LJ Version 89

[nookiepowered]

...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.

Comments

[wasthecuteone]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I switched all my journals over already, and one (for some reason, just one) got 'display all in my own style' magically turned off in the process. So anyone who's switching over might want to double check that.

Also, I don't know if it's some sort of thing y'all have done or just weirdness, but in the trips comm, the timestamp is displaying under and to the right of the userpic, eating vertical space¹. I was about to go into the lj-releases post and start shouting file a complaint, but it wouldn't load for me, and then I noticed that on another post I was looking at that wasn't happening at all. So I thought it might be a loading thing and refreshed like five times and it's still happening, but just in trips.

¹Speaking of eating vertical space, go check out what this release has done to your profile. I really don't like that, but that's another story.

[nookiepowered]

It's not just in Trips, unfortunately - it's everywhere you don't want to be that has a subject line on a comment. If you mean this thing. Which yeah, is annoying, and seems to be universal, so feel free to report it. (If you can point me to a page with subject lines that doesn't display like that, please do, and I'll see if I can duplicate the settings and figure out a fix to tell people.)

(I'm not seeing the profile issue? Bo's seems ok. But I also don't really mind vertical space on profiles in general, so I may just not be noticing it because it's not something my eyes are conditioned to register.)

ETA: Ah, the layout of the stats at the top? I agree it's aesthetically dumb, but in the scheme of things, it doesn't bother me, unlike comment and entry display issues.

[trigons_child]

They seem to have broken "Show userpic on friends page" because right now I can't tell who posted what on my friends page. I see the entries but no icon or user name indicating who posted it.

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

I had that issue with the Randomness theme. I switched to a different theme and they all reappeared.

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

T'isn't working for me. Every Minimalism theme I try still doesn't show user-pics or usernames on the flist. (I've reported it along with everything else, on the lj_releases post.)

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

*nods* Same for me.

*lazes and answers in the browser I'm also using to complain to LJ*

[trigons_child]

I switched to a few different ones and they never came back. Annoying.

[trigons_child]

Yeah, I opened a ticket for it for all the good that it'll do.

Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[nookiepowered]

But feel free to use this thread to tell me happy things or show me pretty pictures. I could use it.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[nookiepowered]

Yup. Happens here too.

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

I'm using "Travel Afar". I also had to go in and change the settings to show Friend's icons as well though my icons on my recent entries page are turned off.

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Never mind. When I changed themes it turned off "Use old comments" automatically. When I changed it back the icons disappeared again.

MP has already posted the problem in the post release.

Thanks MP!

[nookiepowered]

Nic filed a support ticket on it, so she gets all the thanks. Hers is probably more likely to get a result!

[nookiepowered]

W00t!

[trigons_child]

Their solution right now is "turn old style entry page off."

Ummm. No.

[trigons_child]

Rock on. I take back the "for all the good that it will do" and resolve to be less bitter.

For about five minutes. ;)

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

I'm retaining my bitterness until the patch happens and actually works.

Without breaking anything else.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[icecoldfrost]

Thanks for all the testing ya'll are doing for those of us who are afk today. Have pretty!

[nookiepowered]

I'm guessing that's all the volunteers are really allowed to reply at this point, but I got one from astronewt saying it should be fixed by the end of the day.

A practical workaround (aka "Yes, we all know we shouldn't have to, but that doesn't help me read my flist") is this for paid accounts, or just sticking with the Minimalism/Georgia workaround pages we've been using until the fix rolls out, since we're talking a span of hours, maybe a day tops.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[nookiepowered]

Heeeey, pretty!

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

You know, at this point I actually prefer the new style. Their fix that lets you load subthreads makes things easier and the combination of my stylesheet and the subject add-on makes me happy with it right now. I just hate the Minimalism layout for my personal journal so I'm glad to be rid of it for now. At least, for me, the issues that were making me loathe tagging on lj seem to be gone. I'll see what happens when I play more.

[trigons_child]

Oh, I'm sure it will.

What, my five minutes were up awhile ago.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[vanillajello]

I'm tempted to hijack this thread in the name of gifs of PBs being adorable. But I'll refrain and just post this



because I'm uncharacteristically uncynical right now, and feeling like giving LJ a minor thumbs up. Or possibly the volunteers who are actually responding to some immediate concerns, for once.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Not a PB gif, but I feel the need to bandwagon.



Which is about my reaction to the surprisingly quick responses today.

Re: Just Testing That Subject Line Display Thing

[zetabetabrat.livejournal.com]

GOT YOU THIS.