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

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

... do you want a laugh? I had to use the style?mine option to comment here because with the new comment thing a) I can't choose my userpic, it just doesn't work, and b) the post comment button is frozen, so I can't even use it for LEAVING COMMENTS, subject line or not. This is the epitome of ridiculous - WHY in the everloving hell do they want everyone to move to dreamwidth while fixing shit that is-not-broken? *facepalm* I couldn't even leave a comment on LJ's news page because it wouldn't let me post.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

These changes are literally making me sick to my stomach (which is probably an awesome sign that I'm over-invested, but I've known that for years). The userpic thing is going to drive me crazy.

The news page has 45 pages of people telling them what a bad idea this is/was, and how much it sucks. You'd think they would listen, but yeah. Apparently they don't want our business any longer. :(