* Enable proper expanding and collapsing of comments
* Deleted comments need better display
* Add tags lists to header
* make the calendar look better
* add link to your own journal and friends page in header
* Page titles: on page? in header?
* options for alternative selection colors
* options for support requests
* investigate re-posts (they’re working in other house styles, so what’s the matter here?)
* variables for header links
* Journal titles – need to publicize where we’re looking
* Friends colors
* Sticky entry icon
* reposted entry icon
* stylize hovermenu
* remove hover background color from link images (not noticeable except on transparent images like userpics, where it’s bad)
Category: x-personal
Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..
Short announcement
I’m working on a new layout and need to test a variety of situations, so you may see some very odd entries float across your Friends Page. Don’t panic.
Are you as shocked as I am?
We're very happy to let you know that your Friends page is staying! We've heard you about wanting to keep the current version of your Friends page (styled the same as your journal itself), so you can now keep your current Friends page style even in the redesigned version of the site!
— This URL (http://exampleusername.livejournal.c
om/friends) will continue to show your current Friends page style. — This URL (http://exampleusername.livejournal.c
om/feed) will show the new redesigned Friends feed style.
Seriously? They heard us and there is a heavenly host of angels singing Hallelujah! I mean it is a miracle right?
I don't know if this means clicking on the "friend" link on the navigation of our journals will bring us to the friends page or the feed? For me it goes to the friends page but then I refused to switch to the feed. I can access the feed through the link LJ has provided but my friends page is intact.
If anyone should encounter that they are getting the feed instead of the friends page, comment and I'll see what I can figure out.
LiveJournal
Do any of you remember this post that I made two years ago about a suggested new “friends feed”?
My feedback on the initial beta was a mess of negative thoughts, and looking back on the screenshots, yeah, it was a mess, and I think the userbase had a reason to be worried. I guess our voices have been heard. They have decided to let us keep the old friendslist even with the new site scheme.
However, when I see what they’ve done to the friends feed now two years later. I feel embarrassed by that old post of mine.
I have to express my apologies to the hundreds of strangers who reposted and commented on my post two years ago. I have changed my mind. The friends feed is a great idea. Let’s embrace it and make it our own~!
They’ve put so much work into this and made it a fully functional and beautiful thing. I think it would be a shame if people didn’t bother using it. The new LJ site scheme is very user friendly, functional, and easy on the eyes. It’s in public BETA right now, and I would strongly advise you to try it out and submit as much feedback as possible. That’s the only way for the developers to know what needs fixing, really.
I would also suggest following
But yeah, seriously. If you are currently using an old site scheme, here’s how you switch to the new one:
On the home page or any of the system style pages.
And once you’re using the new scheme, this is how you leave feedback:
Click this icon in the navigation bar when you’re at the page you want to leave feedback for. You can also click this icon to switch back to the old site scheme.
The new friends feed is gorgeous!
Is this my arm I see before me?`
So the last few weeks I keep seeing my left arm and wondering “That’s mine, right?” It’s so weird. I didn’t have any troubles like this after the accident, despite both arms being immobilized, wrapped in bandages, and stuck in slings. Even after surgery when I had huge incisions and giant metal screws drilled through the flesh of my left arm, I had no trouble recognizing it as mine.
But now, over nine months after my injuries, I sometimes move my left arm into view and I think “Whose arm is that?” It’s not that I can’t feel it, I can. I think it’s because my right arm is finished and the left still has so far to go. I’ve got about 95% range of motion back on the right side, and the muscle has filled in quite nicely. It looks (minus the scars) like my arm did before the accident. But my left is still locked into a limited range, and still quite a bit weaker and smaller. So now there’s this disparity between them, and the right one looks like it used to, and so I think that’s tricking my brain into thinking of the left one as some kind of other.
It’s really bizarre. I’m mostly experiencing this when I’ve got something in my hand. Like, I see the arm and I’m thinking “I’m carrying a plate. My arm should be straight. Whose arm is this that’s bent like that?”
So, weird body stuff that I’m surprised didn’t pop up before now.
Delicious Links for 2014-06-16
- Sibylla Bostoniensis – [soc/anthro] The Recipe, Or What you don’t know about LJ/DW
AKA “Siderea’s recipe for Blogging”. This is a great post explaining what seems to be the minimum blogging content you need to engender great community and comment on your journal. In short – a mixture of links, questions, diary, and opinion pieces all in the same place make for the best community building.
Protected: First post from the iPad
Delicious Links for 2014-06-12
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry | Now Enrolling
Sign up now to take free classes online. From Hogwarts. I don’t know if this counts as a massive online open course or as a massive online role-playing game, but either way it’s kind of fantastic. And of course, now all those people on LJ who insist on marking Hogwarts as a school they’ve attended can finally get the education they’ve long claimed.
- ScienceShot: ‘Chameleon’ Vine Discovered in Chile | Science/AAAS | News
This vine, native to Chile & Argentina, engages in an amazing act of mimicry. Not only is it a plant mimic, not only can it mimic multiple species, it can mimic multiple species on the same vine. If a vine crawls across the forest floor, climbs up one tree, then jumps over to another tree, it will have different leaf shapes in all three locations.
- How to Make Melted Bead Suncatchers with Pony Beads – Artful Parent
I was in Michael’s a little while ago and saw that the Suncatcher kits they sell nowadays are really just plastic forms with paint. I was wondering what had happened to the ones I remembered from my childhood, where we’d sprinkle plastic beads into a metal frame and melt them in the oven. Apparently those have gone away, but this lady has figured out a way to replicate the process with plastic toy beads.
- The Silent Man Speaks: Teller Re-Imagines ‘The Tempest’ With Magic | ARTery
Great article about Teller (of Penn & Teller) producing a version of “The Tempest” that emphasizes the magic of Prospero.
- Will you marry me? Perhaps you should pop the question under Silver Lake’s Chandelier Tree to get the right response | The Eastsider LA
This beautiful tree, located in east LA, is hung with dozens of lit chandeliers. And it’s now apparently turning into a nice little spot to propose marriage.
Tumblr search bookmarklet
I went to link this to somebody and I realized I never actually shared it here in the first place. So enjoy a little bookmarklet I made a few months back after getting frustrated with Tumblr’s “search” functions and inconsistent UI.
Copy the following code into a new bookmarklet in your browser. Click it when you’re viewing any post or blog at tumblr.com and it will open up that blog’s archive page and liked posts page.