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]

I don't WANT a custom comment page! I deliberately changed away from it! *snarls at LJ*

[shinysylver.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I'm just glad I have it now. Maybe you can customize it to look almost like the default?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess. I'm just pissed that minding my own business results in LJ going to hell in a handbasket. Imma go poke at it now, see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion!

[shinysylver.livejournal.com]

I get it. It's a stupid pointless change that no one was excited about and everyone was against.

Hah.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Okay, I don't like the customized comments, but at least it has a subject line and all the other bells and whistles. Fine, I will use that for now.

Re: Hah.

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

florahart's entry about the changes says that LJ is intending to roll the changes out to custom s2 comment pages 'soonish' too. (Here (http://florahart.livejournal.com/1268783.html))

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!