a notice

[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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[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.