiundzwei]

I get an error when trying to view the link, could you send me the code in a pm or something?

edit: fixed that link, lol.

[beathen]

Three PMs sent (long style code is LONG!) :O

[eve11]

Thanks for the info on where to fix this!

A question: were the parens for the cut-tags hypertext-colored or black before? I adapted it a little bit to use black but despite the fact I don't like the scissors, I don't remember that detail from before. *headdesk*

Also I had to mess a little bit with the margin of the inner text because for some reason it was overlapping the space that was put in for the open paren, so I changed it to "-22" instead of "-25" and that seemed to work: here is my adaptation (using my color for the text):

.ljcut-link { color:transparent; margin-left:-25px; }
.ljcut-link:before { content:"( "; color:#000000; padding-left:25px; }
.ljcut-link:after { content:" )"; color:#000000; }
.ljcut-link a { margin-left:-22px; color:#5674b9}

Also I use a pre-made style sheet so I had to change the "Use layout's stylesheet(s) when including custom external stylesheet " option to "Yes". And it worked :D Thanks again.

[zweiundzwei]

The parentheses were your normal text colour and unclickable. Funny how you see stuff every day for years and never really notice, eh? :)

[scarletladyy]

Thank you so much! :)

[theophanusophia]

Thank you for your help. :)

[tempertemper]

*hugs you*

Thanks so much for that. Phew.