Done yesterday (20111216 Fr)

[mdlbear]

It was a busy morning -- two doctors' appointments, and an 11am presentation (dry run of our group's presentation in late January) that ran through most of lunchtime. Oh, and flu and tetanus/pertussis shots.

I spent most of the afternoon writing my weekly progress report and doing some long-delayed cleanup in my home directory. Things like deleting broken links and config files for programs that haven't been installed since, in some cases, the turn of the century.

I came home to a huge pile of groceries just arrived from Safeway; they required advanced Tetris skills to get into freezers and fridges, and in the end I had to put the milk in the garage (it's cold enough, at least at night) and the pork shoulder into the crock pot (for carnitas).

Several interesting links -- I think my favorite is ysabetwordsmith's poem, "Imperfect Light". And Dreamwidth is allowing open account creation (no invite codes needed) for the rest of the year. Just in time, given the latest Livejournal idiocy.

I have a permanent account on LJ -- I'm not going away. But you may have noticed that a lot of us are crossposting from DW now.

1216 Fr 
  * up 7:40; W=195.8; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, exercise, light
  * 8am leave for Kaiser.  Take cygnus
  * 8:30 am Dr. Reed
    -> put in for EKG - walk-in to cardiology
  * 9:30 am Dr. Awsare
    *- neuropathy
    => labs
    x- dietician oops.  
    & picked up card for a Clinical Health Educator (phone consultation) 
    * flu and tetanus/pertussis shots
  * 11am presentation dry run at work.
  @ Abbeville Press books | The Grandmother Principles (via The Wordsmith's Forge - Poem: "Imperfect Light" 
  @ Climbing Mt. Normal - Dreamwidth: Open Account Creation 
    The latest LJ idiocy seems to be doing away with comment subject lines. 
  @ Sarcastic Font (ysabetwordsmith)
  * start carnitas in crockpot because there's no room in the fridge

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

...maybe you just ran into a temporary glitch?

[roaringmouse.livejournal.com]

When is oldest coming home???

[mdlbear]

She got here at 11:30 this afternoon. :)

Re: This comment has a subject line

[kshandra]

The new release hasn't gone live yet.

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Oh, the beta stuff - I haven't bothered to look at it. But that's what beta-testing is for, to find out what works and what doesn't; since doing without subject lines obviously doesn't work, they'll change it before the final release.

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[mdlbear]

Let's hope. LJ has a long history of ignoring its users.

Re: This comment has a subject line

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

If it screws up all pre-existing material, they'd better not ignore it!

[mdlbear]

As expected, they ignored it. The new comment page format SUCKS. It's difficult to describe how much it sucks.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

This is very weird. I've commented on six or seven other people's entries in the past half-hour or so, including one no more than five minutes ago, and they were all "normal" - there was a line for a subject heading, and the userpics were listed by keyword in a drop-down list. This one, however, is different, and has all the flaws you mention. Maybe it's related to which "style" a person's journal uses? Paid vs. "basic"?

{checks her own LJ}
Dear goddess, MY journal is fucked up too!

[mdlbear]

Yes; it's the default comment page that's broken. There are apparently some styles that still work ok. Why they did this is completely baffling.

The lj_releases: Release 88 post has almost 5000 comments now...

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Note that there's been an addition to the original entry for Release 88; they now explain how to make your journal use the old commenting options, and promising a fix of sorts:

"Note: The comment page redesign does not affect customized comment pages in S2, which can be enabled or disabled at http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml. We are also planning to create a new S2 commenting style which will appear & function in the same way as the old site scheme commenting page to be included in the near future."

I followed the instructions to make my own LJ to use the old options - but that forces everyone to deal with the acres of purple my customized style uses :-(

[mdlbear]

I did it too; shouldn't they have done that _first_?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

When I first saw the changes, I filed a trouble ticket saying, "THIS SUCKS" (although not quite so tersely, but I did use the word). Out of curiosity, I looked at the page of open trouble tickets they have. For as far down as I wanted to bother to scroll, every single one that was in English was a complaint about the changes to the comment system! (The Russian ones might have been, too, for all I know.)

As a number of people have commented in a number of places, "If it wasn't broken, why did you 'fix' it?"

However, even LJ knows when they've really shit in their hat; I predict they'll have some kind of patch before the moment of the Solstice :-)

[mdlbear]

I now have "view all comment pages in my style" enabled, along with "use custom comment pages". That pretty much fixes it.