Public Service Announcement: State of the Journal

[azurelunatic]

Am swapping over to S2. Readers please not to be alarmed at the frequent shifts in color, especially the frequent shifts in color of the vocabulary of the Lunatic.

Comments

[juuro.livejournal.com]

... especially the frequent shifts in color of the vocabulary ...

I suspect we will not be alarmed even by off-colour vocabulary.

[azurelunatic]

Perhaps not in general, but when it's off-colour and in <h1> all over your friends page, then it's quite possible to offend those in the general area who didn't mean to be reading it. Especially if I break out the family curse ("You bald-headed mother of a misbegotten fuck-foundered Jee-sus Christ!") in that size markup.

[wibbble]

Unless you put the formatting tags into your posts, they won't affect what shows up on people's friends pages. :o)

Just changing the style only affects your own pages.

[azurelunatic]

S2 changes the single entry/comment views, and so those reading comments or making comments would be affected.

Also, when I write

God!Damn! SonofaBitch!

, this also affects my friends...

[wibbble]

Aaah, yes. I hadn't thought of that.

I wish they'd get around to implementing the override for S2 comment views. I'd rather have them all be the same (for me) than have them match people's journals, after all the comment pages are the only places where I see your style, I read journals through my friends page, which uses my own style.

[azurelunatic]

I'm thinking about trying to make my own style based off this style, so I can tweak the font into something, you know, legible.

[wibbble]

You can't get the source of this style, at least not yet. It uses some special stuff (like javascript that wouldn't normally work/be allowed, or something, and iFrames) that normal styles can't. Part of its paid-user-only charm, I guess.

[azurelunatic]

Grar.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you. Reading comments and suddenly being thrown into someone's style format is extremely jarring, and not something I'm used to, as it only started happening recently, and I never know when it's going to happen. So far it's only on 'Song and Azz's journals, I think...

[wibbble]

I've had LJ friends who switched to S2 styles which support comment view a while ago...

Apart from being disconcerting, it's annoying since they lack the same navigation features as a normal comment page. I like being able to switch to my journal from a read comments page...

[azurelunatic]

Also found that annoying. I customized mine for me, but the only thing that's likely to be useful for anyone else is the Update Journal link on mine.

[azurelunatic]

dawnalone, metaphorge, and ldymusyc also. On my friends list, at least.

[azurelunatic]

Oh, and godai as well.