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[arethinn]

Ugh. Do not like new default site scheme and look of profile and update pages. To me, it looks harder to read - less contrast or something? It seems light and bright and is kinda hurting my eyes. Choice of font seems like oo aren't we all slick and postmodern, rather than being, you know, comfortable to read. And check out all this wasted space:



Also not keen that apparently now the site scheme cookie I set with LJLogin is meaningless (at least, I've only just noticed now that trying to set a site scheme that way has no effect; I think my choice of Horizon had previously held). I only hope that LJLogin itself will continue to work for the foreseeable future... And I think it's odd that they've dropped the term "journal" in favor of "blog" in some places (really? people think of these as blogs?), but not uniformly (e.g. number of journal entries on profile is still labeled such).

The thing that really gets my Frank-the-goat about this kind of stunt is that LJ just springs it on us, without so much as a warning in news or some such place that any design change is even coming at all, never mind posting some preview mockups or, wow, actually involving users in development (like Dreamwidth does). You just log in one day and bam, it all looks different.

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I know, it sucks, and the fix is the stupidest ever:

Go to your Profile page. Click the blank space just to the left of "Post to Blog" at the top of the page. A pop-up window will magically appear before you containing the "switch back" link!

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

I ad-blocked everything. Front page is atrocious and the new default font looks like a person who's hard of seeing thought that was a good idea. Just wow.

[tristissima.livejournal.com]

U-G-L-Y
LJ ain't got no alibi!
It ug-lee!

In other words, I totes agree ;-p

[tristissima.livejournal.com]

. . . .

that is stoopid

[arethinn]

I think someone who was really "hard of seeing" would have picked something easier for them to see. :P

Fortunately, as others have pointed out, you can still revert for now, although I don't like the "old" style much either and was annoyed when they switched to it. I think this new one's LJ home page is slightly better whereas the next one back is very very ugly, but I almost never see it, so at least I don't have to choose between evils in that way.

[arethinn]

Yeha :P