What fresh fuckery is this, LJ?

[ratherastory]

So in spite of vociferous protests, LJ has gone and changed the comment box format. Among the "improvements":

- No more subject line
- No more drop-down box to select icons (instead there is a bandwidth-sucking thumbnail view)
- No more thread and parent links in posted comments
- No more ability to preview comments before posting

You know what? This sucks. How am I supposed to run ohsam, in which I always track comment threads by subject title? WTF, LJ? It wasn't broken!

Okay. Other moderators, have you given any thought to a workaround on this? At this point, I am close to letting my paid account & icons just lapse and to find some damn where else to post, but I've been with LJ for nearly ten years and I hate change.

Thoughts?

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

But there's no parent link. This SUCKS for comment fic memes. Also, I don't want to have to enable custom comments on my pages. I like the default look: it's clean and easily read, and custom comment pages are generally really hard to navigate.

ARGH.

Why fix something when it's not broken? WHY?