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[calimac]

Would someone kindly tell me how to change the horrible, horrible new LJ comment page form back to the old default? (I can't find a setting for this on the accounts management page) If I can't, I won't be posting any more comments on LJ, not even in response to others' comments on my own posts. (Some might consider that a good thing, but, if so, why are they reading me at all?) My browser simply can't handle it, and I refuse to change my browser just because LJ's engineers can't resist screwing up a perfectly functional system.

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I can't tell if this is useful or not: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=175

You can tell it to show comments in your page or others you view to your own style, but I can't tell if that encompasses the ability to change your own style.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

Alas, I'm willing to bet that the old commenting page is completely decommissioned.

Perhaps Dreamwidth has not made such a change and you can move there? I might have an active invite.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

If you don't, I have many...

Ganked from Musesfool's post (with permission)

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

"I immediately switched to comment pages in my LJ style....

"To do that, you go to Customize Journal Style and click "no" on "Disable customized comment pages for your journal."


"Anyway. Dreamwidth is having a free-for-all account sign up - until the end of the year, I think, you can set up a free account without an invite code, and I recommend it. It just works better."

[papersky.livejournal.com]

The Dreamwidth comment style is like this only uglier.

The way DW people try to kill LJ by demanding everyone go there has long since ceased to be entertaining, but suggesting you go there because you don't like a LJ change that is closer to their style is a new low.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

I am not a DW person trying to kill LJ. I am a friend of calimac's to whom DW looked like it might be a reasonable alternative to LJ, whose commenting system is now presenting problems to him. As I understand it, data exchange between LJ and DW is easy and there are tools for posting easily to both platforms. That is the extent of my agenda.

My personal situation is this:

- I have an LJ account primarily so I can post comments on the journals of friends who require an LJ login. If you click my uid, you'll see the extent of my LJ. You could say that I have some concerns about LJ's current ownership, too.

- I have a DW account because of a personal interest in open source computing projects and it seemed like a reasonable project to support. (Same user ID, and if you check you will see that there is essentially nothing there.)

- My blog is 90% concerned with classical music and is located on Blogger because perhaps 2 of my LJ-using friends (calimac is one of them) gives a damn about the subject. (http://irontongue.blogspot.com)

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

P. S. I saw suggestions being floated, not demands made.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

What changes are you seeing? I had to change my design because I was getting weird HTML comments at the top of my window but I managed to find a "classic" design that was similar to the old style.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

I see that you are leaving comments again. How did you wind up resolving the dilemma?

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

It's hardly resolved, but clumsily worked around. I'm using another browser, copying and pasting the URL from the first browser to the other. This one is also broken in that it doesn't display the text of the pages I'm replying to, so I have to work blind, but at least it will recognize the post button.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.