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  >= [

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[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!

[silver_sun]

If was. www.livejournal.com/browse On the top right there's a speech bubble with a question mark in it, that opens the thing with the feed back/switch back

[silver_sun]

Http://www.livejournal.com/browse/ Hopefully this will be a link this time


And I'll try again

http://www.livejournal.com/browse/

[bk_forever]

YAY! It worked! Thank you so much! My sanity is restored, I can access my own profile page too now I'm back on the old version! =D

[asia27.livejournal.com]

Cannot find that to restore it what I had before but then I have a Plus Account. All I know is that this is a stupid ass move on their part! I had enough trouble navigating before; this will seriously be a bad case of lost in space! NO pun intended!!

[bk_forever]

On your update page, or here:

www.livejournal.com/browse/

go to the blue bar across the top, towards the right hand end there should be a little cloud with a question mark in it OR possibly a blank blue square. If you click it you should get taken to a page where you have the option to leave feedback and below that an option to change back to the old style. Just keep clicking places on the blue bar because even if you can't see it (and it's NOT visible for a lot of people) I'm told it IS there, it's just maybe a case of trying until you click on the right spot.

Good luck!

[asia27.livejournal.com]

For whatever reason, Safari wasn't showing me a cloud or blank square. There was just that annoying circle and it wasn't doing squat last night. I ripped into them last night, too, about this through their feedback and I guess they're trying to merge in all the different browsers. Just leave the damn thing alone. I spend far too much time at work on the computer and then at home so my eyes are really being affected.

[bk_forever]

I spend most of the day on my computer, so I know the havoc it can play with eyes. Such a pain! Glad you're back to the old style too. I just don't get why LJ refuses to listen to what its long-time users want and just makes these changes against people's wishes and without our consent. It's bad business practice. I don't adapt well to change at the best of times without adding in migraine inducing visuals. >=[

[asia27.livejournal.com]

At some point over the summer, I will have my eyes checked; I so overdue but LJ is becoming a pain with these changes. I'm still trying to get the Cyrillic links turned off! I can take some change but not when it hits me by surprise!

[bk_forever]

I'm too set in my ways to adapt well to changes, they confuse me o_O

I get mine checked every year, and every year I have to pay out for new glasses. I've worn glasses since I was 13.

[asia27.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with being set in one's ways; I'm a creature of consistency. My family knows my hobbies or interests and my son knows where to find me if he knows I'm doing some form of sewing somewhere.

Apparently because my mother has a rare form of glaucoma, I've been advised to keep a check on my eyes. Haven't been able to do so financially because NY temp work was seriously affected by that 9/11 debacle. It's only because I requested termination of my 3rd assignment at the WTC that I avoided what happened. People don't realize that so many businesses were affected by that destruction; many law firms lost a giant client base temporarily. I was lucky that the firm I worked for kept me going even 2 days a week for a long time. I'll set up an appointment in the next 2 weeks; that damn blurriness is affecting my beading as well as typing.

[bk_forever]

It's important to take care of your eyes, even though it can be pricy. It's very high priority for me.

So much was affected by 9/11 that people don't consider. The WTC was an immense and very busy building, probably part of why it was targeted. I still clearly remember standing in mum's bedroom watching it on the news, I could barely believe what I was seeing.

[asia27.livejournal.com]

I will get that taken care of as well. Glaucoma runs in my family.

In the circle of people I run with, at least 9 of us were either down there when 9/11 happened, had temp assignments that were cancelled literally the night before or had had people there who were missing (but were fortunately on vacation) when it happened. According to my son, for reasons of national security, not many people know that his Army unit was also down there. I know they were because I saw the convoy that very same evening as it rolled down the West Side Highway with that crane on 2 flatbed trucks. My son was also there; his unit was helping to locate survivors, if any. None of us discuss it; none of us participate in events relating to it. Not because we may be ignoring what happened, but because some of them still have nightmares years later. It took me 2 years to take any assignments in that area; those Towers were location markers for a lot of people and I simply got lost a lot. Unfortunately, one assignment had me placed directly across the street from the hole and another had me a block away on the 46th floor. One reason I did like the Towers is that the Fire Department always - without fail, every single month and on ALL shifts, including weekends - ran fire drills so people would know what to do in an emergency once a month. That is why there were far more survivors than what people realize. Also, this happened during a vacation period and flex hours were in play. There weren't 100,000 people down there; it was less than half! I spent 5 years and 1 week down there; I had to leave after being put on the 79th Floor of the North Tower when it reopened. Believe me, I still see that Tower smoking and then falling... I've been trying to get out of NY ever since. I'm very leery of going above the 15th floor if I can help it. Every time something happens here in NY involving a skyscraper, my phone goes crazy from friends trying to find out where I am-ad I do appreciate their concern, but it isn't a normal way to live. My assignment right now is on the 11th Fl at Citicorp Plaza but I'm always let someone know where I am and look for exits. Not all buildings run fire drills :( My son is my biggest pain in the ass but I understand why he always wants to know where I am when working; his father does too. Texting is a good thing!

[bk_forever]

I don't blame you for wanting out of New York. I don't like being up high anyway and I have a fear of elevators, I hate being in them ever since I got stuck between floors, and that was only for like 10 minutes. I could never cope with a skyscraper even without the reasons you have. People who were directly involved in any way are surely still suffering various kinds of PTSD, it's not at all surprising.

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

I went to the link but can't find the speech bubble. What does it look like?

[bk_forever]

The speech bubble isn't visiblr to everyone, so just try clicking randomly on the blue bar towards the right side, maybe an inch or two in from the side - it IS there, just not visible in some cases but if you just keep clicking around the area you'll hit it eventually!

[breannarose1.livejournal.com]

I had to hover about 1/2 inch below right side of the menu bar to get an outline of a square to show up. That's when I clicked and saw the menu with the change back option on it.
Nice trick hiding it from users, LJ.