WTF?!!!!

[bk_forever]

WHAT THE FUCK HAS LJ DONE NOW?!!!!

The new update page is horrible, I can barely read half the writing on it now with my eyesight, I have to get right up to the screen and squint!

And the standard journal page is as bad or worse, the tags are now so small and blue I can't read them.

I am just so sick of LJ changing things for no reason and making them more difficult to use. A lot of us have vision problems, but they just don't give a damn about their users. I should be used to that by now, but it still drives me mad  >= [

Comments

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

I just logged on and it actually looks bigger to me. I did notice that it would allow me to change back. So you shouldn't be stuck with it.

[bk_forever]

I couldn't find any way to change back, guess I'd better go and have another look.

The writing is now paler so I can't see it clearly, and the tags lists are pale blue on white which I find hard to focus on. I need black on white so I can see without straining my eyes.

Thanks, I'll see if I can switch back because I really don't like it.

[bk_forever]

Nope, I can't see any way to switch back and I hate this ugly monstrosity =(

[excentric397.livejournal.com]

Everything looks much bigger to me, too. Maybe it's your browser settings that need tweaking? Nothing is ever easy, is it?

[bk_forever]

I wouldn't even know where to start tweaking berowser settings. All I know is this is damned ugly and the writing is paler which plays havoc with my eyes. The tags lists are all in pale blue on white and the text of them is smaller. I'm disgusted at being stuck with something that strains my eyes. I get enough migraines as it is, this wil make it worse.

[excentric397.livejournal.com]

Read through these and could not find the speed bubble with question mark. You can adjust text size on a page, though. If you use Firefox, there is an extension: Default Full Zoom Level, that lets you enlarge/decrease either text size or the entire page, and then reset if necessary. I don't use IE, so can't help you there.

[lilferret]

I can't even find the friends page. At all. I saw your post on the little preview on the bottom corner. :(

[bk_forever]

I'm lucky I still have my friends page then! *hugs* The whole thing is just one nightmare after another. Why am I still paying for this crap? Oh yeah, so I can still have the paltry icon allowance I get for my 'loyalty'

Did I mention I can't access my own profile? I click on that, get a brief flash of it and then I'm on my recent entries page. And I have a JOURNAL! I don't want it called a blog, it's not a blog. Apparently, we pay to have things the way THEY want them to be, not the way WE want them.

I've had enough of this rubbish =(

[lilferret]

OK, apparently I just click "feed" and I get the friends page.

[silver_sun]

To switch back on mine what I did was go to thing that is supposed to be a home page and in the top right there were a couple of icons, the one furthest right Gave me two options, send feed back (I told them the new design was awful) and most importantly the switch back to old style.

[bk_forever]

I can't even FIND any icons on my home page, and it won't let me access my own profile page either. The first thing I knew about any of this was when LJ stopped working while I was trying to post, then when I got it back my update page had changed beyond recognition.

How do I find this so-called 'home page' with the icons, because damned if I can find anything that looks like what you're describing!

[milady-dragon.livejournal.com]

My Sweet Baby Jesus...this is horrible. What is it about white and pale blue that LJ just has to have everywhere? I already get a headache on certain comments pages...and now this?

And today had been such a good day, too...

[bk_forever]

My day's been a disaster from beginning to end, this was just one infuriating thing among many *sigh*

However, thesilversun's instructions work - I'm back on the old style. Just find the speech bubble with the question mark in it, click it and you'll find a way to switch back. I don't like the old update page very much, but it's still a hell of a lot better than this monstrosity they're trying to foist on us now!

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

I second everything you've said. I have bad eyesight (these giant geeky glasses aren't just for show!) compounded by eyestrain, and this new page is literally painful to read. And now there's more of what I hate on the homepage (I don't give a flying f*ck about what communities are trending) and less of what I want (my communities and friends.) Two minutes in and I switched back to the old version. I hope they let us keep that option indefinitely! Not that it was so great either. But at least I was used to it.

On top of all, this, there was NO warning whatsoever! How about putting that on the homepage, instead of the latest news from ONTD and exochocolate, whatever that is, for heaven's sake.

[bk_forever]

Agreed! All I knew was that LJ crashed while I was trying to post a drabble and when it eventually came back more than 2 hours later, it was unrecognisable, difficult to use, painful to read and I couldn't even access my profile page! Plus, there wasn't an obvious (to me at least) way to switch back, it was like they'd made opting out as difficult as possible so they could later say "Well, hardly anyone switched back, so they must have liked the new style" GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely glad my refusal to upgrade my Friends page was grandfathered in and my journal looks the same as well. The front page can go fuck itself since I only want to peruse the main stories and move on.

However, the only way I can read the comments on your journal is to highlight them but that's the way it's always been.

[bk_forever]

Yeah, I know, sorry about that, I have to highlight them and enlarge the page myself, but I really like the rest of the layout and I don't want to switch. It cheers me up.

I've managed to switch back, but boy was the new design horrible!

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Help! My friends feed is fine. When I use SilverSun's link I get a community page with no speech bubbles anywhere!

Ah - found the answer - this release is so half baked that not everyone has he magic bubble - but you can still revert by following these instructions: http://fengi.livejournal.com/1504674.html

It worked!

[bk_forever]

I DID get the speech bubble, but since it's unlabelled I had no idea what it was for! Thankfully, it was explained by my lovely f-list and I'm back to the previous less than perfect style, whicvh is still a damn sight better than what they want us to have nowe, which is SOOOO Not User Friendly it actually hurts!

[asia27.livejournal.com]

I agree! I opened this and can't find ANY of the posts I used to use for finding things. Even though did save links, I can't find anything. As much as I love blue, this isn't the 'blue' I want to see and there's no way to fix the page to my liking! :[ My own eyesight is getting worse but then I spend a great deal of time working on one; it's what I do for a living. This change is full of *&(*&)!

Who's bright-ass idea was this?!

[bk_forever]

I don't know, but whoever it was and whoever designed the new look, they should both be fired! Actually, everyone in charge at LJ central should be fires and people brought in to fix the mess they've made of what was once a great site.

[awieatti.livejournal.com]

Changes like this really are a pain in the ***! I couldn't even load my LJ page for about an hour. And when it finally worked again, everything looked so different and when I wanted to upload my drabble, I had to reload the page several times before the "Save" button finally worked!
I really don't know why so many online platforms constantly make these changes that are more confusing and frustrating than helpful :(

[bk_forever]

LJ always changes the things that work ewhile ignoring all the things that don't. I couldn't use LJ at all for over 2 hours and when I got it back, the update page didn't work, I couldn't access my own profile page and it all looked hideous anyway. If there wasn't so much still on LJ that I want easy access to, I'd leave. But I can't so I'll just refuse to accept these unwanted changes for as long as I can.

[neverminetohold.livejournal.com]

Logging in for the first time since Friday, I was pretty shocked at first. But the journals themselves are untouched, so I'm not that upset about it. Granted, the "User Info" page looks ugly, but so far, that's the only thing I'm getting worked up over.

[bk_forever]

With my eyesight I couldn't handle the blue text - to read it I needed to have my nose about an inch from the screen which really isn't practical. Plus, my profile page was inaccessible, I'd get a brief glimpse then it vanished. I've switched back to the old style, I don't want the new, it's unusable for me.