LJ Version 89

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...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 pick any of the Minimalism styles. At least some of them are available for all account types.

2. Click "Apply Theme"

3. Scroll to the bottom and click "Customize Selected Theme"

4. Under Basic Options, make sure "Disable customized comment pages for your journal" is set to No

5. Scroll down to the first line under Additional Options and set "Show old style Entry page" to Yes

6. Click "Save changes"

7. Profit!!! Old-style comment pages!!! (Which have already been applied to the FH comms.)

To view all comment pages automatically in your chosen style, go to Settings and check "View all journals and communities in my own style." (If you prefer to see the original journal and community layouts and just want to manually force the comments to your style, leave that setting unchecked and just append "?style=mine" to the end of the URL for any comment page you're reading.)

We'll keep passing information on to you as we put things together ourselves, but this one seemed like something worth letting you know ASAP.

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ETA/Ongoing: Bugs, Fixes, and new info as it comes

• As mentioned up there, the fact that this doesn't work for basic users is a bug, and will be fixed.





• This style still breaks the page on long threads, just like custom comments. That's also a bug they're aware of, and per the link above, still working on.





• The display of subject lines is not exactly as it used to be, in a clunky, space-wasting way. I've mentioned it on the lj_releases post. LJ staff say it shouldn't look that way, and it's been reported as a bug.





• [Turning on the Classic Comments style seems to break the friendslist display for Minimalism, at least for me, which is all that matters some of us. Friend userpics and names disappear so you can't see who made a post, like so. (Even with "show friends userpics" very definitely turned on in the journal settings.) Some people have managed to fix this by switching to a different Minimalism style, but that hasn't worked for others, and it may only look like it works because switching to another style resets Classic Comments to No. That's been reported both as a Support Ticket and in the lj_releases post. And should be fixed in the next patch sometime today, per LJ staff!] This one is fixed!





• At least for me, Classic Comments doesn't seem to have an LJ header or footer, as reported and screencapped here. Also confirmed as a bug.




• Classic Comments still reload the entire page after commenting from within a thread; I reported it here - (This one is being tested by staff)




• There's no "expand" link for top-level comments, as reported and screencapped here and here.




• Nrrgh. Using the "Show old style Entry page" option overrides any and all custom CSS applied to the Minimalism style. In other words, with that option checked, you can't make the sidebar narrower, add a header, change text colors. If it's not pre-coded in the layout, or available as a yes/no option in the customization settings, you can't do it.
  
  

  I reported that here; I really hope it's a bug they're going to fix.