Kill it with fire!

[taotrooper]

THIS IS SO UGLY AND SLOW AND UGLY. Not to mention the real issues: in only one night, someone was triggered like whoa because no subject lines.

I just. You know the jokes about LJ wanting to become FB? Every time less funnier and more true. Ewwwwwwww. Do I really have to set custom pages now if I want to stay here? Uuuuuugh. I can't even see my own posts without wanting to scream.

ETA: People are trying to recreate old comments with CSS. Meanwhile, I changed to the least ugh Minimalist layout for the moment since it's the least intrusive for my taste, IDK.

Comments

Subject because I can...?

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Oh God, I'm testing comments with custom style, and the layout I have is fucking small. I'll have to change it now because CAN'T DEAL.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I went with a generic Expressive layout so far and I don't like how they look that much. It's too much effort to learn how to change what bothers me in the CSS...

[hamsterfactor.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that all I thought when I woke up and saw it was "oh they changed this /shrugs"? Of course now I do realize the massive fuck up that is eliminating the subject lines, but my mind didn't go there in the least (lucky me, of course).

Also what I'm thinking right now (and feeling quite bad about it): at least some people will actually post in LJ now, even if it's just to complain?

:-/

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Guess it depends on the fandom circles. For kink and anon memes, or comms with particular formats, no subject lines is the death to them. They had announced this change like a week ago and a lot of people whined, but LJ didn't give a shit. But yeah, if you just use normal comms, it shouldn't matter much to you.

I'm not affected by the subjects, but I actually had the default comment page as my ?style=mine things BECAUSE it looked better to read to me than anything with CSS galore. So now I had to read/comment shit with Facebook Lite everywhere and I'm really pissed about changing my layout for my mole necessities.

[hamsterfactor.livejournal.com]

Yeah I wouldn't even notice it. It is amazing that LJ did nothing to rectify before changing it, they should already know what a shitstorm this would cause, it's happened a hundred times. I'm hoping they recover the subject line, though, they've rectified quite a few times iirc.

I... just don't mind? I don't use Facebook so I hardly know how it looks like. On the other hand, I kinda like seeing all my icons and choose from them. I don't know, maybe I'm being unfair because it works fine with my browser/laptop, but I use the default comment page in my layout and I'm going to leave it. I just dislike custom comment pages so much more...

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

There was already a Browse option already (no idea if it was only for paid users, but you are one so it doesn't matter) that showed all the icons, and you could even search keywords. Now you can't see the keywords at all, or just quickly pick a particular one in a hurry/moment of computer slowness without loading everything. Maybe it's my computer scientist's deformación profesional, but this feature + the usual dropdown menu were more efficient and nicer to me than the new shtick.

[lunelight.livejournal.com]

I think I'd be ok with the changes it if they'd just left the freaking subject lines alone! I don't get why they thought taking them out was a good idea.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Supposedly, according to the guy who coded the changes, most of the accounts don't use them. Well duh, they're not really a personal journal thing, it's something more for comms and anons. So yeah, moronic.

[mairenn-k.livejournal.com]

Agreed, the new changes are all kinds of do not want. So ugly, and how on earth did they think it was a good idea to remove the subjects lines? I doubt that anyone complained about them in the first place. Let's hope that those one hundred pages of complaints will make them reconsider things.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

The change was announced like a week ago and said to be non-negotiable. Everyone complained in advance and asked them not to implement it with the reasons, and of course they didn't listen to the outrage and did it anyway. So it's an even bigger fail.

[mairenn-k.livejournal.com]

Yes, their attitude so far is what is most irritating. I'm almost tempted to starting using my DW account more regularly and go back to having a basic account on LJ instead of a paid one, but I think I want to wait and find out how they decide to handle this first.

[stud-monkey.livejournal.com]

Livejournal, what the ACTUAL FUCK.

At first I didn't have any idea what people were talking about until I clicked on a few comms that still used default comment pages. What I saw was hideous.

I know for personal journals, the subject line or even thread/parent posts aren't too heartbreaking, but what happened to my comment previews? I fuck up on html so much I NEED IT BACK.

[she-wolf.livejournal.com]

Oh brother: I just saw the changes on a comm, and it's all crappy as heck. Seriously, why? You've got a decent product here. You've got it, despite competition from Facebook & Tumblr? Why screw over fans and make them go elsewhere?